Closed Chelsea v Man United

[The Skipper 20,593]

My XI with rumours flying about that Lampard is fit for this one...:

Cech

Azpi - Cahill - Terry - Cole

Ramires - Lampard

Willian - Oscar - Hazard

Torres

Match preview coming up soon.

[thekid9 418]

We manage to grind out result and win a couple of games and all of a sudden we are "so much better" than the defending champions and winners of 5 of the last 7 league titles smh.

Go Support Utd then ! Fool.

[thekid9 418]

Cech

Azpi Cahill Terry Cole

Matic/Luiz Ramires

Willian Oscar Hazard

Torres

[We Hate Scouse 10,261]

Go Support Utd then ! Fool.

I think he already does, the amount of times he has mentioned that they are the defending champions is ridiculous. No proper Chelsea fan would constantly bang on about it.

[haranr 485]

Still a very tough game. We must not lose any points.

[haranr 485]

Cech

Azpi Cahill Terry Cole

Matic/Luiz Ramires

Willian Oscar Hazard

Torres

With Matic we seem so much more frightening!

[Beirut_Blues 306]

No better time to play Utd. They are in pathetic form and nothing without RvP and Rooney. Even if the latter makes it into the starting lineup, which I assume Moyes will force him too, I think we can cope with one dangerous player who is not even at full fitness.

On paper, we are head and shoulders above them. But this is the kind of game where utd's luck can be a factor. All we can do is not underestimate a wounded beast and run at them.

Our midfield has been immense in all of the recent fixtures against them. Esp Mikel-Ramires have owned Carrick, Cleverly etc every time. This will be vital, cos Moyes is surely shitting his pants in fear of Hazard, Oscar, Willian, who are all in great form so he will be try to double them on the flanks. So if we get control of the midfield, we can slice through their open central defence. Once our AMs get past the midfield, running at their D will cos them various problems.

The only real question is the striker, cos all of them ahve been kinda average. Torres has been scoring in recent weeks, but he always fucks it up against ManU, so I'd rather have Eto'o, cos Utd will be tight and Eto'o is best in tight spaces, even though his chance conversion has been poor. Jose will surely choose Torres though

This.

[Special Juan 27,104]

The best of a bad situation is Torres to start for me.

[Tomo 21,684]

He threw Eto'o on against City but replaced Hazard and still stuck with the 4-2-3-1 rather than say 4-4-2. If anything, it was just almost a like-for-like replacement attacking wise and hardly anything changed.

As for against Arsenal back then, it was arguably the momentum that carried us through rather than any (significant) risk being taken (the changes only happened when it was still 0-0 with Robben and SWP brought on to stretch the play).

Maybe not risks in terms off 3 at the back but i can see us going for it late on if level and risk a united player doing a Flamini.

[Marvin123 483]

His decline is unprecedented as he's never been a defender that relied on pace. it's fun seeing him struggle.

Pace was his main attribute, read Fergies book he explains him exactly

[Sidzeret 2,257]

Maybe we could see Matic for this one- definitely not gonna start but could come off the bench. Exciting

[didierforever 7,349]

matic played a "big" match in this weekend against porto. he is match fit, so dont see why he cant start against utd.

[AndersonBLUE 819]

Not sure if it's a good idea to throw Matic in the starting lineup or not. Depends how well he does in training I suppose.

[thekid9 418]

I would be VERY surprised if Jose starts Matic , but nothing stopping him!

[didierforever 7,349]

bring them on bitches!!!

[xnaed 17]

Lets see if its an autoMatic selection versus united

[Toli 977]

according to dailymail, rooney is unlikely to be fit for the game.

[iceboy 992]

No Rooney and RVP for them. Fantastic.