Closed Chelsea v Man City

[nachikethas 1,154]

we will win this... everything is against us..its make perfect sense for CFC

[Blue Gino 377]

I think Rafa will stun supporters with a side he believes in and what it is is anyone's guess at this point. Having had Xabi and Mascherano in his side at Liverpool he may opt for Luiz and Romeu in defensive midfield who knows

[meetdoscar 335]

Romeu is really underrated in this forum as a deep lying player I wonder why? Yet he is a squad player for chelsea and overrated josh and KDB are not. Benitez doesn't play possession based football so I guess mikel is out. Romeu is talented enough to be as good as alonso. I believe romeu will play alongside ramires in the pivot. For those that want oscar to play dp it will never happen because we don't play the same system with juventus also the pivot is romeu's natural position if not him then mikel or luiz at the very least.

[Jase 43,479]

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/180360.html

Kompany a doubt for this game it seems.

[gary gordon 1,777]

Pray for heavy snow!

[Reddish-Blue 2,493]

http://www.espn.co.u...ory/180360.html

Kompany a doubt for this game it seems.

That's good news...if only we had a striker who could take advantage of Citeh's defence without Kompany.

[Au blues 29]

Rafa will drop Oscar deeper with Mikel as Oscar has both the passing and playmaking ability that Rami does not. Oscar is in the mod of Alonso but win dribbling ability thus makes sense to pay him along side Mikel. Luiz lacks in placing he lose his opponents to often by turning his back I mean geez he other day he drooped the ball to his attacker through him turning his back. as such whilst JT is not playing I assume we'll see azpi, iva Cahill and cole. sorry for Luiz but he is a liability.without Rami I think that Moses or Stu will play right side interchangeable with Torres.No Torres mo problem Stu centre forward Moses right Hazard left Mata behin CF

[Kisho 33]

I think rafa will provide us with stability and minimum top 3 spot. I think we can definitley win this but a draw seems a bit more likely. City will not leave stamford bridge with more than a point, KTBFFH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kellzfresh 7,229]

November is never a dull time for chelsea is it?

Don't know if the players will be fired up for this or will be on a low.

Luckily benitez plays with 4-2-3-1 so not much of a system change.

I think he prefers wingers, so I don't think mazacar will play together unless oscar drops to the pivot.

Sadly, oscar might lose out cos he will prefer mata behind torres for sure.

Prediction

Azpi-iva-cahill-cole

Romeu-mikel

Moses-mata-hazard

Torres

Please just don't lose this.

[Kisho 33]

excited and nervous to see the team sheet

[Heisenberg 1,824]

Still no pictures of him with the blue shirt ?

[CHOULO19 24,332]

If we lose this, we are completely out of the batle for the league. Without any doubt.

Mate we were never in it in the first place.

Parking the bus would be doing shitty a huge favor. Their weakness is their defense. We will need to outscore them.

[didierforever 7,349]

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES... ITS CHRIS FOY....

[Hutcho 8,443]

This is gonna be one of the most anticiapated lineups of the season.

All this can't be good for the team so avoiding defeat would be great here. You never know Torres Hatrick...

[BleedsBlue 1,549]

Haha.Torres definitely going to start for this one and IF IF he scores in this game,the Spaniard is going to run to Benitez so that he can give him a huge fucking hug for sure.For this prediction to be true I really hope he scores.