Harry Kane asking United for a favour tomorrow and tibo talking up that we enjoy the pressure. Let's hope tibo is right cause pressure will be on big time. The eyes of the world will be watching and the vast majority of them want us to not win. 

9 minutes ago, big blue said:

Drop azpiliucueta???? 

Utterly bizzare tbh. 

Only choice there is to make, is whether Matic or fabregas start in midfield. 

3 points tomorrow. Scrappy 1 nil. 

So you're happy with Azpi marking Ibra at the back post?

So you're happy with Azpi marking Ibra at the back post?

They did a job on Carroll at West Ham when everyone said he would bully Moses and Azpi it was the opposite we bullied them

Harry Kane asking United for a favour tomorrow and tibo talking up that we enjoy the pressure. Let's hope tibo is right cause pressure will be on big time. The eyes of the world will be watching and the vast majority of them want us to not win. 

The players seem to react to pressure better under Conte

13 minutes ago, Brutos said:

They did a job on Carroll at West Ham when everyone said he would bully Moses and Azpi it was the opposite we bullied them

You're comparing Ibra and Carroll? Just because they are both big, doesn't mean they pose the same level of threat. Manchester United have class midfielders who can put in good deliveries compared to what West Ham have to offer. Zlatan is one of the top scorers in the league for a reason. Chelsea should nullify his threat by starting Zouma in my opinion.

38 minutes ago, FrancoZola25 said:

You're comparing Ibra and Carroll? Just because they are both big, doesn't mean they pose the same level of threat. Manchester United have class midfielders who can put in good deliveries compared to what West Ham have to offer. Zlatan is one of the top scorers in the league for a reason. Chelsea should nullify his threat by starting Zouma in my opinion.

LoL no. 

Starting Zouma changes so much og our gameolan regarding our build up play and Azpi is just not good enough offensively to play wingback. We are after the three points and to impose the way we play best and that means our best players start. Theres zero chance we start Zouma.

Tottenham are running through teams at the moment they are in far better form than us, we really can't drop many point going forward because if they keep this us they won't drop many, a dodgy Diego is not what we need right now he needs to bounce back with a brace tomorrow 

Spuds are playing well I admit.

However, I still think we will win at Old Trafford tomorrow.

16 minutes ago, erskblue said:

Spuds are playing well I admit.

However, I still think we will win at Old Trafford tomorrow.

They certainly are. 2 4-0 in a row. Would not surprise me if they win all their remaining games. 

I would gladly take a point here all day long.

2 hours ago, Xfaxtor said:

LoL no. 

Starting Zouma changes so much og our gameolan regarding our build up play and Azpi is just not good enough offensively to play wingback. We are after the three points and to impose the way we play best and that means our best players start. Theres zero chance we start Zouma.

I know Conte will not play Zouma at CB but I feel as though he should. WE HAVE NOT KEPT A CLEAN SHEET FOR NINE GAMES! I don't think Azpi should play wingback, I think it should be a straight for straight swap with Zouma. And it's not about having the best players on the pitch all the time, or else Willian would start over Pedro and Fabregas over Matic. Tactically, we have to nullify the strength of our opposition, and IN MY OPINION, Zouma would do just that to Zlatan. :) 

6 minutes ago, g3.7 said:

I would gladly take a point here all day long.

5 point gap? A loss and a draw is 5 points dropped, too close for comfort, win tomorrow back to 7 will be required to keep bricks out of shorts for the rest of the season 

well yes, that is true. but it is also true that if we win tomorrow and then lose all of our remaining games we'd be in trouble.

 

I'll more than happily take a 1-0 Chelsea win tomorrow.

As usual.

58 minutes ago, g3.7 said:

well yes, that is true. but it is also true that if we win tomorrow and then lose all of our remaining games we'd be in trouble.

 

Tomorrow is our hardest remaining game the only game left against a top 6 team and because we can lose remaining games that really we should win, we can't submit to saying it's a decent team a draw will do, we need a win to keep a bit of control over a very dangerous Tottenham who would absolutely love it to be us over anyone they pipped at the line 

No-one should be fooled...Jose will have his players well up for this...obviously a win would hit Spurs where it hurts, but a point wouldn't be a bad thing at all, despite how it will be played out in the media

23 minutes ago, DonAntonio said:

Tomorrow is our hardest remaining game the only game left against a top 6 team and because we can lose remaining games that really we should win, we can't submit to saying it's a decent team a draw will do, we need a win to keep a bit of control over a very dangerous Tottenham who would absolutely love it to be us over anyone they pipped at the line 

that is exactly why a draw would be a decent result.

and as brit says, this is a game that will mean a lot to jose and his players, some of whom are easily capable of damaging any side in the world.

I would personally play Fabregas, doesn't lose possession as much as Matic, plays sensible passes, can pick any sort of pass out and is useful at set pieces. Plus Utd don't really have any strong players in midfield. I suppose it will be Herrera, Fellani and Pogba, that doesn't really worry me.

Matic will play anyway.

35 minutes ago, Ernie_blue said:

I would personally play Fabregas, doesn't lose possession as much as Matic, plays sensible passes, can pick any sort of pass out and is useful at set pieces. Plus Utd don't really have any strong players in midfield. I suppose it will be Herrera, Fellani and Pogba, that doesn't really worry me.

Matic will play anyway.

Fabregas loses the ball a lot more than Matic does because he attempts a lot more risky passes.

Matic is a lot more conservative in possession and often has a pass success rate of around 90%.

If it's ball retention you want Matic is your man. If you want passes to hit the opposition quickly on the counter than it's Fabregas.

There's an argument to be made for either of them starting but I'd be inclined to go with the security that Matic offers personally.

22 minutes ago, ForeverCarefree said:

Fabregas loses the ball a lot more than Matic does because he attempts a lot more risky passes.

Matic is a lot more conservative in possession and often has a pass success rate of around 90%.

If it's ball retention you want Matic is your man. If you want passes to hit the opposition quickly on the counter than it's Fabregas.

There's an argument to be made for either of them starting but I'd be inclined to go with the security that Matic offers personally.

I personally always see Matic as a bigger risk, every manager should say press Matic because if you do you will get chances out of his mistakes. I don't mind a player like Fabregas losing the ball because he has tried a ball over the top, worst case is you lose the ball to their defenders. Matic struggles against every team that presses where as I don't think Fabregas does because he has the football brain to play a range of passes and one touch football. I just find Matic and Kante too defensive and automatically means your setting up for counter attacking. Can't really complain but just how I see it. Away I can see more of a benefit but at home the pair should never play together.

3 hours ago, DonAntonio said:

Tomorrow is our hardest remaining game the only game left against a top 6 team and because we can lose remaining games that really we should win, we can't submit to saying it's a decent team a draw will do, we need a win to keep a bit of control over a very dangerous Tottenham who would absolutely love it to be us over anyone they pipped at the line 

It is a very hard game no doubt but I believe we have a chance to get a decent result here. However I can see lukaku making a point when we go to everton. So think we have a better chance of getting a draw or possibly nicking a win tomorrow than we do at goodison park. 

Going to be hard to score more than 1 today with Costa playing how he is. Probaby going to need a corner/free kick goal in the mix to sneak a win. 

Of course this will be one tough match. Do you really think the Mou would like to lose at home against his old team? Think not.

United are on an interesting PL run. We on the other hand are like a leaking sieve, albeit a wining one.

Spurs are putting unbelievable pressure on us in the PL and we're to face them in the FA very soon.

We need to show up and show intent right from the get go. I don't want us to lose this one just because it will add tremendous pressure in the last half dozen games left to go.

5 hours ago, g3.7 said:

and as brit says, this is a game that will mean a lot to jose and his players, some of whom are easily capable of damaging any side in the world.

Ibrahimovic is pretty good as well.

Frankly I think this game has 'draw' written all over it.

12 hours ago, TheBluesBrother said:

A lot of people are forgetting that we did Leicester a favour by drawing with Spurs, thus handing the title to the Foxes. What a night that was.  Spurs are Dirty bar stewards but we silenced them with that Hazard beauty. I'm hoping Leicester will return us the favour when they play them.

Hopefully, they won't need to as we'd have it wrapped up already by then. That's Matchday 37. We need to wrap this up by 35 or 36 at most.