We need a good early start ..........but we never seem to do  

Could be a banana skin if we only play for 60 minutes as we seem to these days

Match day.Can see it being tight,hopefully a narrow win.....COME ON YOU BLUES !

Watford away will potentially be a tougher game, so I would rest a few players for this.

Got my mate coming up from back home for this one, he broke his duck off back to back losses recently but if we lose it’s his fault and he’s banned for life. 

Game Day.

Come on Chelsea !

The Atlas west Brompton, 3rd pint hell's Camden lager, don't you just love match day!!!

I think it will be the same team as it was against Brighton.

Really need 3 points today though.

Have a funny feeling this will be a draw as the Foxes raise their game against us and delay Puel's departure.

 

 

Good lineup. We need to start quicker. Get an early goal and don't sit back.

Is Morata injured? 

1 minute ago, Scott said:

Is Morata injured? 

On transsfer list.

in case no one listed this yet

 

And so, I can analyse them, for Leicester:

My first thoughts:

1) Chilwell and Ndidi might not have fully recovered from injury. Would it be worth giving them rough treatment?

2) Ricardo Pereira is a Portuguese international. He played for Porto/Nice as a maraudaring left-back before joining LCFC. He's quick. a good crosser and can score the odd goal. The best thing to do is to have Willian harass him on the ball because Pereira is not a good defender. I was wondering whether or not we should be playing Alonso but in this situation there are IMO two approaches: 1: Willian and Alonso combine to obtain possession from Pereira or 2: Willian covers the suppression/tackling/marking area while Alonso acts as a spare man within the box.  

3) Wes Morgan is getting old; he's been making more mistakes than during his title-winning epoch and some LCFC supporters say that Evans should be in the side instead. Hazard shouldn't have too many problems dealing with him.

4) Maddison is their main creative outlet and is one of their most impressive players this season - his shooting, both long, using dead balls and from within the box, might get something from nothing, he's technically gifted, fairly hard-working and energetic and a decent passer with good vision. However, he isn't particularly strong, so maybe Kante/Azpi can bully him off the ball. Those two might have their hands full.

5) Vardy is Vardy. He's not as quick as he once was, but we still need to monopolise possession as much as possible to prevent Leicester from counter-attacking. Good thing Kovacic was selected. 

EDIT: We should have too much for Leicester but you never know. Depends on what Chelsea turns up today. 

Edited December 22, 20187 yr by DaRick

Form means nothing to Sarri.

Same players getting picked regardless of form.

RLC not starting today is criminal.

5 minutes ago, ForeverCarefree said:

Form means nothing to Sarri.

Same players getting picked regardless of form.

RLC not starting today is criminal.

He started in a match 3 days ago. This is called rotation and it’s what we have been crying out for.

4 minutes ago, ForeverCarefree said:

Form means nothing to Sarri.

Same players getting picked regardless of form.

RLC not starting today is criminal.

I was 50/50 on Emerson/Alonso starting today TBH because Pereira is quicker than both. 

I assume Willian was played to help suppress the Portuguese RB Ricardo Pereira, who can be a real outlet down that flank. 

3 hours ago, Zeta said:

Watford away will potentially be a tougher game, so I would rest a few players for this.

No way. We did that against wolves and see what happened. Lets take it one game at a time. I say lets bash them 4-0 at halftime and then rest players

40 minutes ago, Scott said:

Is Morata injured? 

Officially. 

Off-record, who knows?

7 minutes ago, rtwelch said:

He started in a match 3 days ago. This is called rotation and it’s what we have been crying out for.

So why is Willian starting yet again? He’s played more than anyone out of the attackers.

RLC is one of our most in form players, looked good when he came on against Brighton, played well in mid week and yet finds himself back on the bench again today.

Doesn't make sense.

1 minute ago, The Don Antonio said:

No way. We did that against wolves and see what happened. Lets take it one game at a time. I say lets bash them 4-0 at halftime and then rest players

Wolves and to a lesser extent Brighton show what can happen when you look comfortable and then switch off. 

The squad can be complacent at times and I'm not sure that it relates to the resting of players. Even our first-XI side last week were quite complacent in parts. 
 

Just now, ForeverCarefree said:

So why is Willian starting yet again? He’s played more than anyone out of the attackers.

RLC is one of our most in form players, looked good when he came on against Brighton, played well in mid week and yet finds himself back on the bench again today.

Doesn't make sense.

 

10 minutes ago, DaRick said:

I assume Willian was played to help suppress the Portuguese RB Ricardo Pereira, who can be a real outlet down that flank. 

 

Got to get a touch on that Willian ffs. Not surprised. 

55 minutes ago, Scott said:

Is Morata injured? 

Sarri said he just came back to training after the knee injury the other week. 

Any stream?