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he needs his confidence back. sturridge should play all 3 of our remaining games

^I dunno either. but whatever it is, its dead serious. Otherwise, BL wouldn't go all macho on us

why is sturridge out?

i meant Sturridge. ( his name is in bold in the quote) Sturridge on the right is suicide unless rdm gives him the hair-dryer and orders him to keep tracking back. even then, no guarantes

i think the UCL final team shud be tried out tonight except the CB's. blackburn is hardly a big threat and Bosingwa/fereira/essien/hutchinson whoever starts at RB for the final would get some practice facing Bellamy (?) tonight

Paulo should start tonight but Hutchinson or Essien, either one of them should come on later

If I were di matteo, i'd be thinking of the CL Final XI now itself. Decide who starts at RB and give them a go in the next two games or play all 3 - fereira, bosingwa, hutchinson at rb, maybe even essien and decide who was the best fit. It will be Ribery and Contento on Bayern's left side and I dont think the Right winger will be of much help to the right back because it will be either sturridge or kalou there

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/9239819/Chelsea-defenders-Gary-Cahill-and-David-Luiz-winning-fight-to-be-fit-for-Champions-League-final-in-Munich.html Good news, Cahill said i will try to start training by this weekend

Axel Witsel played like a box-to-box midfielder for Benfica and it gives Mata a new option to pick a pass to. Right now when mata gets the ball, the striker is covered by 2 defenders and the wingers are covered by the full-backs. almost always the ball ends up with terry or cahill and they dump it long. Lampard used to run from midfield before but now he has tightened his game, cut down on his forward runs and become like scholes. axel witsel or even someone like Marek Hamsik or Clint Dempsey - who go forward wil be a good addition to our team

I dont know what you are talkin about

Ryan Bertrand will be MUCH BETTER than Sturridge OR Kalou (sorry Capri) on the wing. Left Mid I mean. Robben and Lahm on Bayern's right side will rip us apart with Sturridge or Kalou at LM. and also, we have seen that bertrand could go up and down the left flank all day, so its not like he doesnt carry an attacking threat

its shocking how there are only a handful of quality full-backs across Europe

Sorry, my bad then. I only read - "So i request u please dont be offended"

U r Funny

atleast,cut him some slack for being polite

Fair enough but with didi gone, we have no target man and i know we cant play without a target man. Torres may score a hat-trick vs QPR but against the Big teams (Barca, Bayern), we need a big player who holds up the ball and involves others in attacks. We wouldn't have had even 15% possession without Drogba against Barca. u Might say there are other great aerial players but who better than Didi? He controls almost every long ball.

Before the Napoli game, I admit that i wasn't thinkin about the final but I had maintained since December that we could go a long way in the CL especially after the Manchester jokers crashed out.

Not to mention the impending Champions League final. Cant believe ppl (some, even on this forum) were writing us off in March. KTF never seemed more appropriate.

yeah. how about this. stop givin reps to others

^ fair enough. but where is ramires gonna play next season? after we buy a butload of wingers?

wouldn't hurt to give one more rep for this post would it?

I had a Liverpoop fan trying to convince me that Enrique was better than Ashley Cole. I don't think he's better than Ryan Bertrand let alone Ash

:D Very funny. that's why i named u funniest forumer but I am repeatedly telling u I did NOT do any such thing. The only OTC member who voted for me was Shogun and that had nothing 2 do with politics

Congratulations to Terminator X. End BlueLion's tyranny around here

Ramires will be pushed out of the wing in the summer. It all depends on how good he is in the centre and by the looks of things so far - Not great but not bad either. an offer of 25+ million and i would sell him, otherwise keep him and sell our other mids