Closed Chelsea vs Hull City

[didierforever 7,349]

LOL, that's why we are not Mour aren't we...

Michael Essien is . that's the official team sheet right now in London. what do you mean by fake?

speechless but all i can say right now is IN JOSE I TRUST. because that line-up just fucking screwed my head. the idea of watching that dumb blonde play ahead of ba and lukaku is killing me inside.

also please dont say that essien is a defender. obviously he can play as a defender but i would rather prefer a jet-lagged azpi and a 100% fit and functional bertrand ahead of him.

[Jusek 2,031]

So fucking pumped up! We have some serious super-subs on the bench, no frigging Benayouns.

C'mon you Blues! :cfc:

[bushman 2,043]

The game has not started yet & we already have plenty of dribbles here.

[Chelsea? 892]

Weird subs. Hope this means. Mata and lukaku will start Wednesday.

[Toli 977]

with the same line-up, benitez would've been screwed on here

mata is tired. luiz injured. azpi tired too. so not so many options available. why torres is starting though, I think nobody can understand...

[EBH 283]

I am very upset Torres is playing... everybody knew he is not good, I think... it is bad for Mourinho to under rate Hull. Maybe they play well today, maybe there is only one good shot, and Torres misses.. then we lose 2 points from pride

[Atlas Lion 1,223]

I am very upset Torres is playing... everybody knew he is not good, I think... it is bad for Mourinho to under rate Hull. Maybe they play well today, maybe there is only one good shot, and Torres misses.. then we lose 2 points from pride

In all honesty, for a match like Hull, no disrespect to them, its better to have options like Lukaku and Demba Ba on the bench to rely on rather than have 50 mill flop and never ever counting on him to deliver anything special coming off the bench.

[LeonDavis23 371]

damn spurs

[nachikethas 1,149]

Torres vs hull

am not mad at all. Jose knows his level ffs

[hjperdeath 2,226]

speechless but all i can say right now is IN JOSE I TRUST. because that line-up just fucking screwed my head. the idea of watching that dumb blonde play ahead of ba and lukaku is killing me inside.

also please dont say that essien is a defender. obviously he can play as a defender but i would rather prefer a jet-lagged azpi and a 100% fit and functional bertrand ahead of him.

obviously you didn't see him playa s right-back under Mourinho at Real Madrid and at Chelsea the last time Jose was here.

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

Relax. I think it won't be a few weeks til we see our true best 11 as such anyway. I'm sure lukaku will get some minutes off the bench.

Exactly. i think the ManU game will see something close to our best starting XI but right now we don't have a best starting XI and it certainly can't be based on a few meaningless pre-season games. Anyway, we'll have a lot of rotation because we have so much depth. I can't believe people are complaining already.

[Stingray 9,441]

Well, I kinda get it . Lukaku had a meh game a couple of days ago and came off the pitch a bit 'touched' psychologically. You could see it.

So why not bring him slowly - the pressure would have been big in his first game at home. Now he can come off the bench destroy them and build up confidence. Apparantly BA is there too just in case Torres sucks soooo bad we need to score and we need to put two strikers on. Why would we have a lot of defensive options, when you have a guy like Essien that can play there, has experience and can also be used for other tactical purposes in the midfield.

I get the line-up actually...

[Morodo 56]

So good to see José in Stamford Bridge again.

[Keikoismad 162]

Well, whatever the lineup is, let's be ******* happy as the season finally starts!!

being positive on this great day: 7-0 Chelsea

C'mon Blues!!!

:blue scalf:

KTBFFH

[Sheva. 5,373]

Lukaku not played well enough to warrant a start on opening day. And him starting for Belgium is no excuse as KDB and Hazard also did, if anything that match didn't help given how badly he played.

Torres looked alright in preseason, he'll run around and make space for the midfielders behind him.

[dumps 284]

I don't understand why people are so pissed of at Torres starting. Lukaku will come on as a sub for sure and will most likely start against Villa. Torres is good, and from what was seen in pre season when torres plays, his role is more of a rotational one letting the 3 behind him attack more.

It looks like Jose understand we cant play with a lone striker up top as hull will probably defend pretty hard, instead he's opting for hte attacking 4 to just run at them and rotate like a nice 5 a side type tactic. itll tire hull out defensively pretty quick and we should get more opportunities this way.

[Hutcho 8,443]

If we don't win this game because of who we have up front we have serious problems...

[Goemaere 131]

ridiculous, lukaku bagged a goal every 48 minutes in pre season, while nosotros nino didn't score and played as good/as shitty.