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Cahill 1-0

I think it's more like 24 or 26 rather than 2. (edit: Like Ryan Fong stated above, it could also be 28 for Azpilicueta) If that's the real deal, it means we won't be seeing Marin, Moses or Piazon start the game.

U mad?

Is this on TV anywhere?

Hazmat would be decent for just Hazard and Mata but don't know how Oscar fits in.

I hear this Lukaku guy is doing great at West Bromwich. Maybe we should sign him up?

Running out of excuses now. He has all the creativity in the world behind him with Mata, Hazard and Oscar but still he contributes to nothing. Lukaku would be much better at the moment., just saying...

Had to play the wildcard for this round, too many injuries and underperforming players in my squad.

Not so popular. Football itself is only a minor sport here after fucking ice hockey and the minority of people that actually love football support either Liverpool, United, Barcelona or Real Madrid. Of course teams like Arsenal, Tottenham, Milan, Juve etc. have their fans too but they're nowhere near as popular as those four. From my friends and family I know a lot of people who support one of those I mentioned above but I don't know a single Chelsea fan apart from myself so I guess that answers the question. It's pretty much me against everyone else, but I don't mind.

I suppose that's not unusual because after all he has been living in London for over a year now and probably started taking more and more English lessons as soon as his transfer became official in March 2011. I would be worried if he didn't speak English after all that time.

Shocking to see that some 'fans' have abused him so much today that he was forced to delete his Twitter account which he only created a few weeks ago. He seemed really happy about this new way of communicating with the fans but people said some unimaginable things to him after the Juventus game and honestly I can't blame him if he doesn't wish to read things like that. A fucking disgrace, as a certain Chelsea legend once said.

Piazon translating for Oscar, good to see we have at least some use for him too.

The problem with Torres is that he is simply not good enough to play for a club like Chelsea anymore. A change of scenery could do him good and who knows, maybe he would start scoring goals once again if he moved to a slightly smaller club where the pressure isn't as bad and that is important because Torres seems to be very a weak player mentally. Only problem is finding a club willing to take him? Atletico is probably the only one that comes to mind and while a Falcao <-> Torres + money swap sounds very good on paper, that kind of deals don't usually happen in real life. I can see Milan or some of the other Italian clubs trying to get him on loan but why on earth would we agree to that?

That's just wrong. Torres was average for more than a year before joining Chelsea, but we all thought it was because he wasn't interested in playing for Liverpool anymore and wanted to move to a bigger club. Turns out this wasn't the case and he had simply become a rather shit player after having a couple of broken seasons where he was injured a lot. Falcao is entirely different. He has been on fire for years now and during that time has proved his worth for two clubs in different countries.

It seems more people have now hopped on the bandwagon of the so called 'Torres haters'. After losing the support of the fans I think it's only a matter of time before he fucks off and we can finally move on from this nightmare.

Oh come on, that's way better than sex.

At least we can match Juve's midfield with that lineup. Mikel, Ramires, Lampard and Oscar all there in the middle to keep them busy. However, that leaves their wing-backs way too much space...

That's not a confirmed lineup.

Something like this would be interesting to see. Obviously not going to happen at least against a class opposition like Juventus, but maybe someday.

Drogba and Lampard for me. I didn't really get a proper chance of seeing Zola and the others from that era play as I only started getting into football about 10-12 years ago (apart from FIFA that is, I've played them on Playstation since 98 ) and back then I didn't have the means to watch football regularly because my family couldn't either afford or were too cheap to pay for the channels. I watched the games whenever they were on free channels but it wasn't much so none of the guys from that time really made an impact on me. A few years later I got the chance of watching nearly all the games and since then Frank and a couple of years after that Didier have won me over and I'm sure that in the future I can be proud to have seen the majority of the matches these two legends have played for Chelsea.

Essien starts for Real Madrid against Man City. edit: Apparently not true. Fucking Twitter.

I'm like Balotelli, I never celebrate goals.

This game looks familiar somehow. Expect a Reading equalizer in injury time.

Torres has now played two shit games after that Newcastle match so all games combined that makes probably more bad performances than good ones. Liverpool are shit and not competing for the same positions with us so mentioning Suarez is irrelevant. Also, Suarez is not your typical goalscoring striker but rather an excellent creator and a dangerous player nonetheless, it's not his problem if Rodgers can't assemble the team to suit his strengths but instead he insists on playing Suarez as the main striker which is pointless because he's known to be a bad finisher. Balotelli is like the fourth choice striker for Man City so I fail to see your point there. Our fourth choice is probably Lucas Piazon and he hasn't even got a game yet. City have both Tevez and Dzeko scoring goals, not to mention they still have Agüero coming back from injury in a few weeks. It's ridiculous to compare our strikes with theirs because they're clearly miles ahead of us. Torres is our undisputed number one at the moment and you compare him to a rival's benchwarmer. Don't know if that tells me more about Torres or your own expectations, which seem to be rather low...

I heard he played CM. Not sure though.