Qarabag seem to be no mugs apart from the game we played at home when it was 6-0. We need to put a relatively strong team out and then hopefully take a few key players off.

 

I would go with 

 

Courtois 

Rudi Luiz Cahill 

Zappa DrinkWater Kante Kennedy 

Pedro Morata Willian 

Not sure about the opinion that he will rest players, we win we are through, we will want to get the job done, you can imagine the backlash if we play a weaker team, drop points and end up losing at home to Atleti, which isn't farfetched, he will play his full strength squad and rest players if we are 2 or 3  goals to the good

With Liverpool a few days later, I'd go something like:

3-4-3

Courtois

Cahill
Luiz
Rudiger

Kenedy
Drinkwater
Fabregas
Zappacosta

Pedro
Morata
Willian

City, then UTD, then Liverpool all after CL games....coincidence? 

I reckon we'll win this game and Conte will go very stroing for this, try and get the win and then rest players. We had a very easy second half against WBA so another demolition job here and hopefully a 2 goal lead at HT and we can think about resting players from 60-65mins.

I reckon we'll go with:

Tbo

Rudiger Luiz Cahill

Azp Baka Kante Cesc Alonso

Hazard Morata

 

Pedro, Willian and Drinkwater to feature from the bench, Chelsea win 3-0.

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but, for those of you in the UK, BT are showing the match for free on terrestrial telly,  Freeview channel 115

This is the kind of game you need Fabregas in gets so much time on the ball to cut open the defences with his passing.. put out a strong team get the game won then rotate a little at the end, We can rest a few against Atletico.

Edited November 21, 20178 yr by dan_cfc

Gaffer's Pre match presser

 

4 hours ago, Donny Blue said:

City, then UTD, then Liverpool all after CL games....coincidence? 

Yes

2 hours ago, PedroMendez said:

Yes

How so when someone purposefully makes the fixture list? And as conte said twice now we play on a wed then a sat with a team that played on Tue. It certainly seems like we have been given by far the worse fixtures, no rest and top 6 opponents after 3 CL games in a  row, I mean they made the fixture list, they saw it, can't tell me they didn't look and say oh look thats a bit tougher than everyone else that we "coincidentally" gave chelsea top 6 teams after 3 CL games and did that to no one else, they didn't not notice. As conte said the people who prepare these fixtures "must pay great attention" 

16 hours ago, yorkleyblue said:

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but, for those of you in the UK, BT are showing the match for free on terrestrial telly,  Freeview channel 115

Thanks YB. Looks like 1st half on the radio and 2nd half TV - if I'm lucky with traffic on journey home!

For me kick off is at 6.

Get home at about 5.30, order pizza, open bottle of beer (or vice versa), switch on tv, watch Chelsea.  Excellent. 

We are gonna absolutely sh*t on them. I see at least 5 goals from us 

Match day.....COME ON YOU BLUES !

2 hours ago, Valerie said:

For me kick off is at 6.

Get home at about 5.30, order pizza, open bottle of beer (or vice versa), switch on tv, watch Chelsea.  Excellent. 

Sounds good to me Val.

1 minute ago, coco said:

Paris time?? Fuk Paris, it's Amsterdam time that counts! 

 

Come on Chelsea.

A nice lunch time match here. COYB!!!!

wouldn't mind seeing dujon sterling feature. 

I'm going to attempt to watch the second half during a lecture. Stupid early kickoffs...

15 hours ago, Donny Blue said:

How so when someone purposefully makes the fixture list? And as conte said twice now we play on a wed then a sat with a team that played on Tue. It certainly seems like we have been given by far the worse fixtures, no rest and top 6 opponents after 3 CL games in a  row, I mean they made the fixture list, they saw it, can't tell me they didn't look and say oh look thats a bit tougher than everyone else that we "coincidentally" gave chelsea top 6 teams after 3 CL games and did that to no one else, they didn't not notice. As conte said the people who prepare these fixtures "must pay great attention" 

I somewhat agree with this. Why not move the fixtures to Sunday? There's only Everton v Soton, Arsenal v Burnley and City v Huddersfield. isn't it better for TV to have a proper super sunday instead of watching big clubs thrash small clubs?

Chelsea have two tough games this week.

Playing in a hostile third world country full of thieves but first up, Qarabag away in Azerbaijan tonight

2 hours ago, Valerie said:

Paris time?? Fuk Paris, it's Amsterdam time that counts! 

 

I hear ya Valerie!!! 

I'm personally really looking forward to the kick off time, it's a whole new strange world of not having any time between work and game.