West Ham vs Chelsea

[.sum41 229]

Please don't play in the striped shirt!

Edited December 19, 2009 by .sum41

[Rubber bullets 1,183]

Please don't play in the striped shirt!

No we must play in that strip shirt and win so it can be proven that no curse exist. You can't runaway from your fears, especially one so meaningless.

[James 5,140]

We've mostly played in White at Upton park in recent years so i expect us to play in the white away shirt tomorrow.

If we're 6 points clear at the top and West Ham are bottom tomorrow evening it will be a quality weekend. I hope we take advantage of Man Utd dropping points for once.

KTBFFH

[Shane 2,275]

Lets tell the facts here.

We're 3 points ahead with a game in hand.

Win today and we're 6 points ahead going into Christmas, a very healthy place to be.

MUST WIN, COB

[ChelseaChick 430]

C'mon Chels!! Its going to be a tough game away from home but with drogba back fit hopefully we can get all three points!

[Kajo 176]

i heard that Drogba is fit again with him we go for win   :D

[Ray. 217]

I'm not able to make this game as I've got to go to a Carol Service just as the match finishes. I know where i'd rather be... Come on lads let's widen the gap at the top even further. :blue scalf: Just hope I can get on the computer for long enough to watch the match

Edited December 20, 2009 by Blueray

[n3o7 0]

guys, is it ok if I post a streaming link for this match here?

[n3o7 0]

i heard that Drogba is fit again with him we go for win :D

is he starting?

[James 5,140]

Should be a stream here http://atdhe.net/11167/watch-west-ham-vs-Chelsea for anyone not going to the game or who does'nt have sky.

Come on Chels

[Rubber bullets 1,183]

My dad will be devastated if we win, West Ham will be in the relegation zone by Christmas, and usually that means a club will stay there by the end of the sean and be relegated.

Edited December 20, 2009 by sam81292

[n3o7 0]

Should be a stream here http://atdhe.net/111...-ham-vs-Chelsea for anyone not going to the game or who does'nt have sky.

Come on Chels

oh yeah, I know, but that stream always stop in the middle of the match, try this one, you will love it, never stopped, even during the commercial:

http://tv.indonewyork.com

channel 1, password: indah

try it, you will see

[Laylabelle 9,296]

Team news:

West Ham: Green, Faubert, Gabbidon, Upson, Ilunga, Noble, Kovac, Parker, Collison, Franco, Diamanti.

Subs: Stech, Jimenez, Spector, Da Costa, Nouble, Tomkins, Stanislas.

Chelsea: Cech, Ivanovic, Carvalho, Terry, Ashley Cole, Ballack, Lampard, Malouda, Joe Cole, Drogba, Kalou.

Subs: Hilario, Mikel, Zhirkov, Paulo Ferreira, Sturridge, Alex, Belletti.

Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral)

Analka injured

Edited December 20, 2009 by Laylabelle

[Rubber bullets 1,183]

Chelsea squad list

Chelsea: Cech, Ivanovic, Carvalho, Terry, Ashley Cole, Ballack, Lampard, Malouda, Joe Cole, Drogba, Kalou.

Subs: Hilario, Mikel, Zhirkov, Paulo Ferreira, Sturridge, Alex, Belletti.

Hopefully Zhirkov and Sturridge will get some playing time.

[the wes 7,212]

Nicolas Anelka is unavailable through injury and is replaced by Salomon Kalou who makes his 100th Chelsea start.

Michael Ballack replaces John Mikel Obi as the holding midfielder with Florent Malouda coming in on the left of the diamond. Joe Cole will play behind the strikers and there is return in defence for Ricardo Carvalho who makes his 200th Chelsea appearance.

Frank Lampard makes his 450th appearance with Didier Drogba registering his 150th Premier League appearance and Ashley Cole his 100th.

For West Ham, Matthew Upson returns in central defence in place of James Tompkins. Chelsea Academy product Frank Nouble is on the bench.

Chelsea are expected to line up in the following 4-diamond-2 formation:

1 Petr Cech

2 Branislav Ivanovic

26 John Terry ©

6 Ricardo Carvalho

3 Ashley Cole

13 Michael Ballack

8 Frank Lampard

15 Florent Malouda

10 Joe Cole

21 Salomon Kalou

11 Didier Drogba.

Substitutes: 40 Hilario, 19 Paulo Ferreira, 33 Alex, 35 Juliano Belletti, 12 John Mikel Obi, 18 Yury Zhirkov, 23 Daniel Sturridge.

West Ham away are expected to line up in the following 4-diamond-2 formation:

Green; Faubert, Gabbidon, Upson, Ilunga; Parker ©; Collison, Noble; Kovac; Diamanti, Franco.

Substitutes: Stech, Spector, Tomkins, Da Costa, Stanislas, Jimenez, Nouble.

The referee is Mike Dean.

[Laylabelle 9,296]

A clean sheet be nice today..make a change from late

[Milan 17,835]

A chance of making the gap 6 pts is hopefully enough to motivate. Hope to see Zhirkov and Sturridge too.

[Steve 10,227]

Come on lads, lets win this. Vital game in the title run. Win this and we go 6 points clear. Im sure thats enough motivation that the lads will need to win this.