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yes and those teams who sit deep, most of them try to counter attack on us which is why Ramires - Matic are perfect! Kroos isn't what we need against those teams who sit deep, its a world class striker!

that is what i mentioned earlier in this thread, I have never seen a set a fans not just being so confident of beating us but so confident of smashing us 4 or 5 nil! Its a joke! even the Bayern fans were not that arrogant going into the Super Cup Final! The Citeh fans really need to be bought back down to earth! hopefully we will do that for them on Monday!

Do they really think that? If they do that's pretty embarrassing!

Trust me your not the only one who isn't scared of them!

Wow I am seeing more and more people overrating this City team!

I am pretty sure Toure and Zabaleta are not suspended.

i bet on that in the summer and won on 'The clock is ticking'

Pre-Season should be interesting if we have guys like Zouma, T.Hazard, Courtois, B.Traore, Atsu, Piazon, Chalobah, Romeu and Lukaku all waltzing up to show Jose what they can do!

Great signing! Welcome to Chelsea Kurt!

people want him to play next to Matic as if we play possession football! Ramires - Matic pivot is much better for us with our counter attacking style.

Damn! people don't know the difference between simply parking the bus and sitting deep and playing on the counter! Jose will not use similar tactics to Allardyce at all! we are not going to put 10 men behind the ball and defend on the edge of our box and lump balls up field to no one and not even try to attack! our front 4 will press City, Matic will try to knick the ball off them in midfield then play a early pass to players like Rami, Hazard, Willian or Oscar and we will break at pace and in numbers on their average defence! If we can get that first goal, it will make City commit more players forward and leave our front men more space to counter in, We are not going to sit there and defend for 90 minutes without even trying to attack like West Ham!

no he doesn't! his free-kicks have actually been pretty good this season! I remember most beating the wall and going on target.

he just said Zouma could be announced in the next few hours, and that he may be in London, but its not confirmed, and that they will get some answers from Jose in his press conference today.

just seen the rumours as well! I really dislike this guy, but honestly for a deadline day signing, i would take him, he is such a jammy finisher, but I think he could certainly put the ball in the back of net more consistently then the strikers we have atm.

Lool! its not my counter counter attack tactic! they are the tactics Jose has used throughout his entire career! do you even watch Chelsea matches? but yeah i guess your tactics are much better lets play ultra defensive and not even think about crossing the half way line, get everyone behind the ball and hope for the best!

where did i compare Bayern to us??? If you read the conversation, he said City are unbeatable at home, i was merely pointing out that Bayern has already beat them there! so calm down, no one was comparing them to us.

yeah, that comment clearly shows you have watched alot of Mourinho's teams play over the years!

well actually i do know how we are going to play! we will play how Mourinho always sets his teams out to play and that is counter attacking football!

park the bus and hope for the best??? like west ham you mean? you think Chelsea are just going to sit back and not exploit the space City will leave us to counter in? if we are just going to park the bus and hope for the best we may as well start this team Cech Azpilicueta - Ivanovic - Luiz - Cahill - Terry - Cole Mikel - Ramires - Matic Oscar

NO! no one mentioned anything about Bayern and Chelsea 'scoring punch' you said City are unbeatable at home i am telling you they are not as Bayern showed! we wont beat them like Bayern did, we will play counter attacking football! and City's style could be a perfect match for us if they commit too many players forward and leave themselves open to get countered, we will punish them.

come on they are hardly unbeatable! Bayern already beat them there and beat them comfortably! If we can score first, we will have a pretty good chance of beating them.

What? City are not great defensively and if they play as they have been they will leave us plenty of space to counter attack in, we can certainly score 2 goals past them! difference between our games at the Emirates and OT are that Arsenal and United were both scared of leaving themselves open to get counter attacked, so they never committed many players forward, but City on the other hand i can see being too over confident and committing players forward and leaving us space to hurt them on the counter.

I have never seen a set of fans not just overly confident of beating us but so confident that they will batter us and win by 4 or 5 goals! I really hope we can put them in their place on Monday, and bring their fans back down to earth!

it actually looks stronger to me.

Lets do this! Cech Ivanovic - Cahill - Terry - Azpilicueta Ramires - Matic Lampard Willian - Eto'o - Hazard