Hey I'm travelling from Aus and got some tickets to Man united game away section. Wanted to see if us Chelsea fans meet up before kick off??

I went to Spurs away game a couple years back, season after we won cl,. Took the wife. We had a fabulous time. Won the game Sturbridge came on as sub late on very effectively.

Singing in the stands, my wife who know nothing about footie sing like a trooper, guy next to us on the edge taking shirt off and taunting Spurs fans. Wife said she could smell the testosterone.

Anyhow, sure beats watching the games on tv early in the morning in Sydney. As it happens I'm in Byron bay for the bluesfest, no tv so I'll miss this one. Seeing Patti smith after a nice surf kind of makes up for it though.

excuses excuses...

to be fair to him I think his excuses aren't aimed to take a dig toward us, but rather to convince their fans that he's doing a great job (which he isn't)

This match has draw written all over it. I believe some players will have the spud semi in mind. I haven't been right all season. One thing for sure is united will wind up the guv and I'm sure there will be a few bookings in this exciting drama at O T....move over Jose. Contes in town

12 hours ago, Izanagi said:

Mata out for the rest of the season.

 

Hazard gonna have a field day.

Is Mata out, never knew that.

Go on Eden.

6 hours ago, magichat said:

excuses excuses...

 

6 hours ago, magichat said:

excuses excuses...

'Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.'

If Jose hadn't made such a mess of it from August to December 2015. We might have been in Europe and playing those 14 games he is now moaning about...

'They have a certain style of play, they stick to it, they do it very well. Not every team defends with 11 players, and they defend with 11 players.'

 

Buthurt prick who actually put 7 defenders (valencia, fellaini, jones, rojo, smalling, young, darmian) on the pitch against Middlesbrough at one point

Edited April 15, 20178 yr by mojo

On 4/12/2017 at 15:52, Ernie_blue said:

I do agree about Pedro, I also hate them short corners. You get all the big fellas up for nothing. Maybe Alonso could swing a good ball in specially with the way he can hit a freekick.

He definitely can but he offers so much more with his height in the box.... Actually what is the point if the delivery sucks wont mind alonso taking them

Mourinho excuses are just insane. Its funny how a team that can defend with 11 men have scored more goals than his team.. May be he shd defend with 12 men

That's not really what he said though, is it?

Absolute must win.

Tottenham getting within 4 points of us will lead to a very nervy finish to the season.

25 minutes ago, PloKoon13 said:

That's not really what he said though, is it?

1:30

 

3-0 so far 

f**k off Spurs getting sick of them 

 

cone on chelsea let's not mess up 

Edited April 15, 20178 yr by Jezq8

6 minutes ago, mojo said:

1:30

I mean the bit about the two sides being incomparable because of the different number of fixtures. In fact he said the opposite.

I don't understand why people are getting so antsy about the 'defending with 11 players' comment. Coming from José, it's basically the biggest compliment he could pay us.

Just like first two matches we can go there and win they are the home team who needs to come at us

20 minutes ago, Jezq8 said:

3-0 so far 

f**k off Spurs getting sick of them 

 

cone on chelsea let's not mess up 

Said before they played watford you can consider our lead at the top to be 1 point with 2 games in hand. We have won one of those games, now we need to win the other. Pressure is on and we need that buffer ahead of a tricky double header of games after our semi with Spurs. 

32 minutes ago, Jezq8 said:

3-0 so far 

f**k off Spurs getting sick of them 

 

cone on chelsea let's not mess up 

Unfortunately Spurs is very convincing at the moment. I don't see them losing any games this season anymore. To win the title we can lose max twice in the last games. It's going to be very difficult.

Unfortunately Spurs is very convincing at the moment. I don't see them losing any games this season anymore. To win the title we can lose max twice in the last games. It's going to be very difficult.

Really Palace, United, Hull, Arsenal, Leicester and West Ham they will not win all those game's period

 

They will not win all theses matches...

If we win against United I think title is ours 

A lot of people are forgetting that we did Leicester a favour by drawing with Spurs, thus handing the title to the Foxes. What a night that was.  Spurs are Dirty bar stewards but we silenced them with that Hazard beauty. I'm hoping Leicester will return us the favour when they play them.

Edited April 15, 20178 yr by TheBluesBrother

Am confident in the team and Conte Jose will do what he did against us at the bridge last time but we will prevail

 

 

What's everyone's ideal starting line-up?

Mine is:

GK - Courtois

LWB- Alonso

CB- ZOUMA, Luiz, Cahill

RWB- Moses

CM- Matic, Kante

LW- Hazard

ST- Costa

RW- Pedro

Prediction: Chelsea to win 2-1

Personally, I'd bring Zouma back in for Azpi. United are going to play direct against up. Constant crosses into the box looking for Zlatan, and Zouma is obviously a lot more capable at heading than Azpi is, especially against a 6"5 striker. I'd also start Matic as opposed to Fabregas because we will need to be solid defensively. Also, the size and strength of Pogba and Felleaini cannot be matched by Cesc, so I hope Matic can handle them. Later in the game, however, if we are struggling to break them down, Fabregas should be called for because of how creative he is. Hazard and Pedro have been on fire lately which means Willian could miss out on starting a big game. Diego (The Guv'nor) Costa retains his starting place.

What starting lineup would you like to see and why?

Should Diego Costa start?

What do you think the final score will be?

 

Drop azpiliucueta???? 

Utterly bizzare tbh. 

Only choice there is to make, is whether Matic or fabregas start in midfield. 

3 points tomorrow. Scrappy 1 nil.