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Gonzovision

Our second string should be able to beat Cardiff, but ye never know...... Hoping for a good performance tomorrow, no doubt Cardiff will make it tough. Sturridge to continue scoring in the F.A cup

greendom

gonzovision wrote: »

Our second string should be able to beat Cardiff, but ye never know...... Hoping for a good performance tomorrow, no doubt Cardiff will make it tough. Sturridge to continue scoring in the F.A cup

Cardiff will make it very tough. They will be playing for their football lives tomorrow with a court winding-up in the offing. The last thing Chelsea should do is treat the game with any complacency. Well if they want to get to Wembley, that is.

Johner

Cardiff will be a tough game but we should win a couple in the end.

DazMarz

Cardiff will be tough. They were in the final not so long ago, we must remember, so they've trekked this road before. But still... We should beat them, not handily, but with a gritty performance.

Johner

DIDIER DROGBA last night warned mega-rival Wayne Rooney: I am going to score more goals than you.

DazMarz

Baaaahhh!!! Come on the Drogs!!! Them's fighting words!!! I love it!:D

pistolpetes11

Just about to head down to this the ground now,

Hopefully a better performance than Wednesday evening !

DD first scorer ! or maybe sturridge ???

smuckers

you can watch on the sun website c'mon chels!

CHD

stream lads? way to drunk for google. Would be dangerous.

Panthro

dont have flippin setanta ireland.
thank god for wales radio!
anyone know any other channel it might be on?

CHD

papagormo wrote: »

dont have flippin setanta ireland.
thank god for wales radio!
anyone know any other channel it might be on?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2849423/Watch-Chelsea-v-Cardiff-live-online-for-free-with-The-Sun.html

DIDIER!

Panthro

CHD wrote: »

stream lads? way to drunk for google. Would be dangerous.

its free on the F.A. website, my internet speed is dinosaur slow though but its there somewhere

SlickRic

set-piece defending is still appalling.

CHD

Joe Cole is muck and keeps proving me right.

Johner

papagormo wrote: »

dont have flippin setanta ireland.
thank god for wales radio!
anyone know any other channel it might be on?

It's on 134 on Sky Digital.

Johner

FFS, terrible.

Panthro

Johner wrote: »

It's on 134 on Sky Digital.

dont have those fancy channels back in the sticks im afraid, old school irish and english channels is the height of it for me. the house i grew up in still considers tv3 to be a new channel!

hows Zhirkov settlin in there?
1-1?ohh jesus

edit:
found it on channel "S4/C" that means dick all to me too, foreign commentry but its better than nothing

Panthro

sturridge is lookin for another FA cup goal, not far off either

Johner

papagormo wrote: »

edit:
found it on channel "S4/C" that means dick all to me too, foreign commentry but its better than nothing

Haha its Welsh. It's the same channel I'm watching it on think they have all Cardiff's FA Cup run.

SlickRic

man, the defence is definitely the problem.

as well as joe cole and ballack to a lesser extent.

drogba and sturridge look threatening given the right service, with Mikel and Lampard controlling the game quite well.

Johner

SlickRic wrote: »

man, the defence is definitely the problem.

as well as joe cole and ballack to a lesser extent.

drogba and sturridge look threatening given the right service, with Mikel and Lampard controlling the game quite well.

The defending for the goal was terrible, Alex just let Chopra make the run and watched him score. Cardiff look dangerous.

Mikel is having a good game, it does look like he is starting to play well consistently.

As you say Sturridge and Didier look threatening when they have the ball, hopefully one of them bags on early second half goal to calm things down.

Panthro

Johner wrote: »

Haha its Welsh. It's the same channel I'm watching it on think they have all Cardiff's FA Cup run.

got to love these dodgy dishes! me aul ma got one from aldi, it picks up all the english channels, a mountain of god/arabic/babestation types, and as iv now learned welsh channels!
still beats listening to the radio.

SlickRic

see ya joe.

Panthro

CHD wrote: »

Joe Cole is muck and keeps proving me right.

think he made way for kalou

Panthro

lovely chip over the head to ballack, 2-1 chelsea

Johner

What a ball from Drogba - the complete centre forward . Good finish Ballack.

Pighead

Drogba really is a class player. Some of his touches today have been unreal. Wenger's "He doesn't do a lot" statement is looking more ridiculous by the minute.

Panthro

when drogs decides he wants the ball, he fairly bulldozers his way to it. himself, sturridge and kalou are looking pretty effective

Johner

Another brilliant bit of play from Didier, unlucky Sturridge.

SlickRic

if Chelsea win some trophies, i can't see why Drogba shouldn't be considered for World Player of the Year.

the guy is unplayable this year.

Panthro

drogs to sturridge, beauty.
reckon drogs will out do rooneys goal and assist count if he brings this kind of form into the premiership
3-1 chelsea

Johner

He has over 10 assists this season. 23 goals now equal with Rooney.

Panthro

i would have preferred to see a younger player on, get some experience in. then again i dont see why sturridge got taken off.

Johner

What a sweet header from Kalou!

Panthro

ferriera crosses in, kalou header, and boom goes the dynamite.
4-1

borini on for drogs, 88mins gone

Johner

2nd half - Now that's more like it!

The Davestator

On that showing , we're going to miss ashey cos Zhirkov was muck, couldn't pass the ball! Good game, and my welsh has improved no end due to welsh commentary!

pistolpetes11

Great second half yesterday from us , kalou has kept up his great form that he was having b4 ACN, mikel was solid and still had a few stray passes but less than normal for him , sturrige was full of energy on and off the ball , as was ballack ( I feel dirty saying that , as I don't have a lot of time for him) drogba was amazing he has some passion for the game at the moment . Every one else was ok bar the player I will speak about next.


Joe Cole:

he was dreadful , looked like a player completely lacking in confidence and the crowd really to started to get on his back .

He deserved it really from 5 mins onwards everytime he lost the ball he would just stand there

with his hands on his back gasping for air , I could not believe my eyes. Lad getting paid
nearly 80k a week, he was tired after 5 minutes ! Only chased one ball that he lost in the whole first half .

He tried his trade mark tricks a few times and tripped over his own feet on more than one occassion and barked at the referee for free kicks . To simply put it he was embaressing yesterday and as one of my favourite players in the squad I was disgusted with his showing .

Crann na Beatha

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DazMarz

Iolar wrote: »

Any ideas who we're playing in the next round?

The draw for the Sixth Round is scheduled to take place on 14 February 2010 at Wembley Stadium. Fixtures will take place over the weekend of 6 and 7 March 2010

Haven't heard anything yet, tbh

Draw numbers
1 Crystal Palace or Aston Villa
2 Manchester City or Stoke City
3 Birmingham City
4 Bolton Wanderers or Tottenham Hotspur
5 Chelsea
6 Fulham or Notts County
7 Reading or West Bromwich Albion
8 Portsmouth

That's who we could all potentially be playing; draw takes place at approx. 17:40 or so.

Draw for F.A. Cup 6th Round:

-Chelsea vs. Man City/Stoke City
-Fulham vs. Spurs/Bolton
-Reading/West Brom vs. Crystal Palace/Villa
-Portsmouth vs. Birmingham

DazMarz

Not a bad draw for us, considering, but not great either. Stoke or Man City would be difficult. Playing Man City twice in a row at home is not something John Terry would want (27th Feb, 6th/7th March)...

Johner

Has anyone got a spare for Wolves away? Can't seem to get one.

GavRedKing

So lads, it a bit early but we are not to far away from the return of the special one :pac:

I'll admit it will be an absolute conflict of interests to a certain degree, on one hand you have one of Chelseas greatest manager in terms of success, passion, and man-management ability, that brought Chelsea that extra step forward and on the other hand you have the current manager of a very good, well orgainsed, dangerous Inter Milan team that wil be no push overs when it comes to playing them in next week.

As we have seen with Jose and having great first hand knowledge any team Jose will field will be very difficlut to beat, Utd beat a very average Inter last year who had a few players only back from injurt and the rest didnt show up.

I think this year they will be a hell of lot tougher to beat and Jose will want to go as far as he can with Inter this year, the only thing that stops him from doing so is Carlo Ancelloti and Chelsea.

Jose got the better of him in Italy, albit woth a superior team then Carlo's A.C. Milan.

One things for sure this game will be huge, the passion and support for Jose around the Bridge is without doubt and it will be weird to see him in the opposition dug out at the Bridge and embracing his old guard and interacting with the crowd, as much as I love what he has done for us, I hope we can get one over Jose and progress and hopefully, after last year go all the way.

Bubs101

I think Inter are a fairly bad matchup for Chelsea and they're improved on last season. They lost Ibra but I don't think he'd cause Terry and Carvalho anywhere near as much trouble as Eto'o and Milito who have a really nice little partnership and they've completely rejuvinated Sneijder who's playing really well. Their defence isn't fantastic but Maicon and Julio Cesar are. If Drogba can avoid Maicon though he should tear them apart though.

GavRedKing

Bubs101 wrote: »

I think Inter are a fairly bad matchup for Chelsea and they're improved on last season. They lost Ibra but I don't think he'd cause Terry and Carvalho anywhere near as much trouble as Eto'o and Milito who have a really nice little partnership and they've completely rejuvinated Sneijder who's playing really well. Their defence isn't fantastic but Maicon and Julio Cesar are. If Drogba can avoid Maicon though he should tear them apart though.

I dont think the will push Maicon that far in field to cover Drogba, if we had Ashley Cole fit i would have said Maicon's job would have been to push on to him and stop him attacking but now that its gonna be Zhirkov playing I expect Jose to tell Maicon, not that he needs much encouragement, to bomb on and try get at him and force Zhirkov to play defensively which in turn would lead me to believe Malouda will play left of diamond to provide cover for Zhirkov.

Surely it will be Lucio to mark the Drog, which will be anembarrsement IMO, Lucio, and for that matter, nobody is able to mark Drogba on his current form so we could get joy up there. Im worried about Eto'o hopefully JT is back on form and Carvalho is fit and if we can get Essien soem game time before then im hoping he can contain Snejider.

Bubs101

gavredking wrote: »

I dont think the will push Maicon that far in field to cover Drogba, if we had Ashley Cole fit i would have said Maicon's job would have been to push on to him and stop him attacking but now that its gonna be Zhirkov playing I expect Jose to tell Maicon, not that he needs much encouragement, to bomb on and try get at him and force Zhirkov to play defensively which in turn would lead me to believe Malouda will play left of diamond to provide cover for Zhirkov.

Surely it will be Lucio to mark the Drog, which will be anembarrsement IMO, Lucio, and for that matter, nobody is able to mark Drogba on his current form so we could get joy up there. Im worried about Eto'o hopefully JT is back on form and Carvalho is fit and if we can get Essien soem game time before then im hoping he can contain Snejider.

That's what I mean, Maicon is the only member of that defence who'd be able to cover Drogba so as long as he can avoid him he should have a great game.

DazMarz

Was gonna go to both legs of this tie, but sadly my plans fell through...:(

Still, cannot see Inter doing it over the two legs. They might snatch a win in San Siro, but once we got an away goal or two, we should finish them off in The Bridge.

pistolpetes11

DazMarz wrote: »

Was gonna go to both legs of this tie, but sadly my plans fell through...:(

Still, cannot see Inter doing it over the two legs. They might snatch a win in San Siro, but once we got an away goal or two, we should finish them off in The Bridge.

Im going over to the bridge for the game ! You going to miss both legs now or just one ?

DazMarz

DazMarz wrote: »

Was gonna go to both legs of this tie, but sadly my plans fell through...:(

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

Im going over to the bridge for the game ! You going to miss both legs now or just one ?

Gonna miss both legs of it... Shít one, I know. Just not the same watching it on TV... Would love to be there for The Special One's homecoming...

Johner

Johner wrote: »

Has anyone got a spare for Wolves away? Can't seem to get one.

Still looking. Have travel booked and all, never thought there would be such a huge demand for Wolves away, barely a spare around.