5 hours ago, mojo said:

wonder what kind of reception barkley will get

Probably a similar one to what Jorginho gets at the bridge...

Can’t find pre match press conference for the game. 

I don’t think there’s much chance of RLC starting due to managing his fitness and injuries. I’m surprised he played as much as he did on Thursday. 

9 hours ago, Richard P said:

Can’t find pre match press conference for the game. 

there's never second press when 2 games are so little appart.

Game Day.

Come on Chelsea !

Take a 1-0 Chelsea win.

In fact, any Chelsea win (as usual, of course)

Come on Chelsea !

Tough one today. Don't think Loftus or Giroud will start and Odoi definately wont unfortunately. Maybe Barkley ahead of Kovacic, could score against them.

Need to win this. 5-0 and we're back to top four, take 1-0. Come on Chelsea.

This will be a tough game for us. Recently we have looked better in some games when we don’t have the ball. Everyone working hard off the ball to stifle the opposition. If we work as hard as we did against Spurs in the home league game then we will win.

Come on Chelsea.

Match day and my 63rd birthday,a win would be nice.....COME ON YOU BLUES !

I have a bad feeling about this one, hope I’m wrong.

reality is we will do well to get a draw

Tuff game today never easy going to Goody Park and getting 3pts so I'll gladly take a good performance from the boy's and a point tbh...KTBFFH!!! 

We need to throw everything into this game, if we have not scored by HT take off Higuain and give Giroud a proper bit of time in the 2nd half, at least 30 mins + We get more options with Giroud up front.

Cmon lets take all points here! Don't care who plays just win!

Everton aren't as bad as their position suggests; Hoping we can win but Pickford will perform like the best keeper in the world, their defence will be like a brick wall, which we will continually bang our heads against, and they will hit us on the counter like every other 2nd rate team we have played against this season.  If we don't score first it's going to be another looooong frustrating afternoon with yet another blown chance to get back in the top 4...

5 hours ago, Hemel Blue said:

Match day and my 63rd birthday,a win would be nice.....COME ON YOU BLUES !

May the birthday gods grant you 3 points. 

Any idea which pub today?

The Arkle is not for cfc today.

Hoping for a 2-1 win

Up the Chels! C’mon lads!!

I have a bad feeling about this one, hope I’m wrong.

Same here, am not confident at all. I will be very happy with a 1:0 win even if it's an own goal.

We need to throw everything into this game, if we have not scored by HT take off Higuain and give Giroud a proper bit of time in the 2nd half, at least 30 mins + We get more options with Giroud up front.

I prefer we play both of them in the second half if we don't get a goal in the first. There is more probability of us scoring from crossing the ball into the opponents box when we have both Giroud and Higuain in the box than when we have just one of them in the box and we keep on passing the ball in front of the opponents defence aimlessly.

CHELSEA TEAM NEWS

Team to play Everton: Arrizabalaga, Azpilicueta, Rudiger, Luiz, Alonso, Jorginho, Kante, Barkley, Pedro, Higuain, Hazard

Subs: Caballero, Loftus-Cheek, Kovacic, Giroud, Hudson-Odoi, Willian, Christensen

Be interesting to see how Barkley handles the barracking from the crowd. He tends to shrink under pressure.

Emerson not even on the bench? 

 

 

9 minutes ago, JPH said:

Emerson not even on the bench? 

I’ve noticed Sarri just going with the one defender on the subs bench recently, probably to accommodate CHO while not dropping one of our other three wingers. 

Predictable team, Alonso seems to be back in favour.