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Both are good players but in shocking form right now and should be dropped for a while.

I don't get the love that Anita is receiving here right now. He's a tidy passer but almost all his passing is sideways/backwards. Jenas and Parker among others were hated for that here. His through balls and long balls are usually crap and he's yet to make a significant impact for us. These 7's he's getting would be 4s and 5s if he was Tiote.

Nice finish.

Totti still pulling the strings.

Yes.

Roma 1-0 Balzaretti.

Absolutely super.

Mertesacker's goal was worth 12 points for me. Possibly more due to Özil being more likely to get some bonus points.

Maicon listed as a CB on the Roma derby.

Had to use wild card as most of my team were injured/not playing. f***ing 16 points from 8 players and I was expecting at least 60 with 10 players having a good looking home game. Hopefully Mertesacker, Özil © and Giroud can get me to at least 30 points. Also what is wrong with Hazard? Gave him the last chance and he just doesn't score.

I'd rather have Saylor at RB, I think thats his stronger position. No it's not.

Yeah, didn't really create any clear cut chances all afternoon. Both goals were bounces too. We still can't break teams who park the bus.

We need Debuchy to fucking wake up.

What did Santon do wrong today?

Totally disagree. Tidy in possession tho.

We really haven't hoofed that much this season. No, but we look clueless as to how to keep our shape and discipline when we don't have the ball. That has nothing to do with nice passing football, eh?

He just started with Sissoko-Anita-Cabaye ffs.

Seriously i don't think the rest were that bad.... but Debuchy was f*cking horrific. He's the main reason we lost today and i'm in a vile mood, thanks a lot you french t***. MYM and Colo were terrible too. I really don't think they were..... neither were to blame for any of the goals.... there were all Debuchy's fault.... the first two were due to his awful positioning and they both should have been picked up by him and even the third he was awful for and the midfield not picking up Aluko if he wasn't playing we win today IMO. I honestly couldn't blame Colo or MYM for any of the goals. MYM invited pressure tbh and Santon was often well out of position when we lost the ball. Bollocks. Nah, it takes more than 1 out of a back 4 having a bad day to be THAT all over the place. The whole backline was defending alone all game, which makes it look worse. Nope. Anita was dropping into positions when one of the back 4 would go for a run around. He might have done that but him and Sissoko were nowhere to be seen when the back four was there.

Sounds like Pardew logic this. Anita did fine today the issue is how we actually defend. We drop off and sit deep but we don't close down nor do we we get right on top of that we don't even take up a compact shape. We have to address how we defend as a team before we worry about the personnel doing the defending, we have no defensive shape whatsoever it's a disgrace. Anita played a big part in our defensive meltdown. He must defend on the position where he plays, we don't have the luxury of having him there just for his passing.

Seriously i don't think the rest were that bad.... but Debuchy was f*cking horrific. He's the main reason we lost today and i'm in a vile mood, thanks a lot you french t***. MYM and Colo were terrible too. I really don't think they were..... neither were to blame for any of the goals.... there were all Debuchy's fault.... the first two were due to his awful positioning and they both should have been picked up by him and even the third he was awful for and the midfield not picking up Aluko if he wasn't playing we win today IMO. I honestly couldn't blame Colo or MYM for any of the goals. MYM invited pressure tbh and Santon was often well out of position when we lost the ball. Bollocks. Nah, it takes more than 1 out of a back 4 having a bad day to be THAT all over the place. The whole backline was defending alone all game, which makes it look worse.

Also if we need to replace Debuchy, MYM should be moved to FB.

We really haven't hoofed that much this season.

Played the team and formation most people on here wanted. Then tried to win the game with some quite offensive subs, bringing on Gouffran and Marveaux for Cabaye and Cisse. We lost because of some s*** defending, partly caused by the advanced players not tracking back enough. 4-3-3 may look good at times going forward, it also leaves you extremely vulnerable at the back, as evidenced by today. This. If we keep playing 4-3-3 we need Tiote there if Anita and Sissoko aren't arsed to track back and just keep jogging watching unmarked players. They need to help the whole backline when we have HBA and Remy on the pitch. Looking tidy when we have possession is just not enough.

That's shocking from Remy.