Kostas

He's probably playing because Ancelotti doesn't want to risk Mikel getting a yellow card.Josh is probably even played out of position...

I'm already having thoughts about wanting this to somehow backfire to somehow change Ancelotti's mind, think it could benefit us in the long run.Fuck it. I'm not watching this. Even if we win this 7-0 I'm fricking pissed. Hell I'm probably losing it..

Ancelotti lying about our youth.

He's probably under insane pressure, which he brought upon himself by not playing his (few) cards right for the past few weeks. Imho his decision-making has been terrible. But today I'm honestly lost for words.

They won't come on before we secure a win by 3 goals or the 75th minute, typical Ancelotti.

I wouldn't blame him if he handed in a transfer request the moment he gets out of the plane.

Chelsea's official twitter @chelseafc confirmed that this is a 4-3-3

:rant: I hope and believe that we will stuff them but this is the most disappointing line-up I can remember. There's just too many things wrong with it ..

You're better than that. Let's not reproduce that crap on a forum of mostly well-informed users.

Abramovich will not sell Chelsea.

Chamakh being one of the 10 best Forwards?! Can't agree mate.

Happy Birthday to the Captain of Captains.

Ashley Cole, Anelka, Lampard and Zhirkov did not travel to France with our squad. Gaël Kakuta, Van Aanholt, Billy Clifford, Jacopo Sala, Bruma, and McEachran are the confirmed youth players included in our travelling squad so far.

With each post of yours I wonder if we're watching the same Chelsea FC.

Exactly what I was going to say.

Even without my blue tinted glasses I can't see why Cech and Terry weren't included. On the other hand it's great to see Branislav there.

I think it's slightly optimistic to expect Lampard to pick up right where he left off after 4 months on the sidelines.

I'm arguing him being a better and more usable choice for Ancelotti rather than him being a better defender than Bruma. Sturridge is better than Kalou yet the Ivorian gets picked for his experience. We could use him to rest Mikel (the lad deserves it) and step in whenever 2 of our 3 senior CBs are missing. With Alex recovering from surgery and both Terry and Bran being 1 card away from suspension another CB crisis is very likely and I can't see how Mancienne could be possibly worse than Paulo Ferreira at CB.

We desperately need to change something or this will be just like the rest of our recent games. I've been crying for experimenting with the kids for some time now and would love to see Kakuta and Sturridge get EPL starts even if it's against Tottenham, it's not like our attack can be less effective.

It definitely wasn't important enough to generate some of the digs or blatant accusations against the Russians that I've seen.Some Greeks make up conspiracy theories whenever they fail at the Eurovision song contest (as pathetic as it may sound) so it's nowhere as bad but I was genuinely disappointed.

:541: @ #2 Cue Kalou lovers having an orgasm. So glad that cnut KPB didn't make it to the 5 best.

:goodpost: Coming from a culture full of bitter people I never expected the people of UK to be so bitter about such a trivial thing.. Some of the comments I've read over the last few days are downright racist and Russophobe.

Just to give things a negative spin I honestly believe that we're in danger of going through a worse run when the CL knock-out stages begin. At least now we can afford to rest our exhausted players in these meaningless CL and Cup games.