Closed Sunderland v Chelsea

[Spike 12,049]

Quite frankly it's begginning to annoy me that all the games have been on working days for me, Mr. Shankly.

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

Okay. I won't post a team of my own because most of you guys have covered what I want. Plus I don't think Jose reads my posts *sobs*.

Will be tougher than we may think based on league positions. But I'm hopeful for a 1-0 or even 2-0 win. Torres got a double there last season so I expect him to start. Use Ba and his physical presence against Stoke. Then maybe play Eto'o against Steaua. Every striker's a winner!!

A Schurrle sighting would be nice too. Just sayin'

Come on Chelsea!!

[MHL 47 378]

Attack their weaknesses.

Play down the sides of the centre-halves (O'Shea & Wes Brown), get the wide midfielders to do what it says on the tin and stay wide, don't narrow their defence.

Keep Cattermole away from Mata (if he starts) to provide space for Mata to operate in, by deploying a decoy runner (Ramires?). Play balls into channels for the forward, if the full-back tucks in tight to his centre-half use the wide men.

I get the feeling Poyet will play 5 at the back and this might be similar to playing at home and trying to break down a 9-man defence, with them playing on the break.

One of our better performances beats their best, so tactics and all that aside, the players need to turn up firstly and foremostly. A small niggling doubt is that Jose might be tempted to make a few changes to keep us fresh, the doubt being does this break any continuity we have?

[aerlgenx 49]

GAME DAY =) all we need is 3 points....letz GO BLUES =)

[AndersonBLUE 819]

Not shown on telly is it ?

[GeeMon 34]

5:30 am kick off over here in Australia. Please don't be a depressing day in the office.

With Oscar injured it will be interesting to see Mata in #10 position. I'd love to see at least Schurlle or Willian beside him, as another member pointed out it will be fascinating to see him with the two widest players we have.

KTBFFH!

[Thendo 1,088]

I really hope Schurrle gets a start tonight, I've been really impressed by him so far this season and he hasn't played for quite some time now.

[davecarefree 1]

Hi folks, first time poster, going to the game tonight, unfortunatly a solo mission for me! Any blues around Newcastle or Sunderland this afternoon?

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[DanishBlue 426]

Welcome!

[ZanSnake 1,211]

no midweek match of the day, or is there??? :eyebrows:

[zyzz 711]

no midweek match of the day, or is there??? :eyebrows:

22:35 GMT :blue scalf:

[Korea 734]

Watch as the game goes 0-0 and Sunderland longballs it up top to Jozy and win 1-0....

I expect Ki to have a million fouls this game (rambo like)... Good game to look at Ki for Chelsea...

[Mouri_Matic 560]

Can you guys imagine what will happen if we draw/lose this and Arsenal win... Eruption on here and in real life

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,761]

Watch as the game goes 0-0 and Sunderland longballs it up top to Jozy and win 1-0....

I expect Ki to have a million fouls this game (rambo like)... Good game to look at Ki for Chelsea...

Hasnt Jozy been Benched since the fascist was fired?

[yuvala 2,167]

Can you guys imagine what will happen if we draw/lose this and Arsenal win... Eruption on here and in real life

We really cant afford that.. anything less than 3 pts and we're fucked, really fucked. (if Arsenal win ofc)

[aerlgenx 49]

not an easy game..hope 3 points is our after this game =)

[Jase 43,479]

Chelsea team to face @SAFCofficial: Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry ©, Azpilicueta; Ramires, Lampard; Willian, Mata, Hazard; Torres.

[iceboy 992]

Chelsea FC ‏@chelseafc28s

Chelsea team to face @SAFCofficial: Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry ©, Azpilicueta; Ramires, Lampard; Willian, Mata, Hazard; Torres.