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10 hours til kickoff. Lets go you Blues!

Now that Remy is confirmed to be back, we are going to wreck them. I'd love to see Willian as the #10 and Oscar or Cuadrado on the right. Willian has been on fire lately.

I totally agree with you mate.

I live in Chicago bud. But I work Sunday mornings so I don't get to watch many matches.

I am less worried about this and the Liverpool matches than I was the previous 3. I can only hope that Costa or Remy are fit for this one. I want to stomp them out early and coast to the title! GK: Courtois (if fit) RB: Ivanovic CB: Terry © CB: Cahill LB: Azipilcueta DM: Fabregas DM: Matic RAM: Willian CAM: Oscar LAM: Hazard ST: Costa / Remy (whichever is more fit)

Chelsea - 4: Hazard (PK), Willian, Cahill, Hazard. Fabregas with 3 assists (he is my captain on my fantasy team this week ) Leicester - 0

I was being cheeky relax. I will always love Drogba but there comes a time when even the worlds greatest dog has to die. I think he has gotten more respect from this board and from myself than if somebody like Costa or Remy had been playing as s**t as Drogs has been lately.

Lets just play Ivanovic as a false 9 and put Azpi at RB and Filipe Luis at LB. That way we have Luis' crossing abilities and a 6 foot striker not named Dro(ld)gba.

I think it is funny that we were all pretty excited about having this game in hand when we made it to the CoC final. Now that the game is finally here, we are missing our top two strikers, have a creative midfielder with a head injury, and are going to be facing a team who has been in form the past 3 or 4 weeks who are on the brink of getting out of the relegation zone. Long story short, this is going to be a tough ass game.

So according to my Sports App on my phone Remy is out for this match. Seeing as how we don't want to ruin his career, I'd like to see Costa sitting out for this as well. With that being said, I don't see us winning or even drawing this match anymore.

What you are saying about Clyne is the same thing that could be said about Gary Cahill and look how he turned out.

Like launcher said, Isco and Hazard would wreck this league. Buy him and Pogba and maybe a defender (Clyne) and call it a summer. Courtois Ivanovic Terry / Zouma Cahill Azpilicueta Pogba Matic Isco Fabregas Hazard Costa Bench / Reserves: GK, Clyne, Filipe Luis (or Kalas), Zouma, Ramires (or Van Ginkle), Mikel, Oscar, Willian, Cuadrado, Remy, ST (Bamford?)

We will get one of: Bale Pogba Koke Varane Reus AND one of: Khedira Schneiderlin Clyne

Gives us Verratti and we'll call it a deal.

Watching Ramires chip the s**t out of Valdes NEVER gets old and I still get goosebumps watching that Torres breakaway.

Costa or Remy are absolutely mandatory for this one. I definitely think we need a little more defensive focus in the midfield with the fact that Assenal have been in godlike form ever since Christmas. Therefore I'd line them up like this: GK: Courtois RB: Ivanovic CB: Terry © CB: Cahill LB: Azpilicueta CM: Matic CM: Mikel RW: Oscar CAM: Fabregas LW: Hazard ST: Costa / Remy Bench: Cech, Zouma, Filipe Luis, Ramires, Willian, Cuadrado, Remy / Costa, Drogba 2 (Hazard, Oscar) - 1 (Sanchez)

I followed the game on this board while at work and just watched the highlights. Judging by your guys posts we definitely played on our heels quite often, and from the highlights it appeared we lucked out a little bit. In terms of the goal, that might have been the best series of passes we seen (which directly led to a goal) all season. Granted, the Fabregas assist to Schurrle against Burnley in the opener was brilliant, but the cheeky little backheel from Oscar to Hazard (who was in full sprint mind you), was flawless. His shot placement 5 hole on De Gea was pretty awesome too.

I won't lie, I really enjoyed seeing that little twat get nutmegged twice by "Twilight Boy" yesterday. Serves you right for being an ass at Stamford Bridge

If we win this the title is all but ours, even if we lose to Le Arse. I'm hoping Remy is fit for this because I don't think Drogba has it in him anymore. I'd like to see this line-up GK: Courtois RB: Ivanovic CB: Cahill CB: Terry LB: Azipilicueta CM: Mikel CM: Fabregas CM: Matic RW: Willian LW: Hazard ST: Remy Bench: Cech, Zouma, Filipe Luis, Ramires, Cuadrado, Oscar, Drogba I'd really like us to totally wrap the title up as soon as possible so we can start seeing some players like Cuadrado and RLC get some extended playing time this year.

WAIT, you just said "DO not rest key player" but then you are saying "In a way it's good Costa is missing this one" because "Costa is most likely to be sent to the stand for retaliating" I'm sorry but as midfielders, Matic and Fabregas are more likely to make a bad tackle which could warrant them a yellow card (and will keep them out of BOTH the United and Arsenal matches). If I had a choice I personally would have rather risked losing Costa to a Red card knowing we had Remy as our backup, than risk losing Fabregas or Matic to a single Yellow card (with Ramires, Mikel and Zouma) as their backups. The drop off is much more significant in the latter than it is in the former.

I'm going to get s**t for what I am about to say, but I would argue that United and Arsenal are significantly better than we are at this moment. WITH Cesc and Matic both of those games will be very tough for us, WITHOUT them, I cannot see us beating them.

This is the game I am most worried about. We've barely squeaked out wins against Hull and Stoke and now we are facing a team who not only has a very in form striker, but who are fighting for their EPL lives at the moment. IF we can manage to win this game, we could conceivably draw against United and lose to Arsenal and still be in good shape (due to our game in hand against Leicester). This is the line-up I'd like to see for the game Cech (I love Courtois but give the youngster a day off, especially with huge games the following 2 weeks) Ivanovic Zouma Terry Azipilicueta Ramires Fabregas Willian Oscar Hazard Remy I'm resting Matic because I would rather see Fabregas get suspended for United and Arsenal and not Matic. Matic is more vital against those two teams than Fab is. 3 (Remy, Hazard, Terry) - 1 (Austin)

On a side note. Yahoo.com has an entire headline dedicate to Charlie Adams' goal. F***ing disgraceful.

I just watched the highlights and CLEARLY Hazard was fouled right before that d**k Adams goal. Also, all of the people who are hating on Cuadrado right now, let him have an entire preseason to accumulate to the league before we write him off.

I can truly see our summer window looking like this. Koke (could play pretty much anywhere in the midfield) Khedira (free transfer and would play next to Matic) Varane Starting XI: Courtois Ivanovic Varane Terry / Zouma Azpilicueta Khedira Matic Koke Fabregas Hazard Costa