Leicester away

We can handle Leicester - come on Chelsea!  

1 minute ago, carrickblue said:

We can handle Leicester - come on Chelsea!  

ah bu**er...not even at home...

At least United, Arsenal and City all have to travel to PL opponents too.

4 hours ago, Strider6003 said:

Got a feeling we will get City away next round ?

Not this time or does that mean we will beat Leicester and meet Pep's boys in the semis.............. ?

Still Leicester vs Brenden's chaps will be an interesting one.

Leicester away in the quarter-finals again then, same as 2 years ago in March 2018, hopefully a good omen as we won the FA Cup that season!

I was at that quarter-final away at Leicester back 2 years ago, was a close match but we edged it in extra time, think Leicester with their recent slump in form generally are very beatable now too so cautiously optimistic we can do them again.

 

Bye bye Spurs. If Derby somehow get through tomorrow you can bet the winner draws City in the semi's lol,

That last spuds pen was pure tracking shocking chaps ,as bad as Pat nevins effort vs man city yonks back .

but for whatever reason the Spurs player Deir or is it Dier has gone and run into the stands where all the spuds were leaving the ground ,somert must have touched his nerve to do the headless chicken 

Still buzzing about us beating them on Tuesday night.

 

Leicester away in the next round for us. Tasty tie that as well.

9 hours ago, Salato said:

Leicester away in the quarter-finals again then, same as 2 years ago in March 2018, hopefully a good omen as we won the FA Cup that season!

I was at that quarter-final away at Leicester back 2 years ago, was a close match but we edged it in extra time, think Leicester with their recent slump in form generally are very beatable now too so cautiously optimistic we can do them again.

 

Apparently practically every time we draw Leicester we go on to win the FA Cup (1997, 2000, 2012, 2018), or so the Chelsea app claims. 

2 hours ago, evissy said:

Leicester away in the next round for us. Tasty tie that as well.

Big allocation, just hope it's a sensible KO time

8 hours ago, ddrblue said:

That last spuds pen was pure tracking shocking chaps ,as bad as Pat nevins effort vs man city yonks back .

but for whatever reason the Spurs player Deir or is it Dier has gone and run into the stands where all the spuds were leaving the ground ,somert must have touched his nerve to do the headless chicken 

Wee Pat's penalty was in 2 ft of mud, the Spurs one was on a bowling green. We beat City that night but Nevins penalty is still talked about more than 35 years later, Google it youngsters, it's a joy to behold!

Edited March 5, 20206 yr by chi blue

What a game !! They may have the league wrapped up but it makes wiping the smile off that grinning buffoon klopps face all the sweeter.

And Barkley's goal !! I could not stop laughing

Dog turd draw.

None of the big teams draw each other and we get a difficult away trip. It'll likely mean to win the Cup we'll have to beat 4 of the other top 6 teams in England. 

2 hours ago, chi blue said:

Big allocation, just hope it's a sensible KO time

Lets hope its not a sensible time, then with the big allocation i might get 4 tickets or more, got loads of family chelsea fans.

4 minutes ago, Spiller86 said:

It'll likely mean to win the Cup we'll have to beat 4 of the other top 6 teams in England. 

Liverpool-Leciester-ManC-ManU...........notice how it gets easier as you go.?

Say anything you want about Liverpool but their leadership through VanDijk and Klopp is brilliant. I watched Klopp's post game presser and you can't get a more level headed assessment as he gave. Same goes to VanDijk who could have got Giroud sent off after the high boot challenge. Instead he wiped his face and got on with the game. Hope more footballers look his on pitch actions instead of Neymar or Ronaldo.

27 minutes ago, evissy said:

Say anything you want about Liverpool but their leadership through VanDijk and Klopp is brilliant. I watched Klopp's post game presser and you can't get a more level headed assessment as he gave. Same goes to VanDijk who could have got Giroud sent off after the high boot challenge. Instead he wiped his face and got on with the game. Hope more footballers look his on pitch actions instead of Neymar or Ronaldo.

Don't tempt me!

12 hours ago, Salato said:

Leicester away in the quarter-finals again then, same as 2 years ago in March 2018, hopefully a good omen as we won the FA Cup that season!

We also played Leicester in 2012 when we won the FA Cup, but that was at home.

18 minutes ago, Jezz said:

We also played Leicester in 2012 when we won the FA Cup, but that was at home.

Strangely we have been better Away this season.

1 hour ago, luckywerthers said:

What a game !! They may have the league wrapped up but it makes wiping the smile off that grinning buffoon klopps face all the sweeter.

And Barkley's goal !! I could not stop laughing

Klopp is having a wobble, I expect them to shake it off starting with Bournemouth. 

What I would say though is their aura of invincilibity has been broken, they will still win the league yet some teams will go for them and some will get a result.

13 hours ago, axman2526 said:

ah bu**er...not even at home...

We surely have the sh*test home form of the top 4 this season. It feels like a blessing to me

9 hours ago, Valerie said:

Apparently practically every time we draw Leicester we go on to win the FA Cup (1997, 2000, 2012, 2018), or so the Chelsea app claims. 

@Brutos have you got a job working for Chelsea so you can spread your evil match losing stats to a wider audience? I’m already blaming you 

On ?05?/?03?/?2020 at 09:32, luckywerthers said:

What a game !! They may have the league wrapped up but it makes wiping the smile off that grinning buffoon klopps face all the sweeter.

And Barkley's goal !! I could not stop laughing

Seconded

On 03/03/2020 at 21:09, Spiller86 said:

Have to disagree here. We played totally differently to how we have recently. We sat and countered and did it brilliantly. 

The high press was gone which made us more compact in defence (two solid banks of defenders bought a little tear to my eye) we also went long from goalkicks to avoid Klopps gengenpressing and our recent struggles playing from the back.

This should have been the model for the Bayern game too. Hopefully we see Frank use it more often from here on ib. 

I think it’s horses for courses you wouldn’t expect long balls against lower table teams, I agree this should have been what we played like against Bayern, in that game we did nothing that looked like ourselves. We did try and play the long ball a bit but not cross field from diagonals like we did against Liverpool. 
 

I think frank is still trying to find out the best way to set up with what he has and with the ever growing injury list consistency is hard.