Paviour7 5 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Does Drogba really deserve to be starting this game?? To be honest, he's been playing terrible for a long time, long before he left for ACON, and we saw against Birmingham how useless he was.However, the sad thing is is that Torres has probably been worse (due mainly in my opinion to a complete lack of service) so it's a hard decision. I would start with Drogba because he's a big game player and he motivates the team and might be able to knock the Napoli defence around a bit, however, If I was AVB I would be prepared to bring on Torres as soon as Drogba fades or when the game opens up and Torres can use his pace to get past some tired defenders.AVB must show the balls to change the tactics when the time is right. If the game opens up, then Torres would be more effective than a tired Drogba in my opinion. Lampard also HAS to start, with ramires and perhaps Essien. NO MEREILES!! CechIvanovic - Terry/Cahill - Luiz - Cole Essien Ramires LampardSturridge Drogba Mata*We all know AVB will play 4-3-3 so there's no point in suggesting a different formation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santiago. 1,500 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 But don't you think it's a bit risky to play just 2 midfielders away from home in the Champions League?-----------Drogba---------Kalou-----Mata------Ramires-------Essien---Romeu-------A.Cole-------------------Ivanovic--------J.Terry---Luiz-----------This would be my ideal lineup for this specific match, but i can only wishIf we manage a draw away, this would be my squad for the home leg------------------Torres--------------------Kalou-----------------------------Sturridge-------------Essien--Mata------------------------------------Ramires-------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 4,400 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Dreading this game. This has the makings of being trully nasty to watch. Napoli aren't the best home team tho to be honest but i think they'll beat us at the Bridge so we have to win away. We've been awful at home and they've been great away. We'll be very lucky to get through this tie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Armour 4,443 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Dreading this game. This has the makings of being trully nasty to watch. Napoli aren't the best home team tho to be honest but i think they'll beat us at the Bridge so we have to win away.W e've been awful at home and they've been great away. We'll be very lucky to get through this tie.I think players find it more difficult to play at home these days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran. 6,317 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 We play pretty well in big games. I think we can win this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magicrico 175 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Maybe it was another thread/match...if that's the case my apologies.However, I can't figure out how you were close with that, seeing as how the score could have easily been in our favor. Granted we've been playing like shit, but that's bordering pessimism there..Exactly but in what sense have I been wrong in making them predictions based on the way we are playing. you mentioned i'm making predictions based on match highlights. I'm not. All season we have been shit apart from Arsenal,Utd,Spurs...What did we get out of those games? Not one win. Games we have won we have been poor. Games we have lost or drew we have deserved to. I'm not gonna sit here like everyone else and say i'm confident against a team 10X better than birmingham (who we can't beat at home) when they are impressive and we are far from it. I'm a realist mate. I don't expect us to play well, cause this team doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Armour 4,443 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Exactly but in what sense have I been wrong in making them predictions based on the way we are playing. you mentioned i'm making predictions based on match highlights. I'm not. All season we have been shit apart from Arsenal,Utd,Spurs...What did we get out of those games? Not one win. Games we have won we have been poor. Games we have lost or drew we have deserved to. I'm not gonna sit here like everyone else and say i'm confident against a team 10X better than birmingham (who we can't beat at home) when they are impressive and we are far from it. I'm a realist mate. I don't expect us to play well, cause this team doesn't.I didn't mean you were literally watching match highlights and making predictions...I just got the impression that you were overly upset with the recent run of form and lost all hope. If you rationally believe that we are going to lose our next match then I have no qualms about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary gordon 1,777 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Absolutely shitting myself about this one.. But i guess we will know both the intentions of the players and the owner in a matter of weeks... If we give Napoli too much room on the counter they will kill us. There team is full of blokes that can finish.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLion. 21,491 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 We play pretty well in big games. I think we can win this game.That's my theory, too. They seem only to give a shit when the entire world is against us, as it is now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouNameIt 1,511 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 ------------Cech-------------Iva - Cahill - Luiz - Bosingwa (it hurts)Ramires - Mata - EssienKalou - Sturridge - TorresI think we really need Dannys speed and dribbling inside the box, and atm torres has shown hes not doing well there however he does have technique and can assist. Start him and get drogba on in the 60th minute or so perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 4,400 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Love the weird theory about playing well in big games when we've lost twice in a row to Arsenal, aint beat Man Utd in 5, lost to Liverpool the last 3 times we've played them too. Aint even won at WHL for 6 years have we? We've been piss poor against every type of team now for 18 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheva. 5,373 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Love the weird theory about playing well in big games when we've lost twice in a row to Arsenal, aint beat Man Utd in 5, lost to Liverpool the last 3 times we've played them too. Aint even won at WHL for 6 years have we? We've been piss poor against every type of team now for 18 months.This season Ollie. We have played against Man utd, Liverpool, Arsenal, Man city, Valencia, Newcastle and Spurs.The only games i thought we didn't play well in was the two against Liverpool. We didn't deserve to lose at OT, against Arsenal we did well in the first half, but everything went all wrong in the 2nd.Man city: we played well, so as against Valencia and Newcastle. And against Spurs we should have won that game, the performance after we scored was top notch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badboy 1,526 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 LOL this is the type of game Kalou can pull a rabbit out the hat lol hahaha remember against Inter away from home lol. Kalou plays shit the whole game and suddenly he goes like this and he scores hahaha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterfall 893 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Performance-wise, we've definitely been better against bigger teams. We'll probably still lose this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TacticalBlues 2,817 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minelli 9 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Don't worry!! Chelsea is great!! Tomorrow: Napoli - Chelsea 0-3 Drogba, Mata, Ramires!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLion. 21,491 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Don't worry!! Chelsea is great!! Tomorrow: Napoli - Chelsea 0-3 Drogba, Mata, Ramires!!That's more like it. Show some faith and some backbone. CAREFREE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minelli 9 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 That's more like it. Show some faith and some backbone. CAREFREE.there is no hope. Napoli will lose.... Drogba vs Cannavaro ..... Mata vs Grava...... Sturridge vs Aronica and... Hamsik always sleeps.... Lavezzi doesn't see the gol ..... Inler is too weak.... and Zuniga!!!! oh my god!!! What a defeat!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando 6,585 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Going to be great seeing Essien and Ramires in the mid.With these two we can have a great advantage.If these two are on their game then getting a tie would be the most likely outcome.A win would get us if Drogba is inspired again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGuerreiro 252 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 We will go through this round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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