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City dropping 3 points Henderson red card Sturridge injured, not sure how serious though Still one game for Gerrard to get a yellow and a suspensionIt suited us, as Chelsea fans, that Liverpool won, but it was disgusting how City was denied couple of clear cut penalties.

Look at them celebrate as if they won something already. Having hard time to beat a Championship side (all respect to Wigan though) over the course of 120 minutes. Guess noone told them they dropped out of top four with Everton's win.

I know it's Goal.com, but their table of how things could turn out to be in the end seems rather realistic. Link: http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editorial/2014/04/11/4746062/liverpool-manchester-city-or-chelsea-who-will-win-the?ICID=CP_96

My bad, you are right! It was FIFA.

Chelsea's transfer ban was taken to International Court of Arbitration. They overruled any UEFA's decision.

Mixed feelings about this draw. Especially with all the drama surrounding Courtois. Legally UEFA's statement shouldn't matter much, Chelsea can take it into civil courts who will allow the clause, no doubt. Contract is a contract. Nothing to do with UEFA. Happy to avoid Bayern and Madrid because they do have players who can change the game in a second out of nothing but the prospect of facing physical and very motivated Atletico isn't much better. However this spans out, I'm confident we'll make it into the final, no doubt in my mind.

I voted for Cech at the moment but I'd like to explain why. Petr Cech is 31 years old, which is not even old for a goalkeeper. He is at his best years theoretically. So he has had some off-days, any player has them, even Courtois if you look through all that media hype. I'm not saying anything negative about Courtois but I think it has been a little too black and white here. Cech's mistakes are examined under the microscope while his heroics (he was one of the main factors who won us the Champions League - penalty saves just to name something) are laregly overlooked. Cech's influence on players in the dressing room can't be underestimated. Anyone who has ever played any competetive team sport knows the psychological benefit of having a more experiened team-mate alongside you, Courtois won't have that effect, not in Chelsea, YET. If anything Cech needs competition (let's be fair, his position has been an one man show for ages now) and like mentioned before by someone Courtois should come back here for pre-season and line up against Cech to see who deserves the number one position, let Mourinho decide but under no circumstances should Courtois be sold or traded. I still can't see why we couldn't keep Cech if Courtois is to become Chelsea's main goalkeeper. Look at Real Madrid - Lopez and Casillas, who would have thought any goalkeeper would bench Casillas a few years back? And look at Barcelona - with Valdes out for 7 months, they're stuck with Pinto who has been shaky and rubbish.

Chelsea, Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid, Bayern Münich... impressive. To be fair I wouldn't mind playing any of these sides and if we could avoid anyone it would be Atletico Madrid.

Realistically speaking we're 3 games away from winning the whole thing. That's theory of course. Imagine if United eliminate Bayern and we get them in the semis, not a bad option!

Brilliant! Just read this from somewhere: "Kostadinov is a bulgarian player who knocked France out in the 1993 WC playoff. The guy kept showing it to Blanc during the entire game."

PSG = Paris Say Goodbye

WHAT A GAME. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.

vs. Shürrle?

Main thing we got one, just one more and keep defensively solid. Smart play by Luiz on Cavani's card, psyhological victory. Had Cahill took his chance... chin up, we've got this. I don't mind going out aslong as we go fighting. No daydreaming on the field and everyone has to give 110%. Come on Chels!

Azpilicueta Hazard JT

More or less http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jTpnAZXjBM

Ramires can't play, picked up a booking last game

Azpilicueta, Matic and Salah been very good so far

Chelsea are expected to line up in the following 4-2-3-1 formation: 1 Petr Cech; 2 Branislav Ivanovic, 24 Gary Cahill, 26 John Terry ©, 28 Cesar Azpilicueta; 8 Frank Lampard, 21Nemanja Matic; 14 Andre Schurrle, 22 Willian, 15 Mohamed Salah; 9 Fernando Torres. Substitutes: 23 Mark Schwarzer, 33 Tomas Kalas, 3 Ashley Cole, 4 David Luiz, 11 Oscar, 17 Eden Hazard, 19Demba Ba.

God, stop whining. Whenever we go for Willian-Oscar-Hazard there are people complaining that we should rest them and use Schürrle, Salah and so on... well given the fact that we need fresh legs for PSG replay this is the point we need to trust in players like Salah and Schürrle, isn't it the whole point of having them in Chelsea colours? Lighten up for once, come on.

If Real Madrid has Casillas on bench, why couldn't we have Courtois and Cech both? Wouldn't be too bothered to lose Lukaku for good money but losing Courtois would be bad business any way you look at it. Including him in Costa deal wouldn't make it any bit better, personally I think Costa is a little bit over-rated. There are only two players who I'd trust to come in and do a good job for us after all those post-Drogba years, and those names are Cavani and Rooney.

What a rocket from Diego... absolutely amazing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaVMfoTRhhA

Second game is on Saturday mate, keep that in mind aswell

In a sense we've faced most of their forward line when we played Napoli, worked out quite well, the home leg, anyway. Only player who makes me nervous is Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He is one of the few players in world football who can change any game on any level. Some call it arrogance, I call it confidence. If we can ruin his game flow we'll be alright. Sure they've got a great squad but so do we. I'd be happy if we score a goal there (1-0; 1-1; 1-2, 2-1) so we'll have all to play for next week.