Waterfall

Will be really surprised if it's not Drogba Bertrand-Mata-Kalou Lamps-Mikel Cole-Luiz-Cahill-Bosingwa Cech

Don't feed the trolls man. Just enjoy the game

Not sure if you know this, but Chelsea is actually one of the most valuable football clubs in the world and generates $300M+ every year.

I hope we keep Samsung as our sponsor. Colors match and they grew just as much as we did. I really don't want our jersey to say "Emirates" or " BetXXX"

Anelka staying would have had no bearing on Lukaku because Lukaku only played when we could afford to play the youngsters anyway. And it's not true that Sturridge would have barely played if Anelka stayed. Even when Anelka was here, Sturridge was the first choice right winger. Anelka would have simply added to the depth (which is unfortunately nonexistent at the moment).

Don't agree with the latter. Those two would still be here.

Hardly an experiment when it's clearly shit. Maybe they are just there to make our home kit look even better in comparison.

When did Torres finally come good?

It's always hard to compare youngsters, so how people who haven't even watched Lucas play live more than 5 times are making such definitive statements is quite amusing.

What's worrying is that our strikers - Drogba, Torres and Lukaku - seem to be better crossers of the ball than our wingers

Can't be any worse than what we saw yesterday. Badstuber, Boateng and Alaba/Contento were H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E

I think Drogba should play the first 10 minutes and be replaced with Lukaku at the 11/12th minute

Can't be good for their morale. Completely outclassed.

Look at that defense

Starting to wonder if Badstuber suspension is actually a good thing for us.

So much for a defensively improved team. Mata should shine next week

Playing Torres on the wing will be a suicide. His defensive ineptitude almost cost us the game in Barca, and it's only going to get worse against the likes of Robben and Ribbery. I would start Malouda and bring on Torres if needed.

Exactly. Why would the players feel bad when it's the reserves+youth team that lost a match even the fans don't care about? Besides it's no guarantee that we'll lose this one.

or we should just grow up

Wow Mata Talk about a well spoken man.

He's not missing the games. He just said that he's not exactly been 100% since he came back from injury.

According to Blic, Chelsea are reportedly close to signing Partizan midfielder Lazar Markovic.

But it should never come at the expenses of Courtois' development. Hope we don't mess this up because he really has the potential to be the best at his position.

True. Just remembered Morientes killing Real a few years ago.

Hope we can face him (or at least his teammates) at Super Cup. I'm guessing he won't be allowed to compete against us