Another potential banana skin. They seem to make it difficult for big opponents. I Just want us to keep winning and hopefully soon we will climb up to second in the league.

courtois

azbi Christensen rudiger

moses Kante Baka alonso

willian morata hazard 

 

In of top 4, there’s a slight gap appearing which could help if we can cement a good lead. We’re currently 4 points ahead of Liverpool, Spurs and Arsenal. We don’t want to get dragged into that battle as there’s 3 teams who could all move ahead. 

This weekends fixtires are interesting and should we win and others drop points, it could open a gap. 

United - West Brom Away

Spurs - City Away 

Liverpool - Bournemouth away

Arsenal - Newcastle Home

Its conceivable that United, Spurs and Liverpool could all drop points this week. 

Gaffer's pre-match press conference

 

Of course a win would be great. No longer the enthusiasm in hope of retaining our title, but for a finish within the top 3.

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

Take any Chelsea win,as always!

Come on Chelsea.

Conte warned we would suffer in the game and said he'd preferred they won against Leicster. I think he isn't lying but hoping it goes better than anticipated.

Southampton have a good squad and they can defend and have enough quality to score. If we get the trio of Haz, Willy and Pedro running circles around Soton players and have that incredible pass accuracy we had against Huddersfield we will win.

As I said before we can overtake United and this should be our focus for the season. We had little support from media and experts before the season so lets use that as fuel.

4-0 Chels. Morata hat-trick. 

Is drink water fit?

Please please Conte, just come on this thread for one day and take our ideas.  Please don't bench Pedro and Willian.  Please play Hazard #10 Willian (rw) Pedro (lw), Morata up front.  Ngolo and someone else holding and the rest don't matter, just pick the defenders and Courtois.  Please please, attack attack attack

This will be decided by which team turns up. Southampton and Chelsea are inconsiistent and that's why this one is difficult to predict. Here's hoping we get all 3 points. COME ON YOU BLUES !!!

2-0 home win, Hazard double

How does cahill start ?

seriously

Bold move by Conte not to include Morata.

What the hell is this? No changes, still no number 9... we played the worst side in the League, scored our first chance and decided that tactics with false 9 is something trustable... hell no, it isnt... if we dont score our first chance, if we surround them... we wont win. Especially with Antonio's preference to make his first substitute around 70th minute.. 

4 minutes ago, TomCFC85 said:

Bold move by Conte not to include Morata.

Probably hasn't trained a lot since he missed the Hudds game, too.  Bring him on with 30 to go i think is a decent decision.  Plus the 3 we have up front today played well midweek.

 

Surprising to see Saints  drop VVd, Austin, Tadic and boufal

Just now, Pendergast said:

What the hell is this? No changes, still no number 9... we played the worst side in the League, scored our first chance and decided that tactics with false 9 is something trustable... hell no, it isnt... if we dont score our first chance, if we surround them... we wont win. Especially with Antonio's preference to make his first substitute around 70th minute.. 

Once again, more utter nonsense on this forum from you. The team we played on Tuesday beat United at home and were in the game against City right until the end, they have been playing well and the team Conte picked played very well and were in control for the entire 90 minutes. Why would Conte want to halt the momentum and bring Morata straight back in when he's been pretty average recently and just simply isn't cutting it when he's leading the line for us? Have some faith in the manager that led us to the title last season, please

10 minutes ago, Pendergast said:

What the hell is this? No changes, still no number 9... we played the worst side in the League, scored our first chance and decided that tactics with false 9 is something trustable... hell no, it isnt... if we dont score our first chance, if we surround them... we wont win. Especially with Antonio's preference to make his first substitute around 70th minute.. 

Chelsea will still win, false number is ok against the lower teams, it would do sod all against the top teams though.

Southamptons big center backs will not be happy with Pedro Hazard and Willian running at them for an hour.

This could be a good afternoon for us.

12 minutes ago, TomCFC85 said:

Bold move by Conte not to include Morata.

Probably making a point to the board after what he said in the week.

How does cahill start ?
seriously

I expect his usual panic spin in a circle then boot it out

Its good against low teams if we score our first chance and force them to open. If that doesn't happen - just stay and watch how bad this is. 

4 minutes ago, Ernie_blue said:

Probably making a point to the board after what he said in the week.

What did he say?

Palace storming up the league...best we win this before they catch us