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the growing pains of youth

he really wanted that one - good on him. 4 in last 6 for him.

FUCKING LUKAKU - YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! good show coming back from the messup.

seriously. even howard has made blunders that led to goals.

yeah, lukaku's layoffs are really hit or miss...with more misses than hits. i don't think he should ever be getting a touch other than the final 1/3rd of the field. it's too big a risk.

damn, playing like shit the past 7 minutes.

just a terrible pass by lukaku and howard was late to recognize...

god damn lukaku - wtf??!?!?!?

just need to weather this little mini storm. i think if we can score another one soon, they'll be deflated.

yeah - watching it here in new york.

great touches all around starting with lukaku...just brilliant.

fucking beautiful...

we need to win this. need to keep the positive momentum going.

i just long for the day we have rom, mirallas, barkley, coleman in the lineup at the same time...

hey everyone. i am in the preliminary stages of planning a trip to london in april. (i live in new york) i will be there when we face swansea at their home. 1. how difficult would it be to get to swansea for the match? i would like to just go there for the match and then head back to london. 2. how difficult will it be to get tickets and exactly how would i be able to get tickets? thanks.

i have to give jags some props. he looked really old the first few matches but he's really turned it around in the past few.

lukaku is a big and strong player. but we never use that strength of his. we don't just send it down to him in the box on long passes. he needs to be used more like how mu uses falcao and how chelsea uses costa. send the ball down field and let him work. the one time we did it today, he got off a decent shot. not enough class players in the midfield w/o barkley and now mirallas. just aren't deep enough there. don't understand why howard didn't just kick it out when he ran all the way to the corner. the 2nd goal is 100% on him.

a win here would give us a lot of confidence. but not have mirallas hurts.

just watched it here in ny. the entire scoring play was brilliant - from stones tackle to baines cross to lukaku coming near goal to draw the defenders to eto's finishing.

wouldn't surprise me if he's out for the season...

right now, lukaku needs someone to set him up or he needs to breakaway and we have to play the long pass. he played on the right yesterday which forces him to become a creator - which he is not that great at right now. if you play him in the middle and just let him crash, he will look much better. he's never going to be a class footsman, but he can score when we are attacking and he's the recipient, not the initiator.

he saved the match by running down that ball in the corner.

mcgeady also completely whiffed on an open look that went left and within 5 mins of being on the pitch, did not hustle back and pool got a great cross opportunity because of it.

since we haven't started with the best record in bpl play...we have to look at the Europa cup as one avenue into the champions league. we need to win this one.

only way a young player will get better is playing time. he is a bit physically weak and is easy bumped off the ball. but he has skill.