Carabao Cup & FA Cup Thread

[Jase 43,479]

http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2015/08/cup-date-announced.html

The Walsall tie will be played on September 23, Wednesday - in between the Arsenal and Newcastle league matches.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2015/08/cup-date-announced.html

The Walsall tie will be played on September 23, Wednesday - in between the Arsenal and Newcastle league matches.

The squad will be heavily rotated, but it will be strong enough to be competitive in all three of those games. If we line up against Walsall with something akin to the following, we'll be more than fine:

Begovic

Azpi - Cahill - Zouma - Baba

Mikel - RLC

Traore - Oscar - Moses*

Falcao/Loic

* if he's still alive, that is.

[Billy. 2,739]

We will play Stoke away

[Jase 43,479]

Full Fourth Round Draw:
Man City v Crystal Palace
Liverpool v Bournemouth
Man United v Middlesbrough
Everton v Norwich
Southampton v Aston Villa
Sheffield Wednesday v Arsenal
Hull v Leicester
Stoke v Chelsea

Matches to be played on October 27/28.

What a boring tie.

[iceboy 992]

We will play Stoke away

This Stoke isn't the same as previous year.

[didierforever 7,349]

WTF!!! why cant we get easy home ties like united/pool?

[zolayes 14,489]

WTF!!! why cant we get easy home ties like united/pool?

over the last few years we haven't really been unlucky with our cup draws

[Pizy 17,860]

Good thing I don't give a toss about this competition. Hope we play a totally weakened side. We don't need to be risking our important players in a midweek game all the way up in Stoke when we're trying to play major catch-up in the league.

[Kendrick 339]

One day I'll tell my grandchildren I saw Chelsea playing a cup game at home.

[Muzchap 8,966]

Sigh...

[Milan 17,835]

Incredibly boring, as if they wanted all the big clubs to go through and make the COC final stages more interesting.

[Topico 165]

After West Ham away, before Liverpool home.

[Jase 43,479]

Our domestic cup draws (excluding semi-finals, finals) since Mourinho returned in 2013:

League Cup - A, A, A, H, A, A, A, A

FA Cup - A, H, A, H, H

9 away ties out of 13.

[kmk108 1,186]

Damn. I was hoping for a home tie against Arsenal.

[Jusek 2,031]

Cold and rainy night at Stoke? Damn...

[Jase 43,479]

http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2015/09/tuesday-date-for-stoke-tie.html

Our game at Stoke will be played on October 27, Tuesday and there's no live TV coverage (at least in the UK) again.

[MihaiM24 156]

So we will have to do it again on a cold rainy night in Stoke eh?

[CurlyHairLikeLuiz 1,625]

I really want us to field a cup side with a little more youth but still enough to be in with a shot of winning it. Obviously w/ rotation eg Iva for Aina and JCS for Cahill, for example.

E.G.

Begovic

Aina Cahill Terry Dasilva

Ramires-RLC

Kenedy Willian Musonda

Remy

Personally I like that team because it has a strong, experienced spine but lots of potential too.

Although if we're 8 points behind by New Year's we'll probably just gun for the cups and water down our league sides. Whatever, I want to see youth get a chance.