Quite a lot in the media about it being Yamal v Estevao tonight. But is it not a bit much to assume Estevao will actually play? He may not have been used against Burnley, but does that make it a given he starts tonight?

Spurs, Arsenal and Barcelona. I hate all these scum clubs with a passion. The Spanish one is vile and dirty and always in the shadow of Real Madrid. One UCL title before Messi and no UCL title after he left. Even a Romanian and a Serbian club has won the UCL before Barcelona did it in 1992. Also Villa, Forest and even Celtic.

A lucky club that has hit the jackpot with trusting Messi as a kid and stuffed him with growth hormones and it paid off. Had Messi been somewhere else in his prime, they would be on two UCL trophies, tops. Even with their golden generation of Guardiola as manager and Xavi and Iniesta in the middle of the park.

Gusto, Cucurella & Neto have to start. They are our superstars. Our generational talents. The messiahs of the modern game. Untouchables.

Please may we line up as follows

Sanchez

James, Josh, Trev, Cucu

Santos, Caicedo

Stevie, JP, Garnacho

Delap

I have no idea what £land pep will be doing today

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/competition/mourinho-told-me-dont-train-youll-be-playing-but-im-going-to-name-a-different-team-he-had-me-believing-that-i-wasnt-playing-until-he-named-the-team-so-he-did-me-a-kipper-as-well-damien-duff-on-jose-mourinhos-chelsea-vs-barcelona-double-bluff

2 hours ago, The Boehly Babes said:

Gusto, Cucurella & Neto have to start. They are our superstars. Our generational talents. The messiahs of the modern game. Untouchables.

Please may we line up as follows

Sanchez

James, Josh, Trev, Cucu

Santos, Caicedo

Stevie, JP, Garnacho

Delap

I HOPE ITS THIS

Sanchez

James Forfana Trev Cucurella

Caicedo Enzo

Neto Estevao Garnacho

Pedro

But i think it will be this

Sanchez

Gusto Forfana Trev Cucurella

James Caicedo

Neto Enzo Garnacho

Pedro

He is a coward

He hasnt got the bo**ocks to play Estevao

8 hours ago, dkw said:

My worry in these kind of games is Maresca sees them as a way to show just how much of a super dooper tactical genius he is, he does the "Pep" thing of changing stuff for the sake of it and ends up with a mess of a team.

This

He'll play Estevao. He hinted at it when he said why he didn't bring him on vs Burnley.

It's on Amazon prime. Pre match has just started 6.30pm.

Steveo starts.

ESTEVAO STARTS

BUT NETO IS FALSE 9

Chelsea team news

Chelsea: Sanchez; Gusto, Chalobah, Fofana, Cucurella; James, Caicedo, Fernandez; Neto, Estevao, Garnacho.

Come on Chelsea

All jokes aside I like the line up assuming it’s a midfield three with 3 fast attackers to break quickly. Well done Maresca.

Unless of course we play the boring CB possession then curse you Maresca.

Who plays up front ffs

I wonder if he'll have Estevao up top and Neto with his work rate on the right (Wont be surprised if Neto is on the left to help Cucurella with Yamal)

You know, something tells me Maresca noticed that Barcelona play a high line. Big game though so James in midfield of course.

I don't much care for dropping Santos after his MotM to accommodate frigging Gusto.

Neto at CF is a bit of a gamble ... but let's see how that turns out. It suggests we're going to sit back and let them have most of the possession, and maybe try and catch their high line on the break.

Joao Pedro, Delap and Guiu must be feeling as motivated as Santos LOL.

I'll go for a 2-1 win. Gusto and Fernandez (penalty) to score.

Edited November 25, 2025Nov 25 by Sexyfootball

Gusto is up top obviously😅😂🤣

Seriously why not play a striker ?

Could be that our club has a plethora of attacking mids who if good are always sought after in the market, so they get game time at this sky high global viewing ratings shop window game for clearfake ?

19 minutes ago, OTL said:

It's on Amazon prime. Pre match has just started 6.30pm.

I never usually bother watching pre-match build ups but to be fair Amazon are doing a decent job with this one. Some spine tingling moments being shown, along with some blatant match fixing refereeing.

7 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

All jokes aside I like the line up assuming it’s a midfield three with 3 fast attackers to break quickly. Well done Maresca.

Unless of course we play the boring CB possession then curse you Maresca.

I highly doubt there will be any deviation from our normal Maresca 4-2-3-1 formation. He seems welded to that ...

I imagine it will be James and Caicedo in the pivot ; Estevao RW. Garnacho LW. Enzo in #10 and Neto up front.

2 minutes ago, General said:

Gusto is up top obviously😅😂🤣

Seriously why not play a striker ?

Could be that our club has a plethora of attacking mids who if good are always sought after in the market, so they get game time at this sky high global viewing ratings shop window game for clearfake ?

An impressively cynical take General LOL. Bravo !

We're going all out attack from the start .

Constant crosses into to box from both wings to our non existent CF ??

Surely not.

Chelsea win ..3-1

Come on you BLUES!