PSG played on Friday night.

10 minutes ago, OTL said:

PSG played on Friday night.

And play us tomorrow night. Their match -v- Nantes, scheduled for the 15th, has been postponed. They play us again on the 17th so they don't play between the two legs. We do. We play Newcastle on the 14th.

1 hour ago, dermott said:

And play us tomorrow night. Their match -v- Nantes, scheduled for the 15th, has been postponed. They play us again on the 17th so they don't play between the two legs. We do. We play Newcastle on the 14th.

the PL could have helped us if they wanted, BUT its the tv companies that run the show

The PL and the TV companies will never help us their agenda is geared towards themselves, Blue co. also have their own agenda which has only a glance at football and winning.

Im expecting us to go out at this stage of the competition and sadly only the supporters will care.

Did I wander into a Scouser forum? All this victimhood....

I thought it was last weekend they'd had a match postponed, but apparently it's for the second leg !

Good stuff. Our likely starting team was mostly rested, and theirs pretty much all played on Friday 😎

And they warmed up for the 1st leg with a 3-1 home defeat to Monaco (the mighty Denis Zakaria playing as the Monaco CCB). Only seems fair to inflict back-to-back home defeats on them tomorrow night !

Dembele might be back (he played half an hour as sub on Friday night) but I'm sure we can cope ...

3 hours ago, Valerie said:

Did I wander into a Scouser forum? All this victimhood....

14 hours ago, dermott said:

And play us tomorrow night. Their match -v- Nantes, scheduled for the 15th, has been postponed. They play us again on the 17th so they don't play between the two legs. We do. We play Newcastle on the 14th.

And when we progress, people will moan that Chelsea were more match fit while poor PSG had too much rest.

We've seen it before under Tuchel. At this stage of the season, steel sharpens steel and rest can be counterproductive when it arrests momentum.

Edited March 11Mar 11 by SydneyChelsea

Match Day!

Come On Chelsea!!

We better win this, ride on the momentum whilst we can

More practice we get the better imho...

I know Santos played the whole match against Wrexham so it’s very unlikely for him to start but for me personally he has to be starting.

He has experience of playing against PSG and that could make a big difference. I like his directness and I think that will show tonight.

I dont think Enzo and Caicedo in midfield is the best option, considering how good PSG are at attacking. We need to dominate the midfield.

13 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

I thought it was last weekend they'd had a match postponed, but apparently it's for the second leg !

Good stuff. Our likely starting team was mostly rested, and theirs pretty much all played on Friday 😎

And they warmed up for the 1st leg with a 3-1 home defeat to Monaco (the mighty Denis Zakaria playing as the Monaco CCB). Only seems fair to inflict back-to-back home defeats on them tomorrow night !

Dembele might be back (he played half an hour as sub on Friday night) but I'm sure we can cope ...

We'll put Tosin to cover him....

2 hours ago, dansubrosa said:

I know Santos played the whole match against Wrexham so it’s very unlikely for him to start but for me personally he has to be starting.

He has experience of playing against PSG and that could make a big difference. I like his directness and I think that will show tonight.

I dont think Enzo and Caicedo in midfield is the best option, considering how good PSG are at attacking. We need to dominate the midfield.

Think Rosenior has only played Enzo/Caicedo once and abandoned it, rightly so.

It would most likely be James in midfield if Santos/Lavia aren't ready.

Well, this is going to be a game. We will have that logo on our shirts "world club champions" which may help us or it might make us look incredibly foolish. Luis Enrique is a good manager, but we really got under his skin before. PSG have some rapid attacking players and some fine quality. Jeez this is going to be a tough one.

On 09/03/2026 at 22:59, SydneyChelsea said:

Why would they get punished for it? UEFA has repeatedly encouraged the PL to do so when PL clubs have requested it, its the PL and their broadcast partners who steadfastly refuse.

Isnt that more like rearranging to an earlier fixture like Friday rather than postponement? I think the PL should allow English teams to have earlier kick offs as some other FAs have done in the past. Like you say probably controlled by the broadcasters.

Completely moving a fixture however is going too far for me particularly when you think of the fixture pile up we have its not always easy to rearrange fixtures. Plus I can't see many premier league opposition agreeing to a fixture rearrangement to help the other team in Europe or more importantly be nice and fresh for their fixture.

The French FA are probably only doing this because PSG arent walking the farmers league this year. They'd usually play a B team and save their best for Europe, but they have a bit of competition this year so they need a little helping hand. Can't afford to play a B team this time there's only 1 point in it. PSG will probably buy some nobody from Nantes in the summer for a ridiculous price to sweeten the deal.

absolutely insane if a journalist has got our leaked XI this early before KO

10 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

absolutely insane if a journalist has got our leaked XI this early before KO

Aye would be.

Also would be a huge risk too after last night to start Jorgensen with his lack of game time, and him being cr@p too.

Could be a Tudor Kinsky moment

11 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

absolutely insane if a journalist has got our leaked XI this early before KO

And even more insane that Axman "leaked" this exact line up last Saturday LOL.

Genuinely hoping for a MotM performance from Enzo tonight, to seal his summer transfer to PSG or Madrid !

15 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

absolutely insane if a journalist has got our leaked XI this early before KO

Translation says this should be Chelsea's lineup. Just guess work.

22 hours ago, Valerie said:

Did I wander into a Scouser forum? All this victimhood....

I'm looking forward to the lizard people stuff.

55 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

And even more insane that Axman "leaked" this exact line up last Saturday LOL.

I did? Lol so a journo reads this forum and decided to copy me?

really are many better choices on here...

9 minutes ago, Liam said:

I'm looking forward to the lizard people stuff.

As a somewhat relevant aside, the collective consciousness is so batsh*t at the moment that David Icke is out there preaching media literacy.