Closed Chelsea v Man United

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

I could see this could become a Swansea like game back then when they are second and unbeaten. What's missing is just Costa. But we have Remy.

[Viper22 2,418]

If Remy is fit, I reckon it'll be a tight 2-1 or 1-0 win.

If he isn't and we play Didier up top.... 0-0 all day, and tbh i'll be happy with that.

I'm actually happy to start Ivan in this game, think we need his aerial prowess.

-------------------Courtois---------------------

--Ivanovic--Zouma--Terry--Azpiliceuta--

---------------------Mikel-----------------------

----------Matic------------Fabregas----------

-Willian-------------------------------Hazard-

-------------------Remy/DD-------------------

Subs: Cech, Luis, Cahill, Ramires, Oscar, Cuadrado, DD/Solanke.

For me.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

It's almost telling in some ways that whenever we play the big teams, we can pick out like 5-7 players who are a threat to us. But when we try to see which of our players can be a threat to them, there are only like 2-3 players to choose from - e.g. Hazard, Fabregas and Costa.

And then we win anyway!

[Parky 739]

What about this ?

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

-------------------Courtois---------------------

--Ivanovic--Cahill--Terry--Azpiliceuta--

------------------Mikel/Zouma--------------------

----------Matic------------Fabregas----------

-Willian-------------------------------Hazard-

-------------------Remy----------------------

[kellzfresh 7,229]

We should play 4-3-3 like we did against tottenham in the final

But with mikel-Matic-fabregas in midfield 3

[Kezza 1,965]

A Young is shite. He had the game of his life against City, he'll dissappear against us. Id much rather have Willian any day of the week!.

Fellaini, meh we can deal with him, he's pretty predictable. If our holding midfielders aren't lazy like Yaya then we should be okay.

Only player I'm worried about is Rooney.

[Styles 9,790]

Ashley Young almost always embarrasses Ivanovic who has no idea how to mark him.

[Sheva. 5,373]

Ashley Young almost always embarrasses Ivanovic who has no idea how to mark him.

I'm dreading it. Plus Fellaini attaching himself to Azpi from his crosses.

[Styles 9,790]

I'm dreading it. Plus Fellaini attaching himself to Azpi from his crosses.

Might as well play Azpi RB so he can give Young a much harder game and Ivanovic LB to combat Fellani.

It's not as if we'd be losing anything by making them switch sides; they're both black holes offensively.

[Jase 43,479]

Ashley Young almost always embarrasses Ivanovic who has no idea how to mark him.

Ivanovic, generally, doesn't really know what to do when facing up against pacey, tricky wingers. Tends to either, stick to tight with the player or stand like 5-6 yards of him. And the last thing that we need on Saturday is Ivanovic not putting pressure on the ball and allow crosses to come into the box with Fellaini around.

[thekid9 418]

Keep in mind that these if they are the strip designs, are not the player (adizero) versions, which are a lot slimmer and better fitting

if you lay any replica strip flat out it doesn't look that amazing! It's meant to be worn.

The Away kit is the pick of the bunch!

[CurlyHairLikeLuiz 1,625]

I think we need Iva to have aerial presence when defending corners, but we need Azpi's defensive ability to deal with Ashley Young's crosses. And we can't play him on the left as I don't want to see him trying to win an aerial duel at the posts with that geezer. We need Luis too as if they play Blind and Fellaini together on Hazard's side, Hazard will be squeezed out of the game so we'll need Luis to pull men away and allow him to work. So we'll have Iva as RW, Azpi RB, Luis LB.

Not sure if we'll need Zouma in midfield, but thinking about it it may be a good idea allowing Matic and Cesc to press higher.

And if that isn't enough, Oscar will be Cesc's replacement, especially if we're holding a lead.

[lionsden 4,689]

Zouma, a defender in Midfield, when we have natural midfielders like matic, mikel and ramires available for selection. I can see Jose's overly cautious and unnecessarily negative approach and mindset is starting to rub off on some of our fans. It's contagious. I was just trying to digest the Zouma to play upfront as a target man upfront when there are other less drastic measures nonsense and now this. While we are at it, let's bench Hazard and play Luis on the left wing to counter the threat of their attackers.

[hjperdeath 2,226]

I don't even get the whole appeal from a tactical stand-point of playing Zouma to nullify Fellaini's presence. Firstly its not even enough, secondly it is going to hurt how Chelsea will probably want to set up, which yes does include playing more defensive.