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Fair enough. So would i to an extent. I'm just assuming he might be a bit ahead of Delph in terms of fitness given Fernando made the bench for the Watford game. I wouldn't envisage using Fernando in any of the the forthcoming league games, but if he's got any useful role to play in our squad...

It's an interesting dilemma to now have more of our squad fit to play. We need to get some returning players back involved this week and try to reduce the workload on the certain players who have clocked up a lot of minutes over the last couple of months. All the while without weakening the team...

It's so obviously going to be Everton.

Wouldn't it be great to have two? I'm a bit concerned about Demichelis starting again now that Mangala is suspended. Hopefully we'll score enough at the other end that it doesn't matter.

80 yards from our goal against limited opposition in a game we're looking pretty comfortable in, i wouldn't say it was essential that he committed that foul. Not when it rules him out of the next game. With Kompany and Zabaleta looking like missing Stoke too, it leaves us very light.

Well Mangala is now suspended for the Stoke game for picking up that stupid booking. I'm not sure i really prefer the Demichelis/Otamendi partnership given recent evidence.

Thanks. I didn't know that. I'm sure at some point in the past these pending suspensions rolled on to the next season, but it's good that they don't. With Sagna able to fill in, it's an good opportunity to rest Zaba between Arsenal and Chelsea anyway. Missing three defensive players through...

I thought that Fernandinho and Kolarov picked up yellow cards in that 2nd Leg against Barca that meant they would miss the next Champions League game. I presume those suspensions would be carried forward into this years' competition, but i don't know that for sure.

Isn't Fernandinho suspended for Bayern Munich, along with Kolarov, Zabaleta and Pellegrini?

I would definitely read that as a maximum of 13 foreign and 8 local players, but you are right that it would have been helpful to make the ruling clearer.

YES!!!

Trying to be realistic i'd expect them to go something like this... Sunderland (H) - Win Liverpool (A) - Lose Blackburn (A) - Draw West Ham (H) - Win Seven points over the four games should keep us safely in fourth place and anything more is a bonus. Who knows, maybe we'll rediscover some form...