judging by this video, looks like Chelsea will be in an hostile environment

 

 

With the boy who did not go and sarri promising only around 5 changes I reckon it could be:

Kepa 

 

Zappa

Rudiger

Christensen 

Alonso

 

Ampadu 

Kante

Barkely 

 

Pedro 

Morata

Willian

Did not get a chance to post after taking care of business against Cardiff. Well pleased with that result so let's see more of the same here.

I do think we need to rotate 3/4 players certainly. I just cannot see starting Hazard, Giroud, Jorginho or Kante. I would also let Willy play here. Pedro and Willian are somewhat interchangeable so who ever starts here, does not start Sunday vs. West Ham, which I believe will be tough fight at their place.

We certainly should be able to take this group and it should start with a solid win here. Outside of the PL, this has to be the most important competition for us, so let's make a statement and go for it. But again, in these early group matches, we should be able to win with not a full strength XI in my opinion.

I will note that I have added the Spanish bonus channels (10 extra Spanish language channels, mostly sports, for minimal extra cost) on DirecTV here in the States just so I can get three Europa matches per week. There are ZERO English speaking network telecasts in the US for Europa matches this year, except for the final, now that the contract has moved from Fox Sports to TBS/BR Live. You can stream all the games for a fee on BR Live, but its not large screen HD. Our game tomorrow will be on UniMasTV in Spanish, so I will be learning some Spanish while watching Chelsea. 

Come on you Chelsea!! 

Edited September 20, 20187 yr by Chelsea Buzz

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2018/9/19/first-greek-european-adventure-recalled

 

Our first visit to Thessaloniki. Good omens for winning the trophy.

Take any Chelsea win and hopefully we have no injury worries after the game.

10 hours ago, axman2526 said:

With the boy who did not go and sarri promising only around 5 changes I reckon it could be:

Kepa 

 

Zappa

Rudiger

Christensen 

Alonso

 

Kantè

Cesc

Barkely 

 

Moses 

Morata

Willian

 

Couple of Chelsea fans have been jumped and attacked by PAOK fans today. The Chelsea fans refused to go to the hospital, press charges or give witness statements.

 

Proper Chels not snitching.

I read Emerson didn’t travel with the team. What’s up with this guy? He sounded/looked promising but haven’t seen anything from him in months. 

Double post

Edited September 20, 20187 yr by seanlu13913

16 hours ago, CFCholland said:

I'm watching Ajax - AEK at the moment and AEK are absolutely terrible. So assuming paok are worse I can't see anything other than a win for us.

Get your facts straight. And it's PAOK, not paok.

Edited September 20, 20187 yr by Nick4

This is the great thing about Europa. The visit to places we wouldn't otherwise visit if in the CL. 

55 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Couple of Chelsea fans have been jumped and attacked by PAOK fans today. The Chelsea fans refused to go to the hospital, press charges or give witness statements.

 

Proper Chels not snitching.

Hope they're ok. It might be the birthplace of democracy, but it's gone downhill since then.

We need to start our European campaign with a win. Could be a banana skin with some of our players missing. Let's hope we get the job done. COME ON YOU BLUES !!!

                    Kepa

Zappa   Christensen  Rudiger  Alonso

                  Jorginho

        Kante            Barkley

Moses       Morata      Willian

 

3-0 Chelsea 

1 hour ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Couple of Chelsea fans have been jumped and attacked by PAOK fans today. The Chelsea fans refused to go to the hospital, press charges or give witness statements.

 

Proper Chels not snitching.

I can only imagine what those Chelsea fans were doing at 5am interacting with PAOK fans. 

:laugh2:
Get your facts straight. And it's PAOK, not paok.

I'm sorry what facts did I get wrong? Not spelling paok with capital letters?

Settle down chief.

9 hours ago, Chelsea Buzz said:

You can stream all the games?? for a fee on BR Live, but its not large screen HD

They do have a ROKU app. So that'll let you stream them to the big screen quite easily. However, Univision has the Roku App as well, so even though Univision is only SD on my U-Verse account, I can stream Univision HD on my Roku for no extra charge. No problems here listening to the games in Español.

I basically did the same thing last year with XFINITY and BeIn. Difference was, the BeIn app was garbage. I've been testing Univision this week with Champions League and it's streaming flawlessly. 

Ampadu, Christensen, Willian, Barkley, RLC and Zappacosta all to start I hope

Anyone know if this is covered on any DAB radio stations? I'll be driving home during the first half, so would be nice to listen along at least!

32 minutes ago, CFCholland said:

I'm sorry what facts did I get wrong? Not spelling paok with capital letters?

Settle down chief.

Aek is not a better team than PAOK. The only reason PAOK lost the championship last year was because of the incident with the gun and a toilet paper.

3 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Couple of Chelsea fans have been jumped and attacked by PAOK fans today. The Chelsea fans refused to go to the hospital, press charges or give witness statements.

 

Proper Chels not snitching.

Yeah that sounds great, let people get away with attacking others in the street, so they can continue doing it to other people. Wouldn't want to be a "snitch".. 

9 minutes ago, Nick4 said:

Aek is not a better team than PAOK. The only reason PAOK lost the championship last year was because of the incident with the gun and a toilet paper.

PAOK league titles: 2

Aek league titles: 12

 

PAOK 2nd place finishes: 6 

Aek 2nd place finished: 16

 

PAOK's last league title: 1985

Aek's last league title: 2018

 

Even without the gun incident PAOK and Aek would have been level on points (assuming PAOK would have won the match) so they certainly aren't so much better as you claim.

2 minutes ago, Zeta said:

Yeah that sounds great, let people get away with attacking others in the street, so they can continue doing it to other people. Wouldn't want to be a "snitch".. 

snitches get stitches and all that. Lets be honest though, the Chelsea fans would have been up to no good at 5am drunk blind. You can't go to another country and be disrespectful and not expect something to happen. I think the fact that they refused to press charged indicates they were probably doing something wrong themselves. 

Aek is not a better team than PAOK. The only reason PAOK lost the championship last year was because of the incident with the gun and a toilet paper.

See the reply above.

Even if PAOK (happy now?) had won the title, my point would still stand. Even if they are about equal in terms of quality, the level shown by them against Ajax terrible in my opinion. don't know why you got so hyped up by that in the first place.

9 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

PAOK league titles: 2

Aek league titles: 12

 

PAOK 2nd place finishes: 6 

Aek 2nd place finished: 16

 

PAOK's last league title: 1985

Aek's last league title: 2018

 

Even without the gun incident PAOK and Aek would have been level on points (assuming PAOK would have won the match) so they certainly aren't so much better as you claim.

They have more titles yes but as of now PAOK is a better team.

What aek does the last two years is trying to steal games with their good defense. 

Do you know how they call their president? Mr. Krabs

How do you expect them to win Ajax?

Edited September 20, 20187 yr by Nick4