The Chels

Matic does that quite a lot against the smaller teams. It's concerning.

We always seem to make the already small pitch as narrow as possible with our play. He'd have been playing against Real yesterday if he was still at Atletico, but he can't play against Leicester?

Did Courtois do that?

I wouldn't mind playing against Real but I think we're destined to play Atletico again. How embarrassing would it be if they were to beat us (which isn't unlikely) even though we've taken 3 of their best players?!

Still no Luis? What the hell

I think Schurrle will start but it definitely won't be at Hazard's expense.

Adebayor? I reckon a lot of people aren't actually using ice-cold water though.

Jason Cundy's wife lol

Players like Balotelli, Cavani, etc. wouldn't be happly playing second fiddle to Costa.

Are we only interested because Spurs are after him? 20m is too much and we'd be better off going for PL-proven Remy instead.

Yep seems like it was. Mourinho said before the game that we'd been practising breaking teams down. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28834604

Compare that to Luke Shaw's 100k per week... Jose's not lying when he says Shaw would have completely ruined our wage structure!

That team wouldn't get very far.

Really? They started off brightly and all I thought was 'here we go again...'. Costa's goal was such a relief.

We had very little attacking threat from our left wing today. I expect Luis to be a a starter soon enough.

With Courtois in goal I feel much less nervous with opposition crosses and corners.

It's great not having to depend solely on him.

Unfortunately not

'That Chelsea (team)...' is trending worldwide . A lot of pressure today.

Yes and so is Cech from crosses

Ramires

Cech trying to get one over on Courtois He is asked "How is it that Messi has never scored a goal against you or Courtois? The best keepers." He replies by saying "He scored against Thibaut in his first season at Atletico. I don't know."

Yup at this stage of the season the performance matters more than the result. That flips very quickly though.

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