Really liking that Conte isn't rotating for the sake of it.

Could have been tempting to change a couple of players after the City game but he's got a first choice XI right now and if those players are fit they play. 

Ian Wright last night on MOTD ..now on BT Sport... too much goonerism in one day..

1 minute ago, ChelsaePirate said:

Ian Wright last night on MOTD ..now on BT Sport... too much goonerism in one day..

Could be worse... I went up to the King Power control room yesterday not long after Leicester went 3 up, which is about two doors down from the TV studio. From there I could hear Robbie Savage yelling about Zabaleta.

6 minutes ago, evissy said:

They have a big and physically strong team. Hope we can manage that.

Good thing we aren't mud wresting with them! I know what you mean in the past physical teams could put us off but I believe that's because we moved the ball slow, out one touch passing has gone up significantly and you can see why if you have been watching the training videos on the Chelsea channel, players look more fluid and our attackers are turning players with ease, it makes a big strong team look immobile, before the side to side passing round the box made it easy for them, so glad to see the back of that style. 

 

a certain bearded guy is at the bridge today

f**ks sake. Ball bag face is on the panel. 

9 minutes ago, havelschayes said:

 

a certain bearded guy is at the bridge today

Santa?

 

Bit early ain't he? 

This Chelsea team is the best I have ever seen since 2012.

BT ...FFS...'Arry' and Wrightie...plus Hoddle in the gantry...it must be painful for each of them to say anything good about Chelsea....each so far have had a dig. Would have been nice to have a former Chelsea player to add some balance.

An ex gooner and an ex spud as the pundits today.

I'm sure they'll both be completely neutral. 

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Is Jasper Carrot the ref?

Hopefully the ref will spot WBAs blocking of the goalkeeper on corners etc.

Great chance to put some distance between ourselves & Citeh, hope we capitalise on that!

Should win this but I'm quite nervous

As we can all see this is not a walk in the park.

This won't be as easy as we would like but we'll come out on top. 2-0 to the Blues

Difference between them and City is they keep it simple.

Twice now they'very said Matic is returning  from suspension.  He was injured ffs surely?

Something is wrong....

1 minute ago, evissy said:

As we can all see this is not a walk in the park.

Pulis' teams are always hard to match up with.

I think the quality we have will be enough to get us over the line, but this will be a tough game.

1 hour ago, DonAntonio said:

Team to face WBA: Courtois; Azpilicueta, David Luiz, Cahill (c); Moses, Kante, Matic, Alonso; Pedro, Diego Costa, Hazard. #CFC

Relief, luiz in and to think most didn't want him...

Only because he might have been injured though.

Am relieved our first-choice XI appears to be match-fit. 

Sounds very quiet, slow start

Definitely a slow start by us. Taking our time to warm up. 

Both teams very cautious.

We need to keep the ball on the floor....very disjointed start, don't see the same intensity at this moment.