Ankit

The owner is back, bitches.

Chelsea FC ‏@chelseafc 50m Ba: We know a little bit from last season when we played them. We are doing everything to win the game. #CFC Ba: They have some good forward players and a squad that has played together for a long time. This is a key point. #CFC Ba: I told the manager if I stayed I would keep fighting for the club. Now it's about the next months and years with Chelsea. #CFC Ba: This is part of football. It didn't happen. I'm a good professional and always work hard. I will keep doing the same. #CFC Ba: I want to play. It all depends on me and the performance I put in on the pitch. If I don't perform, it will be only my fault. #CFC Ba: Every game, we want to win. It doesn't add more pressure. #CFC Ba: I know I haven't played as good as when I was in Newcastle or West Ham, but ... #CFC Ba: ... I needed time to settle. I keep working hard and believe the reward is behind the work. #CFC Mourinho: "Tomorrow I want to enjoy the game as I always do and to start the group phase by winning." #CFC Mourinho: "From my experience if you start the group phase with a win it's a big step. Doesn't mean you qualify but it's a big step." #CFC Mourinho: "I'm very happy to be back and to fight for my club, not just as a professional but in a different emotional way." #CFC Mourinho: "This is a competition everybody wants, we want to qualify for the next stage, it's important for the club." #CFC Mourinho: "Basel are a very difficult opponent, they've beaten Man United and Tottenham in the last two years." #CFC Jose Mourinho confirms both Frank Lampard and Oscar will start tomorrow's game. There are no injury worries, everybody's fit. #CFC Mourinho: "Chelsea had a dream and that came true by winning the CL. If you win it once you dream about winning it twice." #CFC Mourinho: "The first objective of this team has to be a process which ends with an identity, a philosophy and a style of play." #CFC Mourinho: "I had a fantastic time here before and most of the people I worked with are still here. The fans have given me everything." #CFC Mourinho: "We want to build but at the same time win. We lost one match but if we played it 10 times we win nine and lose one." #CFC Mourinho: "I have to focus, not in the past, but in the future. This isn't an obsession for me or Chelsea but I want to win." #CFC Mourinho: "Let's enjoy tomorrow, I could choose a team with a lot of experience but I've chosen one with four players under 22." #CFC Mourinho: "Porto and Inter were special clubs for me but for many reasons this is where I feel at home in every aspect." #CFC

And hence Oscar will start too. For me, it's pretty clear that if Lampard is starting, Oscar will start too. Oscar will be the one covering all the spaces that Lamps leave when he goes for his forward runs and running up and down the whole match to cover for Lampard. With Mata, it will be Mikel as Mata doesn't really offer anything in defense. This is what i have felt reading the team dynamic for the first few games. Obviously it all depends on the quality of the opposition as well.

I don't know if this can be termed as criticism or not but i have only one request to the members here, please be patient. Why i say this is because it's just been 4 PL matches and i have already read people here saying "Jose doesn't know what he is doing, Jose is shit" or "Schurrle is a waste of money, he should be sold" or "Etoo is old and not upto the level, he is shit, sell him" or "We can never win the league with this team". Now, please don't tell me to bring proof where i read it or who said it because quite frankly, Chelsea losing doesn't piss me off as much reading those type of comments here after the match does. Now, i am not saying not to criticize the team for its bad result but please be a bit more patient and understanding. Some of the posts in the post match thread are freaking cringe worthy to say the least. So i don't know if it's feasible for the mods here, but can you please delete those kind of posts, i mean its pretty basic sometimes to realize that those posts are all said in anger, without a sane mind and that they do sometimes lead to unnecessary arguments. Again, not saying that people aren't entitled to their opinion but some posts are just looking to rile other people up.

Champions League 2013-14 starts tonight.

PhysioRoom.com Ltd @ physioroom 36m #CFC boss #Mourinho could be forced into a MID reshuffle for UCL clash vs #Basle after #Mikel picked up a knee injury in the defeat to #EFC

When is the Press Conference?

Well i have Sturridge too to play tonight. Run for your life, boy!

"Love the first day, man. Everybody all friendly an' shit." -- Namond Brice from 'The Wire'

Hehehe. . Although there is still a game to go tonight! I hope Michu bangs in a hattrick.

Into top 5. . Be scared bitches, be very scared.

To be honest, Mata doesn't deserve to start ahead of Oscar in the center of the park. Oscar is right now way better than Mata physically and mentally too. But since this is a easy game(sort of), i hope Mata starts this one to get back into rhythm! Also because i want Oscar to start against Fulham at the weekend. Mata to stat against Swindon in the midweek! I hate to see Mata struggle the way he was against Everton.

Not many teams will come away from Everton with 3 points. Only one did in last season. Us, Move on to the Champions League game now!!

Deserved. You don't miss chances and get away with it unless you are Man Utd. A learning curve and a kick up the back side. Though the match was played at brilliant intensity. Brilliant to watch.

And for that precise reason, they should be off! You don't get back to match fitness while playing with the likes of Everton. Start them against Basel and Swindon untill they get the match fitness upto the mark!!

Wait for 3 days, we will see him midweek!!

City dropped points. Aww yeah!! Pellegrini has lots to learn about the Premier League. Man City were absolute garbage. Stoke have some how not won, it's incredible, they could have scored 3-4/

Very happy to see Mata starting but glad for Mikel starting too. That too with a proper partner!!

The ref was quite good till the sending off.

Daniel Taylor @ DTguardian Ashley Young 9/6/12: "I'm not a cheat. I'm not a diver. I go out to play football fairly and I've done that ever since I was young" OptaJoe @ OptaJoe 7 - Since 2006-07 the players with the most bookings for simulation in the PL are Bale (7), Bentley (5) & Ronaldo/Young (3). Tumble.

Palace XI: Speroni, Mariappa, Campana, Digkacoi, Puncheon, Jedinak, Gayle, Gabbidon, Moxey, Delaney, Chamakh #mufc starting XI vs. @Official_CPFC : De Gea; Fabio, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra; Valencia, Carrick, Anderson, Young; Rooney, Van Persie.

Talking about a former player who has moved on and talking about Champions League in a Premier League match thread. . . . Seems Legit. Totally.