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Towards the end Malouda played in the centre and Kalou and Anelka were on the wings.

If that United team was the worst how come they acculamted the record amount of points for a team to not win the league? City are a top top side and will do very well in the Champions League this year. Thats there team that know each other and have a season under their belts. Its a Chelsea team that had to accomdate Hazard, a very tired Juan Mata and a team trying to play a new style, with ten men, and we lost by a single goal. I'm happy with the performance the lads gave today, and can't wait to play City again in the season.

Who is jizzing over City, and apart from you, who is writing us off?

Who gives a fuck, we lost 3-2 and battled with 10 men, I have no idea who would be laughing at is. The Community Shield barely counts as a trophey. Ivanovic went for the ball and got sent off, big deal, Terry kneed Sanchez in the back in at the time our biggest game of the season and he didn't get half the abuse Ivanovic is getting.

He probably knows not to take preseason seriously.

Thats what we said last season. "He just needs a preseason under his belt"

Don't talk shite, He got chances in his first few games at Chelsea, had a decent one against Liverpool and had another golden one against Fulham, and thats just off the top of my head. This season he missed a number of sitters, even after he scored a few. This whole thing about service is crazy, If Drogba and Sturridge could score then Torres should have been able aswell. He's a finished article. You say 'Goals are goals', which we haven't got many from him. Can't believe people still try and defend him, what a waste of 50 million.

Lukaku and Sturridge wouldn't be happy as backups though.

Starting wingers? We have Hazard, Marin and Sturridge really, maybe Mata depending on whether him or Oscar gets the nod at the centre. Rambo won't play on the right much this season, Sturridge wants to play CF aswell. Moses is a good young player who can also play as a striker, and has great potential, an estute signing. I highly doubt we're going to send him on loan. We're not lightweight at midfield, for the two positions we have Lampard, Essien, Meireles, Rambo, Mikel and possibly Oscar if he's going to play there. If we are going to bring in more players at midfield we'll need to get rid of some of these first, and at defence all we really need is a right back, and we'll more then likely sign one.

What class midfielder would you get for 8 million, and a young player with very good potential is a far far far better signing then Sahin for one season.

3-1 Brighton, I'm logging off here now because I don't even want to read the over-reaction thats going to happen.

Sorry my spelling isn't up to your high standards. I think we showed that we were actually improving when we signed Hazard, Marin and Oscar. We are strongly linked with Moses, a right winger. We don't need a defensive midfielder, We have Mikel and Essien. We also showed we were improving when we got rid of the likes of Kalou and Ferriera, with more likely to follow. I don't know why you do it, But you seem to be taking the "I''m better then you" argument here, Questioning my intelligence, Your also playing the victim, saying that I haven't read your post, which I have. I read your points, and they are plain wrong. Your saying Di Mateo won't last till January when he has done NOTHING wrong as Chelsea manager. You say your argument is based on games last season aswell, Which is hard to believe considering the season we had once Di Mateo took charge. The fact is that your argument has to be based on preseason because there is nothing else to base it on! Its ridiclious. You are a plastic fan, you stopped watching because we weren't playing well. You say your not looking forward to the City game, well I am, I always look forward to Chelsea games, and I'm happy we are playing at the top level. I'm not making you give up as such, post what you want, I'm not going to bother writing back to you if you reply because I have better things to be doing (Like watching the game) then reply to a fan who turns away when the times get tough.

Okay yeah your right, Give Di Mateo the sack now (He'll be gone by January anyway according to you) and lets get someone that played 4-2-3-1 in, like Rafa! Your original post saying that Di Mateo did little to make you want to watch next season, what more could he have done? We won the Champions League, FA Cup and smashed Spurs 5-1 at Wembley. If you don't want to watch Chelsea, fuck off and don't watch them then. Typical spoilt fan. Now you can cry about how I did call you a fake fan, which you were anticipating.

Who is the correct man then? Because many have tried. Oh and when times are tough don't bother watching the game, that is exactly the point we call you a fake fan.

Cahill and Terry look so alike on the pitch!

Hazard is always getting fouled.

We haven't had pure wingers since 2006, anything is an improvement, and Mata doesn't need pace when you have his dribbiling abillity, he isn't slow either.

Mata and Marin are unavailable, one of them would have played on the right, either those or Hazard, and it looks like Moses is going to come in instead.

Looks like its going to be Moses, which isn't a bad thing, Moses can really cause defenders problems, and won't drift inside as Hulk would, which keeps our shape.

You can never please some people on here, A while ago it was 'If Robbie wins us the Champions League he can do what he likes", Now when he leaves one player out or a certain player plays its "What the actual fuck Di Mateo". Give him, and the team a fucking break. No doubt if we don't win by 3 or more you'll all be bitching about him.

Marin picked up a knock so stop bitching about Di Mateo

People seem to forget Meireles's contribution in the two legs against Barcelona, the two mammoth performances he put in.

Its the Chelsea team for the game.

We have Oscar to come deep, and the attackers are capable of speeding up the tempo themselves. Lampard and Mikel are there in a pivot, Mikel to sit infront of the back four, and Lampard to pass the ball from deep, break up play and to get forward occasionly. Oscar will come deep and quicken the tempo, giving the ball to the attackers or running with it, Where as Hazard and Mata will do what we know they can, and Torres will finish the chances created for him (We hope)

People saying that Lampard and MIkel slow down the play, they do, and its vital, we can't just go gung ho the whole time, If they didn't we'd be completly raped on the counter attack. To those saying we should win by 3 goals or whatever, shut the fuck up, Its preseason, we're trying things out and our new lineup is trying to get to know each other.