9 hours ago, The Don Antonio said:

https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/ngolo-kante-to-miss-europa-league-final-with-knee-injury-232983

Sorry buddy

no kidding... man I'm ready for this season to end. 

 

So we return more tickets they say so in the article, but they couldn’t bring themselves to give us the headline though in case anyone thought it was an admirable stand, only negative headlines for Chelsea. 

I hate the scheduling of the final, could have happened last weekend, or even the weekend before. Instead, the season just dragged on forever, wait a bit longer and it's pre-season time. If the final was scheduled for a week ago, I doubt we'd have scheduled that friendly. Now Kante is injured in training, so we were 2 players down from the last day of the regular season. I'm afraid to lose of Kante/RLC will make the final a much even game. We are better than most areas, but they are better in strikers, and usually strikers decide the game. We will be relying on Hazard to bring home the bacon one more time, probably the last time.

On 26/05/2019 at 20:00, The Don Antonio said:

Makes up for it with goals . Kovacic hasnt scored a freaking goal all season

Drinkwater is 4 years older than Kovacic and scored less goals in his career than Kovacic. 

12 hours ago, Petworth Chelsea Fan said:

Ive played on worse to be fair.....

32 minutes ago, dkw said:

Ive played on worse to be fair.....

Portland borstal had a pitch in a disused quarry better than that 

So with all the injuries i think we have to go with the following:

Kepa

Zappa  Azpi  Luiz  Emerson

Jorginho

Kovacic      Barkley

Pedro     Higuain     Hazard

Could argue Christensen at CB and Azpi RB, but Zappa will give us a bit more attacking intent down that side.

If Kante's fit he plays without any hesitation. Probably straight swap of Kovacic.

Pedro over Willian just cus Willian's a bit bad.

Higuain over Giroud personally.

7 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

 

Higuain over Giroud personally.

He can have 45 minutes then pull him off, he's only scored twice after half time.

12 minutes ago, coco said:

He can have 45 minutes then pull him off, he's only scored twice after half time.

Each to their own, personally i'd leave that to his Mrs.

55 minutes ago, coco said:

Portland borstal had a pitch in a disused quarry better than that 

?

I used to play on a pitch where one side line bent in towards the goal because of a river. So from one goal post to the corner flag was regulation distance, the other side though was only about 6 yards  ha ha....

Edited May 28, 20197 yr by dkw

Ive played on worse to be fair.....

Could help with Luis’s shooting when we play uphill

 

 

 

2 minutes ago, enigma said:

 

Looking like this guy is training too

 

 

 

 

7 minutes ago, robdog said:

Looking like this guy is training too

 

 

Unfortunately: 

 

1 minute ago, enigma said:

 

Unfortunately: 

 

I was hearing that he wouldn't play at the start of the season - just seeing him on the field warming up is a plus IMHO

Edited May 28, 20197 yr by robdog