Closed Chelsea vs Leicester

[Tomo 21,681]

---------------------Cech------------------------

Ferreira-----Ivan------Cahill-------Bertrand

---------------------Romeu---------------------

-------------Raul------Ramires----------------

Danny-----------------------------------Slo Mo

---------------------Lukaku---------------------

Subs: Hilario, Terry, Cole, Mikel, Lampard, Kalou, Torres.

[Strike 6,969]

Actually it's supposed to be a diamond with Romeu holding, Kalou behind the strikers and Meireles with Malouda together in the middle. Malouda and Kalou could obviously swap tho. Fixture congestion is madness, we need to rest a lot of players imo and take the chance.

Yepp...but at d same time, v shud not lose any momentum built up so far

[chandler 1]

---------------------Cech------------------------

Bossingwa-----Ivan------Cahill----Bertrand

-------------Raul------Romeu------------------

Danny------------Mata--------------Malouda

---------------------Torres---------------------

JT, Lamps, Luiz and DD need to rest, but we still have to have some creative player on the pitch. We cannot play with Kalou and Malouda on the wings and Ramires, Raul and Romeu in the centre.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

EDIT: wrong thread ugh

Haha happens to me all the time . But I usually patch it up by editing it into something related to the topic instead of actually admitting I posted in the wrong thread.

[zolayes 14,489]

Yepp...but at d same time, v shud not lose any momentum built up so far

we DON'T want a replay either

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Leicester are shit but this is their cup final, so we'll have to play really well.

I can't bear the thought of losing. I live in the East Midlands and Leicester are the best-supported club. Two very good friends of mine are Leicester fans and a considerable number of other friends - as well as my boss - support them too. I need bragging rights.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

A replay would be a disaster in terms of games congestion.

[Rubber bullets 1,183]

With the Man City game on Wednesday, I will be very surprised if any player that played the whole 120 minutes against Napoli would feature in this game.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

With the Man City game on Wednesday, I will be very surprised if any player that played the whole 120 minutes against Napoli would feature in this game.

Our squad is too thin to rest 8 players at the same time.

[Billy. 2,739]

play with the desire and heart as we did on Wednesday and will we be fine

[Trueblue1982 48]

Strongest team to play till the end of the season, its as simple as that, we NEED to fa cup at least, now a days with everything i n the game our strongest 11 should be picked every game, keep the momentum going we need a massive push now for rest of the season and it isnt that far of

[Liquidator 5,176]

---------------------Cech------------------------

Ferreira-----Ivan------Cahill-------Bertrand

---------------------Romeu---------------------

-------------Raul------Ramires----------------

Danny-----------------------------------Slo Mo

---------------------Lukaku---------------------

Subs: Hilario, Terry, Cole, Mikel, Lampard, Kalou, Torres.

This except Luiz instead of Ivanovic. Ivan came off against Stoke because of exhaustion so he needs a rest because he also played 120 mins against Napoli

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

Hutch, Romeu, Lukaku should be on the bench with Bertrand starting. All to be given some minutes, I hope.

[Aussiedan 154]

FA Cup Quarter-Final, Stamford Bridge

18th Match 2012

vs

Head-to-Head Record

Played: 101

Chelsea Win: 48

Drawn: 29

Leciester Win: 24

Last Meetings

31st October 2007 - Carling Cup

Chelsea 4-3 Leicester

Lampard '20 '29' 90 (CHE) ; McAuley '6 (LEIC) ; Campbell '69 (LEIC) ; Cort '74 (LEIC) ; Shevcenko '87 (CHE)

11th January 2004 - EPL

Leicester 0-4 Chelsea

Hasselbaink '12 '44 (CHE) ; Mutu '88 (CHE) ; Babayaro '90 (CHE)

23rd August 2003 - EPL

Chelsea 2-1 Leicester

Nails o.g '3 (CHE) ; Scowcroft '40 (LEIC) ; Mutu '45 (CHE)

Last 5 Results (W3 L2 D0)

Leicester 3-1 Birmingham

Reading 3-1 Leicester

Bristol City 3-2 Leicester

Leicester 2-0 Coventry

Derby 0-1 Leicester

Championship

12th - 51pts - P36 W14 D9 L13 GF51 GA44

Leicester Road to the FA Cup Quarter-Finals

3rd Round

Nottingham Forrest 0-0 Leicester

3rd Round Replay

Leicester 4-0 Nottingham Forrest

4th Round

Leicester 2-0 Swindon Town

5th Round

Norwich 1-2 Leicester

Last games line-up (4-4-2) vs Birmingham

Schmeichel | Bamba, Morgan, Kennedy, St Ledger | Dyer, Wellens, Danns, Gallagher | Beckford, Nugent

Leading Goal Scorer

David Nugent 14

Prediction

Leicester City have been in some high scoring games recently with 13 goals in 3 matches, 7 of them they have conceded. But they're recent 3-1 win over Birmingham would give them some confidence going into this game.

But you wont get any higher than our emotional 4-1 win over Napoli in the Champions League mid-week. but you'll think a lot of players will be rested, Lampard, Essien, Drogba, Cole, Luiz, Ivanovic, Ramires all played 120 minutes 4 days ago and keeping in mind we played Manchester City and Tottenham in the next 7 days too. you'll likely see these changes from the mid-week starting line-up;

Mikel in for Essien

Meireles in for Lampard

Bertrand in for Cole

Cahill in for Terry

Torres in for Drogba

Could possibly see Bosingwa in for Ivanovic

Even with all the changes it's still a strong team and they should all be on a high after mid-week and want to continue the run of form.

Chelsea 3-1

[Rubber bullets 1,183]

If the worst happens will they cancel the game out of respect.

[coolhead23 1,146]

I hope it is either a win or a loss, just hope it is not a draw. We already have too much on our plates right now to add one more on it.

[bluephoenix 1,125]

Fucking Torres with the milestone.

[BleedsBlue 1,549]

Fucking Torres with the milestone.

John Terry has scored more goals than Torres this season so lets not keep our hopes high.