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Heavy list of absentees once again. Hart Sagna Demichelis Otamendi Kolarov Dinho Delph KdB Silva Sterling Bony Bojan & Shaqiri are the types of players we've been experts at making look fantastic recently (Konoplyanka, Lamela, Firmino, Coutinho to name a few..), talented but totally...

Seems like good news to me, sounds like he's happy to stay with us for his best years and willing to see out his contract, then leave before he is too far on the decline. Saves us having that awkward period of having a club legend playing down to his name rather than current form like we're...

Certainly had a good summer transfer window. Sterling a constant threat. KdB keeps pumping out the silly stats. Otamendi already looking fantastic. Delph looking a snip. Very nice to see Dave back doing his thing & Kelechi getting another goal. Would have liked to see another youngster rather...

Thought he was great at Swansea, thought he'd be a decent purchase and don't think he's been nearly as bad as some make out for us. He does what you'd expect from him, good touch, decent hold up & sticks it in the net a reasonable amount. But its clear that he doesn't suit our style of play...

Always looks a threat when he plays, and contributes with goals & assists. Navas is tidy but just doesn't bring the same threat from the right. Was a strange cameo for me though today, 95% of the time when he had the ball & space to run into against tired legs he held up the play, turned around...

Silva KdB link up looking good again tonight, once they get to understand each other some more that can be a killer combo. Great to have him back playing.

Indeed, argument for Sterling of course but Navas done well. And Delph Dinho is the best CM partnership for me. That midfield is perfect.

Hence the quotation marks ;-)

Kolarov for me falls into the Yaya category. Has some very nice assets, but countered by some very heavy deficiencies. People always seem to lean one way or the other, he's either shite at defending thus useless, or great at shooting/crossing thus amazing. Reality is he's in the middle, useful...

His stats are impressive, especially if you consider he's done most of this without Silva & Aguero alongside him - on top of being shoved out wide to accommodate Toure. Imagine when he has better players alongside him or he plays his favoured position? Another good game again today.

The 2nd half of the Liverpool game we played a 3 man midfield, doesn't represent what I'm suggesting at all. Also are you suggesting Delph/Dinho are pure defensive midfielders? You could make that argument for Fernando, but these 2 are totally different players. If we want to use that game as...

Neither of them played well. Evidently my football knowledge is crap as I don't fancy him in our team either, but here's my reasons: 1) Yaya in 2 man midfield = great in matches we dominate, disaster in tough matches. 2) Yaya in 3 man midfield = less disastrous defensively, but shoves our best...

And who is our Modric type schemer? For me with the squad we have we're best set up for a 4-2-3-1; places our best player in his best position (Silva at 10 role) & gives us width to stretch opposition to give Silva room to operate. Playing Silva out wide is detrimental considering how good he...

Dinho & Delph are definitely my 1st choice CM partnership. Plenty of legs & both comfortable on the ball. Great match today, nice to see him get his first goal for us.

He'll be a decent back up & someone to call upon from the bench to aid keeping a lead I suppose for this season, but seems off the pace & shouldn't be starting (naturally) when everyone is fit. Criminal defending when Tadic just walked past him with the ball going in a complete straight line.

A much needed win & top of the table again. Could've been far worse. Nice to see the Dinho Delph combo working, KdB was great, Willy made a fair few good saves. MDM looked off the pace, the defending for Tadic chance was criminal. Another "decent" performance by Toure, but still don't agree...

Most creative player out of position again to accommodate Toure, hope he has a good performance or he'll be getting more grief. We've had 1 good match in this formation surrounded by many poor matches, so would rather have seen 4-2-3-1 with Navas starting instead of one of the midfielders but...

For me a lot of what you remember & thus what influences your opinion is not these stats, but things like goal saving tackles & mistakes. This season I've seen more of both from Otamendi, but significantly more mistakes that won't be shown on stats (e.g. wild swing & miss at the ball under no...

Assume that was a response to my comment given the football manager part. If so, I've never once called him a useless lump, or anything near that. If you read my other posts on the topic I think Yaya should still get plenty of game time in the right matches. The time has come where certain...

You haven't addressed any of the problems playing Yaya causes. You can say "look he's still good" & point to his few goals this season, but that isn't going to convince anyone. Do you think he's more of an asset or a liability in a 2 man midfield for tough matches? Assuming the above question...