Aston Villa 0-2 Chelsea

[Sheva. 5,373]

Cech; Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Terry, Zhirkov; Lampard, Mikel, McEachran; Sturridge, Anelka, Malouda.

[Kieran. 6,317]

[termninja 5,290]

Cech; Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Terry, Zhirkov; Lampard, Mikel, McEachran; Sturridge, Anelka, Malouda.

Torres and Drogba benched :eyebrows:

Carlo would've never done this XD

[ack17 205]

would nice to see sturridge to play as striker, not winger

[chrismada9 1,948]

Time for McEachran and co to prove that £44m worth of a greedy Argentine wasn't worth it all along!!

[Beast 85]

Cech; Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Terry, Zhirkov; Lampard, Mikel, McEachran; Sturridge, Anelka, Malouda.

FFS i get this sick feeling in my stomach when i see Anelka and Malouda starting.

[termninja 5,290]

FFS i get this sick feeling in my stomach when i see Anelka and Malouda starting.

You better get used to it

Perhaps Kalou will start sometimes so you'll have a little break

[chrismada9 1,948]

You better get used to it

trouble is, we already are used to it!!

[DavidEU 2,023]

Cech

Bosingwa Terry Ivanovic Zhirkov

McEachran Mikel Lampard

Sturridge Anelka Malouda

Big game for Bos, Studge and Nico.

Given

Young Dunne Collins Warnock

Albrighton Petrov Delph Agbonlahor

Ireland Delfouneso

[warnie_666 1,081]

WHAT TIME IS THE MATCH AT?

[bababoom 4,478]

FFS i get this sick feeling in my stomach when i see Anelka and Malouda starting.

Haha yeah. I kind of want Torres starting...

[Kieran. 6,317]

WHAT TIME IS THE MATCH AT?

in a 1/2 hr

[chrismada9 1,948]

WHAT TIME IS THE MATCH AT?

1pm dude!

[DavidEU 2,023]

WHAT TIME IS THE MATCH AT?

25 mins.

[Peace. 4,352]

Anelka as our lonely striker ? André Villas-Boas doesn't know in what he goes into. Unless he wants to have the experience to play without striker

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

Danny will win us this game.

Come on you Blues !

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Hope Villas-Boas takes note of Albrighton

[milllz 43]

TEAM NEWS: CHELSEA V ASTON VILLA

Posted on: Sat 30 Jul 2011Nicolas Anelka, Daniel Sturridge and Florent Malouda will lead the Chelsea attack.

Josh McEachran has been handed an attacking midfield role alongside Frank Lampard with John Mikel Obi holding.

There is a first sight this season of Yury Zhirkov at left back and Alex returns to the bench after injury.

Chelsea will line-up in the following 4-3-3 formation:

1 Petr Cech

17 Jose Bosingwa

2 Branislav Ivanovic

26 John Terry ©

18 Yury Zhirkov

8 Frank Lampard

12 John Mikel Obi

46 Josh McEachran

23 Daniel Sturridge

39 Nicolas Anelka

15 Florent Malouda

Subs: 40 Hilario, 19 Paulo Ferreira, 33 Alex, 62 Nathaniel Chalobah, 63 Slobodan Rajkovic, 3 Ashley Cole, 38 Patrick van Aanholt, 47 Billy Clifford, 10 Yossi Benayoun, 21 Salomon Kalou, 9 Fernando Torres, 11 Didier Drogba.

Villa: Given, Young, Warnock, Dunne, Collins, Delph, Petrov ©, Albrighton, Ireland, Delfouneso, Agbonlahor.

Subs: Guzan, Beye, Clark, Herd, Marshall, Bannan, Makou, Lowry, Gardner, Hogg, Heskey, Bent.