Chelsea (A) Match Thread

[ARM1968]

1 minute ago, urban.spaceman said:

World record fee for an English player I’ve heard. Well Sean has heard. #NeverWrong

Direct swap for Countinho and Messi.   Oh wait a minute ........

[Wrighty22]

Chilly dropped for his appearance on Soccer AM 

[les-tah]

1 minute ago, Papasmurf said:

I also fear for us defensively with this line up. Madders and Perez aren’t going to track back so our fullbacks will be horribly exposed. 

Perez works harder than Albrighton

[lcfcell]

Maddison on the left. Fuchs. Ndidi AND Hamza. Yeah we’re not getting anything. 

[Harry96]

Reckon we see praet at some stage today 

[brucey]

Some of us did say when Rodgers was appointed, that compared to Puel, he would probably do less well against the ‘big teams’ but better against the ‘small teams’. It was a trade off almost everyone would have been happy to accept 

 

No Barnes = 

[Livid]

Not exactly over the moon with the team selection after last week’s performance but I guess we’ll wait and see. 

[Dahnsouff]

Goes to FoxesTalk, surveys the match thread.

Gets the fvck out of there....

Jesus folks. Have a little bit of optimism 

[ronnup]

Defensive minded and needs to be. 

[ScouseFox]

not sure why is playing ndidi and hamza is either a shock or a frustration to anyone, didn’t we do that in literally every game that we weren’t favourites for last season? and it worked pretty well? 

 

not playing barnes is fu cking rubbish tho. 

[The Quick Brown Fox]

Not a fan of the 2 DMs personally, not enough going forward 

[Kopic]

**** sake no ghezzal. No hope.

[shailen]

This is the perfect team away from home vs top 6. We are probably not gonna have a lot of the ball so need the players that can hold possession. Bring on the wingers as the game opens up second half. 

 

Assume Chilwell has picked up a knock as that is a blow. 

[the fox]

We are setting up as a counter attacking team here but we don't have a playmaker who's an elite counter attacker. (IMO)

[Nicolo Barella]

Maybe Fuchs's crosses will give us the width we needed last game on the left flank

[Beechey]

Really hope Hamza doesn't drop as deep as the CB's every time we have the ball this week, left us so overrun in midfield

[Unabomber]

Thought Barnes was meant to be starting? 

[what?]

At least no Rüdiger is good for us, that defence can definitely be made to sweat

[foxinsox]

3 minutes ago, stix said:

Fuchs in for Chilwell. 

 

Im still really not sure about Hamza and Wilf in the same team. Maddison out wide again. Not convinced, but come on Leicester!!!! 

 

 

Yes, Wilf works better when he has space. No width on the left side. 

[Nicolo Barella]

Last week I got this right, gonna try fir two in a row: 

 

Hamza > Barnes '64

[Shane]

Barnes should be starting ahead of Maddison if we're playing 2 DM's 

[That_Dude]

7 minutes ago, les-tah said:

Top 6 is well out of our reach if we continue with Ndidi hamza

It never was within.

[GlenParvaFox]

Fuchs aside, this is the 11 I expected. I think we will get something from today.

[Finnegan]

Hmmmm. 

[Countryfox]

 

Chilwell has had some massive TV commitments this week ..   seems to be on all the time ...  so obviously not had much time for training.

 

Oh ..  and last week he was sh1t ..   deserved to be dropped.