Sheva.

God help us. Why is ESSIEN on the bench? he didn't even play against Birmingham.

No lol, was in reply to McGarry saying there will be no JT, Essien, Cole and Lamps.

Don't think McGarry is right, why would Lampard and Essien not even be on the bench... not like they're injured, and both were left out of the team for the Brum game with this game in mind i reckon.

Seriously wtf Cech Ivan-Cahill-Luiz-Bosingwa Ramires-Romeu-Meireles Sturridge-Drogba-Mata ?

^ Same here, fuck!!

Lol Bosingwa is better at any other position, as long as it's not RB

Sturridge has to play for me, since he's probably the only player on the team (atm) i trust to score a goal. But if he starts on the wing then he'll have to do defensive work which he's not particularly great at - main reason i like the line-up with Rambo on the right.

I was just about to say that ^ and Ramires will help out 100 times better defensively.

I LOVE the reported line-up on Gazzetta. It will most likely not be that though.

0-4 win at Sexy Starz promotion!!!

He surely won't play tomorrow then.

Lol who do you support?

This season Ollie. We have played against Man utd, Liverpool, Arsenal, Man city, Valencia, Newcastle and Spurs. The only games i thought we didn't play well in was the two against Liverpool. We didn't deserve to lose at OT, against Arsenal we did well in the first half, but everything went all wrong in the 2nd. Man city: we played well, so as against Valencia and Newcastle. And against Spurs we should have won that game, the performance after we scored was top notch.

Love the holland kit, there's just something about black kits

That can only go on for so long if you don't start getting some good results.

Youth integration is tougher to do when you need to get results, almost any manager would opt for the experienced players - Carlo did the same. And let's not forget he only played McEachran because we basically had no other options.

Yeah Tomo basically said what i was about to, he did good with Academica before getting a big job. He got them playing well, believing in themselves and also took them to the Semi's of the cup where Porto needed a late winner to advance to the final - one of the key factors in him getting the Porto job.

The only "sin" or whatever for me is the first two, the rest are not that big of a deal.

Not impressed till he does it at Chelsea lol. AVB got Porto playing brilliant stuff last season...

But don't you think it's a bit risky to play just 2 midfielders away from home in the Champions League?

Is it just me or are a lot of Brazilian players always homesick? smh.

Draw has been kind to us this season, hopefully we don't fuck this up.

Sturridge HAS to play for me. Maybe switch Ramires and Romeu, then Sturridge on the right?

At least the players should be motivated for this one... and maybe just maybe we can surprise everyone like against Valencia, Man city, Spurs and Man utd (well for the first 50 minutes we did )

Good to see him back scoring, but did he really have to wait till Drogba returned...