7 minutes ago, Chelsea Buzz said:

In recent years, you are correct. I am hoping Frank is keeping them focused.

Oddly, with the three month pandemic, this no longer seems like Frank’s first season. I see more confidence in him and this, now more than ever, is his team. He knows what to expect from each player and each player knows what to expect from Frank.
 

Come on you Chelsea!!

I think last time out and the three subs at half time will convince the team not to take it easy.

Assuming Pulisic will miss a game following injury I think this might work:

Kepa, Dave, Christensen, Rudiger, Alonso, Kante, Kovacic, Barkley, Willian, Mount, Giroud. 

I really have a gut feeling this has a draw wrote all over it,spammers will be happy with a point.

1 hour ago, Bluesince66 said:

I really have a gut feeling this has a draw wrote all over it,spammers will be happy with a point.

I am sure they will be time wasting from the 1st minute to frustrate and will obviously be hoping for a draw. They will also have had an 8 day rest period while we have played 2 games in that period. Thankfully Lampard hates the Pikeys just as much as we do and wont want to drop points to them again. I see it being a close game but hopefully we get early goals to make Westham remove the bus that they will obviously park when the game starts..  Any Chelsea win will do for me and hopefully no injuries 

12 minutes ago, The Don Antonio said:

Thankfully Lampard hates the Pikeys just as much as we do and wont want to drop points to them again. I see it being a close game but hopefully we get early goals to make Westham remove the bus that they will obviously park when the game starts..  Any Chelsea win will do for me and hopefully no injuries 

If his interviews are anything to go by Lampard has always been respectful about his time with West Ham. And don't forget his old man is 'proper West Ham'.

West Ham away always seemed to me to be a good measure of where we are as a team.

 

6 minutes ago, the special one said:

If his interviews are anything to go by Lampard has always been respectful about his time with West Ham. And don't forget his old man is 'proper West Ham'.

West Ham away always seemed to me to be a good measure of where we are as a team.

 

Lampard is a class act and I wouldnt expect anything less from him regarding showing respect to them but i recall him being pissed off about the loss to Westham especially because it was Westham. You cant forget all the stick he got from Westham during his time at chelsea and the FAT frank chants

I'm glad Andy Carroll has gone back to Newcastle as always fancied him to earn them a late point coming from the bench.

I reckon rotation is going to be key during this post Covid mini season, I reckon Rudiger, Kante & Pulisic may be given a breather for this game:

                Kepa

Azpi Zouma Christensen Alonso

   Kova Jorginho Barkley

   Willian Giroud Pedro   

one of the dirtiest players in epl. you just know he'll go all out to injure

I am seeing good morale in training, but we all know that Chelsea will be playing the reincarnation of Brazil 1970 - West Ham always raise their game vs Chelsea

"Christian felt a bit of tightness in his calf when he came off against Leicester. We’re managing him. I haven’t got an answer for him yet, it feels better than it did at the end of the game, so we’ll see by tomorrow.

"Andreas Christensen likewise is in the squad, but we will have to see with another 24 hours because of the tight turnaround."

 

Joining tomorrow ahead of the game will be Timo Werner and Hakim Ziyech

24 minutes ago, mojo said:

"Christian felt a bit of tightness in his calf when he came off against Leicester. We’re managing him. I haven’t got an answer for him yet, it feels better than it did at the end of the game, so we’ll see by tomorrow.

"Andreas Christensen likewise is in the squad, but we will have to see with another 24 hours because of the tight turnaround."

 

Joining tomorrow ahead of the game will be Timo Werner and Hakim Ziyech

 

one more thing I forgot to add about today's training session, both Tomori & CHO participated in training

 

I was raging when I couldn't find a channel showing the match, then realised it's tomorrow. I blame Coco.

28 minutes ago, Valerie said:

I was raging when I couldn't find a channel showing the match, then realised it's tomorrow. I blame Coco.

you can watch manure instead. Me, I rather watch some old anime or something.

23 minutes ago, robdog said:

you can watch manure instead. Me, I rather watch some old anime or something.

I’ve been watching it but I’m switching over, they’re so boring to watch and I willingly followed Sarri ball on tour last season!

Must win with Wolves and United winning. No excuses against this West Ham team. 

1 hour ago, JM7 said:

Must win with Wolves and United winning. No excuses against this West Ham team. 

Utd have the easier run in for sure and looking at the fixtures I don't see them dropping any more points with they way they are playing and with 6 teams now in the race we can't be dropping 2 points tomorrow; there are still some tough games for us ahead.  

1 hour ago, JM7 said:

Must win with Wolves and United winning. No excuses against this West Ham team. 

Only issue is we said that last time, it was West Ham who ruined our good run and they looked dog sh*t before we played them and all of a sudden we lose the game. 

We could quite conceivably be sitting in 3rd tomorrow, that wouldn’t be a bad return at all from Franks first season with 6 games to go. 

Hopefully Everton can at least take a point from Leicester and do us a favour. 

Match day

Come on Chelsea !

I had a dream last night that we drew this game 0-0. 

41 minutes ago, JM7 said:

I had a dream last night that we drew this game 0-0. 

f**k me, I hope you're wrong, as otherwise I might as well go for another walk with the Mrs!

Edited July 1, 20206 yr by Nibs

59 minutes ago, Nibs said:

f**k me, I hope you're wrong, as otherwise I might as well go for another walk with the Mrs!

Surely things aren't as dire as that!

West Ham in a relegation dogfight and will be itching to do the double over us. Hope we're up for it.