Can't wait for the game! Got my ticket and hoping we field a strong side.

If anyone here is going / knows someone that will be in Minsk before the game hit me a PM as I will be there from Wednesday morning and would love to meet some Chelsea fans!

Rotate players, we should have too much for them. 

Kepa 

zappa christensen Cahill Emerson 

loftus cheek Fabregas Barkley 

pedro giroud willian 

Edited November 5, 20187 yr by Jezq8

As I wrote in Everton topick It's f**king 3000 miles round trip less than 3 days against Everton and int. break. Send the reserves only.

International break again ? Ffs 

Edited November 5, 20187 yr by Valerie

Kepa

Zappacosta  Cahill  Christensen  Emerson

Cesc

Kovacic     RLC

Moses    Giroud    Willian

I would like to see CHO get some game time here. Expect RLC to play too. No need to play Hazard, Jorginho or Kante.

If we win this we qualify...

                            Bulka
       Zappa - Cahill - Christensen - Emerson
          Drinkwater - Fabregas - Barkley
               Pedro - Giroud - Hazard

Subs: Willy, Rudiger, Morata, Loftus-Cheek, Piazon, Moses, Willian
 

Edited November 5, 20187 yr by the special one

willy

zappa - gary - andreas - emerson

ethan - sesc - ruben

moses - olivier - cho

Is this the third international break after a world cup? or just the second? Regardless, its unnecessary to have so many breaks after a world cup. eh, whatever up the chels 

27 minutes ago, chiefBlueCFC said:

Is this the third international break after a world cup? or just the second? Regardless, its unnecessary to have so many breaks after a world cup. eh, whatever up the chels 

Third... Such a joke having once every month since the season started.

5.55pm - what idiot came up with that as a kick-off time? When am I supposed to eat my dinner? Bloody UEFA, this is the sort of thing that drives people to vote for Brexit.

I wouldn't even ask Hazard, Jorginho, Rudiger etc to make the trip, pretty confident we'd get a point with the team we played against them last time around, and that's qualification done.

want to see:

Willy
Zappa - Cahill - Christensen - Emerson

RLC- Cesc - Barkley

Willian -  Giroud - CHO


but it will be more like

Kepa

Zappa - Cahill - Christensen - Emerson

RLC - Cesc - Kovacic

Pedro - Giroud - Eden

21 hours ago, mojo said:

As I wrote in Everton topick It's f**king 3000 miles round trip less than 3 days against Everton and int. break. Send the reserves only.

Spot on.We will qualify regardless.Everton is important as we need to keep the pressure up.

The temptation is to play a lot of the bench. But I think the culture of being undefeated is worth working on.  To an Aussie a 3000 mile round trip seems like just a normal day at the office. 

I think Sarri has to make at least 7+ changes for this match, everton will challenge us far more than palace did 

5.55pm - what idiot came up with that as a kick-off time? When am I supposed to eat my dinner? Bloody UEFA, this is the sort of thing that drives people to vote for Brexit.

It would be 8.55pm ko in minsk though.

On 05/11/2018 at 17:19, bluedave said:

5.55pm - what idiot came up with that as a kick-off time? When am I supposed to eat my dinner? Bloody UEFA, this is the sort of thing that drives people to vote for Brexit.

What's wrong with eating your dinner in front of the tv 

 

Seen a couple of people picking/predicting Moses to start. 

Not sure that he's in favour in Sarri any more. 

Not sure if he's been injured or whatever but he's been notable by his absence from the bench over the last few games. 

If Cahill and Christensen start this one I wonder if it's going to be one of the few chances left they have to impress Sarri as I wouldn't be completely surprised to see us move for Rugani again in January as apparently his contract talks with Juventus have broken down and he's barely played so far this season. 

 

GK - Kepa, Caballero, Bulka

FB - Azpi, Zappacosta, Palmieri

CB - Christensen, Cahill, Ampadu

CM - Barkley, Loftus-Cheek, Fabregas, Kante, Kovacic, 

LW/RW/ST - Willian, Giroud, Hazard, Hudson-Odoi, Pedro

I'd expect to see:

Cabellero

Zappacosta Cahill Christensen Emerson

Loftus-Cheek Fabregas Barkley

Pedro Giroud Willian

3 hours ago, Valerie said:

What's wrong with eating your dinner in front of the tv 

 

What’s wrong with having several beers and a pack of pork scratching for dinner?

I'm worried for Morata he could freeze to death there! Just joking, as long nobody gets injured I'm fine with any result here as long as the squad keeps winning in the league