RoyalBlues

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I think Oscar and Azpi will play in this match. They are more fit than others

Got the feeling the result of this match will be surprising again.

We expect too much from him, aren't we? Must be patient

Great article. Nice read, the difference between quality journo and the biased one.

Oscar the new Torres, Torres the new Mikel.

Omeruo on top of the list if you ask me. He is already established for his national team, winning afcon, but not yet at club level. For certain he got the potential, how close it compared with Varane's potential? I don't have any idea how to measure it, only time could answer that.

He is injured? Don't think it is new, must be a treatment from his last injury.

I totally forgot Lampard is with them...

Well, good for him then. Didn't Gourlay say we already have JT's replacement? Christensen? Zouma? Kalas? Omeruo? Chalobah? Hope most of them could make it here. They've got the talents.

Arsenal fans will double burn Arsenal's Fabregas shirt, along with their club badge.

Cahill still one of the best CB imo. To drop him against City and put Ivan instead would be shocking. If Luis preferred, might to assume either Ivan or Azpi will be on the bench. But I am still thinking our back 4 will remain the same as against Swansea.

I see, I missed that game, so I couldn't make assesment on it. Glad to hear it then, I concerned about it too much, it seems. Just think, if we conceded this many with Cech as our GK, people will crying for Courtois to play at the moment. Cech is too old, blah blah. Somehow I'm glad Cech was on the bench all this time.

I'm sure Jose will prevent him to going forward that often, if he is deployed as a CB.

I'm not blame him over so much goals we conceded already, because mainly are our defensive duty mistakes, but was there any goal we conceded that should have been saved by him? Do you guys think he is still in adapting period in our team?

I prefer Oscar over Willian for this. Unleashed our strongest players in this match, whatever the result after that, I will accept.

Well, more and more I'm thinking about it, I am very happy the other match come with a draw too. We still could have a chance to secure the 2nd place at least in just 4 match played. The negative point is that, probably we will have to play almost all of our strongest player.

First time, I disappointed with his preferred choice of player since we signed him back. I will back him whatever the result is, if there is no other option, for example Remy and Costa injured, only Drogba available, then we lost 0-1, 0-2, I will not blame him. I fully understand Costa reason, but not with Drogba over Remy one.

In pre match we discussed who should play on this match, Costa, Remy, Costa, Remy. And we've got Drogba instead. Jose's face :

Didn't Drogba has just train and recover from injury ?Allright, so that I prefer half fit Drogba rather than almost a full week rested Remy since his last france match (didn't count that much of his involvement in Swansea game, just 20 minutes will not impact anything to his physical condition imo) any day. Doesn't make sense to me. Seems Mourinho really underestimating Schalke or he just want to play Drogba related to his last memory with Chelsea. I defend and stick with Jose most of the time, but tbf this time, I disappointed with this decision. Too much gambling on it, despite you have a better option to play 'safe'.

I understand the reason why we are not playing Costa as starter as much as I understand we will give Drogba playing time someday, but what is the logical reason to not playing Remy as a starter today, if he is fit? Physically and mentality are in good condition imo.

What will happen if every teams in this group got 1-1 in every match 6 times? Who will be qualified?

I didn't see the game, but reading all the post in here, and reading Jose post match reaction, it seems we are watching 2 different match.

Glad he is playing well today. Good now we have a competition at the back 4.

So basically, we save him for City match.