Chelsea vs Blackpool

[Drogba11CFC 108]

This is the lineup that the Mail predicts:

Cech

Ferreira Alex Terry Cole

Essien Mikel Ramires

Kalou Drogba Malouda

[kwylino 329]

GK Cech

Rb ivanovic

Cb Terry

Cb Alex

Lb Cole

Cm Ramires

Cm Essien

AM Lampard

CF/ Wing Kalou

CF (CE) Drogba

CF/Wing (L) Malouda

[Corlett 202]

I'll be there, Shed lower.

[DYC. 7,542]

Yes, the game should be for youngsters but playing a team of reserves is futile. We need some experienced heads in there, ie.:

Turnbull

Ferreira, Ivanovic, Bruma, van Aanholt

Essien

McEachran, Kakuta

Sturridge, Anelka, Kalou

Playing any more than four young players would be Wenger-esque.

Let me emphasize that i said youngsters and players on the bench (players like Ferreira, Zhirkov etc. included).

With our very small squad, it's important we keep our first eleven players as fresh and fit as possible. It's also important that the players on the bench play as much as possible so they get some match rythym.

If we do well this season they'll be playing a lot of games so tiring them out and risking injuries with these unimportant (let's be honest) League Cup matches would be kind of stupid.

Something like this:

Turnbull/Walker

Ferreira - Ivanovic/Alex* - Bruma* - Van Aanholt

Ramires - Mikel/Clifford

McEachran

Kakuta/Sturridge - Sturridge/Kalou - Zhirkov

(Still a strong outing)

*Don't know who's Terry's real partner in defence

*Don't know if Bruma's fit

And why not play more than four youngsters in the League Cup? Great experience for them and unlike the older players, they'll show more desire and be more eager to win matches and win the cup.

[Peace. 4,352]

Well, i'd like that Carlito gives a rest to Nico for this game, we don't need him to beat them. And maybe Mikel or Essien, but not the both because we should keep a strong midfielder, even against weak teams... If we want to make some sorte of experimentation (i mean do a wenger's thing or something like that), do it when we will have at least six point on the second.

I would also like to see a youngster start the game. Sturridge start the game wenesday, so i reckon he won't start the blackpool game. Play kakuta from the start will be great, but i reckon Ancelotti will pick Kalou instead of him... But who knows ? Before Zilinia game i was sure that Ancelotti will not play the three youngsters...

The lineup i would like to see :

Cech

Iva - Alex - Terry - Ash

Mikel/Essien

Essien/Ramires - Ramires/Benayoun

Kakuta - Malouda

Drogba

sub : GK - Danni - PVA - Ferreira - Benayoun/Mikel - Kalou - Zhirkov

[zolayes 14,489]

this fixture brings back memories of the some firsts in watching football,

with Chelsea seeing them in the cinema on pathe news ,,watching them play Moscow Dynamos in 1945 ..3 - 3 draw but most memorable the crowd scenes ..still a Chelsea record of over 85000 I think .

Then the first televised game ..Mathews cup final in 1948 as a boy in a crowded room watching a 12inch black and white screen .

My first flloodlit game Workington v Blackpool with Mathews playing and the reds beating the tangerines..

At some time I will recall memories of Mathews ,,Englands greatest ever footballer...

Tomorrow just look forward to a memorable Chelsea win ,,perhaps capped by Kakutas first Chelsea goal

[Madmax 9,219]

this fixture brings back memories of the some firsts in watching football,

with Chelsea seeing them in the cinema on pathe news ,,watching them play Moscow Dynamos in 1945 ..3 - 3 draw but most memorable the crowd scenes ..still a Chelsea record of over 85000 I think .

Then the first televised game ..Mathews cup final in 1948 as a boy in a crowded room watching a 12inch black and white screen .

My first flloodlit game Workington v Blackpool with Mathews playing and the reds beating the tangerines..

At some time I will recall memories of Mathews ,,Englands greatest ever footballer...

Tomorrow just look forward to a memorable Chelsea win ,,perhaps capped by Kakutas first Chelsea goal

wonderful stuff mate

[vishalmarathe 0]

Come on Chelsea ..Chelsea to win 4-0

[zolayes 14,489]

Chelsea take on Blackpool at Stamford Bridge on 18th Sept, catch all the match analysis, preview, pre-match interviews right here.

And predict who will score first for Chelsea.

Chelsea vs Blackpool Match preview

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[Laylabelle 9,535]

Chance to widen the gap tommrow...hopfully we can take it,..and if we're 1-0 up going into extra time...we better not do an Arsenal!!

[zolayes 14,489]

Chance to widen the gap tommrow...hopfully we can take it,..and the 1-0 going into added time..we wont do a Arsenal!

you need to revise it now ...smiles xxx

[Rambo 1,729]

Judging by Carlo's rotation policy, I think we'll see something along these lines:

Cech

Ferreira, Alex, Terry, Cole

Ramires, Mikel, Benayoun

Kalou, Drogba, Malouda

Resting Ivanovic, Zhirkov, Anelka and Essien - all of whom I see playing against Newcastle.

That looks about right, I`d rest up Iva, Nico and Ess as well.

[Madmax 9,219]

Yossi Benayoun has denied reports suggesting he will miss Chelsea's game with Blackpool on Sunday because of the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur.

Teamtalk

[Rambo 1,729]

atta boy Yoshi

[St Abramovich 175]

Sorry for saying Yossi would be out then.

Saw it on Yahoo, guess I know not to trust them.

[gary gordon 1,777]

I wouldn't get too excited. If we don't score early i can see this one getting pretty nervy. Blackpool will come out to defend and try catch us on the counter which they are pretty decent at doing..

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Quote Paul Merson:

I'm calling this as 7-0 to Chelsea. I can't see how Chelsea aren't going to create 15 or 16 chances and I feel they'll get lucky and put half of them away. That's why I think it will be such a heavy scoreline.

Personally I can't see us getting more than three. We've not really even tried this season besides the Stoke game in my honest opinion.

[Laylabelle 9,535]

Yeh same,mean Arsenal scored a load but Blackpool had ten men. Gana be a tough one defintly,gotta score first or can see them parking the bus if they do

[BLionheart 516]

i have always used to doubt the ability of chelsea against smaller teams , we have always seemed to be overconfident against them and our players never knew how to get a result out of those matches , even last year when we won he league we had some bad-ass results against small teams .

but this season it seems to be a different case than the old one , we don't need to win 1 or 2-0 and then go back and defend like mourinho's days and we still can get the three points . and that is not only because our impressive scoreline in the last 5 games , but it's because the impressive form and gameplay we are in right now . it looks like if we had to repeat all the played matches we would win them all again .

by this time last season we had the same no. of points but people weren't getting over excited as it was by wins agains the likes of hull and stoke in the injury time .

i hope we can go ahead and continue playing like this , we need to win the next four fixtures against (blackpool - mancity - arsenal - astonvilla) those next couple of weeks can be very critical in our league title run . if we win all of them we will be clear of our rivals with a great margin and i think we have the ability to do so this season .

[BRMC 12]

Im looking forward to a football masterclass Theres no way they will come away with any points