I'm assuming Sturridge has played a couple of behind closed door/U21 matches but yea just start Firmino and ease Sturridge in. I'm hoping the wizardry is wrong this time round.

Just boot Rodgers

Lucas, Milner & Can represent a fearsome attack

guess Brent's plan is for Coutinho, Benteke & Sturridge to create goals out of nothing

lol plop.

yeah that is nothing like the 2013 diamond that had Coutinho deep, Gerrard really deep and then lightning fast Sterling in behind the strikers.

that was a really unique look that caught the league by surprise big time.


Norwich has old school wingers in Jarvis & Redmond so it's going to be super interesting if they can stretch the pitch and make Can and Lucas have to cover a lot of ground cause they're both slow

When we played the diamond vs Bournemouth and Leicester they destroyed us on the wings, like it was a massacre. Diamond was fine away at Arsenal cause all of their gel haired midgets wants to play through the middle

Sherwood kindly **** off mate.

he's not happy

He has his own studio now?

green screen in his living room i think

but he does have 150k odd subscribers now so maybe

^ he's just a **** edp445

apparently french tv voted mike dean as the man of the match in the big game today

Anybody else think the Watford manager looks like Doran Martell from Game of Thrones?

that's a pretty niche reference (i've read the books and watched the tv show, but I still needed google images to remind me which one he was), but it's pretty good. We could make a full series out of this.

Diego Costa = Tyrion after the battle of blackwater

yes

lol Mike Dean

Looks like a diamond to me as well. If the plan was to play Sturridge and Benteke together, up top in a 4-4-2 diamond midfield, from the get go I'm not sure why we haven't been playing that formation all along.

corbyns first wife is in the heil on sunday talking about this subject

Looks more like Phil Brown.

lol Mike Dean. Wish I knew he was the ****ing ref before I backed a draw.
it's really old that we win like 1 game every 2 years that he officiates

The Sunday Sport have gone for a sensationalised piece on Corbyn as well...



lol

It was always tough to get something from Chelsea, we looked alright in the first-half until that red card though. It was the correct decisions and an incredibly stupid one from Gabriel, for someone who continuously pocketed Costa playing for Villarreal you wouldn't expect him to do this even though it is true that he doesn't seem like the brightest of individuals.
Costa somehow got away with murder a couple of times around the sending off and I can't believe he did quite frankly...pretty tilting that the most +EV play from Kos is to roll around the floor when he slapped him in the face, I'm glad he didn't, even though that resulted in Costa remaining on the pitch and becoming MOTM according to lolmou.
Chelsea attack much better with this midfield setup. Looking much more probable to create and resembling last year's Chelsea.
Would have been nice to see a full meltdown mode Mourinho this early, but the season is still long, so I'm hopeful.

Am I correct to assume Santi is back for the weekend, because of the Mickey cup?

Yeah that's correct.

I've been wanting Ramsey at CM for awhile now, but this isn't exactly what I had in mind.

West Ham...what the hell? They'd probably feel confident going into the Nou Camp right now.

BANTR.

Big big match for us today against The Model's predicted 2nd place finishers; a chance to sit just 2pts behind the already-crowned Champions and 3pts ahead of 2p2's consensus post-Community shield title favourites.

All this with an unimpressive xG differential!