Closed Barcelona 2-2 Chelsea

[bluephoenix 1,125]

Goals and PK please?!

pretty please !

[Barbara 15,149]

Anyone worry about courtois ????

no

[Henrique 9,133]

Found full match. Still alive as I write:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5d5YxIiNm0

[The Chels 2,502]

Costa is our best striker but I would still trust Falcao and Remy over him in a penalty shootout

[Henrique 9,133]

After watching some moments, nothing to take note here. Typical friendly game to lose extra fat.

[bluephoenix 1,125]

Anyone worry about courtois ????

Yes, he made many good save but every game he made a stupid mistake

good to make stupid mistakes in the friendlies !

Time to learn and reflect

[Special Juan 27,093]

Nice win, some positives and some negatives.

Now, time to smash the gunners.

[Jase 43,479]

So, some people expected us to lose to PSG and Barcelona but we ended up winning (or drawing) both instead. Not bad...

[Jase 43,479]

Have added the MOTM poll...

[Muzchap 8,966]

I think people should look at this with the right eyes...

It's clear we need another midfielder as our bench players aren't slightly good enough to replace any of the titulars come a suspension or injury. That is a fact that few would contest.

We seem to be intended on using our academy players, but I don't think we have one for this specific position.

Second, winning, drawing, losing those games says absolutely NOTHING about our form, condition, status and chances as a team in the upcoming season, NOTHING AT ALL.

This is pre-season, we started training only two weeks ago, and while it may have been a bit more late than I would have liked, it is what it is.

When we had most of our first team players - which will remain the same from last season: Courtois, Iva, Cahill, JT, Azpili, Matic, Cesc, Oscar, Willian, Hazard and Costa, at least today, we looked very decent (except the defense, but then again JT wasn't there in the first).

José is hoping to make Zouma the new Luiz, which creates a further problem for our limited options in defense. We're good with Zouma as the immediate CB replacement, not as a MD. We really need a new guy there. I think Moses, Cuadrado, but especially Remy is enough to cope with the RW option. And we have plenty of talent in the AMs position in the academy if everything else fails.

I'd get two defenders (a LB and a CB), but above all a DM or at least a good box to box. We don't have a good enough in our squad and please, can someone go in a trance and actually make a bid for Mikel? If we're going with the one in one out policy, we desperately need someone to bid for him.

My thoughts exactly and I raised the Zouma thing a couple of weeks back and was shot down a bit

That's obviously why we are interested in Stones

The midfield part is baffling - I thought it was certainty that Mikel was off...

[chelsea blue 615]

Match highlights :blue scalf: plus penalties

http://www.footytube.com/video/chelsea-vs-barcelona-2015-international-champions-cup-highlights-359639

[cfcs most wanted 657]

Champions of France and Spain defeated in just a week.

Deal with it

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Sigh...sometimes I genuinely feel the quality here has dropped below that facebook comments. Gets really annoying reading the same whinny fickle reactions over and over again...

[lucio 5,371]

Well those reactions will continue , as long as mikel an ram keep turning out horrendous performances. We have a right to be concerned , if this is our plan b.

[CurlyHairLikeLuiz 1,625]

Cahill's injury may be a blessing in disguise - it means we will see Zouma - Terry on Sunday.

[Parky 739]

We should have finished the game first half. Oscar hit the bar and Costa missed a great chance. Cesar made a rare error by his standards but all in all this is pre-season and match sharpness was not 100% so thats understandable..

A win none the less to carry the confidence into Sunday.

[Unionjack 7,531]

Have added the MOTM poll...

I think maybe a blind poll where we can't check to see who people are voting for first would be a better idea. Didnt reflect my thoughts on the lads.

One of the big questions in my tiny mind is

WTF didn't Costa have his fuckin op in closed season???

[bethos1 802]

Well those reactions will continue , as long as mikel an ram keep turning out horrendous performances. We have a right to be concerned , if this is our plan b.

There are plenty of whiny posts that aren't about Mikel/Ramires, it's seriously starting to annoy me. I don't understand why some of us are always so negative.