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Confirmed: 40 Hilario 2 Branislav Ivanovic 33 Alex 26 John Terry © 3 Ashley Cole 8 Frank Lampard 35 Juliano Belletti 18 Yury Zhirkov 10 Joe Cole 15 Florent Malouda 23 Daniel Sturridge Substitutes: 40 Hilario, 19 Paulo Ferreira, 6 Ricardo Carvalho, 24 Nemanja Matic, 13 Michael Ballack, 44 Gael Kakuta, 45 Fabio Borini.

The typical old Chelsea scoreline..... 2-0 Drogba and Essien to score.

Anelka, Drogba, Carvalho, Deco, Bosingwa, Alex, Sturridge ALL OUT either injured or resting. Confirmed. Word is that Kalou partners Borini up front.

Upset Sunderland? WTF?

2-1 Chelsea. Anelka and Lampard on the score sheet. Berbatov for them.

As pissed as I am that he is not playing with us, all this money could help to end Liverpool or Arsenal's days in the Champions League. And, my God, do they need that money!

The team will be made up entirely of under-23's who all play for the Malaysia national team. I have to think this will be an enormous ass kicking. 6-0

I didn't agree with some of the "fouls" committed by Anelka. He's been terrific. SWP has been great. Just his two shots have been quite a bit awry. But, he's played some great balls. I feel bad for the defence and Cech. They must be bored as all hell.

A few weeks ago he said something along the lines of, and paraphrasing here,: "The club tells me Ricardo (Carvalho) is leaving so they've brought me back to be his replacement." With that being said. 1.) It doesn't seem Ricardo is leaving as he has a good, if not great, relationship with Felipe. 2.) Does anyone know if Alcides was indeed recalled from PSV? 3.) If yes, did he make the trip to Asia? I feel like there has been no talk whatsoever of him and if he was in Asia I would have heard about it by now. Cheers

LOL. Terrific point!

Ballack wasn't there. Frank and Deco looked sharp and I was very impressed with Di Santos' aggressiveness. Can't wait for the season!

Very happy. We looked crisp for our first match!