1 hour ago, Valerie said:

What are you grumbling about, you lucky sod!

BTW You have agency, you're allowed to decline the invitation, you're not joined at the hip with anybody.

I tried not to go. Didn’t go down well with the wife.

If Nkunku was fit he should surely have also been named on the bench ? We don't need three substitute centre backs for a must win game ... more attacking options on the other hand could have come in very handy.

2 minutes ago, PhilH930 said:

Not the team I’d have picked, but here we go!

Come on Chelsea!! KTBFFH

Basically is a "ok Moises up to you, good luck" selection.

4 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

If Nkunku was fit he should surely have also been named on the bench ? We don't need three substitute centre backs for a must win game ... more attacking options on the other hand could have come in very handy.

Probably saving him for Wednesday knowing Maresca.

8 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Chelsea: Sanchez, James (c), Tosin, Colwill, Cucurella, Caicedo, Fernandez, Madueke, Palmer, Sancho, Neto

Substitutes: Jorgensen, Acheampong, Badiashile, Chalobah, Gusto, Dewsbury-Hall, Lavia, George, Guiu

Nice to see Guiu on the bench, plus he can bring Lavia and Trev on when he realises he's got the starting line up wrong again LOL

About 2 mins in he will realize he's fecked up again...what a bottle job..can't wait for him to piss off

1.5B spend and that’s the bench we can muster for the most important game of the season. Say less.

United vs Villa line ups :

Manchester United XI: Bayindir, Heaven, Maguire, Lindelof, Mazraoui, Dorgu, Casemiro, Fernandes, Diallo, Mount, Hojlund.

Subs: Heaton, Dalot, Evans, Fredricson, Ugarte, Collier, Eriksen, Mainoo, Obi.

Aston Villa XI: Martinez, Maatsen, Torres, Konsa, Cash, Onana, Kamara, McGinn, Asensio, Rogers, Watkins.

Subs: Olsen, Digne, Mings, Tielemans, Barkley, Garcia, Ramsey, Malen, Bailey.

Garnacho probably en route to America for a medical ahead of the Club World Cup ... 🤠

Playing a 2 man midfield with Enzo v a 3-man Forest midfield with power and pace is a recipe for disaster.

Really have to win now.

Draw won’t be enough, Newcastle have Isaak back and Man Utd have dropped players against Villa so we can’t rely on any other team.

2 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

United vs Villa line ups :

Manchester United XI: Bayindir, Heaven, Maguire, Lindelof, Mazraoui, Dorgu, Casemiro, Fernandes, Diallo, Mount, Hojlund.

Subs: Heaton, Dalot, Evans, Fredricson, Ugarte, Collier, Eriksen, Mainoo, Obi.

Aston Villa XI: Martinez, Maatsen, Torres, Konsa, Cash, Onana, Kamara, McGinn, Asensio, Rogers, Watkins.

Subs: Olsen, Digne, Mings, Tielemans, Barkley, Garcia, Ramsey, Malen, Bailey.

Garnacho probably en route to America for a medical ahead of the Club World Cup ... 🤠

Don't see Utd getting anything out of this game...best we can hope for is perhaps keeping Villa to a draw and we draw with Forest....who knows Everton might show up at Newcastle..............nah.

Just now, ducavis said:

Playing a 2 man midfield with Enzo v a 3-man Forest midfield with power and pace is a recipe for disaster.

I guess Maresca will stick CuCu in there with them and leave our left wide open, he likes to do that.

3 x CB on the bench in a game we have to win

2 in midfield against 3

f**k on you bald twat

We will get battered here two man midfield vs three man midfield!!

2 minutes ago, ducavis said:

Playing a 2 man midfield with Enzo v a 3-man Forest midfield with power and pace is a recipe for disaster.

I just don't get this Manager at all,and why he was chosen over all the candidates..mind boggling....can't wait for him to be shown the door and for us to get back playing conventional formations with players being selected in their most strongest position, not this feking merry go round of throwing darts at a dart board and hope something sticks..

Listening to Football Focus earlier all agree this is the Match of the Day as the result can influence so many European places.

We have not done well away under Maresca though our form has improved and their's have dived so really a tough one to forecast though I think we will win.

Surprised Lavia is on the bench.

I'll go for 2-1 to us with Guiu to come off the bench and get the winner and become an instant club legend ...

Fernandez to get the first as a nice swansong to his underwhelming Chelsea career before he f**ks off to Madrid.

On the midfield, I expect Maresca will be surprising Nuno with a "clever" 2-4-3-1 formation, with James and Cucurella both inverting into midfield !

Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

May the best team win, and if they can't, let them win anyway.

COYB!

(Off for another trip to the bar)

8 minutes ago, El regreso said:

We will get battered here two man midfield vs three man midfield!!

Maresca won't adapt his tactics even in a must win game. Even Big Ange abandoned his principals to win the europa.

14 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Garnacho probably en route to America for a medical ahead of the Club World Cup ... 🤠

HE WILL BE SITTING IN THE STANDS WITH MEATLOAF

Arabs have probably funded two free pints for the Geordie faithful today .... LOL.

Just now, Caps_Lock_King said:

HE WILL BE SITTING IN THE STANDS WITH MEATLOAF

Smacks more of an Eghbali-led signing to me !

2 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Maresca won't adapt his tactics even in a must win game. Even Big Ange abandoned his principals to win the europa.

Fingers crossed the players choose to completely ignore him LOL. I think we can take them in a game of chaos ball !

12 minutes ago, Andy2461 said:

3 x CB on the bench in a game we have to win

2 in midfield against 3

f**k on you bald twat

It’s gonna feel like 1 in midfield with Enzo in that passenger role, where we just blindly hope he contributes a good pass every so often. 🤦‍♂️

He said he had some kind of eye injury only a week ago, absolute joke, really.

I hate this whole situation of Enzo being untouchable, he’s done nothing to deserve that, and the captains armband isn’t even an issue as James is starting anyway.

Anyone feeling nervous ?

Christensen has already thrown up three times and he's not even playing today !

6 minutes ago, Term_X said:

It’s gonna feel like 1 in midfield with Enzo in that passenger role, where we just blindly hope he contributes a good pass every so often. 🤦‍♂️

He said he had some kind of eye injury only a week ago, absolute joke, really.

I hate this whole situation of Enzo being untouchable, he’s done nothing to deserve that, and the captains armband isn’t even an issue as James is starting anyway.

Yup all on Caicedo, what could go wrong?