Closed Chelsea v Porto

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Where is Ruben

[lucio 5,418]

fittingly shite squad selection, for his final game

[bababoom 4,478]

Ramires... where the hell is RLC? Jose never trusts young players, never has never will, disappointing.

'Clearly it is time. Not to play four, five or six kids - some are not ready - but Ruben is a case where he's more ready, and if everything goes normal during the next two weeks, he's a player to start the next game and a run of matches, to try and get that stability as a first-team choice' Oct 2015

"Next season, Ruben will not be a kid in the development process.He will be a first-team player, absolutely ready to play and compete. And we will do the same with two or three or four players." April 2015

Come on Jose ffs, live up to your word.

[Atlas Lion 1,223]

The lack of technical ability in that squad. My word. One more shit show before he departs

[Azul 1,615]

Roflmao, Jose...... no words lol

[manpe 10,861]

Team to face Porto: Courtois; Ivanovic, Zouma, Terry ©, Azpilicueta; Ramires, Matic; Willian, Oscar, Hazard; Diego Costa. #CFC

Good call playing Ramires instead of Fabregas. Not sure how Oscar keeps starting though.

Oh my... I can already imagine in my mind how bad our collective offensive cohesion will look like. How Costa starts after his tantrums and pathetic displays I don't know. Remy must be playing dead in trainings or something. Oscar's only function will be running and harassing opponents. Ivanovic will put in loads of unaddressed crosses, Costa will camp outside the box, Hazard will be forced to try and dribble past several players... etc. Predictable. Hats off if they make me eat my words and actually produce something unexpected.

Optimistically I will say 0-0 draw, but fuck that and let's go for the win!

[Bluelsthecolour 61]

Pedro for Oscar and Remy for Costa. Otherwise good bench

[kmk108 1,186]

September Tie:

Begovic

Ivanovic-Zouma-Cahill-Azpilicueta

Mikel-Fabregas

Pedro-Willian-Ramires

Costa

Today:

Courtois

Ivanovic-Zouma-Terry-Azpilicueta

Matic-Ramires

Willian-Oscar-Hazard

Costa

To be fair, I like this lineup much more than the first one...

[stroey 2,525]

[FabHazard 655]

Cuneyt cakir is the ref... Expect some dodgy decisions and red card

[The Power 147]

I would say that RLC and Remy should just go so they can actually play games elsewhere but Jose won't be in charge long

[The Chels 2,502]

How did Marca get the line-up for a Chelsea game so early? Casillas at it again

[I_Just_Blue_Myself 29]

Hazard is going to score today.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

The lack of technical ability in that squad. My word.

This is my biggest problem. No technical ability in the midfield of a big team like us. How do we expect to play good football lol

[kmk108 1,186]

This is my biggest problem. No technical ability in the midfield of a big team like us. How do we expect to play good football lol

Our midfield consists of Matic, Mikel, Fabregas, Ramires and RLC. What technical ability is there? There was no chance RLC was going to start a game with this much importance.

[firejose 9]

Why does Porto look 1000x better than us?

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

Good lord they have so much time and space on the ball. No pressure in the middle of the park.

[Superblue 6,370]

Any streams?