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Chelsea vs Basel
PRE-MATCH DISCUSSION AND LIVE CHAT



Europa League Semi Final 2nd Leg
2nd May, Thursday 2013
Stamford Bridge
20:05 Kick Off (UK time)

[NiclasCFC 2,582]

Rest Rami!

[Jase 43,479]

Basel today got hammered 3-0 at home by Luzern, who are 28 points behind them in the Swiss league...

[Dy-lan 142]

Should be fairly straight forward unless we let them score early.

[IkE 267]

Basel today got hammered 3-0 at home by Luzern, who are 28 points behind them in the Swiss league...

Wow, they are focused in us, uh? I only hope that no injuries will happen, pretty scared of having Ramires and David Luiz injured for the rest of the season.

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Wow, they are focused in us, uh? I only hope that no injuries will happen, pretty scared of having Ramires and David Luiz injured for the rest of the season.

They played a very strong team too, forgot to mention that.

Sommer, Degen, Dragovic, Stocker, Diaz, Serey Die, Frei and Salah etc all started.

[Mufassir08 2,400]

Cech

Ivanovic-Cahill-Terry-Bertrand

Ake-Lampard

Moses-Oscar-Marin/benayoun

Torres

[IkE 267]

They played a very strong team too, forgot to mention that.

Sommer, Degen, Dragovic, Stocker, Diaz, Serey Die, Frei and Salah etc all started.

So their best Starting XI, we are lucky that Dragovic won't play the next leg, I think he was the best from them.

Do you think we will win with ease?

[IkE 267]

Cech

Ivanovic-Cahill-Terry-Bertrand

Ake-Lampard

Moses-Oscar-Marin/benayoun

Torres

Love having Aké on the Starting XI.

[Pacquiao 1,834]

Cech

Ivanovic - Cahill - Terry - A.Cole

Mikel - Lampard

Moses - Oscar - Hazard

Torres

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Play 4-4-1-1 again, it worked wonders in Switzerland. Play a solid back 4 and don't concede early and we should be fine.

[bloody 209]

cech

ferreira ---- cahill ---- terry ---- bertrand

ake - lampard

moses - benayoun - marin

torres

[Jase 43,479]

So their best Starting XI, we are lucky that Dragovic won't play the next leg, I think he was the best from them.

Do you think we will win with ease?

Win with ease, I don't know but certainly can't see us losing the tie from here. That is unless the players suddenly become all complacent and switches off. Still need to be wary of their threat but if we do our job properly, we will get to the final.

[SinineUltra 1,170]

Like a certain someone has said: ''We have to play for a result. We can not lose the game. I don't put pressure on you about we have to win the game, but we can not lose. We can not lose.''

[The Skipper 20,593]

Optimistically,

Cech

Ferreira - Ivanovic - Cahill - Bertrand

Mikel - Aké

Moses - Lampard - Oscar

Torres

I think Hazard, Ramires Luiz, Terry, Azpilicueta & Mata deserve a rest for the United and the Tottenham game.

[OneMoSalah 8,778]

Score at least 2 and we are through. Easy as that.

[Jase 43,479]

Worth pointing out that Cole is suspended for this one while Bertrand, Ramires, Mikel and Luiz are all 1 YC away from potentially missing the final, if we get there.

Hope Luiz and Ramires sit out of this one especially. Rest and keep them fresh for the important games in United and Spurs.

[Backstreet09 499]

What's with MARKO LAD lol? Is he injured or what?