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Who would you play if Mikel isn't fit?

Hopefully they continue this run on sunday.

F*ck the FA, what they are doing to us is beyond ridiculous, such a false and corrupt competition. Hopefully Mourinho can motivate the team like he did with Liverpool away last season, when nobody wanted to move the match to saturday while we had to play Atletico on tuesday. It would be such a statement and moral boost if we win this competition, come on!

Don't think Mou will drop his topscorer [emoji12]

It's not about Ramires, he's the perfect partner for a CDM (Matic/Mikel). He's a box to box player with great pace, strength, great abilities to support the defense and attack. It's more about Cesc in the pivot, we had Matic-Cesc pivot and got thrashed by 5-3. So can you imagine what will helpen to a Rami-Cesc pivot? We need a solid CDM in this game plus Rami supporting him and Cesc, with Cesc having more freedom to create. That's the point.

https://mobile.twitter.com/CarefreeDaily/status/569907673233281024/photo/1 Saw this on twitter, sums up our season.

It was from the FA's twitter account (see second link on the original post).

No Barnes punishment for foul on Chelsea's Matic No action will be taken against Burnley striker Ashley Barnes for his challenge on Nemanja Matic, the Football Association have announced. The Serbian midfielder was sent off for pushing Barnes after the forward caught Matic halfway up his leg. The FA say they cannot take retrospective action as the incident was seen by the match officials, with Barnes receiving a booking for his part. http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-02-23/no-barnes-punishment-for-foul-on-chelseas-matic/ http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2015/2/23/8089939/ashley-barnes-tackle-nemanja-matic

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31583092 The appeal

Don't think there is too much to worry about our form. Champions always grind out results, playing bad but win all the 3 points. In a run of 38 matches you can't outplay teams in all matches, especially in the EPL. Newcastle, Aston Villa and Everton are examples of these "champions games". We actually played very well against Burnley, better than the 3 matches mentioned, but FA stopped us from taking the 3 points, it's only the 2nd time we dropped points at home btw. The Burnley game looked more like the Westham game than QPR game at home. Recently we were playing without our 2 key players: playmaker and topscorer but still we managed to grind results, they will get their form back. Costa needs time and Cesc will be fine, against Burnley he was okay. In the cup games (bar FA cup) we played typical Mou-style, away at Liverpool and PSG to get a result with the hope to finish it at home. Hopefully we will beat PSG too. Unfortunately now Cesc and Costa are finally back, we will lose Matic for 3 important games. Hopefully we can cope with this. The only suprise is that Mourinho let 2 wingers go for 1. Now the squad need some rotation, we don't have that extra option. Cuadrado looks promising but has to settle faster to help us. Remy could also do a job as winger. My only concern is the FA BS, we always have to beat 12 man while City plays with 12. The frustration Matic showed wasn't for that match only, it's because we're having this campaign all season long. Let's hope we somehow survive the coming 3 domestic games without Matic. (spurs coc, westham away and soton at home) And get some help from Liverpool too. Mou needs to find some way to win these games. This run is very important, after that we'll have everyone back and we will play our best football again.

Great article/analysis: I've read this analysis after the 5-3 Spurs game, I think it's a good analysis: https://tompaynefootball.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/tottenham-5-3-chelsea-spurs-maximise-chelseas-midfield-weakness-with-strong-possession-game/ It shows how Spurs completely dominated, outplayed us in that game and exposed our weaknesses, a long article but worth reading. Interesting note from the article: The only 2 managers to have scored 5 against Mourinho teams are Pochettino and Guardiola (5-0 Manita) both disciples of Marcelo Bielsa On the match: I wasn't that concerned about it since I thought we'd have Ramires partnering Matic, with Zouma coming in for Cahill. But now Matic is out, with Mikel still injured I'm a little bit concerned about our midfield since it was our weakness in the last match against them. Since it's Mourinho, I don't expect Ake/RLC coming in, he'd rather play Azpi/Luis to replace Matic in the pivot (which I support): Courtois Iva Zouma JT Luis/Azpi Ramires Luis/Azpi Willian Cesc Hazard Costa Bench: Cech, Cahill, Ake, Oscar, Cuadrado, Remy, Drogba Ramires-Cesc pivot is an absolute no-go in this match.

Can't watch it currently, please keep posting interesting quotes if you want. Thanks!

What does he says?

After yesterday I couldn't sleep well, couldn't behave well towards the people around me and couldn't focus 100% on work. I even thought about quit watching football like some others said. So I was trying to find a place to leave my frustrations, I thought about hitting the gym, box school, fight with my Arsenal friends or focusing on work but I knew it wouldn't work. So I rather turn my emotions into something positive for TC. If we somehow manage to beat this FA campagin, I'll: - Donate £20 to TC if we win the league cup. - Donate £80 if we win the EPL - Add another £50 if we win the CL I hope I've gived it a place (the frustrations) now and will move on from yesterday.

Can't believe some of you guys are blaming the players, Matic or Mourinho for the result. "We should have finished it earlier". "They should have scored more than 1". "We were poor". "Poor tactics" "Matic cost us the match". "It was just bad refereeing, we've been playing poor lately" Guess no one who said this have ever played a sport or competive game. - Barnes came in with 2 flying kicks, nothing happened - 2 penalties denied, but if we'd scored at least one of those 2 pens which completely changes the game. - clear corner/fouls not given. - horror tackle, nothing happened. - Matic gets a straight red for a reaction on a career ending foul - plus the decisions in the previous games accumulated, we haven't had a penalty since November. What would you feel if you were on the pitch? Angered but completely powerless. We played the best game since a long time especially the 2nd half, the second goal was always coming. But FA didn't let us win, they will do everything to stop us and let City win it. Some of you should stop playing the down to earth one and being so naive, this campaign is so clear that even a 3 yo old sees it. I would not want to be in the club's position now, invested billions in the club but finding out you are playing against the organizer of the competition. Knowing they are making fun of you as a club behind the scenes. I bet they all have a secret well filled bank account in Qatar or anywhere else. But we are dependent on these bunch of twats because we can't just quit or jump to another league. It's like doing business in a corrupt land after you've invested all your and your family's money, just finding out you'll never get a fair treatment and being played by the government. You can't quit because you will lose everything, but how can you go on knowing there is no justice?

You have a lot of fantasy, but Mou will never play like that.

Don't think we'll see Ake in this one, even if Mikel is still injured. He will play this: Courtois Iva Zouma JT Luis Ramires Azpi Willian Cesc Hazard Costa

http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/9725775/mourinho-avoids-controversial-comments

Dear TC friends, Today is a sad day, a sad day for football, sad day for Chelsea and a sad day for the Chelsea fans. This is so out of our power, the corruptness of FA and football, a complete joke. No one of us should be surprised if we end this season trophy less again, and seeing Mourinho leaves us. We will never win against the FA, because they are in control of everything. We will probably never know what's behind the scenes. This is worse than Sunderland and Aston Villa last season, today is a complete joke: - 2 clear penalties denied - corners, fouls not given to us when it was clear - 2 kicks from that cunt Barnes on our players - career ending foul from the same cunt Barnes, nothing given - Matic gets a red for a hard push I will not pray that Newcastle will take points from them cause City will get their regular offside goal or free penalty. Chelsea is the clown in their circus, they are just playing and messing with us. I felt the same frustration all match long, so I was not surprised by the explosion of Matic. We will probably lose the COC final too, they won't let us win it. Matic will probably get more than 3 matches. I'm not exaggerating if I say I'm on the point of quit watching football, this is too ridiculous, today is a sad sad day.

Not Matic's "stupidity", this is caused by FA. That guy could kick 3 of our players without getting a card, we didn't get corners and fouls, 2 penalties denied. They fucked with our heads all day. This is so fake, we're in love with a corrupt sport.

We haven't got a penalty since November? And we should have had at least 6-7, LOL I'm not even angry anymore, it's funny and pathetic. This is so obvious, they will do everything to stop us. Unfortunately the club we're in love with plays in a f*cking corrupt league, so sad.

Have a feeling Oscar will shine, it's his kind of game. Also have the feeling Cuadrado will be superb.

Vipleague.me is my favorite since wiziwig is down.

Unfortunately I couldn't place a bet on this, haha guessed it right.

No one mentioned Matic but he gets a lot of praise from the media. Costa won't get it because of his image.