Closed Man City v Chelsea

[iseah100 5,612]

No parking the bus. Chelsea will try to win, I think. Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Cole, Matic, Luiz, Willian, Oscar, Hazard, Ba. Should be the line up, Lampard would work instead of Luiz, possibly. Schürrle could get the start possibly. Man City is gonna find it incredibly hard to run us out of the Ethiad like they did Tottenham, Arsenal, Man U, etc. We're more well rounded, have the better defense. Man City's defense is shit and Hazard/Oscar will slice them up. Chelsea win 2-1.

[NiclasCFC 2,582]

Cech; Azpi, Cahill, Terry, Cole; Matic, Ramires; Hazard, Oscar, Willian; Eto'o

Cole vs Navas? Oh lord please have mercy!

[Alan Partridge 1,124]

Is Ba even match fit? He hasn't had a run of games in ages, he will be so rusty

[oman43 45]

No parking the bus. Chelsea will try to win, I think.

Everything coming out of Chelsea is that we will. The ramires interview on the website for example. But JM up to now has decided to be happy with a point away from home and try and beat them at home, which in the case of Man City we did. So rather disappointedly I think we will err on the side of caution. What JM has done is attempt to take the pressure off the players, we shall see what tactics he deploys but with our team we will always be attacking to some extent.

[agbotek 7]

If there is any manager I trust, it's mourinho. I'm sure he has something up his sleeves for City. My observation is this: city are struggling defensively. If u look at their past matches this season, they win only by scoring more than the opposition . They have very few clean sheets. They go all out to attack and that will be their undoing. Chelsea on the other hand win by scoring one or two goals, but concede very little and sometimes keep clean sheets. Showing our defence is better than City's. I there fore predict a 3 -1 win in favour of chelsea .

[samzilla 517]

Cole vs Navas? Oh lord please have mercy!

it's okay...every time navas gets past centre pitch he'll get homesick and turn back

[Excalibur KTBFFH 109]

"Parking the bus" It seems even Chelsea fans have bought into the stupidity

[The_Flash 1,144]

Just seeing the highlights of arsenal game, we really NEED to win tomorrow to stay in touching distance

Come on Chelsea please do it for us blues

[Sovieticus 743]

Salah is available right?

[Jase 43,479]

Salah is available right?

Yes but doubt he'll play at all.

[Azpinator 2,325]

If Salah actually plays I have a feeling he'll have a memorable debut or something.

[Tomo 21,733]

"Parking the bus" It seems even Chelsea fans have bought into the stupidity

Its the media for you, it's genuinely amazing that some can't differentiate the difference between parking the bus and playing a tactful percentage game.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Best defense vs best attack, a proper showdown.

The PL Super Bowl

Well, the Seahawks (the best defence) won comprehensively tonight so I'm pretty sure we're winning this comprehensively as well now.

[iseah100 5,612]

"Parking the bus" It seems even Chelsea fans have bought into the stupidity

Its the media for you, it's genuinely amazing that some can't differentiate the difference between parking the bus and playing a tactful percentage game.

There's nothing tactful about sitting behind the ball and being content with a draw from the jump. The point of a game is to win.

[Yipo Ran 73]

we fail to get full points on Old Trafford , Emirates , White hart lane. So a draw is good enough.

[Tomo 21,733]

There's nothing tactful about sitting behind the ball and being content with a draw from the jump. The point of a game is to win.

The way we approached the game in OT and The Emirates is the same way Fergie has approached big away games in the past, try and win if you can but also be wary that a point away to a title rival (or in Uniteds case who we thought would be one) is far from a disaster.

United and Arsenal as the home teams were just as cautious and didn't commit because they were shit scared off us contering, it's beyond bizarre how that is never adknowleged.

Compare how we went at Liverpool and brought an extra striker on against City both at home to United and Arsenal when they hosted us.

[Bernard Anim Micheal 0]

great

[kellzfresh 7,229]

"Parking the bus" It seems even Chelsea fans have bought into the stupidity

Exactly!! Mourinho doesn't park the bus with 11 players on the pitch. Infact the only time he did was against barcelona with 10 men inter and some matches with 10 men madrid, and extratime against bayern after ramires got red card.

Us with Dimatteo and westham were true examples of parking the plane. When you hoof the ball away everytime and stay only in your 18box is parking like Dimatteo did against barcelona.

Under mourinho we defend tactically and make it difficult for strong teams to get clear chances and then we attack with speed on the counter. This is called counter attacking football

How even chelsea fans have bought into the idea that mourinho parks the bus because the media says it is puzzling.