Chelsea Legend 11

You really are a strange little fellow aren't you?

Mourinho suffers from Elephantiasis of the balls... How massive do your balls have to be to leave Cahill out of a deciding semi final in favour of a 20yr old CB? ESPECIALLY after the loss to Bradford City???? Had we lost that game questions would've been raised about that decision for sure. Kudos to Jose for making the tough decisions and making them when they count!! He's the best.

He's not perfect but he IS indispensable to the team. Perfect squad player... And for a guy that hasn't played a lot of football this year, to come in and get into those positions to score is HUGE. His finishing will improve with more repetition.

that was clearly an us against the world performance tonight! Everyone outside of the Chelsea faithful(though there were a few negative Nancy's who made me think they were hoping Chelsea lost) wanted to see us knocked out. The FA's campaign against Chelsea is clearly going full throttle just ahead of the City game(if we win that game someone is gonna get fired). Some of the decisions today were nothing short of shocking!!! Emre Can - had about 3-4 cynical challenges and only got booked in the final dying minutes of the game. Why was he not booked earlier you ask? Well its simple he had to deal with Hazard all game and if he picks up that deserved yellow their 3 at the back ploy is down to 2.5 in the back. Hazard had a field day anyway but that would've been a massacre. Srktl - hw h plyd th whl gm wtht sng rd s bynd m!! Clear penalty in the box. Went right through a few players with no foul called. Lucas Leiva - How blatant does one have to be and not get sent off? two CLEAR yellow card offenses and five fouls in all produce 1 yellow and no warnings. Jordan Henderson - (See Lucas Leiva) I guess hard man left his big talk back at merseyside.... Michael Oliver had one of the worst refereed games I've ever seen and that takes some doing! Its a fucking cup semi final!!! Grow a pair of balls!! He was clearly given instructions from the FA not to fuck this up for Liverpool. On many occasions his view wasn't obstructed and he just ignored obvious penalty appeals and clear yellow card offenses. There was an incident in the first half as well that went unnoticed by every Sky commentator and also Phil Dowd where behind the play Luis said something to Markovic and Markovic clearly, right in front of the benches puts both his hands in Luis' face. Nothing is done at all... If we win titles in England this year it will be against the will of the FA. How many decisions have gone against us wrongly this year? And don't give me that "it will balance out" shit either! Sky's programming after todays match was Football's Greatest - Steve Gerrard... It is clear they had it in their mind Liverpool was going to win tonight. The pundits in the booth chose to harp on Diego's 'stomp' on Can when clearly at full speed it was accidental(Can moved his leg when Costa had his already in the air and wasn't looking at him) Not the obvious two penalties that went uncalled. in the end I don't give two shits; they're basically manipulating results because they know we could and could've ran away with it. end rant lets get Man City.

For a deep midfielder who hasn't played a lot of football its to be expected. We can nitpick all we want about what he can't do, the fact remains he is indispensable to the squad. Love him, cracking game today.

Fantastic effort from 2nd half on! Never stopped running and made so many incisive decisions to put the defense under pressure.

Am I the only one who thought Oscar was brilliant today and deserves his place ahead of Cesc?

And to the Brana haters out there THAT is why he's always in the team.

https://twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/560167972086747136

Ramires was the one breaking everything up. His legs in the midfield we definitely needed today

seems to be fine left the bridge without a limp.

CLEARLY Sky Sports were expecting Liverpool to win... Running greatest footballers special on Gerrard. hahahahaha STEVE GERRARD, GERRARD HE SLIPPED ON HIS FUCKING ARSE HE GAVE IT TO DEMBA BA, STEVE GERRARD, GERRARD!

That's not his forte... But man was he ever a boss in the middle of the pitch. Game changed when Ramires came on, Cesc was getting the run around from Coutinho.

Love to hear someone say something against Ramires tonight! CLEARLY changed the game when he came on..... Man of the Match is a tough call Either Ramires, Zouma, Brana or Eden.

fuck you. cunt.

BRANNNAAAAAAA!!!!

45mins to show we have mettle!! COME ON!!

Hilarity! Sky big talking point is if Costa should be sent off... Not the two clear penalties we should have!

no mikel either... interesting

ZOUMAAAAAAAA

Courtois; Ivanovic, Zouma, Terry ©, Filipe Luis; Matic, Fabregas; Willian, Oscar, Hazard; Diego Costa

Wow. I come here to see what the mood is like for a big semi final 2nd leg at home and its just flooded with doom and gloom? This is Chelsea FC we're supposed to be supporting, right? Guys and Gals we have a fantastic XI, one of the best in the world! Have a little faith! Last week we couldn't get the result for one reason only, Cesc was in the 10. He is our link and when he plays in the 10 we don't have that link between the midfield and the attacking players. I doubt Jose will make that mistake again and as a result we should be able to string together 4 and 5 passes! We're at home! Yes Bradford turned over our rarely used squad players, but this is going to be our very best squad and they don't lose at home! Get your heads out of the gutter! We're a home win away from WEMBLEY!

Lol... The time for questions is at the end of the year, not when we have a 5pt lead in the league and are in the champions league. You have a real flair for the melodrama brother.

I see it like this... Normally I wouldn't care if we got dumped in the league cup, but after losing in the FA cup a couple days ago it makes this fixture a must win. All I wanted to win this year was the league title, the 6pter against City is still way more important than this game but having said that we're two wins away from a trophy. I don't want to see us bottle it, we need to start discovering our winning mentality and use this competition to push us onward to a league title. Losing to Bradford was bad for the club as a whole but not exactly the same as if we'd have lost with our preferred XI. We will undoubtedly have that tomorrow and we will need them to carry on the form we've had at home. Two massive games this week. Massive. We will show what kind of mettle this team has at the end of this week.

It was so nice it deserved a double post