Good job no manager's job has ever been on the line when playing WBA away or else Jose might have been looking over his shoulder going into this one.

Incredible stat.

Tony Pulis is no pushover. He's gonna make us work for it. I think we'll draw 1-1.

Look how big of a decision that Courtois red ended up being...we should have won the first match.

I think it will be a battling match with a lot of heat. Hoping for 2-1 win

Jose said pre city game, Oscars injury would probably keep him out of this game too.

To prevent this site imploding a win would be nice.

Courtois

Azpilicueta zouma Terry baba

Fabregas matic

Willian oscar hazard

Costa.

Seems strange to say this is a must win game so early in the season, but it's going to be really hard to catch city if we fall 7/8 points behind.

Jose said Oscars probably out of this one. That will help things.

I can see us being more defensive just to ensure that we don't drop any more points, which probably wouldn't be the worst of ideas at the moment. 

Fck Oscar cant play? It's not good for us. We need some fresh air in team.

Tibo

Azpi - JT - Zouma - Baba

Matic - Mikel

Moses - William -Hazard

Falcao

But with JM we can expect normal 11...

 

2-1 for us.

I'd take a 1-0 with a deflected goal right now, think we need something like this.

JT should start, he's well suited to dealing with Rondon (presuming he starts).... Berahino is the danger, another 'Aguero type' of striker who has pace to burn.... perhaps Zouma to pair up with JT at the weekend... Berahino can also drift in from flanks so I'd like to see Azpi/Baba start at full back.

Zouma and Terry have to start together. Second and third goals yesterday wouldn't have been conceded with Terry on the park and we desperately need Zouma's pace alongside him.

There's no chance he'll drop Ivanovic for Rahman.

Not entirely sure what lineup to expect from West Brom. They've played 4-4-2 in both games so far, although considering Pulis' reaction to the Man City game you'd think he'd switch things up and move an extra man into midfield. Interesting to see what happens up front with them; will Rondon come in for Lambert and/or Berahino?

 

Something like this?

Myhill; Dawson, Lescott, McAuley, Brunt; Yacob, Morrison, Fletcher; Gardner, Berahino, Rondon

If oscar is out I think it's time to give one of Moses or Traore a start on the right, Fabregas alongside matic again because this game isn't one where we'll be overrun in midfield like we were against city, theres no Yaya toure or David silva to compete with. A good win here would definitely be a morale booster. Hazard needs to step up too, he hasn't hit his stride at all yet. 3-1 to Chelsea

Must win game

Basically we need a win. It is a habit abd we haven't won in a long time.

I think we should just go bonkers and change the whole lineup

 

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Yeah we'd win with that

I think we should just go bonkers and change the whole lineup

 

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Yeah we'd win with that

That has cheered me!

Probably not the best match to drop Ivanovic considering West Brom scored about half their goals last season from set pieces.

I'd take a 1-0 with a deflected goal right now, think we need something like this.

Same here bobby, just something to stop he rot.

Probably not the best match to drop Ivanovic considering West Brom scored about half their goals last season from set pieces.

Needs to be accountability and consequences to players making costly mistakes and putting in bad performances.

Just looking at fixtures we really need 6 points from the next 2 games, as the following 4 fixtures are games we will drop points in unless we play close to our best.

West brom a

Palace h

Everton a

Arsenal h

Newcastle a

Soton h

Needs to be accountability and consequences to players making costly mistakes and putting in bad performances.

 

Oh I agree. But we can't drop 2 or 3 players at the cost of losing the match. Again it comes down to the squad depth issue.

A strong winning performance in this game and we can put the past few weeks behind us.

We are still Champions and we will be back!