Quote from: Pulsar77 on January 13, 2024, 10:31:42 PM

We have seen once again how important De Bruyne is for Manchester City.

It is really awesome to see this player changing the way a match is going to. Despite recovering a really short time ago he just continues from where he left. This is what I like at De Bruyne. He is always ready to give his 100% into a match.

It wasn't an easy day for Manchester City anyway but at least De Bruyne won the match for them. Haaland should also be back very soon. I have no doubt he also missed playing together with De Bruyne as they have a great chemistry. Grin

Because Kevin is a very smart and skillful player so it's easy for him to find a place in a match. He is a type of player who does not need to spend too much energy to run around and we can see a bigger example, Messi. We see how Argentina's coach and players tried to free Messi from many tasks and allowed him to run very little, just walk around and only run when Argentina needs him for attacking.

Kevin is more energetic than Messi but I see something similar on their skills and vision to avoid too much energy waste for physical fight.

Quote from: CryptoBuds on Today at 12:10:48 AM

Chelsea's overall performance is still very erratic. However, we have seen a slight improvement in Chelsea's performance in the last few Premier League matches. They have won the last three matches. And the team has won four out of the last five matches. The team has won a total of 9 matches this season. And they have 4 wins in last 5 matches.

They are now above Manchester United and Newcastle United so we can not ignore Chelsea improvement in Premier League. With 31 points, they are 9 points less than Arsenal at the fourth position and Arsenal has one match to play. It looks impossible for Chelsea to get in top four but they can try and at least can aim at a position to join Europa League or Conference League in a next season.

It is a little surprise to see Newcastle United began to fall down more on the table like this and a group stage of Champions League affected them a lot by focus too much on those matches and lost concentration for Premier League.