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Middlesbrough Vs Chelsea (PL) Sun 20/11 2016 KO 16:00 GMT

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Middlesbrough Vs Chelsea Vs (PL) Sun 20/11 2016 KO 16:00 GMT

 
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Thought I'd get in nice and early with the crystal ball predictions. Can I just say what a performance that was against Everton. One of, if not the, best Chelsea performances I have ever seen. Everyone contributed and you can just tell this is a team enjoying itself at the moment. Fantastic. Anyway, here are the predictions:

Chelsea (3-4-3): Courtois; Luiz, Cahill, Terry (c); Azpilicueta, Willian, Chalobah, Alonso; Pedro, Oscar, Hazard
Subs: Thompson, Mati?, Fábregas, Kanté, Moses, Costa, Batshuayi
 
Prediction: Middlesbrough 0-0 Chelsea
 
So, a few changes, as always is the case with this damn crystal ball ha ha. What a game it will be for youth goalkeeper Jared Thompson, apparently. He's been called up to the bench just because the crystal ball feels like it. Also, Conte decides he's going to drop just about half the team to the bench and go with Oscar as a false nine. It ultimately leads to Middlesbrough holding us to a 0-0 draw. Bugger that. Let's go for yet another win, Blues!
 
If it aint broke, dont fix it. as long as our starters are not injured we shd be fine. 

 
conte said zouma will be available next week and i don't want him near the starting lineup lol

if it aint broke don't fix it, eventough i'm still nervous everytime gaz hold the ball more than 2 seconds

 
Bloody international break. My biggest concern heading into this match is the loss of momentum we may endure for not playing for 15 days.

I have no doubt that at our best, we should win this with relative ease.

 
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Jezz said:
Bloody international break. My biggest concern heading into this match is the loss of momentum we may endure for not playing for 15 days.

I have no doubt that at our best, we should win this with relative ease.
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Am i imagining things or are international breaks getting longer ? This is the 3rd one this season that will take up 2 full weeks of the season. No wonder why we have fixture congestion when 6 weeks of the season has been used up on international football.

 
f**king hell, international breaks suck!  It already is a painful 2 weeks.  But--- looking at Karanka, he does field organised teams.  This is a chance for us to go blazing again and send a message to everyone that we are the REAL DEAL!  Where City failed - we should capitalise and get the 3 points.  Would love 2 first half goals.....

..... and 3 second half goals :-) !!!

 
dhidza said:
f**king hell, international breaks suck!  It already is a painful 2 weeks.  But--- looking at Karanka, he does field organised teams.  This is a chance for us to go blazing again and send a message to everyone that we are the REAL DEAL!  Where City failed - we should capitalise and get the 3 points.  Would love 2 first half goals.....

..... and 3 second half goals :-) !!!
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Arsenal too ;)

But yeah, really we should have too much for them if our recent results are anything to go by. I say it is imperative we win this as our 2 games after this one are Spurs and City.

 
Don't know why but i'm always cautious when we travel so far north for an away game, much the same when we play Newcastle/Sunderland etc. No doubt we should have the quality to breeze past them though. Here's hoping for a cricket score.

 
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Costa out of the Spanish squad with groin injury. Hope it heals up in time 
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I hope i wont see him missing the big EPL games coming up ! Spurs and City , after the Boro game . Batschuayi is B.S. at the moment , that lad needs to show some serious performances if he deserves to play up as CF and to be considered as backup for Diego .

 
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I hope i wont see him missing the big EPL games coming up ! Spurs and City , after the Boro game . Batschuayi is B.S. at the moment , that lad needs to show some serious performances if he deserves to play up as CF and to be considered as backup for Diego .
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Give him a break, he's not exactly had much game time with Costa being in such great form. To say he is bullsh*t at the moment is really harsh, he's been far from it.

 
Gokul JK said:
I hope i wont see him missing the big EPL games coming up ! Spurs and City , after the Boro game . Batschuayi is B.S. at the moment , that lad needs to show some serious performances if he deserves to play up as CF and to be considered as backup for Diego .
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Based on what exactly? He's gotten scraps at the end of games that we've already killed off. When i've seen him he looks great, a different mould of player to Diego, but he has serious merit. 

 
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