Closed Chelsea v Maccabi Tel-Aviv

[LeonDavis23 371]

felipe luis has a better chance of starting than baba

[hamad138 190]

Baba has to start man but there are rumours he is injured

[zolayes 14,489]

Why change ANYTHING ??? If its NOT broke DON'T fix it

[King11Didier 916]

Do you even know he is charge of Chelsea to put Azpi at RB?
Even if he plays Azpi at RB and Baba at LB, I'm sure Ivanovic will start against arsenal.
No chance of RLC or Remy starting too. I can see Mikel starting again next to Matic and Willian for Cesc or Pedro. And maybe Flacao for Costa. 2-1 win or 1-1 draw and on to the next game when I think the fate of Mou will be clear after it.

[Hybrid Angel 2,130]

Apparantly they are a team that fight and defend till the last second. They also beat Basel. They've got fast forwards too. I expect us to win, but a defeat against a side with this profile given our form wouldn't be surprising.

[Lampard Legend 3]

Rajkovic

Shpungin - Tibi - Ben Haim1 - Ben Harush

Alberman

Mitrovic'- Igiebor

Ben Chaim2 - - - - - - Rikan

Zahavi(fake 9)

ben chaim(he so fast) vs ivanovic?

Strong mid

Zahavi is very Dangerous(should be 99 finish in fifa)

If Hazard will play against ben harush its will be easy for him

[cosmicway 1,333]

The Israelis scrounged a draw at the bridge some years ago.

[Oscar 441]

Might as well start falcao and remy with rlc, kenedy, mikel and ramires if fit...

However, I'm sure Jose is worried about his job and won't risk losing wenesday and to arsenal..

[Hybrid Angel 2,130]

Baba starts, but Azpi will be dropped instead of him just like last year with Filipe Luis. Jose will never drop Ivanovic. I'll be glad to be proven wrong though.

[Kendrick 339]

If we won't win this one, the media in Israel will go mental. They are already publishing articles about how much we suck right now.
I can already imagine what would happen afterwards.

Ugh tough week ahead of us. I hate Maccabi.

[Polo7 3,496]

Ill eat a kitten if Ivanovic starts.....Ill fucking do it Jose!!!!

[Laylabelle 9,376]

Ill eat a kitten if Ivanovic starts.....Ill fucking do it Jose!!!!

Get ready to...:-P

[didierforever 7,349]

Ill eat a kitten if Ivanovic starts.....Ill fucking do it Jose!!!!

so basically u r 3 matches late. i had the same blow up against wba (which we somehow won) and u called me a moaner, remember.

anyways, welcome to the dark side brother.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Apparently their fans don't like refugees.

If I'm not mistaken that's actually an old photo that some sites wrongly reporting as related to the recent refugees to Europe crisis. Much more likely that is a somewhat old banner aimed at the African asylum seekers in Israel.

That said, the irony and lack of self awareness of Israelis not wanting migrants and refugees are just staggering considering that the majority of Israelis themselves are at most second or third generation migrants and refugees.

But let's not turn this into a politics thread...

Ill eat a kitten if Ivanovic starts.....Ill fucking do it Jose!!!!

What fault has the kitten committed in all of this?!!

[Beepu 1,714]

If I see Ivanovic in the starting line up I don't know what I would do.

[Melanicus 5,208]

If I was manager:

Begovic

Azpilicueta-Cahill-Zouma-Baba

Matic-RLC

Traore-Oscar-Pedro

Remy

[Jase 43,479]

And Mourinho's pre-match presser will be at 12pm UK time.

[yuvala 2,167]

Is Oscar fit ?