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Aye, and I still feel that with a confident team around him he'll deliver the goods, but it is a concern.

Matip on the ball is like watching Hansen. Off it, it's like watching Kvarme

Lucas shouldn't be anywhere near the team, let alone playing centre half. And Can neither. Too many not good enough

How many times did a deep lying player pick up the ball with acres of space in front of them yet just pass it sideways. Run into the space ffs. Commit the opposition. Try and open the game up. No one has any confidence to try something, anything.

No I'm not Irish. No agenda, just agree with swipr

We did and they did, but I think you're doing him a disservice. he's still better than most of our attacking options. Not that I think he's good enough for us, more a measure of our lack of quality striking options

Yeah sorry I wasn't sneering; i like him. Yes, I'd gladly have him over most of our attacking options right now. And with the greatest of respect, that's Shane Frickin Long

He's not a bad player to be fair.

thought it was natural frustration and that he checked himself quickly when he realised it was the young lad?

Wolves will be rubbing their hinds

Its intensity or nothing. If the manic pressing, force teams into submission playing style doesn't work we look very average

I think perhaps he needs a run of games again after missing a few weeks. I think the goals will come too. Could really do with him stepping up without Lallana and Coutinho.

Very little talk of Wijnaldum. How did he do? I would have hoped in games like today where we struggle to break teams down his more attacking tendencies (than Henderson & Can) would have really helped us.

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And let's not forget the two wins this season were poor performances, results aside. A decent showing against Arsenal but when was the last time we turned in an outstanding performance?

The sad thing is that as bad as we've been, we've had a couple of decent chances and they've created nothing from free play. One decent set piece and a penalty.

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Exactly. Let's stop worrying about who they are or aren't playing and start worrying about getting the job done. Atletico came racing out of the traps against Barca in the second leg of the CL QF in much the same way as we have done for most of our games this season. They coulda shoulda been 3 up after 20 minutes. I thought Chelsea did an excellent job of breaking up the play and stopping Atletico from getting into their rhythm last night and I'm sure he's going to tell them to do exactly the same thing on Sunday. We have to impose ourselves and make sure they aren't able to do the same thing again.

We knew this was coming and there'll be a whole lot more between now and Sunday. Suarez is a diving cheat, the penalties, etc. Brendan's way too smart to get involved. I'd say he'd use it to motivate us if it were possible to motivate us any more than we already are. Oh the sweetness of victory if we can just get past them. Ain't going to be easy though. This is just the type of game that tw4t thrives on.

All this fielding a weakened side is just typical Mourinho b0ll0cks. He'll play what he thinks is his strongest side. They asked us to move the game did they? Ha.

@OllieHolt22: Mourinho says definitively that his priority is Champions League, not Premier League