Jamesc88

Does anyone else feel stupidly optimistic. Cause well, I definitely DO.

As long as it's a fair fight I fancy our chances'. If Barcelona think this is an easy game, think again. Carefree, wherever you may be, we are the famous CFC!!! 

I just want us to be competitive. 

I know it’s a completely different scenario but this squad is a lot younger and in terms of the league and the season in general we are in a better place than we were in 2012 when we beat them.
No reason if we turn up as to why we can’t beat them.

He's not in goal? Wow, The Guardian know their stuff!

At the moment it seems too black and white to me. It's either a penalty or a yellow card, but in a lot of cases it's neither.
Football is a contact sport, so you can touch someone in the box without it warranting a penalty. On the other hand, contact isn't required for it to be a foul according to the rules. 
We also have the argument of whether or not a player could have stayed on his feet, but it is totally irrelevant, you don't need to go down for it be a foul. 
Last night the ref booked Willian and morata within seconds of the incident. Basically calling them cheats. What if he got the call saying he was wrong, how does he rescind that yellow card on field? 
He should've followed the review process we saw in the arsenal game, and then if it was a clear dive, book the player then. 
He got the process all wrong last night, and by immediately booking players for simulation, I think it put the var team in a position, where any over ruling would have lead to utter chaos trying to decipher who got booked, who got sent off, does a booking for dissent still stand after an incorrect decision. 
They let play continue which was obviously the wrong decision, as now the whole system is under scrutiny, when I think it was wrongly implemented by the referee. 
 

Not sure how you can say that? Your claiming that if one player on our team dives once it influences the refs decision for the whole of the game being biased to the other team?
If the ref did that then he isn’t really doing his job of reffing the game fair is he?

I think the FA needs to do more in getting ex players into officiating, most refs nowadays are overweight middle aged men who have never played a competitive game of football in there lives. They have no sense of empathy for the players because they have never been in similar scenarios in addition I think players may respect ex players officiating a lot more due to some level of association.

Not sure how you can say that? Your claiming that if one player on our team dives once it influences the refs decision for the whole of the game being biased to the other team?
If the ref did that then he isn’t really doing his job of reffing the game fair is he?

Pedro should have been sent off for the dive alone, that was pathetic.
Willian was a definite penalty, Morata could have gone either way.
Could you imagine if Willian had picked up a booking before the penalty claim?
Brighton away looks tough now.

Ref also blew the whistle early on when Batshuayi was onside. Sure the linesman gave it but he had VAR to refute any goal if Bats scored anyway.
Ref was bonkers today

Absolutely. Don't give the referee a chance to blow. 

If one of our defenders grabbed hold of the striker, you would be one of the first to say that our defender was stupid to pull the opposition player.

FFS are you still here?  Standard of mods has really dropped in this place these days.

Write this down. We are going absolute berserk tonight - 5:1 final score. 

Game Day. Come on Chelsea. Nervous now...
Blue is the colour!

Tibo 
Dave Christensen Cahill
Alonso Kante Fabregas Moses 
willian Morata hazard 
 
I would usually go for a 352 but I think we need to go at arsenal and I don’t think they will be able to handle Willian Morata and hazard especially with Fabregas pulling the strings behind them.

This isn't remotely funny and is beyond childish. Please grow up a bit before posting again. 

well said..
and talking about youth teams - our under 21 team is a part of checkatrade (EFL) trophy... 
our boys won 3rd round match yday v portsmouth 2-1.. musonda scored 2 goals...
 
 

Silverware is silverware and when we have won this before it’s been great. I think we should be naming a full strength team against Arsenal.
Also if anyone can beat city then it’s us, and a day out at Wembley for a cup final is a great occasion whether you win or lose you want to be in cup finals competing for every trophy, so to disregard this just because it’s the “league cup” is a joke.
Theres youth competitions to develop youth players.

Silverware is silverware and when we have won this before it’s been great. I think we should be naming a full strength team against Arsenal.
Also if anyone can beat city then it’s us, and a day out at Wembley for a cup final is a great occasion whether you win or lose you want to be in cup finals competing for every trophy, so to disregard this just because it’s the “league cup” is a joke.
Theres youth competitions to develop youth players.

Silverware is silverware and when we have won this before it’s been great. I think we should be naming a full strength team against Arsenal.
Also if anyone can beat city then it’s us, and a day out at Wembley for a cup final is a great occasion whether you win or lose you want to be in cup finals competing for every trophy, so to disregard this just because it’s the “league cup” is a joke.
Theres youth competitions to develop youth players.

Silverware is silverware and when we have won this before it’s been great. I think we should be naming a full strength team against Arsenal.
Also if anyone can beat city then it’s us, and a day out at Wembley for a cup final is a great occasion whether you win or lose you want to be in cup finals competing for every trophy, so to disregard this just because it’s the “league cup” is a joke.
Theres youth competitions to develop youth players.

Silverware is silverware and when we have won this before it’s been great. I think we should be naming a full strength team against Arsenal.
Also if anyone can beat city then it’s us, and a day out at Wembley for a cup final is a great occasion whether you win or lose you want to be in cup finals competing for every trophy, so to disregard this just because it’s the “league cup” is a joke.
Theres youth competitions to develop youth players.

Silverware is silverware and when we have won this before it’s been great. I think we should be naming a full strength team against Arsenal.
Also if anyone can beat city then it’s us, and a day out at Wembley for a cup final is a great occasion whether you win or lose you want to be in cup finals competing for every trophy, so to disregard this just because it’s the “league cup” is a joke.
Theres youth competitions to develop youth players.