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A focused Costa is a beautiful sight

Cracking shot and incredible save

(Insert Gary Neville noise)

How is it that literally every time the ball goes near our box it goes in?! They're not even doing anything clever, just put the ball near the goal and our players collectively lose all sense of how to stand up properly!

We won 3-0 at White Hart Lane sometime around the turn of the millennium, I think Flo, Jimmy and Zola were the scorers could be wrong. Was sitting in with the Spurs lot so I had to be on my best behavior which for a 5/6 year old is not that easy. First game at the Bridge I think we lost 4-2 to Southampton. I do recall going to the game against Middlesborough where Cudicini got sent off in a clash with Dean Windass and joining in with 'the referee's a w**ker' chant without knowing what it meant!

Could it be worth putting him into Oscar's role as the CAM? He's got a better engine than Oscar and is a better dribbler, at the very least he might be better at drawing in defenders to create room for Hazard & Costa.

I wouldn't mind this actually as barring his admittedly pretty good assist vs Liverpool, Matic struggles going forward. His best work with us was as a pure DM in 2014/5 and he lacks the technical skill to be a B2B player. Have him focus on defending, Kante on pressing & Fabregas on passing.

What about a diamond?: Courtois Azpilicueta, Cahill, Luiz, Alonso Kante Fabregas, RLC or Chalobah Hazard Batshuayi, Costa Once Zouma returns in place of Cahill and assuming he has maintained his physical gifts, we can play the high line we have long been asking for. Seeing as we didn't bring a B2B midfielder over the summer, there is an opportunity for a youth player, perhaps RLC if we're attacking more and Chalobah if we're defending.

And after all that he decides to post on Twitter how happy he is to be called up to the Brazil team. Don't know if his sense of timing is worse online or on the pitch.

Well there was that rumour of him wanting to play as an AM, time for Nigerian Messi to take the number 8 shirt

Maybe it's because he hasn't been getting any minutes to get match sharpness...as for what we see, his impact at Watford was incredible as he laid on a gorgeous match-winning assist.

He's not a 1 man army and the rest of the midfield don't know how to link up with him if their lives depended on it bar Fabregas. We've seen it loads of times, he gets double or triple marked as defenders know not to worry about the others.

Literally a Champions League winning partnership

Or a Premier League loan WITH A DAMN RECALL CLAUSE IF HE ISN'T PLAYING

We were pushing higher and higher as the game went on, even he can't be expected to cover for about 4 players at once if they're attacking the box. With Matic going off we also started to lose a lot more headers and flick-ons as a midfield of Kante/Fabregas/Oscar lacks in height.

According to wikipedia, Bravo is only 6ft, that's tiny for a keeper and especially in England.

Don't understand why you would start him when Martial/Rashford are on the bench.

Guarantee if he was Spanish/Italian and had a more exotic name this country as a whole would have gone mad over him.

Lampard with a brace in the last 10 minutes to win in a game unofficially dedicated to him for reaching 300 goals for club/country.

Hurry up

He can go from sublime to schoolboy with a snap of your fingers. He'll always be popular here for playing the CL Final plus injury time with no hamstrings before smashing home an unsaveable penalty, but some dislike him for celebrating at the Bridge when he scored against us in the CL a few years ago.

Agreed, he was very complimentary about us fans and how he's set on remaining professional.

Aside from the ones already posted here, I'll go for the 2002 FA Cup Final against Arsenal. Little 7 year old me was in tears after that one.

He's just posted on Facebook that the talk of Conte saying he can leave is rubbish and he's not going anywhere.

What is this stupidity Di Marzio is tweeting about him being loaned to Schalke?!