Kojo

Terrible news, AVB wont change the defence line, we must stop playing high defence line, but because we havent made any errors since the goal defensivly he will play it. We need to go defensively now, and Meireles is on his last warning, i think we will have to put Lampard on, we havent got a choice, otherwise we will be playing with 10 men, the ref signald his last warning just then, after Yaya Toure decided to fall 20 minutes later, what a cunt, i will never forget him fouling us constantly in the Barca semi final just because the referee was on there side. Total cunt enough said, never saw what he did to Mata, but i'd sure like to see it as soon as possible.

We should stop kicking the ball away straight away, but then again we lose the ball by simple passes anyway so maybe it is safer.

To be fair, Merieles hasn't been good so far, he didn't know he was going to pull out a goal, but none the less, great run and finish from Meireles and magic from Sturridge.

Please AVB!, stop the highline, we need to control our selves, don't let this goal convince you!.

MAGIC FROM STURRIDGE!.

I actually hate our passing, it's an absolute joke, all the defenders are so shaky with no confidence at all, and there also poor defenders, i hate Ivanovic-terry, and I ESPECIALLY HATE IT WHEN ITS HIGHLINE!.

Andre Villas Boas is an idiot!, fact!. Who in there right mind who has just lost against Liverpool, United, Arsenal taking a gamble with the high defence line, and then takes a gamble against the undefeated best goal scorers in the league at the moment?, is there something wrong with him?, it's common sense. We can not win this game playing highline defending, especially when you have Ivanovic-Terry, that's just even more incredibly stupid. I don't want him sacked but he has a lot to answer for right now, and he has stopped me from defending some of his stupidity what gets questioned many times.

I've actually just turned the game off, never been so angry in my entire life... first game i've ever turned off and already i've gone against my will of not ever turning a Chelsea game off. I'm just too annoyed, i'll turn it back on later maybe if i'm in a better mood some how. As for now sorry guys i just can't, to weak to see us get brayed.

Lmao, jesus christ, i would never of expected that. But Chris Foy was terrible, Spurs should of had a point at least. Even when Modric got took down just outside the box in the last minute, it was a definite free kick and Chris Foy did nothing and he seen it with his own eyes.

Personally i'm shitting myself, this is the most nervous i've been in a very long time, i'm just scared of this game turning into a disaster.

We wont overhaul in January, but we MUST!, at least get 2 players, and that's a centre back, Gary Cahill (who goes for less than 10 million), then we should do our big spending on a centre mid, a playmaker with a lot of creativity and eye for a pass. Like last January we spent over 70 million on two players, why can't we do it this season?.

I'm so happy to hear this news, he is a class defensive midfielder, just think how good he could be in 5 years, he could be one of the best DM's in the world.

To be honest you have an interesting point, but either way i don't like Ivanovic centre back either. To be honest you have an interesting point, but either way i don't like Ivanovic centre back either.

Honeslty, even if his heart isnt in it, and it's dangerous for Alex to know our new training, tactics etc since he's going to another club, it's worth it to play him, because the defence is extremely worrying, that's the same line up we had against Arsenal when we lost 3-5. And even if we don't play highline against City, that defence was still very poor.

and when he was talking about man city, they said that AVB said 'Man City spending too much like this is unfair', when he never said that.

Ferdinand is losing it, he needs replacing, and now they need another centre back there. It's times like this where Wes Brown would of came in use, Jones/Smalling have a lot of responsibillity dropped at them now.

We will see what we make of this after the match.

I admire your faith, personally i don't think we stand a chance against City.

I hope he doesn't play, i remember when we beat them 2-0 last season, De Jong was quality, easily there best player in that match, he was a nuisence and stopping us from getting in there box and causing trouble.

Welcome to the forum, it's good to have other fans coming on here and not be bitches, wish we could get it more often to have a debate with other teams, shame really. But still very scary line up there, i'm hoping for the best for Chelsea of course, we have 3 very very hard matches this month, we've been through 2 of them and won, however against City, for me it's asking for too much, i can see City taking 3 points here, the team is too good at the moment. Hopefully it will be a good game and not a complete disaster of Chelsea, i just want to see a good performance from my team most of all.

No doubt, they usually don't like english teams to do well so they always play them against each other to make it a 'must' that one of them will have to go out, and if we manage to get through that we would play Real Madrid easily, i can even see it now, Student takes on Master, jesus christ papers are going to be loving it.

It also has something to do with Complacency, didn't Barcelona get beat by the team what came last and got relegated last season?, i could of sworn that was there only loss in the league. When they know they have to put a performance on they do, they got beat against Inter, but Inter were very lucky and got a lot of decisions there way, had Bojans goal of been counted (which it should have because Toure did not handball it) then Barcelona would of won on away goals, not to mention they should of easily of had at least 2 penalties in my opinion. However it's weird that, very rare you see teh decisions go against Barcelona, however against us i still think they would dominate.

Because Hernandez doesnt lose the ball 24/7, Hernandez has phsyical abillities such as pace, and even for his small height and not so strong, he can still score a lot of headers. Kalou has nothing phsyically, he has average pace and no strength, he's also a terrble technical player, he's a work horse and has good work rate that's it. Hernandez is also consistent, better movement than Kalou, and better finisher. Hernandez is twice the player Kalou is, i don't complain about the goals Kalou scores, i just complain about his performances, because he can score 3 goals and still play bad. Hernandez is a better player than Kalou, and Tomo i usually agree with your debates but you've got it wrong here, Hernandez has done more than Kalou.

But back then there wasn't this Barcelona we have today, i still think Barcelona have got this one in there pocket. If there was somehow any luck, that Barcelona and Real Madrid were knocked out, i would have faith, but them two teams are a different class to us.

Should we just defend the shit out of this game?, for example 4 defenders and 2 defensive midfielders?, i doubt AVB will sit back though, he will definitely go for the win.