Closed Chelsea v Schalke

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Cech

Azpi - Iva - JT - Cole

Ramires - Essien

Hazard - Oscar - Schurrle

Torres

And if we are down by a goal:

Cech

Iva - JT - Cole

Ramires - Essien

Hazard - Oscar - Schurrle

Torres - Eto

Essien is not even in our CL squad.

It's funny how people start imagining stuff when they're desperate

[YouNameIt 1,511]

Essien is not even in our CL squad.

It's funny how people start imagining stuff when they're desperate

That's crazy, had no idea.

[thekid9 418]

Cech

Azpi Cahill Terry Bertrand

Mikel Ramires

William Oscar Hazard

Torres

[the Blues 11 19]

Lets forget Saturday and look ahead to beating Schalke at the Bridge. I would like to see Mikel get a run out and I think he will.

[DDA 9,690]

Drop Hazard, drop Lamps, drop Cech and tell Luiz it's his last game for us if he doesn't defend like a beast :-)

[Special Juan 27,429]

Take out the Newcastle frustrations on this lot.....4-0

[JamesGodfrey 87]

I'm expecting a few changes to be made to our starting 11 on wednesday. I reckon luiz, mata and lampard will all drop to the bench. I still think Hazard is a much more influential winger when Bertrand is playing over cole though. He offers us so more offensively that ashley ever does.

Cech

Iva-cahill-terry-cole

Rami-Mikel

Willian-Oscar-Hazard

Torres

[didierforever 7,349]

REMEMBER REMEMBER, WE ARE SHIT IN NOVEMBER...

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Take out the Newcastle frustrations on this lot.....4-0

That's what we said about the Basel game after we lost to Everton.

This will be a harder fixture than the away leg, as they will just sit back and play on the counter - they've seen Everton, Newcastle and Basel all do it to great effect, so why can't they do the same?

[Special Juan 27,429]

That's what we said about the Basel game after we lost to Everton.

This will be a harder fixture than the away leg, as they will just sit back and play on the counter - they've seen Everton, Newcastle and Basel all do it to great effect, so why can't they do the same?

Who said it?

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

I'd go for:

Cech

Azpi Cahill Terry Bertrand

Rambo Mikel

Schurrle Mata Willian

Torres

Highly doubt I'll get much of that selection but it's just nice to see it on paper

Come on Chelsea! Bounce back just like Alan Partridge!

[Jase 43,479]

Who said it?

The members here and many of them. See the Basel pre-game thread. Many just expected us to thrash Basel because we lost to Everton before that but look what happened..

[LeonDavis23 371]

fark we just beat this 3-0, will any of their players who missed last time play in this one (huntelaar, farfan, ?!? raul ?!?, etc.) ?

[LeonDavis23 371]

REMEMBER REMEMBER, WE ARE SHIT IN NOVEMBER...

thank god there is an international break this year

[didierforever 7,349]

thank god there is an international break this year

yup. its good we have to only play 4 more matches in november. out of which 2 are at home. if we win both the ones at home, the away match at basek becomes almost inconsequential unless they beat schalke away from home, which is not gonna happen.

the 4th match is whu (away), thats going to be one disappointment...

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Who said it?

Everyone. Myself included. I think we assumed that, after a bad performance, we could, and would, instantly correct our wrongdoings and annihilate the next opponent we faced.

[Leif 6,006]

raul ?!?

well no he probably won't play

[zolayes 14,489]

REMEMBER REMEMBER, WE ARE SHIT IN NOVEMBER...

which guy is on the bonfire tomorrow night??