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Cisse passing straight to opposition? Shock horror.

Our team has neither a striker who can hold the ball up nor a midfielder with the touch or vision to find space between Villa's defence and midfield and receive the ball. It's very much a defend well and hope for a Villa mistake approach. We have both ffs, on the bench.

Cisse, just as I was thinking, christ he's actually controlled a ball and going to keep possession, launches it neck-height into Andros Townsend from 10 yards away. Absolute crud.

Cisse ? I'm not surprised by Cisse's performance either, if that's what you mean, questioned his selection before the game too. It was Cisse with the shot not Sissoko Oh right, well the commentator said Sissoko and I don't exactly have HD if you'll forgive me

Cisse ? I'm not surprised by Cisse's performance either, if that's what you mean, questioned his selection before the game too.

Magic shins.

Missing on-the-ball players like Mitro & Siem imo.

Sissoko's finishing, no surprises at all so far in this game.

Cisse is on because he's better when we don't have the ball. Don't agree with the logic, but I understand it. I prefer to have our attacking players chosen for their on-the-ball qualities and that's why I'd have Mitro on too.

I've figured it out, gotta wait for Cisse to make the defenders tired so Mitrovic doesn't look so slow when he comes on later.

Cisse special, that

you couldn't write it man, it's all so utterly f***ing preposterous So not only Tevez and Mascherano, who both went on to become the linchpins of fantastic sides and have won countless medals, Pardew also couldn't use Hatem. Who would have thought.

Alex Neil ofc

Watch it be Bruce, that pile of stink.

Ball to Schneiderlein from absolute no-mans land, put it on a plate for him and should be 2 up now.

Hopefully Woy didn't see it.

I really want to be proved wrong

Fair enough.

If your on HD then there is a delay. Ah, my pesky HD connection

How can you lot be ahead of my paid-for BT online stream I call bullshit

WDDW So you'd praise Pardew for the 5th too then? Eh? You think Cisse is the reason for WDDW? That's what you've implied. Other than the one goal he's scored in those 4 matches, he hasn't held up the ball, made any passes of note or made space for other places. Every single game Mitro has come on he's been involved, holding up the ball, laying it off and being an absolute menace. With Cisse alone up front we're practically a man down, he just can't play the lone striker role and he never has for us. The only time he came close to this was when we played practically 3 up top and he was the one in the middle. You can't just look at the past 4 results, Cisse has started them, and then imply 'that's what he brings to the team'. Come on. What's that got to do with Pardew? If you read that piece about Benitez's tactics from the other day, Cisse is being picked to fulfil a role he very often deploys in his teams. It's working, so I'm not complaining. I brought the Pardew thing into it because he often gets lauded as 'the reason' we finished 5th, yet having watched every game of the season, it looked like he was trying his best to make sure we didn't win but that's been gone over 100 times. I did read the Torres interview, it was a great insight. I just don't see how Cisse not being able to hold the ball and pass it to a team-mate as part of tactics. The piece about Torres specifically mentioned that he was sometimes tasked to draw out defenders to make space for Gerrard, I don't see Cisse doing anything at all off the ball that would help us.

WDDW So you'd praise Pardew for the 5th too then? Eh? You think Cisse is the reason for WDDW? That's what you've implied. Other than the one goal he's scored in those 4 matches, he hasn't held up the ball, made any passes of note or made space for other players. Every single game Mitro has come on he's been involved, holding up the ball, laying it off and being an absolute menace. With Cisse alone up front we're practically a man down, he just can't play the lone striker role and he never has for us. The only time he came close to this was when we played practically 3 up top and he was the one in the middle. You can't just look at the past 4 results, Cisse has started them, and then imply 'that's what he brings to the team'. Come on.

WDDW So you'd praise Pardew for the 5th too then?

Needs to Siem for Wijnaldum, and Mitro for Cisse. Not sure what Cisse even brings to our team now.

Should have shook him by the hand and thanked him for keeping us in the Premier League for 5 seasons and taking us to a UEFA Cup quarter final. Mark Bright did that?