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Not sure Terry can play week in week out any more but we do have good options to cover is having a firm first-choice CB pairing better than rotating CB's everygame? . Spurs, Man United, Man City all rotate their CB's now and I don't think it will affect the defence much as long as the combination selected is ok. need for cb's will change from facing West Ham to facing Wigan. that way it's good that we have 3-4 options to pick from, now

Subotic contract runs down in 2014 as well. A more viable deal than Hummels

its David Luiz.. They'll kiss and make up before Man City

Now I hope Benfica win their semi-final so that Chelsea get to wear Blue if we qualify to the final

Basel is the nearest of the 3 cities. By a 1000 kms

the white one? i saw the tweet where they said it's not the Yellow one. are you sure they confirmed it's not the Blue/White kit as well?

Benfica please. Time to shut them up once and for all

Foreign fans are plastic. Season ticket holders are real fans

even i had the misfortune of running into her on twitter. she was laying into me for being Indian. she's a racist tosser as fat as i'm concerned

Defend and counter seems to be the plan and it's sensible with the team picked. No real attacking outlet to take the game to the Russians hopefully a disciplined defensive performance leads to a 0-0

doesn't necessarily mean he'll come back does it? lot of the stories and reports have spawned from the Daily Fail or even worse, The Daily Star, caughtoffside etc. a lot of it seems like guesswork - "Mourinho wants Lampard to stay, Mourinho 12mil p.a salary".. for now, i don't think any contact has been made and everything will kick-start only when Mourinho leaves Real. wouldn't get my hopes up just yet

Malouda has experience at LB but i doubt he'll even travel

More comedy from the Daily Star. Jose to come back and sign Hulk http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/308350/Jose-wants-Brazil-ace-Hulk/

yeah but the smaller teams can frustrate arsenal. i don't think Arsenal can keep winning even if the fixtures are easy

Same line-up as the Man Utd Replay. That is our most 'solid' XI imo. Ivanovic and Luiz have conceded just 2 goals in the 6 games they've paired up keeping 4 cleansheets including Man Utd and Man City. As good as Terry is, he'll be uncomfortable with forwards like Tevez and Aguero Cech Azpilicueta Ivanovic Luiz Bertrand Mikel Ramires Oscar Mata Hazard Ba Bench: Turnbull Terry, Cahill, Lampard, Moses, Marin, Torres

In the remaining 7 games we have potential banana skins in Spurs, United, Everton and Liverpool. It's going to be too close for comfort. Here's the full list. Think Ankit posted it a few pages ago. Can't seem to find it Chelsea: Spurs Arsenal Fulham A City H Norwich H Liverpool A Wigan A Everton H Swansea H Soton H Fulham A United A Stoke A Man Utd H Villa A Sunderland H QPR A Everton H Chelsea PP A Wigan H Spurs (PP) H Newcastle A

Lampard's leaving. A spot opens up in midfield. board could finally come to senses this time.

In fairness, our away fans are very vocal.

Bertrand having a good game. No mention of it though...

they did struggle. but both times they got away with it. this is like last season all over again. Lucky Arsenal scrape wins

Wonder why Lukaku didn't start today. Arsenal struggle with big dominating centre-forwards - Drogba, Carroll, Ba

but wouldn't they include Lampard along with the younger players then? They included Terry. i mean, in India, you get mostly only Lampard, Drogba jerseys. I don't know about statistics but more often than not, when I see a Chelsea jersey, it has Lampard on the back. Think the club might have told adidas to leave him out

haha. Ivanovic rape face.

Jose didnt choose that. it was made up by goal.com