15 minutes ago, enigma said:

I've been impressed by what I have seen from loftus cheek when he's played. I wouldn't mind conte giving him a start, but jury is still out whether he has the stamina/work rate to cement himself in this side. 

I like the idea of playing him in midfield, dropping Costa and pushing Hazard up front, we need to have a better presence in midfield against spuds, but it would mean changing formation.

1 minute ago, coco said:

It does'nt make sense to purposely under perform to achieve a move out of the club, it's just poppycock. He is under performing because he has never been consistent for a whole season with us, it's normal for him, and the first signs he's under performing are when he starts his tantrums on the pitch.

Yes he's a half a season player but we need to out him in the summer and bring in Morata. Morata has worked with Conte before at JUventus. He's a good striker I would like to see at the Bridge.

12 minutes ago, TheBluesBrother said:

Yes he's a half a season player but we need to out him in the summer and bring in Morata. Morata has worked with Conte before at JUventus. He's a good striker I would like to see at the Bridge.

He actually hasn't, Conte bought him then left and never actually got to work with him

2 minutes ago, RMCM said:

He actually hasn't, Conte bought him then left and never actually got to work with him

Didn't know that. Morata has said he wants to leave Real Madrid in the summer and will work with Conte in the future. Be good if he came to the Bridge.

Worryingly it seems a bit low key on here about Saturday, its a Saturday 5:15 ko at Wembley v our most despised enemy, surely we can give a good showing in and around the old stadium, in my opinion we are under dogs on current form, so that means we as fans have to raise our game, we are Chelsea for f**k sake, our little north London friends with there inferior complex will try their best, but let's not give the tossers any encouragement. After the Carling cup 2 years ago the y*ds were impressed with all our flags round the stadium, so let's make sure there isin't a spare space for a flag to be draped at our end, I know Wembley is not the best for atmo, but no excuses let's give it large Saturday, we might not win Saturday, but let's make sure spurs and the millions watching on TV, know what our Chelsea is all about, sing up Saturday, carefree

Courtois

Azpilicueta - Luiz - Cahill

Moses - Kante - Matic - Alonso

Fabregas

Hazard - Costa

 

I expect a big reaction from us from now to the end of the season, en route to winning the double.

Chelsea 2 Tottenham 1

Hazard, Fabregas 

It's in here 

 

I'm gonna go for 1-0 to us, we'll score late and the goal scorer will be a surprise. Gonna go for Kurt Zouma.

Hopefully the news from jt will get the boys going again. His can be a very important voice for us. If that and conte cannot get them going, then we should give up on the lot of them. Imagine the DVD Spurs release if they pip us to the double AND we lose jt the same summer. You poor sods in London will never hear the end of it. 

i would like to see  3 5 2  against spurs as thats how they will line up against us so i would tell the squad its time  tostand up and  prove that man for  man they are not better than us

like the papers have been saying  and let see costa and pedro up front with hazzard behind them

 

remember this is the same team who crashed out against f**king gent in the last important cup competition they were in. let's f**king do em and show them why london is most certainly blue! 

Edited April 18, 20179 yr by enigma

Going to say that we should play a front three of Pedro, Hazard and Willian, they play a high line, and while their full backs are very good offensively, they can be gotten at one on one. I also think we should start Cesc alongside Kante in the middle, we need someone who can control the game, and Matic, while I think he gets an unfair ribbing on here, isn't up to scratch in that regard. We have to hope Courtois is back for this, and I'm sure Alonso will be fit anyway. This will be a tough game, going to say we'll score two late goals to win 3-1 though. Pedro, Cahill and Hazard to score. 

Can't see us keeping a clean sheet. We need to overcome their high press and maybe 3-5-2 would help. We should mix up playing out from the back and playing longer balls up to the front otherwise we'll get boxed in and in a 3-5-2, with someone alongside Costa (assuming he starts) to pick up knock downs and loose balls we might gain some advantage.

 

Referee: Martin Atkinson
 

Hope you don't mind me posting. I'm Arsenal and won't pretend Chelsea are my favourite club but there's that saying, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"...This season has been a shocker for us but we can put it behind us so long as Spuds don't win anything. We're used to you winning but they have always been below us, never been good. Now, we are bad, really truly bad, and will be as long as Wenger stays which will probably be at least two more years, but it's not just that, Spurs have become - and I hate saying this - genuinely solid, everything they have done right the last three years since Pochetinho too over is precisely what Arsenal should have been doing. Honestly, I wish we had their manager instead of them. Please, please stop them. I can forget this season and the next two probably so long as them lot down the road dont win a trophy. You can beat us in the final, I can take losing to you, but not to them. One of you two is going to win the cup, please don't let it be them. And for crying out loud don't let them win the league either; I'm certain they'll destroy us when we play them, I'm glad it's away as I won't have to witness it. Don't rely on us to stop them or you'll be disappointed. Wenger can't beat his rug let alone Spuds. Just win your games so what they do doesn't matter, yeah!

 

Wishing you luck on Saturday.

I'm confident Alonso will return, Last time I had the ten bob bits it only lasted a day,

Come on Chelsea

Just beat Spuds.

You owe us a good performance and win after last Sunday.

I want to see matic replaced in this game. He's providing very little impact to our central midfield atm. Kante was picking up the pieces in the utd game.

I would like to see ake partner kante if we're not gonna start with cesc. However we really need to be going for the win so gonna have to be an attacking line up. 

Please just don't lineup the same again as vs utd. There's also talk about cahill, moses and costa being unwell and could miss the game so that's another 3 positions which need to be looked at if true. If so, bring in terry, batman and willian?

3 hours ago, enigma said:

I want to see matic replaced in this game. He's providing very little impact to our central midfield atm. Kante was picking up the pieces in the utd game.

I would like to see ake partner kante if we're not gonna start with cesc. However we really need to be going for the win so gonna have to be an attacking line up. 

Please just don't lineup the same again as vs utd. There's also talk about cahill, moses and costa being unwell and could miss the game so that's another 3 positions which need to be looked at if true. If so, bring in terry, batman and willian?

No - we can't bring in Terry mate!  Spurs have Son, Alli, Eriksen and Kane,  They will rip Terry to shreds with their pace!!!  We have Nathan Ake who was doing very well at Bournemouth and now has probably gone backwards whilst benching it proper for Chelsea since the recall!  If players are unwell we can do with switching to 4-3-3 and at least maintain a good defensive cover.  The other problem is the front line where Diego Costa is bumming it since January.  I would prefer going in with Edend Willian and Pedro as out attackers!  

Finally - Cesc Fabregas or RLC should start in Mid with Kante.  We need to be offensive in mid and Matic does not give us this!  Our team aint bad at all.  The manager has done really well and I think we have enough to get the double this season.  My line ups are below

Without Sickness/ Injuries:

                              Tibo

            Azpi           Luiz           Cahill

Moses           Kante        Cesc              Alonso

         Willian          Pedro        Hazard  

 

I'd like however to add something new for the opponent.  To show we can change it up and still do well.  We can give the other lads a chance, Chalobah was doing so well this season but now he gets 0 mins!  With illnesses in the squad - we can try something different.  That is [Tibo, Cahill, Alonso, Moses, Costa being unwell]

               Begovic

 Azpi        Zouma     Luiz      Ake

           Kante     Chalobah

                    Cesc

Willian          Pedro         Hazard

I wouldn't want to use illnesses as an excuse - we have enough cover to do well from the bench and we should be able to hold our ground regardless.  The defeat at trafford was baad and would not want a repeat of that.  

Lets go Chelsea!!!

------------------Courtois-------------------

--------Dave------Luiz ------Cahill----------

Moses - -----------------------------Alonso

--------------Kante------Matic-----------------

Willian----------------------------------Pedro

--------------------Hazard----------------------

Need to make a statement and drop Costa IMO, been off the boil since January. Hazard in the false nine role with the trickery of Willian & Pedro behind could really worry Spurs for me. Would love to have picked Cesc ahead of Matic, but we need the security of the two sitting players in a game like this, and need Kante to be on the front foot driving things forward. 

Cesc & Costa as options on the bench is better than anything they have. Can see this heading to extra time with us knicking it 2-1

 

6 minutes ago, Batshuayi said:

------------------Courtois-------------------

--------Dave------Luiz ------Cahill----------

Moses - -----------------------------Alonso

--------------Kante------Matic-----------------

Willian----------------------------------Pedro

--------------------Hazard----------------------

Need to make a statement and drop Costa IMO, been off the boil since January. Hazard in the false nine role with the trickery of Willian & Pedro behind could really worry Spurs for me. Would love to have picked Cesc ahead of Matic, but we need the security of the two sitting players in a game like this, and need Kante to be on the front foot driving things forward. 

Cesc & Costa as options on the bench is better than anything they have. Can see this heading to extra time with us knicking it 2-1

 

Id prefer Pedro in the false 9 instead.  Hazard is much more effective from the wing where he runs at players and gets to roam all over the pitch and create chances and dictate the game! 

We can make lineups without costa til we are blue in the face but guaranteed Costa starts.

18 hours ago, Gooner in peace said:

Hope you don't mind me posting. I'm Arsenal and won't pretend Chelsea are my favourite club but there's that saying, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"...This season has been a shocker for us but we can put it behind us so long as Spuds don't win anything. We're used to you winning but they have always been below us, never been good. Now, we are bad, really truly bad, and will be as long as Wenger stays which will probably be at least two more years, but it's not just that, Spurs have become - and I hate saying this - genuinely solid, everything they have done right the last three years since Pochetinho too over is precisely what Arsenal should have been doing. Honestly, I wish we had their manager instead of them. Please, please stop them. I can forget this season and the next two probably so long as them lot down the road dont win a trophy. You can beat us in the final, I can take losing to you, but not to them. One of you two is going to win the cup, please don't let it be them. And for crying out loud don't let them win the league either; I'm certain they'll destroy us when we play them, I'm glad it's away as I won't have to witness it. Don't rely on us to stop them or you'll be disappointed. Wenger can't beat his rug let alone Spuds. Just win your games so what they do doesn't matter, yeah!

 

Wishing you luck on Saturday.

 

We'll do what we can although as you can see, a lot of us are just as pessimistic as you are right now and we are relying on you lot to take some points off them on the 30th April!!

remember AVB , Napoli away, false 9, got the sack.....

need a striker to irritate and needle them,  

hazard up top will be easy for their defence, if DC is dropped now knowing his temprement we can probably kiss any more positive performances from him goodbye and there's a small matter of 6 league games to win as well as this match, so cant see AC dropping DC for P or EH as a false 9. Going to take a perfect performance to beat the Spuds, hopefully the virus has left the camp and we get the dependable back 6 back, the real Kante, and the front 3 score 

 

 

 

Cesc should start, Matic is as bad as Costa at that stage, Cesc is more likely to find a killer pass or goal too.