Burnley V Chelsea (Kick off 5.30pm ESPN)

Johner

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TEAM NEWS

Burnley's Chris McCann may be fit but Graham Alexander is struggling and new signing Danny Fox did not receive clearance in time to play.

Andre Bikey is back from the Africa Cup of Nations following Cameroon's exit.

Chelsea duo Didier Drogba and Salomon Kalou have also returned from Angola but will not be considered until the trip to Hull on Tuesday.

Juliano Belletti remains sidelined by a knee problem, so Deco may continue as a makeshift holding midfielder.

Burnley

Suspended: None Doubtful: Alexander (calf), McCann (knee)

Injured\unavailable: Caldwell (groin), Fox (ineligible)

Chelsea

Suspended: None Doubtful: None

Injured\unavailable: Belletti, Bosingwa & Essien (all knee), Mikel (Africa Cup of Nations)

Tough game as Burnley is never an easy place to go.Hopefully we will win easily but I think it will be a nervy 2-1 win for us.

CHD

10-0 to Chelsea and the league title just given to us. Its over already obv but will be confirmed tomorrow.

kryogen

Burnley are not the team they were a couple of months ago unfortunatly, Chelsea luck i guess.....

Still, Come on the Burnley!!

Gonzovision

Come on the Blues!!!

redout

Burnley Could field a team of the youngsters tomorrow... Still win 3-0

kryogen

reckon Burnley will win this by at least 4 clear goals, the Chelsea team has peaked and is in decline obviously.... only way to go is down, mediocre players like Drogba and Lampard have been dead weight for too long now and its starting to really show


Chelsea not the same team without Shevchenko

Johner

Oh Shevchenko.:cool::pac:

mike65

0 - 27

at least. Unless Terry gets distracted.

Johner

I hope they get the new chant going.

Eire-Dearg

This is going to be a complete and utter whitewash. I'm expecting Chelsea to score at least 4+ today against what's become a shoddy Burnley team.

MUSEIST

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

This is going to be a complete and utter whitewash. I'm expecting Chelsea to score at least 4+ today against what's become a shoddy Burnley team.

meh, I have a feeling it will be a tight game but chels should win

DazMarz

Poor Brian Jensen will have his hands full today, I reckon.

Should be a decisive enough win for the Blues.

Once they pry Terry off Wayne Bridge's missus the Chelsea defence should have no problems.

Attacking, I can see Nico and Lamps running rampant and creating utter havoc in the Burnley back line.

I'm gonna say 3-0, repeat score of August 29th.

Be nice!:D

CHD

Woke up just in time! C'mon Chelsea!

MagicMarker

YES!!

It's still 0-0!!! C'mon Burnley!!!

redout

LoL @ the Burnley fans

"same old Terry, always cheating"

CHD

Horrible start, gona be a long day.

MagicMarker

That was a fantastic little move from Burnley.

ShoulderChip

glad to see zhirkov get a start, and happy with most of players picked, why did Drogba not make bench though?

CHD

Burnley have great home support

CHD

EASY!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL

Anelka!

MagicMarker

Shocking defending!

ShoulderChip

excellent, the relatively early goal is important

-I'm dying here cant get a stream working on my dodgy connection @home

redout

ShoulderChip wrote: »

glad to see zhirkov get a start, and happy with most of players picked, why did Drogba not make bench though?

Ancelotti said Drogba and Kalou wont feature until the Hull game.

Johner

Nice move for the goal.

Good stuff, back to the drinking and watching ESPN.

COME ON CHELS.

mike65

*cough*

Harpy

get in there burnley...damn it why is there only 50mins gone..

CR 7

EASY!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL

FLETCHERRRRR!



Good goal though, Almost Berbatov-esque control. Chelsea will still win though, unfortunately.:(

Eire-Dearg

Steven Fletcher equalises. Quality player

PHB

Can't see Burnley holding on here. Chelsea have been very strong since concedding and look very close to getting a goal unless Burnley change it up.

Dave!

Chelsea goal on the way

Mr Alan

cole goal wrongfully ruled as offside.

ShoulderChip

nice response to the goal alright

-- 30 mins to ge tout of hell, we can't afford to throw this away

CHD

Meh, it ain't gona happen.

Dave!

CHD wrote: »

Meh, it ain't gona happen.

I see what you're doing.

CHD

Dave! wrote: »

I see what you're doing.

Can't see it happening unless we go 4-4-2

MUSEIST

come on chels

Mikeyt086

Dave! wrote: »

I see what you're doing.

Me too.

*Old Granny to Father Ted* "I know... WHAT YOUR UP TO!"

ShoulderChip

blimey sturridge coming on, who will we sacrifice? malouda?

CHD

ShoulderChip wrote: »

blimey sturridge coming on, who will we sacrifice? malouda?

J.Cole obv, he is muck.

ShoulderChip

CHD wrote: »

J.Cole obv, he is muck.

I was hoping it would be, but am surprised it is as we dont have a wide right player now, or do we?

CHD

ShoulderChip wrote: »

I was hoping it would be, but am surprised it is as we dont have a wide right player now, or do we?

Sturridge has pace, all we need. He will do the job.

CHD

CHD wrote: »

Sturridge has pace, all we need. He will do the job.

Here's Deco, game over.

PHB

Deco should have fun against this defence. Burnley did well to limit Chelsea in the last 10 with the added legs from the subs. Now with Chelsea having fresh legs, they are going to have a tough 15 minutes.

ShoulderChip

come on Chelsea, we can't afford to drop these two points

Dave!

Blow the while ref, it's pretty much over ffs !

CHD

TERRY YOU BEAUTY

MagicMarker

Great header.

PHB

Bikey at definate fault for both goals, lost his marker both times. Should be taken out and shot seriously.

ShoulderChip

Oh thank Christ for that!

MUSEIST

GOL, GOL, GOL, GOL GGGGGGOOOOOOOOaaaaaaaaLLLLL:D:D

ShoulderChip

Zhirkov would start at any other team in the league,

Ivanavic has excelled this season too.