Chelsea vs Ipswich

[ZAPHOD2319 4,604]

PRE/POST-MATCH DISCUSSION, LIVE CHAT AND ANALYSIS

 

 

 

 

Sunday 13rd April 2025

Premier League
Stamford Bridge
 2 PM UK

[Laylabelle 9,462]

Friends invited me to go with her to this..bit hmmm but guess it's a day out and free..hopefully won't be tragic or like watching paint dry...

[nyikolajevics 2,617]

13 hours ago, Laylabelle said:

Friends invited me to go with her to this..bit hmmm but guess it's a day out and free..hopefully won't be tragic or like watching paint dry...

 

Cheers to your friend, and enjoy! Lately my friends invite me to watch baby photos or bitch about worklplace. Even if recent days the team is painful to watch, still good gig!

 

Please cheer out a win somehow.. City hosts Palace, Forest hosts Everton, Newcastle hosts United. Good chance all 3 of our big rivals would win.

[Laylabelle 9,462]

5 hours ago, nyikolajevics said:

 

Cheers to your friend, and enjoy! Lately my friends invite me to watch baby photos or bitch about worklplace. Even if recent days the team is painful to watch, still good gig!

 

Please cheer out a win somehow.. City hosts Palace, Forest hosts Everton, Newcastle hosts United. Good chance all 3 of our big rivals would win.

Yeah i would grudge paying these days. Haven't been for a few years last games was the Vialli charity. Just cost and travel cost and then they don't play like they care! Hopefully tommrow we will find out level again 🤣 saying that been with her a few times and not sure if seen a win soooo maybe not haha

[ZAPHOD2319 4,604]

Everton takes down Forest! We just need to do our part.

[Vesper 29,475]

we simply MUST win this game or a top 5 EPL finish is in real peril

and we cannot 100 per cent count on beating either Real Betis or Fiorentina in the Conference League final

they are both really solid teams (by far the two best other teams in the whole tournament, despite Betis not playing well in the group stages due to now healed injuries, I said that from the very beginning) and either could deffo defeat us in a one game final

we dodged a bullet not having to play both (they will very likely play each other in the semis)

[nyikolajevics 2,617]

2 hours ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

Everton takes down Forest! We just need to do our part.

 

We are down to 6th, and Newcastle can take over us by winning game behind. Situation is still in our hands, but if we cannot beat Ipswich at home.. Then we don't deserve CL at all.

Now I feel: City finding their form, they will leave us behind and secure 3rd place, but we will keep 4th or 5th place. Forest visiting Spurs next week, Newcastle playing with United and Aston Villa, Villa will visit City then. Some good fixtures for us, we should be in proper position before the last few games.

 

 

[Laylabelle 9,462]

4 hours ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

Everton takes down Forest! We just need to do our part.

We have to win this cause our fixtures after are hideous...Fulham.Everton. Liverpool. Newcastle. Man U and Forest. Everyone we dropped points in this season.. mean we also did Ipswich soooo guess the run starts now

[LAM09 6,887]

36 minutes ago, Laylabelle said:

We have to win this cause our fixtures after are hideous...Fulham.Everton. Liverpool. Newcastle. Man U and Forest. Everyone we dropped points in this season.. mean we also did Ipswich soooo guess the run starts now

Teams on our tail have won (Newcastle will probably go all out with the recent Howe situation) while the teams ahead have dropped points. With Thursday's fixture almost a forgone conclusion, we need to field our strongest XI from the start, none of this nonsense of resting players for nothing. 

You can just sense Delap will do something, tho.

2 hours ago, nyikolajevics said:

We are down to 6th, and Newcastle can take over us by winning game behind. Situation is still in our hands, but if we cannot beat Ipswich at home.. Then we don't deserve CL at all.

Now I feel: City finding their form, they will leave us behind and secure 3rd place, but we will keep 4th or 5th place. Forest visiting Spurs next week, Newcastle playing with United and Aston Villa, Villa will visit City then. Some good fixtures for us, we should be in proper position before the last few games.

Our fixture against Forest on the final day of the season could well be a decider as previously mentioned. We had it in our own hands prior to the CL final but choked. This time, there won't be a backup plan, and with the extra spot certain, finishing outside of the Top 5 would be embarrassing.

Edited Saturday at 21:11 by LAM09

[Laylabelle 9,462]

11 hours ago, LAM09 said:

Teams on our tail have won (Newcastle will probably go all out with the recent Howe situation) while the teams ahead have dropped points. With Thursday's fixture almost a forgone conclusion, we need to field our strongest XI from the start, none of this nonsense of resting players for nothing. 

You can just sense Delap will do something, tho.

Our fixture against Forest on the final day of the season could well be a decider as previously mentioned. We had it in our own hands prior to the CL final but choked. This time, there won't be a backup plan, and with the extra spot certain, finishing outside of the Top 5 would be embarrassing.

 

11 hours ago, LAM09 said:

Teams on our tail have won (Newcastle will probably go all out with the recent Howe situation) while the teams ahead have dropped points. With Thursday's fixture almost a forgone conclusion, we need to field our strongest XI from the start, none of this nonsense of resting players for nothing. 

You can just sense Delap will do something, tho.

Our fixture against Forest on the final day of the season could well be a decider as previously mentioned. We had it in our own hands prior to the CL final but choked. This time, there won't be a backup plan, and with the extra spot certain, finishing outside of the Top 5 would be embarrassing.

Especially with being so close or in top 4 this whole time really. Know we've dropped a few times but always kept in touching distance..mainly cause others results so to miss out completely...

[Special Juan 27,629]

We have to win this as the Geordies play right after us and will beat United

Sanchez, Gusto, Tosin, Colwill Cucurella, Enzo, Caicedo, Madueke, Palmer, Neto Jackson

[Fulham Broadway 17,114]

Shows how far we've fallen under new ownership when 'we have to win this' is the mantra.

Few years ago it would be a shoe in

[King Kante 1,565]

36 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Shows how far we've fallen under new ownership when 'we have to win this' is the mantra.

Few years ago it would be a shoe in

I question how much we actually need to win this. Fact of the matter is with the way the manager sets us up and our fixtures, we aren't finishing in the top 5 anyway - especially with our run of fixtures. For me, we will be around 7-8th. Villa, City and Newcastle will all finish above us. Forest will likely do so as well, but may wobble enough to allow us 6th. Either way, it will be Ropey League next year, but that will be via the Conference League. 

Beating Ipswich doesn't change any of the above, as we're still going to bend over for Liverpool, Utd and Newcastle anyway and will likely get 3-5 points against Everton, Fulham and Forest as well. 

Edited 21 hours ago by King Kante

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Delap is on the bench

[Pizy 18,553]

If we don’t win this at home, in a must win game, against Ipswich who have their best player on the bench, then tbh Maresca should be sacked the moment the final whistle blows.

[NikkiCFC 8,126]

5:0 easy 

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Just now, NikkiCFC said:

5:0 easy 

Things are so tight we could definitely benefit from a bit more GD

I'll go with 1:0

We are not a high scoring team anymore but we have barely conceded goals recently.