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because jose has played 4-3-3 against the better sides every match...... When did you start following the team. Oscar been bench against the better teams for a while now.

Matudi>ramiries Verrati/cabaye>lampard Cavani>anyone on chelsea Zlatan>anyone on Chelsea Hazard>Lucas (current form)

willian prob. However, Jose will probably go 4-3-3 and put mikel-ramires and lampard.

Perfect game for Ramires to show his worth when Mourinho going to park the bus vs PSG.

I'm just saying PSG are favorites. Obviously, any team can win (Chelsea 2012), but beating PSG would be an upset.

I said in multiple post that our main and only advantage was our manager...

How can we lose this game. Ramsey, jack, ozil are all out. we should be able to mark out santi and rosicky is slow(but good). I expect 2-0 Chelsea and than wenger complaining about money..

Lavezzi has 5 goals in his last 7 games. Menez sucks, no question. I dont think pastore sucks, but I don't think PSG was a good move for him. Lucas has been playing decent as of late.. For us, oscar and willian are out of form and hazard has played every game this year and will continue until the cl tie. Their back 4 are athletic and good. I can bet Hazard will be marked out the whole game... Their Cm are substantially better than ours. Cabaye, matudi, verrati and motta and raibot are a hell of a unit. Pace, work ethic and technique all in one. Zlatan vs Torres/eto........

Atletico have a fantastic team setup to feed the CF. No one imagine Costa could fill falcao boots as well as he did now, except atletico management. I would bet if FT9 played in la liga and Atletico he can still break the 15-20 goal mark for them cause of the team setup.

The Brazilians can give you better feedback on PSG players since half of them are Brazilian.

Read what. Stuff you type after I responded already....

Exactly. people think our players dont play for money, yet we pay tier 1 level in wages and transfer fees...

Look at PSG team overall. They might have selfish and lazy players, but they have a ton of hard workers..... Matudi, Cavani, Silva, motta and maxwell. You guys speak as if PSG is a team of zlatans, when its a team made for zlatan to shine.

Why is PSG players playing for money, but we are not? Why are we a proper team and they are not. We are both leaders in our respective leagues with exceptional individuals. We got some great men and real leaders, yet PSG don't? PSG have Thiago Silva, the only person in the world that can possibly mark Messi. I think you discredit PSG too much. PSG is a very good side. They would been a lot better had Carlo stayed on, however, the team as a unit is very good. Van der Weil-Silva-marquinhos/alex-digne all are pacey. It's going to be a good match, but I wouldn't bet on us to win. edit. And all your bs about Zlatan not playing in EPL/the best league will be disproven.

You would know the general population of France hates psg minus paris.

Favorites according to who? To you or to a neutral? The french league may suck, however, that doesn't mean ever team sucks in their league. PSG as a unit is better than Chelsea as a unit. However, as I mentioned earlier, we have a huge advantage in our managers. I still bet 3-0 or 4-1 aggregate, PSG. Zlatan doesn't need pace to score vs Cahill/Terry and I can bet Cavani giving Dave fits all day long. In regards, to Willian , hazard and oscar this game will be a great test because their whole backline has good pace and they have the best CB in the world and a solid goalkeeper. We've been fortunate to have played all shitty teams so far in the Champs League, I'm glad we got someone good this round.

Thats our only advantage....... sadly

Zlatan + cavani + lavezzi vs our back four. Verrati, cabaye, and matudi vs ramires, lampard and mikel. If we beat psg, I would consider it a huge upset. Chelsea bias aside, I would bet aggregate either 4-1 or 3-0.

It's great for both parties. Atletico replaces Costa and Costa fills a need for us. Fernando goes to his hometown and reunites with his best friend and they can live peacefully.

The thing with United is that their team might suck, but RVP is bound to score on us as is Chica and we don't really score that much.... I can imagine a game where we dominate in everything, shots, shots on goal, possession and still potentially lose because of 1-2 goals from RVP out of nothing.

This team is better. Last season team was getting outplayed by dortmund (for a good portion of the game) without Mario Gotze. People keep saying how last year team was better, yet in domestic league this year team has broken every record possible. This season, a good chunk of their players were injured for some time (javi martinez, bastian, gotze, thiago, etc), last season everyone was healthy or most of them. Also Martino is a terrible manager said every barcelona fan (minus the Argentinians)

Barcelona was crap in the first leg and bayern absolutely dominated both legs against arsenal. Plus, we "were winning" against an injured bayern team that is completely different now. Their whole team recovered from injury and is reaching their peak. These were the supercup stats. Overall[17] Bayern Munich Chelsea Goals scored 2 2 Total shots 37 14 Shots on target 19 9 Saves 7 17 Ball possession 64% 36% Corner kicks 15 5 Fouls committed 18 23 Offsides 1 4 Yellow cards 2 8 Red cards 0 1 Obviously, a lot had to do after ramires got sent off, however, to say we "outplayed" them is very wrong. edit. If you wanna do that, look at Dortmund vs Bayern in their cup game. Dortmund won i think 4-2 that game, yet in the domestic league bayern absolutely hammered them.

Bayern the last team I will want to face.

Jose is not offensively competent. I wouldn't want ramires to play that role as well, but he and William are the best people to mark out players. Obviously, if we got xabi alonso or pirlo than ok. I would prefer 3 cms, ramires, matic and new cm. Also stupid is not the correct term. If you watch the brazilians/ south americans play, tje agressive nature is common in them. Look at sandro and melo. Two brazilian cms. Both agresssive and physical.

Its different. Hazard baits fouls. However, in the longrun I fear for him.