Posted August 20, 20168 yr Hello guys, Rovers fan in peace. Buzzing for our trip to you on Tuesday night. 4000 tickets sold out in no time last week to priority one fans. Anyway, just wondering what sort of team you expect to put out? Expect you to rest quite a few but even so, you will have a strong team regardless compaed to what we are used to coming up against! Also, not sure if you are aware but our new owner Al Qadi, is a massive Chelsea fan and season ticket holder with yourselves. Thouroughly nice bloke too! Think Conte will do well for you. Got the best out of an Italian side who weren't particularly strong and I can see you seeing out games 1-0 like the Mourinho days. See you Tuesday! Edited August 20, 20168 yr by GGMI
August 20, 20168 yr Hey Mate, Will most likely be a mixture of our first team and some younger players. We don't have many defenders so expect a near full strength back four. Expecting something like; Begovic Aina Cahill Ivanovic Azpilicueta Pedro Fabregas Chalobah Moses Loftus Cheek Batshuayi Best of luck for Tuesday and the rest of the season.
August 20, 20168 yr Begovic Ivanovic - Miazga - Cahill - Aina Chalobah Pedro - Fabregas - Pasalic - Moses Batshuayi  Michy Hattrick in a 4-0 win
August 20, 20168 yr I'm on the road again this week. Anyone have any idea if this game is due to be televised anywhere? The early league cup games are always the hardest to find streams of.
August 20, 20168 yr Hello guys, Rovers fan in peace. Buzzing for our trip to you on Tuesday night. 4000 tickets sold out in no time last week to priority one fans. Anyway, just wondering what sort of team you expect to put out? Expect you to rest quite a few but even so, you will have a strong team regardless compaed to what we are used to coming up against! Also, not sure if you are aware but our new owner Al Qadi, is a massive Chelsea fan and season ticket holder with yourselves. Thouroughly nice bloke too! Think Conte will do well for you. Got the best out of an Italian side who weren't particularly strong and I can see you seeing out games 1-0 like the Mourinho days. See you Tuesday!  Good luck with your season too.  I am hoping you can tell us more about your clubs line ups and whom to watch out for. I would predict that a lot of the players who started  today will not be starting. My predicted lineup:   Begovich  Aina - Ivanovich © - Miazga - Kenedy  Willian/Cuadrado - Matic - Fabergas - Moses   RLC - Batshuayi  I dont know how true the Cuadrado, Miazga and Kenedy loan rumors are, But so far they are still here.  I think i may be playing too many youngsters. But I think this is a good test. Edited August 20, 20168 yr by brownindian
August 20, 20168 yr Begovic Aina, Miazga, Cahill, Azpilicueta Chalobah, RLC Moses, Oscar, Kenedy Batshuayi Edited August 20, 20168 yr by bluelion111
August 21, 20168 yr I think we need to make a few changes as we need them fit and ready if required to call on during the league.  My team   Begovic  Aina cahill Terry Azbi  Chalobah Kante  pedro fabregas moses  Batman
August 21, 20168 yr I'm on the road again this week. Anyone have any idea if this game is due to be televised anywhere? The early league cup games are always the hardest to find streams of. Not on anywhere according to the site I use to see what obscure channels games are on. Chelsea TV have 'Live commentary'
August 21, 20168 yr The crystal ball was close to predicting the right score against Watford but we could not score that third goal before the end. Anyway, this is the team and prediction against Bristol Rovers: Chelsea (4-1-4-1): Courtois; Ivanovi?, Cahill, Terry ©, Azpilicueta; Kanté; Pedro, Willian, Mikel, Hazard; Costa Subs: Blackman, Mati?, Chalobah, Oscar, Cuadrado, Batshuayi, Kenedy Prediction: Chelsea 0-0 Bristol Rovers (4-5 on penalties) So, a strong 11 fielded, albeit with Willian in a slightly unorthodox central midfield role, is not enough to progress in the EFL Cup. Yeah, I think, even though it's a cup game, we'd be fairly livid with this result. Let's go for the win here. Come on, Blues! By the way, the crystal ball seems to think Cuadrado and Kenedy aren't going anywhere...just yet.
August 21, 20168 yr Important game for us to win, we have to go as far as we can in that competition.  I'd like to see this starting lineup:  ----------------- Begovic ---------------------  Aina ------- Cahill --- Terry --- Azpilicueta  ----------- Chalobah --- Fabregas --------------  Moses --------- Loftus-Cheek ----- Hazard  --------------- Batshuayi ------------------------   COME ON CHELS!!!!!!!!
August 21, 20168 yr The crystal ball was close to predicting the right score against Watford but we could not score that third goal before the end. Anyway, this is the team and prediction against Bristol Rovers: Chelsea (4-1-4-1): Courtois; Ivanovi?, Cahill, Terry ©, Azpilicueta; Kanté; Pedro, Willian, Mikel, Hazard; Costa Subs: Blackman, Mati?, Chalobah, Oscar, Cuadrado, Batshuayi, Kenedy Prediction: Chelsea 0-0 Bristol Rovers (4-5 on penalties) So, a strong 11 fielded, albeit with Willian in a slightly unorthodox central midfield role, is not enough to progress in the EFL Cup. Yeah, I think, even though it's a cup game, we'd be fairly livid with this result. Let's go for the win here. Come on, Blues! By the way, the crystal ball seems to think Cuadrado and Kenedy aren't going anywhere...just yet.  the crystal ball seems to be drunk. the crystal ball need to go home
August 21, 20168 yr The crystal ball was close to predicting the right score against Watford but we could not score that third goal before the end. Anyway, this is the team and prediction against Bristol Rovers: Chelsea (4-1-4-1): Courtois; Ivanovi?, Cahill, Terry ©, Azpilicueta; Kanté; Pedro, Willian, Mikel, Hazard; Costa Subs: Blackman, Mati?, Chalobah, Oscar, Cuadrado, Batshuayi, Kenedy Prediction: Chelsea 0-0 Bristol Rovers (4-5 on penalties) So, a strong 11 fielded, albeit with Willian in a slightly unorthodox central midfield role, is not enough to progress in the EFL Cup. Yeah, I think, even though it's a cup game, we'd be fairly livid with this result. Let's go for the win here. Come on, Blues! By the way, the crystal ball seems to think Cuadrado and Kenedy aren't going anywhere...just yet. Are you sure it isn't just a bowl of Cristal? [emoji12] http://www.louis-roederer.com/sites/default/files/images/bottles/cristal_2.jpg
August 21, 20168 yr 5 Englishman in the starting lineup. Long time since that's happened. Would be nice to see.
August 21, 20168 yr 5? Being picky but wasn't Chalobah born in Sierra Leone? Wiki says he moved here when 7... Know he's played for England U21s.... But... Then again I never saw Zola Budd as British...
August 21, 20168 yr 5? Being picky but wasn't Chalobah born in Sierra Leone? Wiki says he moved here when 7... Know he's played for England U21s.... But... Then again I never saw Zola Budd as British... I can't see him representing the Sierra Leone national team, probably considers himself English.
August 21, 20168 yr Well, if a welsh, Irish, Scot, or any other Caucasian moved to England at age 7 and represented England throughout the different youth levels, I don't think his birth place would matter in the least. After all, we had Owen Hargreaves play for England!
August 21, 20168 yr Well, if a welsh, Irish, Scot, or any other Caucasian moved to England at age 7 and represented England throughout the different youth levels, I don't think his birth place would matter in the least. After all, we had Owen Hargreaves play for England! Â John Barnes too or even last night Mo Farah represented GB Edited August 21, 20168 yr by charierre
August 21, 20168 yr I know this is off topic, but i just got done watching the firsthalf of napolis match vsPescara and KOULIBALY IS NOT WORTH 60 MILLION. Now i understand want Conte meant by medium skilled players being sold for crazy prices. if koulibally is 60 M then ivanovic is 35 M. Â At this point i am ok with loaning an average player from a good team.same way teams steal our SALAH CHRISTENSEN AND CUADRADO.
August 21, 20168 yr Hello guys, Rovers fan in peace. Buzzing for our trip to you on Tuesday night. 4000 tickets sold out in no time last week to priority one fans. Anyway, just wondering what sort of team you expect to put out? Expect you to rest quite a few but even so, you will have a strong team regardless compaed to what we are used to coming up against! Also, not sure if you are aware but our new owner Al Qadi, is a massive Chelsea fan and season ticket holder with yourselves. Thouroughly nice bloke too! Think Conte will do well for you. Got the best out of an Italian side who weren't particularly strong and I can see you seeing out games 1-0 like the Mourinho days. See you Tuesday! Welcome, thanks for posting and hope you enjoy your trip too and from the Bridge. No idea where the competition will fit in to Conte's list of priorities, the Italian cup is not normally seen as I high priority I believe.Â
August 21, 20168 yr I know this is off topic, but i just got done watching the firsthalf of napolis match vsPescara and KOULIBALY IS NOT WORTH 60 MILLION. Now i understand want Conte meant by medium skilled players being sold for crazy prices. if koulibally is 60 M then ivanovic is 35 M. At this point i am ok with loaning an average player from a good team.same way teams steal our SALAH CHRISTENSEN AND CUADRADO. You can't base how good a player is or isn't on one game.
August 22, 20168 yr is miazga still with us? if so it's hilarious that conte doesn't even know that he's still here by saying we only have 5 defenders (the starting 4 + aina) Edited August 22, 20168 yr by havelschayes
August 22, 20168 yr Begovic Aina Cahill Terry Azpi Chalobah Fabregas Loftus Cheek Pedro Batshuayi Moses
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