There was a time I would relish any home match at Fortress Stamford Bridge...

Now another home game against arguably the best PL side of all time....oh boy...

@coco my man I reckon you were up there pulling some strings tonight to give us the most confusing and baffling win I can ever remember. Am sure you were laughing your socks off at the lot of us.

Any chance you go easier on our old tickers and help us to a straight forward win in this one? 

Yeah I thought not...had to ask lol. To you once more our friend 🍺

I will have one portion of an ugly, counter-attacking win, please.

Diagusting from the FA

 

 

Sanchez

James Silva Badiashile Colwill

Caicedo Enzo

Palmer Gallagher Sterling

Jackson

2 hours ago, The Don Antonio said:

Diagusting from the FA

 

 

Need to give him more Wolves games. Only his mistakes against them matter apparently...

3 hours ago, The Don Antonio said:

Diagusting from the FA

 

 

WTF

Absolutely incredible they've allocated that Donkey Taylor to Ref our game on Sunday. Should've been a permanent demotion.

How does this Manc w*nker always get us against Manchester clubs. Its so bent.

Edited November 7, 20232 yr by WhiteWall

Did you say his name 3 times in front of the mirror? 😱

Taylor should never be allowed to officiate Chelsea games.

Don't see us winning our next two fixtures if I'm being honest, very difficult games.

But I actually have more hope in this game than I do Newcastle away. 

As I said with Tottenham, put in a good performance and make us proud regardless. We've shown plenty of times we can tangle with the so-called best in the league, so surely we can give City a run for their money. 

It will be the Anthony Taylor show🤔 I think we need to treat this as an away game, gives up the possession and play counter if we need to. Last thing you want is space for Haland, Foden etc. Mind you, Haland hasn't scored against us yet, so either a drought for him, or he will score a bunch to make up for the lost opportunities

Play not very well at the start , pretty easy for us, ,make them over confident and they will stay overconfident all game. Lots of folk with points to prove in this game. 
 

There is something good in underdog feeling before big games. The more we will get from this game, we will get more confidence and this is football, everything can happen. 

We just need to stay focused in defense and be good at possession in the back. We have two players that can move the ball in a quality way, we have to play more often on them (Caicedo and Enzo). On counter attacks we can hit everyone, even when we don't have brain in the attack we still can be dangerous because of the speed and dribbling ability. 

Palmer has to be the free player all around the pitch.

 

---------- Sanchez ----------

James - Thiago - Badiashile - Colwill

----- Caicedo ---- Enzo ------

Palmer --- Gallagher --- Sterling

--------- Jackson --------

 

Jackson after his hattrick probably will start but I also wouldn't mind see Sterling up front and Mudryk on the left. 

High defensive discipline, quality and confidence in play, be there to finish our chances on counter attacks and we clearly can do something here.

COME ON CHELS!!!

I always fancy playing City when KDB is out of the picture. 

my bet is on Sterling for this one

56 minutes ago, mojo said:

my bet is on Sterling for this one

Him and Palmer have points to prove.

 

Sanchez

 

James

Silva

Colwill

Cucurella

 

Caicedo

Enzo

 

Palmer

Gallagher

Sterling

 

Jackson

 

We need both James and Cucurella here.

Do our best and see what happens. No shame in losing to City though they are an actual elite side.

We have lost 6 in a row to these bunch since that Faithful night in Portugal. 

They have like always shown a bit of vulnerability we are getting back on track, although it feels like two steps forward one back. 

However I think that this will be a little step too far so I am not going to read too much into the result either way, as long as we play well. 

On 07/11/2023 at 21:08, BedfordBlue said:

Taylor should never be allowed to officiate any games.

Fixed that for you.

3 hours ago, The Don Antonio said:

We have lost 6 in a row to these bunch since that Faithful night in Portugal. 

Disgusting. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12726351/Raheem-Sterling-face-BAN-FA-investigate-footage-throwing-missile-Tottenham-fans-posted-Chelseas-TikTok-account-shushing-celebrations.html#comments

 

this league is a fakin JOKE

4 hours ago, The Don Antonio said:

We have lost 6 in a row to these bunch since that Faithful night in Portugal. 

They have our number, and are laser focused when they face us after our win in Porto. 

In addition to losing the last 6 to them we have also not scored a single goal in any of those 6 losses while letting in 6.

 

I would be tempted to go to flat 5, not wingbacks, full backs.

 

Sanchez

 

James

Disasi

Silva

Colwill

Cucurella

 

Gallagher 

Caicedo 

Enzo

 

Palmer

Jackson

 

Also tempted to take out Levi for Badiashile, give us a bit more height.

 

Counter with Jackson and Gallagher. Enzo and Palmer have the quality to find them.

Erm, no. Not having only 2 attackers on the pitch. 

At the most it should be the same tactics against Arsenal, but given Jackson's assumable lift in confidence I'd start him.