Closed Chelsea vs Benfica

[Niggalhao 4]

apparently Luisao is a major doubt for wednesday. he did not train with the team at the bridge.

I really feel for SLB, none of their CB's is available. :blink:

Yes... unfortunately is true.

But i have faith he will recover.

CARREGA BENFICA.

[magic weeds 446]

Yes... unfortunately is true.

But i have faith he will recover.

CARREGA BENFICA.

what if he doesnt recover? who do you think will be played at CB? Hope its not the youth team player that traveled with the team.

[Niggalhao 4]

what if he doesnt recover? who do you think will be played at CB? Hope its not the youth team player that traveled with the team.

Nope, it wont be the youth. I heard he traveled with the team, as gift for having good grades.

Javi and Emerson, most likely.

Or maybe Matic, and Emerson goes to the left. (or plays Capdevila).

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

LOOL

Ye right only us do that.

It's not pathetic. It's to stop offensive flow that the opponent may have.

Yeah I know why they do that. How about you play defence to stop offence flow instead of diving and cheating. Everyone dives, but I've never seen a manager run halfway down the pitch and begging his players to fall over. If you've seen that in PL enough times to say everyone does that, please enlighten me.

[Niggalhao 4]

Yeah I know why they do that. How about you play defence to stop offence flow instead of diving and cheating. Everyone dives, but I've never seen a manager run halfway down the pitch and begging his players to fall over. If you've seen that in PL enough times to say everyone does that, please enlighten me.

You don't need to see the coach begging for someone to fake an injury.

Goalkeppers know when they must do, but Artur forgot it.

Jorge Jesus, he seems a little bit crazy, and that, made him run halfway donw the pitch to tell Artur to fake an injury.

It's just who he is.

Saying that doesn't existe in EPL is just silly.

[capriccioso 2,545]

Unfair of us to criticise players faking injury when we've got the biggest faker of them all, Didier Drogba

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

Unfair of us to criticise players faking injury when we've got the biggest faker of them all, Didier Drogba

I'm not criticising diving, I've conceded that everyone does that. What I'm criticising is the manager running half way down the pitch asking his goalkeeper to cheat. I don't remember the last time I've seen that in the EPL.

[Strike 7,489]

Finally its Wednesday!

[capriccioso 2,545]

I'm not criticising diving, I've conceded that everyone does that. What I'm criticising is the manager running half way down the pitch asking his goalkeeper to cheat. I don't remember the last time I've seen that in the EPL.

But managers aren't supposed to leave their technical areas....

Finally its Wednesday!

Only a few more hours to go

[didierforever 7,349]

i love chelsea with all my heart but is it wrong that i want us to lose today. if we progress to semis we play barca, do we really want to know how much behind are we lacking from the supposedly "best team in the world" , secondly if we progress it would mean that our fixtures would read something like this tottenham-barca-arsenal-barca. i have a bad feeling that this list would be the end of us.

[Rambo 1,729]

i love chelsea with all my heart but is it wrong that i want us to lose today. if we progress to semis we play barca, do we really want to know how much behind are we lacking from the supposedly "best team in the world" , secondly if we progress it would mean that our fixtures would read something like this tottenham-barca-arsenal-barca. i have a bad feeling that this list would be the end of us.

I'm glad your not RDM then.

[Kezza 1,965]

do we really want to know how much behind are we lacking from the supposedly "best team in the world" ,

Dude, who gives a shit how behind we are..we made it to the quarters and it's highly likely we'll make it to the semis of he biggest competition in Europe.

Fuck Uefalona, they ain't shit!

[Blue-in-me-Veins 4,067]

another draw, after we've taken first leg victory?? i hope so, nothin to strenuous just simple play maybe 2-2. Although durin game i'll be nervous as fuk!!

Seems like we need to have the highest confidence goin into semis assuming we do win. Just got done watching highlights of " FC UEFALONA vs CFC"

and i just want revenge so badly, vs them!! :rant:

[pachman40 357]

Ummm, excuse me, pardon the interruption, hate to be a bother, but just wondering if David Luiz can be loaned back to Benfica for just this one game? It seems as though we don't have any central defenders and Chelsea have a couple to spare. We'll even take Paulo Ferreira, he's played a few games in the centre, no?

Seriously, the Luisao news is very deflating, it was bad enough relying on one healthy CB with the 3 others hurt, but this is a little ridiculous. I don't know, I just don't. Normally I'd say screw it and play Luisao at 50% is better than nothing but with the other fixtures coming up and Barca waiting for the winner I'm inclined to say forget it for this competition and try to get him back healthy for our next game against Sporting. This sucks!

[Strike 7,489]

Ummm, excuse me, pardon the interruption, hate to be a bother, but just wondering if David Luiz can be loaned back to Benfica for just this one game? It seems as though we don't have any central defenders and Chelsea have a couple to spare. We'll even take Paulo Ferreira, he's played a few games in the centre, no?

Seriously, the Luisao news is very deflating, it was bad enough relying on one healthy CB with the 3 others hurt, but this is a little ridiculous. I don't know, I just don't. Normally I'd say screw it and play Luisao at 50% is better than nothing but with the other fixtures coming up and Barca waiting for the winner I'm inclined to say forget it for this competition and try to get him back healthy for our next game against Sporting. This sucks!

please tell me emerson is playing :lol2:

[Sheva. 5,373]

We can give you Bosingwa

[communicate 2,703]

Ummm, excuse me, pardon the interruption, hate to be a bother, but just wondering if David Luiz can be loaned back to Benfica for just this one game? It seems as though we don't have any central defenders and Chelsea have a couple to spare. We'll even take Paulo Ferreira, he's played a few games in the centre, no?

Seriously, the Luisao news is very deflating, it was bad enough relying on one healthy CB with the 3 others hurt, but this is a little ridiculous. I don't know, I just don't. Normally I'd say screw it and play Luisao at 50% is better than nothing but with the other fixtures coming up and Barca waiting for the winner I'm inclined to say forget it for this competition and try to get him back healthy for our next game against Sporting. This sucks!

You should come back in summer.

I think we are going to have a big sale =))

( bosingwa, meireles, malouda, and many more )

I don't think David Luiz

is for sale though

[Strike 7,489]

We can give you Bosingwa

We'll pay Benfica to take Bosingwa and Malouda too

[Strike 7,489]

i love chelsea with all my heart but is it wrong that i want us to lose today. if we progress to semis we play barca, do we really want to know how much behind are we lacking from the supposedly "best team in the world" , secondly if we progress it would mean that our fixtures would read something like this tottenham-barca-arsenal-barca. i have a bad feeling that this list would be the end of us.

How do you kknow that? We haven't played Barca since Ovrebo gift-wrapped them a win. And if we keep ourselves organised like v have under rdm, it is possible!

What is the harm? If we scrape a win, we are in the final while if we are thrashed, atleast then RA will know summer improvments are definitely needed. Either way we have to go for it!

[ZanSnake 1,211]

We cannot be bemused by the result between Barca and Milan. It is just another game, which needs the same mindset and dedication from the lads, like what is needed for this game, like the Napoli game, and any other game between the present and the near-future. Our season should be set on the games that we are fighting for, which is every single game. We cannot rule out ourselves, nor the opposition. We need to show the world that we are united as a unit, and ready for any challenge, and give it all we have!

With Nando finding form once again, hopefully that might add more spark to our attack - and actually add a goal threat to our team, more than it has in the past couple of months,