Courtois

Rudiger
Christensen
Azpilicueta

Alonso
Drinkwater
Kante
Zappacosta

Hazard
Batshayui
Willian

Wouldn’t be surprised to see some rotation due to the cup semi final soon after.

                           

Willy 

 Rudi Ampadu Dave

Zappacosta Drinkwater Fabregas Kennedy

Pedro Batshuayi  Willian

 

 

Luiz is supposedly fit for this.

 

                Willy

         Rudi  Luiz  Cahill

Zappa    DD     Ampadu  Kenedy

          Willian    Pedro

               Batshuyai   

No mucking about. This is away and we need the fa cup as the league is gone and we have little chance against barca imo.

 

Willy

 

Azpi

Luiz

Rudiger

 

Zappa

Kante

Drinkwater

Alonso

 

Pedro

Batman 

Hudson-odoi

 

Ampadu, kenedy, willian used if things are going well. Hazard and cesc if not.

Time to rest. Dont care about this. Have much bigger things - arsenal x2, city, united, barca x2. 

Willy

Rudi Luiz Ampadu

Zappa Drinkwater Cesc Baba

Willian Michy Pedro

Really unsure which was Conte will go with this ... theoretically a 2nd XI Chelsea team should beat Everton but who knows on his decision.

I'd say we will see.

 

                       Willy

            Rudiger Ampadu Cahill

      Zappa  Drinkwater Baka   Kenedy

            Hudson Odoi     Pedro

                        Bats 

           

Bench: Eduardo, Sterling, Clarke Salter, Cesc, Willian, Morata, Christiensen (Scott, Palmer, Ugbo, etc. would be fun!) 

 

To be honest It could be anything 

Needs to be strong enough to win and the bench strong enough to make changes if it goes wrong, IMO.

A coupe of different faces would be nice.

10 hours ago, didierforever said:

Time to rest. Dont care about this. Have much bigger things - ...............................

Really????? You don't care about the FA Cup?  FFS!  Who are you betting on for this match?

I would like to see one of  Hudson Odoi & Musonda  aswell as Ampardu play prominent roles and Sterling and Clarke Salter to be at least on the bench.

 

The likes of Palmer, Scott, Castillo (maybe), Ugbo around but unlikely.... with Ugbo and Palmer I'm not really sure what our plans are for them

19 hours ago, didierforever said:

Time to rest. Dont care about this. Have much bigger things - arsenal x2, city, united, barca x2. 

Willy

Rudi Luiz Ampadu

Zappa Drinkwater Cesc Baba

Willian Michy Pedro

I would be devastated for us to go out the FA Cup. Such a prestigious trophy and one we have not one for a while and a genuine chance of winning silverware. How can you not Didier??

4 hours ago, STATS said:

I would be devastated for us to go out the FA Cup. Such a prestigious trophy and one we have not one for a while and a genuine chance of winning silverware. How can you not Didier??

Because top4, CL and even the semi finals of the carling cup is far more important as of this moment. If we play the likes of Hazard, morata, Kante in this game, lets take a look at what the future holds for them:

Norwich - 6th

Arsenal -11th

Leicester - 13th

Brighton - 20th

Arsenal - 25th

Bournemouth - 1st

And this is after an already hectic christmas period. Priorities have to be set, and CURRENTLY a 3rd round FA cup tie has to be the least out of the 4. Now some people like the know-it-all who quoted me, might not understand despite him apparently going to watch games and having a far better understanding of the game, but these players need some rest and this is the perfect game to give it to them, moreover its games and early round ties like these where the squad players need to be given an opportunity. If michy does not get a start here, then we might as well sell/loan him out.

Edited January 5, 20188 yr by didierforever

I love both of the cups and everything about them. The away allocations are buffers so 4000 of us up in Norwich is going to be great. 

 

COYB

A strong enough side to get through.I like for us to win every game,whatever the competition and Conte is the same.The F A cup still means something to us older fans.

It's simply impossible to win or even compete every competition, I reckon the priority is League, CL ( that's what the big boss wants), the league cup ( since we are already in the semi), and FA cup. Conte will still send out a good team, and we should beat Norwich easily, however I'm completely fine with it if he leaves only half of the first team in the FA cup campaign, even if we play United next up.

If we look at the fixtures @didierforever has posted the only crunch I see is facing Leicester 2 days after playing Arsenal in the cup, the rest we have enough days to recover.

Still love the cup but being a championship side we can definitely rotate here!

Ampadu deserves a game after his last one for us. Would be nice to see some youth (Clarke-Salter, Sterling, Hudson-Odoi etc.) and Baba if he’s fit enough on the bench.

                       Willy

         Rudiger Ampadu Luiz

Zappa Drinkwater Baka Kennedy

      Pedro Batshuayi Musonda

4 hours ago, Strider6003 said:

If we look at the fixtures @didierforever has posted the only crunch I see is facing Leicester 2 days after playing Arsenal in the cup, the rest we have enough days to recover.

We have to take into the account the current levels of fatigue in the players. Hazard and Cesc looked bloody knackered by the time they were subbed. We have been playing every 3/4 games for almost a month now. And given the status of the squad, we have barely rotated. 

Hazard, Alonso, Kante - if fit have played all the games bar 1 or 2. Christensen is coming off a small niggle. We need to rest these players and more for the coming matches.

Can barkely play? 

Whenever I think of Norwich I think of that Franco goal against them in 2002. 

57 minutes ago, dkw said:

Can barkely play? 

He's still returning from injury, I doubt we'll see him for a few months.

                       Courtois

      Rudiger      Ampadu      Cahill

Zappacosta Drinkwater Kante Kennedy

      Willian    Batshuayi     Pedro

 

I expect Conte will rotate. 

This has become an important competition as the league has gone.

i would play

willy

Azbi Luiz rudiger

zappa drinkwater bakayoko Kenedy 

pedro Batman willian 

I'd go for intelligent rotation as we face le arse on wednesday. Also, Norwich are a mid table championship team sitting 13th. their current form is the following : LLWDW. Including a loss at home against Brentford. My formation :

Caballero

Rudi ampadu Luiz

zappa drinkvodka baka kenedy

pedro batman willian

 

League cup is the first trophy of the season we could win. FA cup could be another trophy we could win too. These two cups are our biggest chances to win anything this season unless we pull a miracle against barça of course ! Or an unexpected remontada in the PL !

 

Edited January 5, 20188 yr by Londonisblue

38 minutes ago, Londonisblue said:

I'd go for intelligent rotation as we face le arse on wednesday. Also, Norwich are a mid table championship team sitting 13th. their current form is the following : LLWDW. Including a loss at home against Brentford. My formation :

Caballero

Rudi ampadu Luiz

zappa drinkvodka baka kenedy

pedro batman willian

 

League cup is the first trophy of the season we could win. FA cup could be another trophy we could win too. These two cups are our biggest chances to win anything this season unless we pull a miracle against barça of course ! Or an unexpected remontada in the PL !

 

Would also love to see the same lineup axcept Christensen for luiz (just to protect David )against Arsenal in the carabao cup. Gotta protect the big guns with games against Man u, Mancity and Barca 2wice coming up