magicrico

Drogba is out.....Surely Torres and Sturridge Start??

Still gutted for him not even getting a chance. If he doesn't start against Arsenal, can see him handing in a transfer request. Gone from playing pretty much every game to not at all now

Was never questioning Di Matteo. My point is simple. Wave goodbye to Sturridge come seasons end. he is better than Kalou and he isn't getting a run in our team. He is the future of Chelsea. Kalou isn't. No different than Lukaku.

Yeah but also we never play sturridge up top so he can score goals. if we did hands down he'd be our top scorer at the club. "Kalou has been one of our best players" are you kidding me?? he is so up and down, I'd put Cahill,Cech,Terry,Lampard,Mata,Torres,Drogba,Ramires, Luiz, ALL way before i'd even think about Kalou. Thats your opinion I guess. He lacks Technique,Pace,Passing Ability, He just pops up with an odd goal at an important time. He offers 30% less than Sturridge does.

Based on what exactly? a couple of games ago everyone was slating Kalou. He didn't do anything of note today either. Sturridge needs game time and to considering he is playing out of position he was doing really well. I don't understand the love for Kalouda over Sturridge at all. If we let him go it will be baffling.

Great Result. Obvious ghosty goal. Not our problem. Negatives were Luiz Injury. And the situation with Sturridge is one of concern.

Hate to say it but Looks like Danny is on the way out....How can Kalou be starting ahead of him is beyond me.

Where the fuck is sturridge??

Haven't been playing well at all. I can't remeber a season so shocking and inconsistent. We had very little to shout about or even get excited about. I personally see a Spurs win. But i'm praying something comes over the team and actually play well for once. Not holding my breath on that one though...

Another awful display. Didn't trouble Schwarzer all game. Fair play Fulham. Deserved 3 points. As i said before, kiss good bye to top four. We Will not beat Liverpool or Arsenal away. We look dreadful. Why not give Sturridge a game, surely he was a better option than Kalou. We would normally sweep aside a team like Fulham. Makes you look so much forward to Spurs Sunday and Barca, right? Fuck that.

Not confident about this one at all...To even think about top four we need this,Liverpool away and Arsenal away aswel as taking on both spurs and Barca....Not sure if there is enough left. Top 4 should be priority, not confident about going to these places and getting 9 points which will be required. One game at a time I guess. But we were dreadful on Sat, haven't looked good for a few games...

Same old dogs hit from us....

LInk???

Fuckind dreadful. Benfica should have gone through based on their performace. 10 Men and they ahd so much control and want about the game. Chelsea need to pull their fucking finger out or Spurs, Barca will beat us and say goodbye to what slim hope we have of top four.

-------------Cech---------------- Ivan---------Luiz-------JT-------Coles -----------------Mikel------------------ ------------Ramiers------------------ ----------------Lampard---------------- Sturridge-------Torres-----------Kalou

going for it now.....could cost us, but a draw is no longer good enough....only 15 to go too..

Playing dreadful...win or bust surely

It's the fans too though, that night the atmosphere was something special. I don't see why it can't be created week in, week out at home. Should be making Spuds nervous, but can't hear a thing.

Why not put luiz RB? Got to be better than boswinga. If we don't win this, i'd say top 4 is gone. Spurs run in is easy compared to ours. They'd be buzzing with a draw or win.

This game is shit as 85% of our season

Yeah no doubt, but I still think I would have liked to have seen us go for it at some point. It was obvious they were gonna score. We just tried to sit back and soak it up which was wasn't wrong but in the end wasn't enough. Sturridge would have been fired up for this one, and rinsed Clichy when we played them at the bridge. On the counter he could have been an outlet.

It's pretty simple when it comes to the reason we lost - The tactics we employed. We could of went all out for this win, but playing Ramiers on the right, we lacked natural width, the idea was obviously to do what we almost did - defend well smash and grab a goal, then defend some more. While i don't sit there and think they were the right tactics, I think it wasn't a bad idea because it almost work, although after they scored the peon, you knew they would go on to win. The problem is not the result, it's 4th place. Arsenal are now flying in 4th, Spurs have an easy run-in. We have the hardest run in out of the 3, with Liverpool and Arsenal to travel too. Thats going to be ridiculously hard. We have to beat Spurs or it's Europa, and even if we do, we aren't going to be in the top 4. I just feel like if we set up to win this game, we would have done. We didn't though and we got what we deserved. Nothing. Fair play to City, when you make subs and have Tevez,Aguero,Dzeko on the pitch and you took Balotelli off, you see the depth they have. So much more than us.

There are no easy draws...But just for your info...Bayern are no gimme for Madrid. I'd of hated to face them. IF we can get past Banfica, Utd drew twice against them, so it's not impossible, Zenit score 3 past them also. Personally I would say as an all round Unit, they are probably as good as Napoli, but Napoli's attack is more deadly than that of Benficas. It's a winnable tie, if we can put our heads in the game, and get through these next few weeks, lets not forget we still need to secure CL for next year, which in Essence is more important for the future. It's one of the better draws for us, But if you were to rank the teams, Benfica would probably come just underneath us.

Some people are confusing me too...Are the seond leg of both ties at the bridge???

Can someone confirm who we get IF we get past Benfica?