Madmax

QPR behind already btw

When Torres has time to think, you can guarantee he's going to spurn the chance.

I couldn't handle watching games in mornings; I'd just really sulk the rest of the day in case of a frustrating game. They're in the evenings here (league games) and UCL games are just after midnight .. I can atleast sleep off a bad result.

Middlesborough's next game is against Watford away .. Josh vs Chalobah.

I'd be very surprised if the club don't issue diktats about the contents of player's twitter accounts after this. Expect generic, harmless ''Off to training!" or "Good game today!" tweets from Cole's account now. This isn't helping matters at all.

Nordsjaelland will trouble every team they come across in the group; some serious respect for those guys. Harsh scoreline in terms of balance of play and the resources disparity in resources available to them.

David Ronaldo.

I swear Luiz drives me crazy with these awful long balls.

Can Okore not do something?

Tell you what, I'd sign this Okore fella after the match if I were RDM/Emenalo.

Don't like this inverted winger bull. Get Moses on the right and Mata on the other side.

Ivanovic needs to stop diving.

I can see us conceding tonight.

I hope TC doesn't start popping those 'server is busy' messages, relying on updates here and a laggy stream for this one.

Part of it is down to his injury. He's only just recovered from one. Kalas and PvA have been regular starters for them this year, let's hope Kakuta joins them before long.

Scored a goal and an assist for Vitesse reserves against PSV :

Would have liked to see Azpilicueta start.

Legend

Chelsea top of the league, QPR bottom. Seems about right.

Interesting to learn Essien was actually going elsewhere before Mourinho asked for him; presumably Arsenal. We know he's not even a shadow of what he once was but seeing a Chelsea player on loan at a direct rival for two years in a row would have been infuriating.

Think Diaby coming off for Ox also contributed to that.

Guddy does get around a bit ..

Found no player thread for Amin Affane, so putting this here instead : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi8RpGByW3U&feature=player_embedded Scored after coming on as sub.

Thought I'd leave this here : Mikel Arteta's average pass count before the Chelsea game - 91 Mikel Arteta's pass count in the Chelsea game - 59 Of course Diaby going off injured and them turning to the flanks a lot more played a part, but there.

I'd rather be safe than sorry. Put out a team as close to our strongest XI as possible, take the 3 points home and rest some of the lads in the return leg, by which point we should hopefully have secured first place in the group. Spare me the excitement nervous trepidation of chasing things on matchday 6 like last year, please. On another note - absolutely furious this isn't live on either of the primary broadcasters here. You'd think being defending European Champions would be enough to give us that status.