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We'll win this 1-0. and it'll be a penalty. they are too physical, and if Oscar/Mata/Hazard can just do one crafty run in to the box, we will get a penalty. I can see a different formation being used. Would like to see Sturridge/Moses upfront. Torres is done.

Should be a win. Havent seen the game, not going to watch the full 90, just going to watch the highlights on MoD. A clean sheet is good. but we should be winning these games. not sure why bertrand started. could have just started Marin. I don't think the 4-2-3-1 is working for us. We really do need a striker in that formation. I think we need to see Moses a bit more, Hazard should be rested and Marin should get a run out. I expect to see changes at the weekend, i can understnad that Rafa has come in, and not been here long so is unlikely to make any drastic changes, but i think we need to see some drastic changes at the weekend. Cant wait to see the highlights.........

Of course this season is fucked because the fans are unhappy. Because we are unhappy with recent events, we can't really give 100% blame to the club... its partyl us. its a horrible cycle. The fans are important, imagine being on that pitch hearing boos and having no support, as a player, that does not motivate you - you might say these are professionals, and its their job, but no matter who or what you are, if you are getting a negative reception and negative reinforcement... nobody performs well. We need to support the club. yes we arent happy with some of the choices the owner has made (and i agree) but we should back what has been done becuase theres nothign else we can do.. if you dont agree with whats gone on, like most (including me) then just suck it up, and support the team. If we get behind the team, our confidence will increase. we will not get results if we arent there to cheer them. OR we can carry on crying, have a shit season, and hope Roman is a little more rational with his decisions... but we all know he'll just do what he want, he's not changed since day one. So i say lets do our part and quit moaning. whats done is done, lets move on and win some fucking games.

Clean sheet. First in 10. Happy without. Ivanovic should be our main cb and azpi should always be on the right. City were fouling bastards. Glad we showed discipline and organisation. No disrespect to RDM, but rafa was a lot more tactical solid. More experience though, when RDM is that age, hell be just as good.

It's a set piece. we do it a lot. usually torres gets a flick on it.

Im excited. I know its stupid and over talked, but I do hope Torres shines. I've no doubt he will be happier under Rafa, and with that attitude he will feel secure and more confident. Torres anytime this week for me I think! look forward to the line up and the formation. I know its unlikely we will see a dramatic change as Rafa hasn't had much time (unless he has been lined up for this job for a while and working hard on it for a couple of weeks), but it'll be interesting to see any little changes in roles. I think im looking more at the performance rather than the result form this. I'd like to win it. and i think we can win it on a good day. But its too difficult to know how everyone will react to recent events.

To be honest, i really dont care that Rafa managed Liverpool before. at the end of the day is a proffesional just doing a job, and now he's hired for this club. dont get me wrong, i love the passion and the banter that comes with football, but i never take it too seriously. Those quotes from rafa, about us being rubbish fans, and not wanting to manage a club like us etc, was all to boost the fans of the club he was at then. we love it when a manager says stuff like that, but at the end of the day, they are just doing their job... I dont think he ever thought he'd be managing this club himself. but he is. Im going to support him. and to be honest (even though i didnt think RDM should have been sacked) i am pleased we've got him. he's possibly the best interim manager going at the moment. imagine having someone with that CV just being a caretaker manager. brilliant. I dont care what he's said and that he was manager of a club i really dislike, he's our manager now and his job is to win us trophies and I hope he does. I take all this back if we get relegated mother fucking scouse loving prick.

The Media are fucking idiots. constantly asking questions just to stir shit. i think he's been asked twice now about being quoted saying he would never manage a club like chelsea. those are just gossip questions designed to wind us up. What ive got fomr this so far is that it seems totally personal for Rafa. he wants to add to his CV with soem trophies. which, as an interim boss, is not htat bad a thing. he's motivated by his own goals, and for an interim, thats pretty good, he just wants success and that hopefully will have a short term positive effect...

Just found out he has been given the Interim boss title. which is fantastic. what a manager to get to call an interim, this makes me happy. i was skeptic, but im happy with that. still dont see the point in sacking RDM, but oh well. Anyone else think the sacking of RDM may have been somethign to do with the whole racist incident and report with Clattenberg??? could be. I didn't really pay attention to rafa when he managed liverpool on account i dont like liverpool, could someone fill me in on typical tactics he uses? does he have a set formation that he uses or is he open to changing it depending on the opposition? if someone could give me a typical Rafa formation (and line up if you want) and some tactic pointers i would be greatful!!!

18 month deal lol. They are just saying that. Unless we win everyhting this season under rafa, he'll be gone in the summer (if he's lucky) then replaced by Pep...

If this is just a short term appointment, as the media seems to suggest. I'd rather Avram. have some have pointed out, he's a friend of Roman, he's done it before. I'd rather have someone whos done it before and is a friend of the club. dont want rafa coming in and sabotaging us! If it is a short term option, i dont see why we didnt jsut keep robbie till the summer........

Soon we will not be available to hire quality managers becasue from day one the job is Unstable!!!! RMD wasnt even doing that bad. i think most chelsea fans accepted this season should be a top 4 finish, and reach the knockout stage of the champs league, and although we've taken the hard way round, we are still up for those. We've dropped points in 3 or 4 games that were clearly down to Tactics (Last night, Swansea and QPR is what i can think of now) and the start of hte season was a bit dodgey tactically. the only problem RDM had was that he made us predictable and he didnt change up much. There were no suprises from us so we had become easy to defend against, It says the club will be announcing a replacement shortly... that leads me to believe they've had someone lined up and just wanted to get rid of RDM quickly (who was a short term manager anyway) so they could put this guy in. Rumours that its rafa....???? wtf!? thats not a step forward, or backwatds! If its pep, then fair play, but do it a bit more professionally next time. atleast wait till january/end of the season... I got some mates who are liverpool fans, and its just the worse! "your club ruined british football! we've got history! we made british football! you just buy the leagues!" etc etc etc. i fucking hate liverpool fans.

I would love to have been in the meeting where they decided tactics and line ups. with THAT line up, and those tactics, its counter attack. the method we saw at the start of the season (the one that didnt work). the method that has a much better chance of working when Drogba is on the pitch. don't know what he was thinking. with our form of recent, it doesnt even justify 'riding our luck'. you cant play for a draw for 90 minutes... Should have started with sturridge up front. we should have played for a win and then atleast we mighth ave got a draw. Juve did play well to be fair to them, we didnt play massively bad, movement wasnt really present, passing wasnt that good but id put this loss down to tactics again this week. we just need to smash Nords, and hope Shakthar beat juve.... going to be a nervy night, On another note, Europa league: I think that would be the best thing for us. as many point out, we are in a development stage, we have a lot of fringe players who need experience in europe... we get in to the Europe league, we get an oppurtunity for our fringe players to play in europe, and i dont think thats a bad thing.

Looks like the Media are trying to make our club crumble.... reports that there was a bust up in the dressing room after the WBA game, reports of torres being dropped for tonight which is going to upset torres. torres wants to go back to spain, RDM is up for the sack, We are liars for calling MC a racist.... they really hate us at the moment. really hope it has no effect on the team. See no reason why RDM should be up for the sack, so we've had a bad 4 game spell AVB had a bad 3/4 of a season. AVB is having a shit season at the moment, no papers want him sacked. Mancini had a bit of stick, thats died down. its all focus on us. god knows the kind of shit that will be flying around if we happen to lose tonight... hate it when it gets like this

I watched the game whilst sorting out my dads laptop and i really dont know what to make of it. i think we had some bad luck. dont get me wrong, we SHOULD NOT be conceeding 2 goals. Luiz is having a bad spell. shouldnt have been beaten for that first goal, he just didnt look determined. we really miss JT thre for his organisation and determination. To be fair to west brom, they played a good game. they've have a great start to the season, and they are looking consistent. unlike ourselves. I must say, when i saw the line up today, I was relived. it was nice to see some rotation, it just didnt happen to work out. maybe mata should have started instead of Hazard and it may have flowed/been more organised. We missed some chances. Sturridge just looked as good as Torres infront of goal.... missed some sitters. Normally i would say that we will be ok for the champions league. its a different competition and teams tend to perform well despite there form in other competitions, however, against shakthar we were dodgy, in thel eague we haven't won in a few. im worried about how we are going to do against Juve. Having said that, when Oscar, Ramires and Mata eventually came on, we did dominate so that is nice to see. Mata has become so influential, and when he comes on as a sub, its so noticeable, he's fantastic. in the short term: We should have won this game, we shouldn't have conceeded 2 goals. but west brom played well and i dont think luck was on our side. the long term effect: horrible result, we could have gone second in the league today and its continued our bad run in the premier league which builds negative pressure and effects future games. Man united losing makes it a little better.... Roll on January and Roll on a new striker! (Even if its just getting Lukaku back!)

my main thought is that we played better than we have in our last 2 games which is good. there was movement, people were making runs. I still dont understand why Mikel is attacking. its happening a fair bit at the moment. He's good defensively and awful when he attacks. so when hes up the pitch and we lose the ball, if he doesnt get back the opposition will get a chance. do what was being donw last season/beggning of this season and dont allow him to roam, leave it to Ramires! and ya id probably agree with those saying this is another RDM error. similar to that at swansea. I'd like to see Moses start for 1 of the three maestros and then use them as a sub, just to mix thigns up. people are working out how to stop those 3 guys now, we need to mix it up.

our last two perfromances have been shoddy. We SHOULD beat liverpool, but im not sure. hopefully we asee a good performance. Vs swansea we were tired, it was clear, and tactical decisions cost us. fair enough. Vs Shakthar, we were just awful (apart from the 40th -46th minute). so static. poor defense. got 2 lucky goals. and the 3rd was an absolute relief. luckily, liverpool seem to not be the luckiest team at the moment. to be fair to them, they've played some good football recently, but they cant score. hopefully they dont find the goal, else we will be fucked if we play as poorly as we have been. really really really hope we win. i hate liverpool fans. they are the worst!

In reference to the last part of your post: ivanovic At cb really helps defend against those. Hes got great awareness in those situations. Cahills not too bad, always puts his life at risk to block it. David has no idea though.

Yeah right. Some guys on my row left early saying "no point staying for this shit" what mugs. I always go to games with my dad, and every time we contemplate leaving early, there's a goal. So we never leave early. Never. It was amazing when Moses scored. I was screaming so much. I was in the Matthew harding upper. In the corner (top right in reference to your photos) great view. Normally in the lower stands behind the goal so only get a good view of one goal, but up in the corner is a great view. Ramires went down in the box infront of us, so livid it wasn't given. Blatant foul. Ref was pretty bad tonight. Lower east stand for the nords game in December. Pumped for it! Ya I love that. Was so loud as well In The second half. Makes me laugh. That must get picked up on tv, surely.

What a game. Being there, the crowd was nervy. Our passing was pretty poor, and we applied no pressure to them when they attacked. Made the goals so much better though. For 80% of that game we were shit. Our best football was the 5 mins before half time. When we had the ball we were so static it was pointless us even having possession. It was a lucky 3 points. I haven't seen the replays, could someone confirm if the ref got the penalty shout and mikels disallowed goal right please. Couldn't tell with the goal, but ramires was fouled right infront of me and couldn't see how it wasn't a foul. We were a nervy crowd tonight, but what a noise when Moses scored. Lost my voice! Was even better because of how poor we were, I scratched my program up so much out of frustration. Then boom! Love it (written on phone, Soz for any typos)

U joking? All 4 of us will make a right rumble amongst the rest of the stadium!

I think we should come up with a short n sweet talkchelsea chant and all chant it on the 20th minute...

On my way to the bridge now! Gonna be a great game of football and the atmosphere on champion league games are incredible. I think we will have them tonight, but it'll be a good, close game.

SO PUMPED for this game. Should be a great game of football. My main hope is that we see Mata come back, and Ivanovic at CB with Azpi at RB. thats the dream. my first game at the bridge this season with me father so im really looking forward to this! I don't think it will be easy though. Shakthar are a good team with some impressive stats, but I dont think they are defensively sound, they had huge determination with their home fans behind them which is why we had a tough time, but at the bridge i dont see them being as well organised. we should get a few goals. I think our defense should keep them out and we hsould out score them. 3-1 Chelsea. a fair bit of woodwork will be involved as well i reckon. and a couple of stunning saves.

I agree with those saying that we are in a transition stage and not expect us to be title contenders.... but we played Swansea, we should have beat them. yes long term, a top 4 finish is realistic, but short term against swansea, that should have been a win. how cna you expect to be in the top 4 when you can't bag 3 points that should have been yours. as ive already said though, im totally happy with the excuse we were tired, but ultimately the majority of the fault lcomes down to the choices of RDM. its the first match in a while that HE has got it wrong. on the ivanovic topic: i thought Ivanovic was superb at CB. i voted him MoTM. the one moment i cna think off now that our regular CB have been failing to do is to cover the cut back. i cant remember who it was, but early in the game swansea attacked, got to the by line, then attmepted to pass it in to the penalty spot. our CB have been failing to cut that out, we saw shakthar do it, and man utd as well as others. our defenders just seem to carry on running in to the goal, ivanovic stopped is run and pulled back to cut out the pass. superbly read and great awareness. Cole isnt that bad IMO. he had a bad first half. but its the first and longest period of time ive seen him have 'a bad game; this season. But I dont see why Bertrand can't be rotated for him. or subbed for a direct swap with him. It would make perfect sense to rotate them. @Muzchap i totally agree with you on the using Marin as a sub. In pre season he added a little extra. he's capable of cutting in and feeding hte ball to someone. and he's not afriad to shoot either which is what we had a real problem with today. just fuckin' hit it! My prediction is that next season is going to be huge for Lukaku. he's so young yet looks so good. of course, due to his lack of experience he makes more mistakes than others (accept torres), but hes more quality than shite. I think Lukaku will be our next big thing in a few years time. however if we end up buying a massive striker like Falcao, i can see us losing Lukaku. He isnt one to hide his feelings, and he clearly gets frustrated when he isn't playing. same with Sturridge, and at this rate, i think we will be saying goodbye to him in january (which could possibly lead to us getting Lukaku back...) and if not january, his contract expires in the summer and it doesnt look like its going to be renewed. really hope he signs a new contract before january.