Posted August 7, 20168 yr Will this be a full scale dress rehearsal? Be interested to see if Aina gets another start. Also who starts up front. If we are 4:3:3 right now my best 11 Courteous Aina Cahill Ivan Dave Kante fab chalobah Cuadrado Costa hazard I realise most will want want some of what I'm smoking for selecting cuadrado in front of Oscar/Willian/batshuayi but I think he is the most natural winger If 4:2:2 then batshuayi instead of cuadrado. The thing that makes me wonder if the Costa leaving stuff is true is that batshuayi Costa haven't been played together yet.
August 7, 20168 yr he may be a natural winger but he has proven to be even more naturally useless in a CFC shirt
August 7, 20168 yr Wanna see this team: Tibo Aina Cahill JT Azpi Kante Matic Cesc Willian Batshuayi Hazard
August 7, 20168 yr Teebo Aina Cahill JT Azpi Kante Cesc Oscar Willian Costa Hazard Weirder nearly got relegated last season and haven't really strengthen so really see us going for this one. A complete battering would really give is a lift before the season starts. 0-5 Costa Oscar Hazard x2 Bats
August 7, 20168 yr I want to see  Courtois Ivanovic - Cahill - Terry - Azpilicueta Kante - Fabregas Pedro - Bathsuayi - Costa - Hazard  Chelsea 4 Bremen 0 Pedro Costa Batshuayi Hazard Edited August 7, 20168 yr by pacquiao
August 7, 20168 yr Teebo Aina Cahill JT Azpi Kante Cesc Oscar Willian Costa Hazard Weirder nearly got relegated last season and haven't really strengthen so really see us going for this one. A complete battering would really give is a lift before the season starts. 0-5 Costa Oscar Hazard x2 Bats  They must have really liked Djilobodji, becaue they brought in Lamine Sane and Fallou Diagne, two pretty respected Ligue 1 defenders that offer a beast mode center pairing, Plus the experienced Finnish CB Moisander. Basically a wholesale change of their trouble area, as in defence.  They also brought in Max Kruse, who has been mostly great in the Bundesliga (not so much last season). As well as Florian Kainz, who is pretty much unheralded, but highly regarded. They have lost Djilobodji, their standout player in the second half of the season, Oztunali and Ujah, but they made like for like replacements.  So actually they did a lot of changes from last season, we will see if it changes anything. Edited August 7, 20168 yr by Jon Stakes
August 7, 20168 yr The midfield of Chalobah Kante Fabregas can't leave my head. I think this could be our most interesting thing this season, I really hope to see this trio working today.  - Chalobah helping Kante with the defensive work and pushing forward, using his creativity and showing danger near the goal.  - Kante is our pitch cleaner, tackles, defensive work, engine of the team.  - Fabregas has to be our playmaker, focus more on creating chances and improve our attacking football and of course put some defence.
August 7, 20168 yr what time is kick off? 2pm UK time  Next match : 14:00, Sun 07 Aug WERDER BREMEN VS CHELSEA Edited August 7, 20168 yr by Unclezillion
August 7, 20168 yr Can't wait! I think Conte has his starting XI figured out and today we'll start with a lineup West Ham in mind.
August 7, 20168 yr he may be a natural winger but he has proven to be even more naturally useless in a CFC shirt To be fair, he's looked better than Willian pre season.
August 7, 20168 yr Chelsea team today: Courtois, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry ©, Azpilicueta, Kante, Willian, Oscar, Matic, Hazard, Diego Costa. #CFCTour
August 7, 20168 yr Chelsea subs: Begovic, Blackman, Hector, Aina, Chalobah, Fabregas, Pedro, Moses, Cuadrado, Loftus-Cheek, Traore, Batshuayi. #CFCTour
August 7, 20168 yr Change the manager,and still back to the same old problems, Ivanovic RB,azpi at LB, oscar/matic in the team
August 7, 20168 yr Ivanovic ffs. totally undeserved. if he starts against WHU, unless he puts in fantastic performance today, we riot
August 7, 20168 yr Anybody know if it's on a stream with English Comms? I think it's on Arena Sport 1 but that's Eastern European I think.
August 7, 20168 yr 4-3-3 by the looks of it? Looks a nice balanced starting XI will be interesting to see how many early changes are made. I'd assume that at least 9 of those players will start against West Ham.
August 7, 20168 yr Why Oscar over Cesc?. I know it's preseason and all but that's likely our line-up vs West ham.
August 7, 20168 yr Dress rehearsel for West Ham and the only changes we make to a team that were absolute shambles last year is to take of our most creatice passer and replace him with Kante. At least its a slight upgrade defensively and we have ditched the 4-4-2. Wonder how long Matic and Ivan manages to keep themselves in the starting lineup
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