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[Jase 43,479]

Chelsea vs Fulham

PRE-MATCH DISCUSSION AND LIVE CHAT

Barclays Premier League

Wednesday, 28th November 2012

Stamford Bridge

19:45 Kick Off (UK time)

[Jase 43,479]

Ruiz and Kacaniklic are both out with hamstring injuries and Hangeland is serving his red card suspension(2nd of the 3 games). Big plus for us!

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

another clean sheet?

[Kojo 4,676]

Our past performaces against Fulham have been tragic, i don't think we've beat them in the premier league for two seasons now, please change this.

[Namika 922]

Cech

Azpi - Iva - Luiz - Cole

Mikel - Ramires

Moses - Mata - Hazard

Torres

I expect a 3-0 win.

[didierforever 7,349]

3 days to the match, on the end of a bad and tough run of games with a lot of off the field issues. i would have expected squad rotation in normal circumstances but not sure what benitez would do...

[Jype 6,398]

No excuses, this is a game we must win. In recent years Fulham have been a tough opponent for us but with the situation we're in now we can't afford to lose any points here.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Not sure about Rafa's rotation tactics so I can't really call this game before I see the lineup. But the pressure will be on Rafa to win this one or it won't be pretty at the bridge at the weekend.

[Sheva. 5,373]

I think Romeu will start, not sure about any other changes.

[Laylabelle 9,305]

Our london derby record so far hasnt been to bad so hope we can carry on with that

[OneMoSalah 8,616]

Will win this. They don't have Dempsey to score fucking headers. Bebratov is a big problem though. If we defend as well as today we'll be fine. The attack needs to improve but I'm sure it will happen.

[Jase 43,479]

Fulham have become something of an annoyance to us in recent games. We have drawn our last 3 encounters against them in the league(4 if you include the League Cup game last season). Last win against them came in November 2010 where a header goal by Essien gave us a 1-0 win.

[Milan 17,835]

The most boring derby in the League Hopefully with a happy ending for us. No Dempsey for Fulham, more than brilliant!

[Mufassir08 2,400]

Ruiz and Kacaniklic are both out with a hamstring injuries and Hangeland us serving his red card suspension(2nd of the 3 games). Big plus for us!

Hangeland and ruiz missing is a huge plus.

[Jase 43,479]

Hangeland and ruiz missing is a huge plus.

Kacaniklic too. He has been playing well for Fulham before he got injured against Sunderland the other day.

[Sheva. 5,373]

No Dempsey and No Dembele is also huge. We just need to approach the game in the right manner and take our chances.

[Kieran. 6,317]

Moses and Marin to start please.

[Tomo 21,684]

It was these type of games which was Rafa's Achilles heel at Liverpool, his previous two clashes at home to Fulham have yielded in goalless draws.