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Arsenal versus Chelsea Saturday 18 April 2009, FA Cup Semi Final, Wembley, 17:15 KO Chelsea face Arsenal at Wembley in a crucial FA Cup semi final encounter. After coming from behind to seal a famous 1-2 win at Stamford Bridge earlier in the season, Arsenal's form was been exceptional over recent weeks and the North London side have since almost certainly earned Champions League football next season by opening an 8 point lead over Aston Villa. But under Guus Hiddink, Chelsea are a different proposition... Can the Blues avenge their defeat by booking a place in the FA Cup final? Match chat here

Fucking hope so. Wouldn't be too disheartened with a draw in honesty.

I understand that

Mourinho won't ever come back. Get over him, I have.

Would rather keep Drogba tbh. His passion, when he wants to play, is exemplary.

Should start loaning players to other PL teams IMO, its the easiest way of judging their qualities. Sounds interesting though.

Welcome to the forum mate! I'm Alex, one of the Admins here. Hope you stick around

Reckon Paulo, Mineiro and Deco will definitely move on tbh. Ballack too, probably.

Yup

They're different defenders, but they have their own strengths. Carvalho is faster and has better positional judgement, but Alex is stronger and better aerially.

Do we need him? We're winning games, aren't we?

I'd like the striped one more if it didn't have the stripes on the arm as well! Its already got the Adidas stripes on it.

I would certainly like him to stay, even if its just until we can find the right manager for the job. Hididnk is a great coach and I totally respect everything he has done to earn the club some of its credibility back, but the truth of the matter is that we want continuity at the Bridge. To do that, we should keep Hiddink for the short term and look for a suitable candidate; not just go for whoever is available. However, if Guus would be willing to commit for four or five years, I'd say we should do everything to keep him, but I just can't see him staying for that long.

I'm pretty sure those are our away change shorts for this season as well.

Spot on. I think if Alex would have been in Riccy's position for Bolton's second goal, he'd have won the ball instead of Davies heading it back in. Riccy and JT really had poor games as well IMO. To say it is Cech's fault entirely is wrong, he made one mistake which led to a goal IMO, although he didn't cover himself in glory on the other two occassions. On another day, O'Brien would have been flagged offside, and on another day Riccy might have headed the ball out. Just one of those games, I suppose.

Seen it before and there's a post somewhere else on the forum with it in, but its fucking spot on tbh.

We conceded 3 goals, yes, but we also scored 4. IF Liverpool do get 3 goals, I highly suspect we'll have got on the scoresheet as well. There's no way they'll get 3 without reply.

Fancy us to win the FA Cup; I'd be fucking chuffed if we did.

I'd rather not get beaten twice at home in one season by Liverpool, though.

I agree with you in that point, but lost our entire attacking threat when both players went off. I think for that reason it was bad tactics, BUT if you can't take off your best players when 4-0 up, when can you? We lost our organisation as an attacking force and that cost us as Bolton played much higher up the pitch, but as you say, we were fucking shocking in the last 20 minutes. Its a shame, because it was one of our best displays at the Bridge this season until then.

Not a chance of happening. That being said, I'm available to become back-up keeper. Only costing £60 million and £300,000 a week, it'll be a great deal.

I'd sell Carvalho tbh. He's not getting any younger and is persistently injured. As much as I love the player, there's a time when every player can be replaced. I personally rate Alex as a defender who is just as good as Carvalho, in all honesty.

Imagine Drogba's power with Benzema's pace Oh shit I need a tissue...

Malouda was good, Mungii, yes, but Lamps got a goal and an assist, which gets him my vote.

He got 20 in 40 games last year though