Closed Spurs v Chelsea

[bushman 2,043]

Spurs are the new Barcelona? Nothing to fear here....get the fuck at them they aren't invincible.

The Spurs are very far from Barca. Defensive football is very far away from Barca´s play.

[Special Juan 27,458]

[ChelseasMessiah 304]

If Ramires doesn't start I would want to see Mikel - Essien and possibly us playing with a false nine so we can control the midfield, if not, then Torres gets the nod for the centre foward position.

Mikel - Essien

Schurrle - Mata or Willian - Hazard (reasoning: we have a plethora of ACMs, we may as well use them. All interchanging)

Oscar

Or:

Mikel - Essien

Schurrle - Oscar - Hazard

Torres

We might see Luiz in DM though which isn't bad either.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Have a really good feeling about this game, really looking forward to it. I think AVB will crumble under the pressure and fear of coming up against Mourinho...

PM...

[Special Juan 27,458]

If Ramires doesn't start I would want to see Mikel - Essien and possibly us playing with a false nine so we can control the midfield, if not, then Torres gets the nod for the centre foward position.

Mikel - Essien

Schurrle - Mata or Willian - Hazard (reasoning: we have a plethora of ACMs, we may as well use them. All interchanging)

Oscar

Or:

Mikel - Essien

Schurrle - Oscar - Hazard

Torres

We might see Luiz in DM though which isn't bad either.

You won't see Luiz in midfield.

[Mufassir08 2,400]

Hoping hazard steps up for this game,we need his dribbling and flair badly.

Cech

Azpi-Terry-Luiz-Cole

Mikel-Ramires

Willian-Oscar-Hazard

Eto'o

[nadavTKL 1,787]

----------Cech---

----Iva JT Luiz Ash

--------Rami Ess---

Willian Oscar Hazard

----------Eto'o------

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

I just don't want to see us playing that negative crap like in the United game. Go out there, fight and play football.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

----------Cech-------
----Iva JT Luiz Ash----
--------Rami Ess/Lamps-----
Schurrle Oscar Hazard
----------Eto'o/Torres------

[The Mak 4,459]

Schurrle should start and most likely will since he was rested. He's shown the most amount of penetration out of all our wide AMs. Ok, no end product yet but at least he's finding himself in those positions - which is more than others can say. He was fantastic against Bayern and should have a similar amount of space to run into in this game.

[Wimbledonblue 94]

Ahh I miss the days when this fixture was a guaranteed win. It is no longer 3 point lane unfortunately. I would start Torres and Mata for this but expect Jose to go with Eto'o, Hazard, Oscar and Schuurllleeeee.

I'm expecting a bore draw.

[Blue Warrior 109]

Quality of opposition is king, Spurs have had a relatively easy start in comparison to us. Winning there is what we do, No surrender. Stop the fear mongering and lets test this relatively untested team in the heat of battle.

[ZOS 580]

their best Center Back partnership = ours

our full backs = theirs

their pivot >>>> ours

our AMs >>> theirs

their striker > ours

our manager > theirs

I think they have the edge

[polo 18]

^{Against Cardiff they were no impressive then why not}

[didierforever 7,349]

cech

iva cahill JT cole

rambo mikel

schurlle oscar hazard

etoo

the team that started fulham will probably start this match too. hazard HAS to have a great game. they will dominate us in the middle of the pitch with the likes of dembele, paulinho, eriksen. i dont know how good lamela's work rate is, so hazard might get a chance to go up against the mightily overrated walker. remember how mata OWNED him last year!!!

[John1611 77]

I think Eto'o is obviously starting this game since he was rested in the cup yesterday. If Mou had Torres in mind starting at the weekend he would have taken him off and put Eto'o on at 60/70mins.

I know a lot of people want Torres to start, but it's not happening.

[John1611 77]

their best Center Back partnership = ours

our full backs = theirs

their pivot >>>> ours

our AMs >>> theirs

their striker > ours

our manager > theirs

I think they have the edge

You forgot our keeper>>>theirs.

We have the edge on paper, though our recent poor form could cost us.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

I'm much more worried against teams that will park the bus than against the likes of Tottenham. Very confident we'll get the win. They'll have spaces behind them and we'll exploit them. And their midfield is no where near as good as people are making it out to be. Rami will be a miss, but even with Mikel-Lamps we'll still win. COYB! :CFC: