Strike

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The team looked a bit jaded yesterday. Need a bit of freshness for Spurs. Cech © Azpilicueta Luiz Terry Cole Mikel Ramires Oscar Mata Hazard Ba Bench: Turnbull Ivanovic Cahill Bertrand Marin Moses Torres

It will be interesting to see what sort of approach we take vs Spurs. Safety first? or Go for the throat?

After the smile, he could've got up but held ankle (got kicked above it near back of knee) and rolled around

Think that's the only way he can play central

It was a stupid yellow card to pick up. Did you see other players arguing with the ref? I mean, yes, Webb was giving some decisions to United but it was nothing major. Nothing in Chelsea's half. This was not "tad ott", this was waaay over the top edit: @, Even FA Cup semi, he went after the ref after Bertrand's tackle. That was not over the top but still, he is not the "generally calm" person you're making him out to be. This is not an isolated incident. Luiz was the newcomer in the last 2 seasons but slowly he's working his way up the Chelsea ranks and now there have been more and more incidents involving Luiz. I love the passion but if he was calm, nobody would be hailing his passion and commitment.

and did anyone else pick up a silly yellow for complaining? I rest my case on this. "In the future" seems appropriate

Nope. I prefer a calm captain. Captain is the one speaking to ref? You saw Lampard speaking to the ref over the Luiz-Giggs incident. Badmouthing ref never helps as a captain. As i have said already , I'm perfectly allright if a player does that and i took particular satisfaction at Luiz laying into Webb but not as a captain. nope

No ban after 2nd week of April

For all we know, Luiz maybe smiling at Sian Massey

That's no argument to support his leadership. As a captain, he'll have to speak to the ref constantly. Not gonna work if he keeps blowing his lid off. However frustrating it gets

I'm sorry. How can you condone laying into the referee? I mean, it's the captain's job to speak to the ref on behalf of the team and it won't do us any favours if Luiz is badmouthing the ref Passion-wise, he's a proper captaincy candidate and I'll admit, I felt a tinge of happiness seeing him go after Webb like that but I wouldn't want to see a club captain doing that

Not based on today. No way. I wouldn't want to see our captain laying into the referee like he did to Webb. It's easy to say passion, commitment and other things but that was a really stupid yellow card to take. Webb may have favoured United consistently but Luiz needs to be calmed down a bit

Massive goal.

surely not?

i FUCKIN LOVE LUIZ FOR STICKING THAT TO WEBB'S FACE

Come On Luiz. Just bury it!

Torres as the impact sub. Really sheds light on our depth

That left side with Cole at LB and Lampard at LCM is getting hounded everytime United attack

I've come to accept that Chelsea won't score today. Just keep it 0-0 please

Biased Refereeing and then Biased Commentary. Commentator :"Luiz went down too easily I think" (Replay shows Giggs tugging shirt) Commentator: "There is a tug of the shirt. But that's not a freekick"

I would take a draw here. Spurs game more important

Chelsea bench has no game-changers at all: Turnbull, Ferreira, Cahill, Terry, Ake, Benayoun, Torres

Team to face Man Utd: Cech; Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, David Luiz, Cole; Ramires, Lampard ©; Oscar, Mata, Moses; Ba. Lampard as Captain and no Hazard. Clearly Spurs game has been (rightly) given greater importance

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