everyone ready to go 12 points clear today? 

3rd best team at home this season. Tough game ahead.

lotsa history between us & interestingly Burnley best us in head to head over the years: we've won 34, they've won 37 with 22 matches drawn. Now obviously they haven't beaten us for sometime in the league - 1983 at their joint 3-0 (albeit that they shocked us in League Cup in 08/09 when they won on penalties). An interesting tie & they've proven difficult to beat at home this season. Take 1-0 all day long. 

 

Big opportunity to stretch our lead with some 'nice' games coming up.

Lets get this done Chelsea!!

15 hours ago, DonAntonio said:

He has to he has a giant ego, when the team failed miserably to defend the title he said it's because he made them look far better than what they were, now conte has taken basically the same squad and is killing the competition on his first season, it must dent his ego quite a bit, to be expected 

Re Jose

 

he was talking about the watford squad like they were world beaters, he has worked with/ experience of a number of their players in Europe blah blah blah

and this all to big up what should have been and was a routine 3 pts for Manu 

 

 

Edited February 12, 20179 yr by One Tommy Langley

1 minute ago, One Tommy Langley said:

Re Jose

 

he was talking about the watford squad like they were world beaters, he has worked with/ experience of a number of their players in Europe blah blah blah

and this all to big up what should have been and was a routine 3 pts for Manu 

 

 

To be fair, though... As far as I can remember, Conte has described pretty much every match as difficult and every opponent as hard to play against in his pre- and post match interviews.

Probably worth noting that they lost their last game against Watford; a re-match just a week or so after they'd beaten Arsenal at the Emirates probably wasn't particularly welcome.

Game day. Big chance to go 12 clear for the moment. We must take full advantage!

C'mon Chels!

I like Conte. Not only is he a great tactician, a great man-manager and a former player but he keeps his feet firmly on the ground. We have won Jack Sh*t this season until we finally lift the Premiership trophy. Conte knows this and I know this. Every game is a cup final. Plenty of teams will try and stop us on the way and Burnley are one of them.They have a good home record and won't make it easy for us. I can't stand their manager. He's a petty little creep as far as I'm concerned. With Spurs losing at Liverpool we have a chance to extend our lead. I reckon Man city will beat Bournemouth. Three points are what we require. Let's hope we get them. COME ON YOU BLUES !!!

Getting nervous, probably more so because we have a chance to increase our gap to 12 points (at least before man city play).

48 minutes ago, TheBluesBrother said:

COME ON YOU BLUES !!!

That font is getting bigger every week 

58 minutes ago, DonAntonio said:

That font is getting bigger every week 

So is the desire to win the Premiership...........................:)

We have tricky away fixtures left burnley, west brom, stoke, west ham, everton, and united. 

All games that will be tough to get 3 points. 

Hope we come away from this unscathed. 

Come on chelsea. 

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

Today's subs: Begovic, Zouma, Ake, Chalobah, Fabregas, Willian, Batshuayi.

COME ON CHELS!!!!!

2 minutes ago, big blue said:

We have tricky away fixtures

 

Ashley Barnes starts for Burnley. Hope Matic breaks him in half.

So same line up. 

Would have maybe started fabregas but still why change winning formula 

Team to face Burnley: Courtois; Azpilicueta, David Luiz, Cahill [emoji767]; Moses, Kante, Matic, Alonso; Pedro, Diego Costa, Hazard.

 

Very consistent lineup

 

1 minute ago, Sindre said:

Ashley Barnes starts for Burnley. Hope Matic breaks him in half.

 

LOL.

come on.. Pedro shd be a super sub not starting...

I pray he proves me wrong. he better suited to home games

Obviously Conte's looking for Matic to shore up the midfield early on and then bring on Fabregas to open Burnley up if necessary. 

I would have started Cesc, but I have no issue with this lineup. 

Think it will be easier than some are expecting. 2-0/3-0 is my guess. 

1 minute ago, Don Conte said:

come on.. Pedro shd be a super sub not starting...

I pray he proves me wrong. he better suited to home games

He's better at opening up stubborn defences with his movement than Willian is. Willian's better against more open sides because he's faster and technically superior to Pedro.