English Football 13/14

Serbs putting on a clinic.

 

Also Kompany is fucking balls. Living off a great season 2 years ago.

 

Yeah, very good. Chelsea really should've won by a good 3 or 4.

Ramires and Eto'o were disappointing, Hazard was extremely dangerous, Willian not quite as much but still consistently took the defence on and troubled them. Cahill and JT both had very good games, Ivanovic was superb and Azpili just ran all day and shut down Nasri extremely well. Luiz and Matic were awesome though. Matic's first half was good, but the second half he was just superb. Really got the better of Toure and hassled Negredo right out of the game.

On the flipside City were pretty flat. Demichelis just isn't a CM in the EPL, Toure put the hard yards in but just couldn't do anything against the Matic and Luiz wall, likewise Negredo. Nastasic was ok, but shaky at times and Kompany was quite poor, and showed very poor leadership as well constantly running his mouth needlessly. Dzeko was anonymous, Silva failed to make the most of his opportunities and Navas had little room against Azpilicueta. Kolarov was the most threatening City player all game until Jovetic made a bit happen late on.

 

Oscar probably left out because Mourinho wanted to play a more physical game. Willian and Ramires together up front pretty much run all day and can help out more defensively than Oscar.

And with Eto'o it's tough to say. As a goal scorer he's been underwhelming, but he's also done a lot of key work in opening space for the players behind him.