Chelsea vs QPR

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Chelsea vs Queen's Park Rangers

Carling Cup, Third Round, 23 September 2009, Stamford Bridge, 1945 KO

Chelsea host Queen's Park Rangers in a mouth-watering West London derby at Stamford Bridge as the two sides lock horns for a place in the Carling Cup Fourth Round.

The two sides last met in the 2007/08 FA Cup, where Chelsea, under Avram Grant, emerged as 1-0 victors thanks to an own goal from Lee Camp, who saw a shot from Claudio Pizarro bounce off the post and ricochet into the net off the English goalkeeper.

Carlo Ancelotti's Chelsea are a different prospect for the Championship side, however, as the Blues will be red-hot favourites to beat their rivals.

Match chat here - C'MON THE BLUES!

[DavidEU 2,023]

Carlo said on Friday that we will see Joey, Paulo and Yury here.

[the wes 7,212]

Here's my line-up

[ZanSnake 1,211]

no Borini?

[Kez 2,727]

Can't wait to see Joey back!

[the wes 7,212]

no Borini?

sub

Edited September 20, 2009 by the wes

[Cameron 30]

I'd go for:

Turnbull, Ivanovic, Bruma, Terry, Hutchinson, Mikel, Belleti, J.Cole, Deco, Sturridge & Kalou.

2-1 Chels.

[ZanSnake 1,211]

Borini is short of amazing, he has the most poetential (not including kakuta) who could break into the first team IMO. Kalou should be the sub.

[Laylabelle 9,292]

God I remember when we played them in the FA cup...gotta be better then that!

Not gana be easy they're really gana go for it but hopfully so will we!And not go out at this stage again!

Borini impressed me today.He didnt seem overwealmed or anything did some pretty good runs so be good to see him again and Joey!Hoping he gets a chance to come on

[EskWeston 696]

We could be putting out a very exciting team for different reasons in this game. Will be great to see Joe Cole and Ferreira back, also to see Zhirkov and possibly Matic in action. My team would be:

................................Turnbull..................................

Hutchinson.....Ivanovic........Terry...............Ferreira

..................................Mikel.....................................

..................Belletti..................Matic........................

.................................J.Cole....................................

....................Borini..................Sturridge.................

Although i think that Kalou will more than likely start in place of Borini and Lampard instead of Matic and i don't think Matic is quite ready (only played 45 reserve minutes so far)

Either way it is an exciting prospect, also expect to see Bruma on the bench for this one too.

[Alee. 182]

..................Turnbull....................

Hutchinson.Terry.Ivanfield.A-Cole

..................Mikel..........................

..Deco.................................Ballack..

....................Joey..........................

.........Borini.......Anelka..................

[Elliott 7]

I think we'll see Lampard and Terry, and Ashley Cole (or could he play Bruma?), but other than that we'll see some second stringer. I expect we'll see Ivanovic, Alex if he's fit, Ferreira, Joe Cole, Deco, Sturridge and probably Kalou and Mikel.

[Shane 2,275]

As long as Joey, Matic and Borini are starting i'll be happy

Thinking of getting Borini on the back of the away shirt.

[Term-X 7,891]

this will be a good opportunity for sturridge to claim a first team sub role for the prem games, instead of mr average himself kalou.

[TrueChelseaBlue 105]

Sturridge does deserve a place on the subs bench, and if we get any injuries, i feel Danny can step up to the plate and do a job for us, no problem at all.

[TrueChelseaBlue 105]

......Henrique Hilario......

....Paulo Ferreira....

......Branislav Ivanovic......

......John Terry......

....Yuri Zhirkov....

...........Jon Obi Mikel...........

.........Frank Lampard.........

............Deco............

...........Joe Cole..........

.....Daniel Sturridge.....

.....Fabio Borini.....

Subs:

Ross Turnbull

Alex

Ashley Cole

Jeffrey Bruma

Nemanja Matic

Michael Ballack

Salomon Kalou

(Would have put Matic playing, but hes not had much playing time in the reserves,

mthats why i picked Lampard to start instead of him)

Ive rpobably slipped up but its the team id LIKE to see playing vs QPR..

[Steve 10,227]

For me i'd like to see:

..............................Turnbull..................................

.Hutchinson.....Terry.......Brauma.....Ferreira/Cole.

.........................Mikel..............................

.....j.Cole/Lampard....................Zhirkov........

....................Lampard/j.Cole......................

............Sturride/Borini.......Kalou.................

[TrueChelseaBlue 105]

nice lil line up there stev3o m8