15 hours ago, robdog said:

Gaffer's Pre-match press conference

 

Absolutely trashed their pitch haha, love the honesty

19 hours ago, coco said:

                     Willy

Zappa Rudiger Andreas Alonso

                   Jorginho

            RLC            Barkley

Pedro                                 CHO

                      Giroud

I'll be pleasantly surprised if RLC starts, I believe Sarri said this week that he isn't ready to play a full 90, so if he starts he should get closer to an hour rather than 30 min as a sub.

What I would go for:

Big Willy

Alonso
Christensen
Luiz
Zappacosta

Kovacic
Loftus-Cheek
Barkley

Hudson-Odoi
Giroud
Willian

Really don’t see why Cahill or even Drinkwater wouldn’t get minutes tonight. I mean, we are leading 3 - 0.

Looking like we may field a strong ish team. I understand we may need to win europa but we are still right in it for top 4 finish! 

update from Kiev

 

Reporter: "This is a good chance for CHO to start, will he?"

Sarri: "What about Ampadu?' Tell me the difference"

What I wish the reporter replied: "Well probably a good chance for Ampadu to start too, can either of them expect a start? Also the difference would probably be CHO scoring 2 goals in his last 2 EL games and Bayern Munich coming in with 40million quid bids...."

I thought it would be 65k & not 70k 

Sounds like the team will be:

                                Kepa

   Zappacosta Christensen Rudiger Alonso

                      Kante Kovacic RLC

                     Willian Giroud CHO

Early goal, kill the tie off completely and get Kante off asap.

Chelsea team for tonight's game:

Chelsea
1 Arrizabalaga
21 Zappacosta
2 Rüdiger
27 Christensen
3 Alonso
7 Kanté
1 7Kovacic
12 Loftus-Cheek
22 Willian
18 Giroud
20 Hudson-Odoi

Substitutes
5 Jorginho
8 Barkley
10 E Hazard
11 Pedro
13 Caballero
28 Azpilicueta
30 David Luiz

Damn no Ampadu

4 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Damn no Ampadu

Quite surprising that he's not even in the 18.

8 minutes ago, Zeta said:

I think we will see Barkely, Jorginho, and Pedro come on for RLC, Kante, and Willian, respectively.

Nice to see Loftus-Cheek and Hudson-Odoi playing together.

We also get to see another game with Kovacic playing the Jorginho role.

Good line up, surprising and a bit disappointed Ampadu didn’t even make the 18, is he struggling with an injury? Seems the perfect game to get him minutes. 

 

 

Good team. Willian and CHO’s pace should be enough to perform some devastating counters and get a couple of goals hopefully. If that’s even how we play anymore (it’s not). 

Hope to see RLC and CHO link up well again. 

Don't know if N'golo really needed to start since we do have a 3 goal advantage.

Aside from Ampadu not being in the squad I'm quite pleased with the lineup. Keep taking your chances lads!!!!

If ever you needed confirmation that we lack leaders in the squad, the fact Willian is going to captain us tonight, sums it up. Irrespective of ability he should never be captain after his antics under Conte.

This lineup has given me some optimism... RLC... CHO Rudi-Christensen pairing (I think it should be the main CB pairing going forward) and kovacic in jorginho's role. Very excited

Cmon Chelsea!!

watch the ball bouncing at every pass. this pitch is a dissaster

olivieeeeeeeeeeeer

Giroud is a goal machine in this competition. Nice wee assist for Ruben with the knock down!