Closed Corinthians v Chelsea

[Jase 43,479]

Dan Levene ‏@BluesChronicle

Chelsea team for Corinthians: Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, David Luiz, Cole, Ramires, Lampard, Mata, Moses, Hazard, Torres.

[Kieran. 6,317]

No Mikel...

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Anyone else worried that we are playing with no DM?!

[underdrog 18]

good lineup#

[Corner 456]

Anyone else worried that we are playing with no DM?!

Yes. My first thought was 'what the fuuuuuuu????'

[petr.breu 1,618]

Lamps

[Term-X 7,891]

Judging by the lineup, it's looking like a pretty open game, corinthians will be up for it.

[Jype 6,398]

A bold move from Benitez to start such an important match with no DM and give Lampard his first start in months. Hope it works out...

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

Anyone else worried that we are playing with no DM?!

Yeah. I wonder why no Mikel when he's going to get plenty of rest coming up. Maybe Rafa wants to have a look at Lamps/Ramires in the pivot as a possibility for league games.

[DanishBlue 426]

On the other hand we will have a lot of options going forward with Lamps and Ramires. I guess Ramires will stay a little bit back and help our guys in the back.

[Magic Lamps 11,452]

Maybe our most offensive lineup ever. This can get horribly wrong if we get countered, cos Corinthians will surely park the bus. At least we got Ramires pace to cover space in the midfield but all in all this is a tactical battle.

[TrippingStep 336]

Wow at this line-up.

It's a huge surprise to me.

My guess is that Benitez want to use the fact that Ralf their defensive midfielder doesn't do much when Corinthians are in the possession and is not great on one on one situation.

[didierforever 7,349]

oh its gonna be bad... we are going to get creamed with this lineup.

[Milan 17,835]

[edetarod 2,155]

poor Oscar, he was really excited about this tournament

[Milan 17,835]

We have to take into account the departure issue and think also about the Leeds game.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Yeah. I wonder why no Mikel when he's going to get plenty of rest coming up. Maybe Rafa wants to have a look at Lamps/Ramires in the pivot as a possibility for league games.

Not the best game to be trying stuff, imo. Lamps will have to take the distributor role and limit his forward runs.

[termninja 5,290]

oh its gonna be bad... we are going to get creamed with this lineup.

Haha one would think we are taking out our reserves to face Barcelona, not fucking Corinthians

Man up ffs!