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Chelsea v Burnley (PL) 21/02/2015 KO 15:00 GMT

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Our next challenge in the title hunt, Burnley are in decent form and have played well of late so this will be tough.

Depending on how it goes in Paris in terms of injuries and form I doubt there will be much of a shuffle.

----------Cech-------

Ivan------Zouma-----Terry-----Luis

---------Matic----Fabregas-------

Willian-------Oscar----------Hazard

-------------Costa-------------

Luis I'd choose as is more of a threat going forward at LB and hopefully we don't find oursleves defending deep against Burnley at home.

 
This will be a very difficult game. They played brilliantly at City, Old Trafford, and of course took the lead against us in the opening game of the season. They'll sit deep of course but they've got some great players and if we let Danny Ings have a few chances he'll almost certainly punish us

 
I would be inclined to start Azpilicueta over Luis as Burnley have a tendency to attack down the right, using George Boyd's magnificent left foot to cut inside and the overlapping runs of Trippier. Obviously we are going to have a better idea of who is what condition and what form after tonight, but otherwise we should be looking to play our strongest XI - obviously this is not a fixture in which we should be dropping points.

 
Think we will see luis, zouma, and caudrado against Burnley I think the game tonight took it out of a few.

 
Looking for a win and a good performance in this one. We are overdue a good performance, we haven't played that well since we thrashed Swansea.

 
Cech

Azpi

Zouma

Terry

Luis

Cesc

Matic

Cuadrado

Oscar

Hazard

Costa

Keep on winning, each league victory is one step closer.

 
Zouma should start the next few games to get him ready for the cup final and the PSG return leg.

 
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Willian didn't look too clever when he went off last night, hopefully it's only a knock he is struggling with but that said I would give him this game as a rest.

                    Courtois

Ivanovic - Zouma - Terry - Dave

             Fabregas - Matic

      Cuadrado - Oscar - Hazard

                        Costa

Hopefully Oscar back for this one, we've not looked as good in attack without him. 

Zouma back in for Cahill as I think he needs all the game time he can get to continue his development. 

I would say give Luis a game but the form Ivanovic is in you can't drop him right now and Dave is Mr Dependable in defence and I can't see Jose dropping him either. 

 
For some reason can not post that I have ticket for sale for Burnley game, face value of course

 
Didn't they get a point against City this year? I hope we don't start slow, could see us running out of energy again in the last 20 if we play pretty much the same 11 from yesterday.

 
PSG are 33 Euro matches unbeaten at home now. I'm really not surprised we didn't win the match. Take the score draw and run for the hills - the situation at Stamford Bridge will be completely different. 

 
Courtois

Ivanovic

Zouma

Terry

Luis

Matic

Fabregas

Cuadrado

Oscar

Hazard

Costa

A few marginal calls in there but I think that's our strongest team. Courtois could be replaced by Cech in order to get him another clean sheet for that silly record and Azpi could start ahead of Luis, but I think he needs a run out.

Cuadrado needs to have a big game and this will be his first start with our key attacking players so and important one. We miss Oscar when he's not there so hopefully he's fit again. Zouma probably didn't deserve to be dropped so should come straight back in.

It's a real banana skin fixture so no room for complacency but it's also important we get back to playing well and winning games. We've been poor far too much recently and our keepers have had to save our arses, so a controlled performance from front to back with plenty of goals would be appreciated.

 
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