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I don't expect the whole XI to play all of them. Jose said after the Sporting match that no one will play more than 5 of the remaining 6 matches till new year. In reality I expect one or two to play all of them. I fully expect to see a couple of changes from one game to the next, but not we got 6 days till the next match.

The harm obviously is risking getting knocked out of the league cup when we have a good chance of winning it. It's a risk gain analysis and here the risk of exhausting the players is rather low consider the circumstances I already stated and the gain is high because I do believe we will need our first XI to ensure going through. Derby are at home, in front of their fans, for their biggest match of the season in a cup game where anything can happen. They will look to sit deep and frustrate us and hit on the counter. It's not that our bench is not better than the Derby team it's the way that the game will likely pan out that we will likely need the likes of Hazard and Fabregas and Matic...etc. to break them down. This game should be treated the same as an away game at Burnley or Leicester or Hull in the EPL.

Wow! There are a lot of people who seriously need more interesting stuff to happen in their everyday life... cue someone quoting this and replying "you want some?!"

Because it's the quarter final of the capital one cup when several of the big teams have already gone out so it's a great chance to win a trophy if we proceed. We also have 6 days till the next match on next Monday and Jose has given the whole team 2 days off after the match so recovery should not be an issue especially if you consider than a lot of the usual starters have recently been given a rest either against Sporting or through suspension in the league. So, yes, I expect an almost full strength XI.

Derby is no Strawberry, though. There is no difference between Derby and Hull or Burnley. Jose has already said that Zouma will start. I would have guessed that had Ake been available he would have started as well but since he is not I expect no other youngster to start. I expect a full strength team apart from Zouma except maybe Remy (depending on Costa's fitness) and Schurrle. Hopefully if we get a healthy lead we'll have a couple of youngsters on the bench to bring on.

Yes. It was just one source that put Boga instead of Oscar and has since changed it. Check Dan Levene's TL from yesterday for further proof.

That's probably my favorite picture of 2014! I just love it on so many levels :')

But surely whether Frank stayed or left is a decision that affects at most the next two years and hence would have nothing to do with Boga?

Seriously, Rodgers has quickly become the manager that I can't stand the most. Deluded, self-righteous, classless, ignorant twat.

10 years? He was expecting Frank to go on for 10 more years?!

http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/chelsea-boss-reveals-frank-lampard-8287448?utm_source=Get+West+London&utm_medium=twitter

We had Ake, Christensen and Zouma start against Shrewsbury not to mention a few fringe players that desperately needed match fitness, and considering that we barely won that match 2-1 I'd say that Jose got the balance exactly right. And for the record, it's Strawberry*!

In that context, I think it makes absolutely zero sense to mention Boga, especially that he did not mention any other youngster. If he did mention him it would have been pure bullshit because we all know that Boga is at least a couple of years away from first team action.

Actually, he did not. He said Oscar and it somehow ended up being misquoted as Boga.

And England

Feb 17 and March 11.

DON'T! Just don't say it, man....

Yes, a couple of his cards have been wrongly awarded, but you can also argue that he's been lucky to escape bookings more than once and even a sending off ve Sunderland. Certainly the last yellow was not unfair if that is what Jose referring to. It was a dive, there are no two ways about it.

Actually that turned out to be misquoted. He said Oscar, not Boga.

Josh has had trouble with injuries this season, but he's 100% fit again now and played 90 mins yesterday so that loan cans till be salvaged.

Last year. He said he wanted Galatasaray for the reunion with Drogba and got it.

Is no one going to mention that for the second year running Jose comes out and says that he wants a certain team in the round of 16 and then we draw them! Illuminati confirmed.

Haha, I've become an expert at this! I can do it at first click