Sarri on Derby struggles: "As you saw in the last match against Derby, Derby played a very good match. I think we played well in the offensive phase. Lots of mistakes in the defensive phase. We have to improve."

Sarri on Barkley: "In the first week[as manager], I saw some matches of Chelsea and some matches of Everton because I wanted to see him on the pitch. He has great technical quality, great physical quality and he is improving after his injury. He has improved tactically"

Sarri on Loftus-Cheek: "He has improved but I think he needs to improve more from a tactical point of view. All the rest is good. Physically he is great. Fast, solid and has impact. Technically very good. If he wants to play as a MF, he needs to improve defensively"

Sarri on captaincy for Hazard or Luiz: "Cahill was captain last season. I spoke with his team-mates and everybody told me he was a really good captain."

Anticlimactic

Sarri on whether Loftus-Cheek will stay or go on loan: "Ruben in October played four out of five matches. At the moment, the situation is not for a loan"

Someone high up probably disagreed with Sarri''s real choice.
I don't buy that Cahill was the choice all along, long delay doesn't make sense only to confirm Cahill as captain.

Or told to wait until Cahill leaves.

https://www.mancity.com/en/news/first-team/first-team-news/2018/november/kevin-de-bruyne-injury-news-man-city-latest-update

Out for 5-6 weeks.

He’ll be back on a week using Pep’s special sted mix

I think we’ll need Hazard to start Sunday’s game. CP always tough to beat.

Nah

We will roll over them

comment by Superb (U6486)
posted 5 hours, 31 minutes ago
Barkley for me as well, 3 goals in his last 3 PL games

Also just put him in my FF side
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That's his run if form ending then

comment by ＴＬＬＬ (U4640)
posted 26 minutes ago
I think we’ll need Hazard to start Sunday’s game. CP always tough to beat.
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Only if he's 100% fit (bench if 90%).

We have already witnessed the detrimental effect of playing Hazard through injury once before.

We need him, but I agree if he is not 100% fit then just have him on the bench.

comment by Chelseamf™®© (U1677)
posted 3 hours, 29 minutes ago
Someone high up probably disagreed with Sarri''s real choice.
I don't buy that Cahill was the choice all along, long delay doesn't make sense only to confirm Cahill as captain.
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Probablywanted him out sooner but then saw how crap AC has been. Yeah maybe they are giving cahill a swan song. Was poor the other night, I feel for him, cos he was always gonna be rusty and derby are great at attacking, but was still poor.

comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 11 minutes ago
We need him, but I agree if he is not 100% fit then just have him on the bench.
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For all the talk of how reliant we are on him we've actually coped well without him under both Conte and Sarri.

It was under Jose we could barely breath without him, which probably goes a long way to explaining why he overplayed Eden to the point of both injury and exhaustion.

comment by Under The Bridge (U21614)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 11 minutes ago
We need him, but I agree if he is not 100% fit then just have him on the bench.
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For all the talk of how reliant we are on him we've actually coped well without him under both Conte and Sarri.

It was under Jose we could barely breath without him, which probably goes a long way to explaining why he overplayed Eden to the point of both injury and exhaustion.
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And it was curtains once Eva left

Since September Cahill and Christensen have been playing once a week just like Luiz and Rudiger have been, they should be in some sort of rhythm by now.

comment by Under The Bridge (U21614)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 11 minutes ago
We need him, but I agree if he is not 100% fit then just have him on the bench.
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For all the talk of how reliant we are on him we've actually coped well without him under both Conte and Sarri.

It was under Jose we could barely breath without him, which probably goes a long way to explaining why he overplayed Eden to the point of both injury and exhaustion.
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in one off games maybe....but if he is out for a sustained period we are fecked...

Palace is a game that we will need him

comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Under The Bridge (U21614)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 11 minutes ago
We need him, but I agree if he is not 100% fit then just have him on the bench.
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For all the talk of how reliant we are on him we've actually coped well without him under both Conte and Sarri.

It was under Jose we could barely breath without him, which probably goes a long way to explaining why he overplayed Eden to the point of both injury and exhaustion.
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in one off games maybe....but if he is out for a sustained period we are fecked...

Palace is a game that we will need him
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Tbf under Sarri two teams we should be beating without him. I’m still pretty sceptical, in terms of how much we rely on him. I think a lot of games this season had (happened under Conte/Mourinho as well) just knock it about until Hazard does something. Creates a chance, score a goal, make an opening of some sort.

https://youtu.be/Oqck4OAtK4M

Tunnel

'Quarter-final tie against Bournemouth in the Carabao Cup will take place on Wednesday 19 December, Kick off 7:45

comment by Kunta Kante (U1641)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Under The Bridge (U21614)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 11 minutes ago
We need him, but I agree if he is not 100% fit then just have him on the bench.
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For all the talk of how reliant we are on him we've actually coped well without him under both Conte and Sarri.

It was under Jose we could barely breath without him, which probably goes a long way to explaining why he overplayed Eden to the point of both injury and exhaustion.
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in one off games maybe....but if he is out for a sustained period we are fecked...

Palace is a game that we will need him
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Tbf under Sarri two teams we should be beating without him. I’m still pretty sceptical, in terms of how much we rely on him. I think a lot of games this season had (happened under Conte/Mourinho as well) just knock it about until Hazard does something. Creates a chance, score a goal, make an opening of some sort.
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Well his two worst games for us this season were West Ham and United......two games we were poor and didn't win

comment by Kunta Kante (U1641)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Under The Bridge (U21614)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 11 minutes ago
We need him, but I agree if he is not 100% fit then just have him on the bench.
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For all the talk of how reliant we are on him we've actually coped well without him under both Conte and Sarri.

It was under Jose we could barely breath without him, which probably goes a long way to explaining why he overplayed Eden to the point of both injury and exhaustion.
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in one off games maybe....but if he is out for a sustained period we are fecked...

Palace is a game that we will need him
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Tbf under Sarri two teams we should be beating without him. I’m still pretty sceptical, in terms of how much we rely on him. I think a lot of games this season had (happened under Conte/Mourinho as well) just knock it about until Hazard does something. Creates a chance, score a goal, make an opening of some sort.
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We were two up against Arsenal and were causing them all sorts of problems without him, okay they got it back to 2-2 but that wasn't down to no Hazard.

Im not saying it's just as good without him because it's obviously not, but Sarri and Conte have/had a system to help minimize his loss whenever it's occured.

In the games that he came on as sub in early on in the season he was decisive in getting the result.

We are massively dependent on Hazard