Poch said earlier in the week he hopes to have Carney and Noni available for selection tonight. Personally, I don't expect either to start, but could definitely see Carney coming on in the 2nd half if he's on the bench.

Loads of question marks over the lineup going into tonights game, if anyone guesses 11/11 correctly I'd be shocked. That said, I think I'd start us like this, and try and limit Broja to the last 35 or so, so that he can (hopefully) go 100% without fading.

              Sanchez
Disasi Silva Colwill Cucurella
    Ugochukwu Gallagher
Sterling  Enzo  Mudryk
            Palmer


Without Jackson and Chilwell we lose two players able to compete in the air, which we'll need when defending set pieces, this is why I think Ugochukwu starts over Caicedo. (Although Caicedo is sneaky good in the air for someone his height, to be fair to him).

Frank Lampard is on MNF (Sky) at 6.30pm. Should be interesting 

1 hour ago, cfr95 said:

Poch said earlier in the week he hopes to have Carney and Noni available for selection tonight. Personally, I don't expect either to start, but could definitely see Carney coming on in the 2nd half if he's on the bench.

Loads of question marks over the lineup going into tonights game, if anyone guesses 11/11 correctly I'd be shocked. That said, I think I'd start us like this, and try and limit Broja to the last 35 or so, so that he can (hopefully) go 100% without fading.

              Sanchez
Disasi Silva Colwill Cucurella
    Ugochukwu Gallagher
Sterling  Enzo  Mudryk
            Palmer


Without Jackson and Chilwell we lose two players able to compete in the air, which we'll need when defending set pieces, this is why I think Ugochukwu starts over Caicedo. (Although Caicedo is sneaky good in the air for someone his height, to be fair to him).

Bloody hell. Gallagher in multiple scenarios being preferred over both Caicedo and Enzo. 

Sanchez

Caicedo  Disasi  Colwill  Cucurella

Ugochukwu  Enzo

Sterling  Palmer  Mudryk

Broja

Never gonna happen but worth a try.

2 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Bloody hell. Gallagher in multiple scenarios being preferred over both Caicedo and Enzo. 

He's going to start. I'm pretty certain. Without Reece and Chilly he'll be captaining the side.

Plus I'd argue without a real striker on the pitch it makes sense to play our CM most likely to pop up with a goal, which is Con.

46 minutes ago, cfr95 said:

He's going to start. I'm pretty certain. Without Reece and Chilly he'll be captaining the side.

Plus I'd argue without a real striker on the pitch it makes sense to play our CM most likely to pop up with a goal, which is Con.

Most likely to score a goal?  hhhhmmmmm. He's not though is he. How many goals has he scored for Chelsea?  Answer is you won't need both your hands to count them.

29 minutes ago, TheCeleryKing said:

How many goals has he scored for Chelsea? 

More than any of our other midfielders?

1 hour ago, cfr95 said:

More than any of our other midfielders?

Issue is that he isn't used as a traditional box crashing midfielder. 

 

Something like this I guess. Would ideally like to see one or both of Broja and Deivid get minutes too:

 

Sánchez

Disasi
Silva
Colwill

Gallagher
Caicedo
Fernández
Maatsen

Palmer
Mudryk
Sterling

Edited October 2, 20232 yr by PloKoon13

 

Are we boycotting Domino’s or what? This is getting a bit ridiculous now. Proper milking this, trying to ‘do a Paddypower’

5 hours ago, ozboy said:

The table lies. I don’t often say that but we are way better than 15th. On goals against we are 5th. There is lots of upside might not show against Fulham but we will discover how to score goals. 

The table never lies, we are where we are because we deserve to be there. The performances have been terrible. We have multiple big errors in us in every game, and teams wait for it. As for our finishing, it's up there with the worst in the league.

23 minutes ago, Term_X said:

 

Are we boycotting Domino’s or what? This is getting a bit ridiculous now. Proper milking this, trying to ‘do a Paddypower’

It's fair game.... Just bloody score, then no worries

11 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

The table never lies, we are where we are because we deserve to be there. The performances have been terrible. We have multiple big errors in us in every game, and teams wait for it. As for our finishing, it's up there with the worst in the league.

I would suggest that finishing ranks up there with the worst the league has ever seen....

 

3-0 to the good guys!!

28 minutes ago, cups r dun said:

3-0 to the good guys!!

Cups r you're back. Who are the good guys then?

Poch has to start Palmer as Cam tonight…otherwise I will seriously start questioning his management abilities. Enzo needs to drop as a holding midfielder. 

23 minutes ago, Vialli96 said:

Poch has to start Palmer as Cam tonight…otherwise I will seriously start questioning his management abilities. Enzo needs to drop as a holding midfielder. 

But Poch is unlikely to drop Gallagher unless he makes them a pair in the pivot. 

Palmer RW

Sterling not in the XI

Broja and Gallagher start. 

Edited October 2, 20232 yr by Sconnie Blue

4 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Palmer RW

Sterling not in the XI

Broja and Gallagher start. 

That's a risk starting Broja, Pochettino knows we don't have a choice as we need a win.

4 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Palmer RW

Sterling not in the XI

Broja and Gallagher start. 

Mudryk starts

Sterling dropped 🙌

Sanchez

Cucurella Disasi Silva Colwill

Gallagher Caicedo

Palmer Enzo Mudryk

Broja

Sterling on the bench, Madueke in the squad.

COME ON CHELS!!!

Think that’s a good lineup maybe to early for Broja though

Sterling not trained for 3 days