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Hopefully this will give Nico the confidence that he was hugely lacking last season. Would like to see Deco on for the second half, as his creative play will make even more for us.

Can't say I agree with that. We created several chances after we scored. Ferriera's cross to Joe, cleared by the defender. Anelka put through by Deco, and tackled by the last defender. Anelka's big chance, saved by the GK. Essien's 'offside' chance that wasn't offside. SWP's chance that he some how missed when it was easier to score. Malouda's volley. To add to that, Deco's volley, Frank's shot just over and Carvalho's header. We're creating the chances, just didn't score them. That's ten good opportunities we had, and given we still have Drogba and Ballack to come back in to the team, i'm quite happy. No offence mate, but you come out with the biggest load of shite at times. "Bottled" it isn't a word I would use for a preseason friendly in which the other team are three months into their season. You could see that they were far fitter than we were, and after about 70 minutes that got to us. Don't understand all the negativity in here too be honest. Look at the good points: - Another 90 minutes under their belts, in which 70 of those were controlled. - Despite losing, how many saves to Petr have to make? - The defence finally got some proper action, and were tested. - Deco was superb, again. - Lampard/Deco combination is working. - We tried Essien in a new position, and he did well. - We played some of the best football i've seen us play for years in the first half. - We scored a brilliant team goal.

Discuss here. Setting this up a tad early because I wont have time to later.

Ashley Cole said on a VT before the game that a few of the lads have put on a bet for Deco to win the player of the year award. He's been brilliant at times again today. Really excited about him now. He was also saying how good he's been in training so far. Class player, and any slight doubts that Chelsea fans had about his ability would have been dashed during preseason I would think. HT 1-0.

1-0 What a phenominal goal from Michael Essien. Deco very impressive today, and Paulo getting forward at every occasion

Nice work from Deco and Anelka. Volleyed over from Essien.

What a great time for it to start pissing it down with rain, and messing up my TV signal. Sopcast 48609 looks pretty good though. Black away kit looks class Few decent players in their side. Pellizoli was the Roma keeper for a while, and did OK. Torbinsky is a holding midfielder I think, and he's meant to be a good player. Bilyatdinov plays wide left I think and is good.

Chelsea: (4-2-3-1) 1. Petr Cech 19. Paulo Ferriera 26. John Terry © 6. Ricardo Carvalho-------------------------1 3. Ashley Cole-------------------------19--26--6--3 12. John Mikel Obi-------------------------5--12 5. Michael Essien-----------------------20---8---10 20. Deco-------------------------------------39 8. Frank Lampard 10. Joe Cole 39. Nicolas Anelka Subs: 23. Carlo Cudicini, 40. Henrique Hilario, 2. Branislav Ivanovic, 33. Alex, 18. Wayne Bridge, 15. Florent Malouda, 24. Shaun Wright-Phillips, 17. Scott Sinclair, 36. Franco di Santo, 7. Andriy Shevchenko. Lokomotiv: 22. Ivan Pelizzoli 4. Bispo Rodolfo Dantas 5. Emir Spahic 7. Dmitriy Torbinskiy 15. Fininho 19. Draman Traore 27. Haminu Draman 41. Siarhei Hurenka 55. Renat Yanbaev 58. Denis Glushakov 63. Diniyar Bilyaletdinov © Subs: 8. Vladimir Maminov, 10. David Mugiri, 14. Igor Smolnikov, 17. Dmitriy Sennikov, 21. Alexey Polyakov, 24. Zouagi Shaker, 25. Rezvan Cocis, 30. Malkhaz Asatiani, 44. Ruslan Kambolov, 45. Alexandr Minchenkov, 81. Alan Gatagov. Winner plays Sevilla.

Want to see him play the 4-2-3-1 today. -------Cech Paulo-JT-Riccy-Ash ----Mikel-Essien Deco--Frank--Joe --------Nico

Thats being discussed within the staff room. End of the day, its Jim's choice, i'm just doing my 'job' and going by the forum rules as posted above. I think Jim has the same opinion as me. They do. His is the only sig/avatar that I have noticed.

Post a screenshot mate, and i'll make sure Jim see's it when I speak to him later.

Looks alot brighter there than it actually is I think. Not really a fan to be honest.

http://www.talkchelsea.net/forum/index.php?act=boardrules Lets leave it there.

Agree totally with what other people have said. The FA and maybe even FIFA should step in and ban this guy from English football. This is a man with England caps FFS, and as a footballer, he is a role model for English kids. If they don't ban him, then youngsters coming through are more likely to do the same, if not worse. Ban him, set the example, and we wont have the same thing happening again and again. He deserves all the stick he's going to get next season from fans. The man is an arsehole, end of.

Makes sense.

Not appropriate to the forum. Didn't have time to PM you.

2003: Chelsea 4-1 Malaysia Frank Hasselbaink Gudjohnsen Johnson http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/3097017.stm

So many goals that i've had to put the goalscorers squad numbers in the last match chat box, instead of their names.

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How embarrasing.

Pinned.

No they're not. They are 8th at the mo.

Wiki say he is still onloan. He did not travel with the squad.

From 45 minutes against a very poor Chinese team? I don't think so mate.