Closed Schalke v Chelsea

[Korea 734]

mang, both arsenal and Chelsea games are not on tv......

le sigh...

[Sidzeret 2,257]

You're right. Either way I'd still love to see 4-3-3.

I actually wouldn't mind starting KdB regardless of how we lineup. What a huge boost to his confidence it would be to get the nod in a big game like this. It could be just like Mata where if he does well here he'd start against City too.

Absolutely.....wouldn't mind him laying in the pivot, even.

Rami-De Bruyne might work but too risky to try it out now.

[Korea 734]

Is it really 4-2-3-1?

I feel with OScar playing as cam, its always 4-3-3 even though the game might start out 4-2-3-1...

[darrus 422]

Contrary to what people said, I don't think that's Jose. He had black Adidas trainers and a black track suit top on yesterday during training.

You are right, that's Silvino Louro on the picture.

[NishC300 1,865]

Just under 3 hours still kick off! Speaking of 3, Mourinho has a real dilemma of who to play in the front 3.

[Hazardous Oscar 8]

we need to start fast and attack them from the first minute....score two goals and try to catch then on counter.....hopefully we'll see Mikel-Ramires pivot as it's crucial to dominate the center of the park....

[Hazardous Oscar 8]

Just under 3 hours still kick off! Speaking of 3, Mourinho has a real dilemma of who to play in the front 3.

why dilemma?....Hazard and Oscar are obvious choices....the third one will either be Schürrle (though he's not that good on the right) or Mata....KDB can be a surprise selection as well...

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Hopefuly Schurrle puts good shift now that he is in form and knows Schalke well. A goal or two

[DJames 729]

Schurrle is available to play. Mourinho might just start him then

[aerlgenx 49]

well2x game day =) excited here 1am here 2 hours till kick off =)

[didierforever 7,349]

MUST NOT LOSE GAME. but seeing how depleted schalke is, we should be winning this.

[meetdoscar 335]

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

Iva----cahill----Terry-----Bert

---Ramires-----Mikel(Essien/Kdb)

Hazard---Oscar----schurrle(willian/Mata)

---------Eto'o(Torres)

This would be sweet

[Namika 922]

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Julian Draxler on CTV at 6.30pm.

BILD claim that Andre Schurrle and Samuel Eto'o will both start against Schalke tonight.

[Magic Lamps 11,655]

This should have been the hardest fixture in the group, but considering who is out for Schalke it is more the 2nd easiest. I expect them to be extremely motivated, their 2nd gear will surely try to impress the manager in such a spectacular fixture. But maybe this will exactly play in our cards. We let them come and counter them to death.

[bushman 2,043]

MUST NOT LOSE GAME. but seeing how depleted schalke is, we should be winning this.

Come on now. There is no doubt Chelsea must win tonight.

[zyzz 711]

According to sky germany schürrle starts

[The Mak 4,459]

His crossing isn't as bad as people make out, but who exactly is he supposed to aim for? We don't have a a Drogba anymore.

Great, by this logic we shouldn't be crossing the ball altogether because we don't have Drogba...

If Brana decides to cross the ball he should at least be putting it in a dangerous area, with allowance for a few wayward ones. But he doesn't. Almost everyone of them just gives possession back to the opponent, killing any of our attacking momentum built up to that point. He should just give it to someone who can cross and provide them with support.

It's not just as easy as saying Azpi crosses better ergo we should play him.

I didn't say that. I was just highlighting how some people are viewing the issue since you find it so 'confusing'....I also said Dave is a better attacker in general, not just at crossing the ball.

[Barbara 15,149]

Apologies for the late response. You could use information from the match press kits by UEFA below when you are previewing our Champions League games next time.

http://www.uefa.org/mediaservices/presskits/index.html

totally forgot to thank you for that, Jay.

Great stuff!

Does anything similar exist for EPL?