Chelsea vs Swansea City Capital One Cup Semi Final first leg SS1 19:45

Crann na Beatha

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klose

Torres starts and ba is on the bench!

@chelseafc: Team: Turn; Azpili, Ivan, Cahill, Cole (c); Ram, D Luiz; Hazard, Oscar, Mata; Torres. - subs: Hil, Fer, Bert, Ake, Lamps, Marin, Ba. #CFC


Rafa seems to fancy this ake lad or was in a di matteo fringe player aswell? Surprised piazon isint there either, he was amazing when he came on against villa.

applehunter

Teams per Twitter.

Chelsea: Turn; Azpili, Ivan, Cahill, Cole (c); Ram, D Luiz; Hazard, Oscar, Mata; Torres. - subs: Hil, Fer, Bert, Ake, Lamps, Marin, Ba

SWANS: Tremmel, Rangel, Chico, Williams (c), Davies, Britton, de Guzman, Ki, Routledge, Hernandez, Michu

hots

That's the first time with Oscar Mata and Haz all starting in a while isn't it?

Crann na Beatha

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Interesting to see Torres starting, this might mean a Premiership Debut for Ba....

Barr

Would like to see Ba starting again – oh well

Francie Barrett

Chelsea 4/11 to win - a nutty price!

Professional Griefer

Come on Swansea!

hots

Decent start so far, decent pace to the game.

hots

if only that was Mata/Hazard instead of Ramires, needed a proper shot there...

dreamers75

Where are the Swansea fans ?

Barr

Mata should have scored there.

kingshankly

Matta with a back pass to the keeper

inmyday

hobbit of the shire wrote: »

if only that was Mata/Hazard instead of Ramires, needed a proper shot there...

Great shot from Mata there. :pac:

Barr

Mata needs to find his shooting boots tonite.

hots

Barr wrote: »

Mata needs to find his shooting boots tonite.

Nearly

kingshankly

Ramirez is terrible

Barr

David Luiz looks a different playing in the middle of the field – his having a good game so far.

Barr

FFS totaly against the run of play

KingdomYid

One chance one goal, he is some finisher

kingshankly

Comical stuff from Ivanovic

Darkglasses

God I love Michu, his finishing is sickeningly clinical.

RandolphEsq

Great drop of the shoulder and placed finish.

hots

that's ridiculous...

Crann na Beatha

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Francie Barrett

Chelsea look very flat to me.

ASOT

King Michu

Barr

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Chelsea look very flat to me.

Its nearly been all one way traffic for 40mins - just some poor finishing has let them down.

BOHtox

I know it wasn't his fault, but Ross Turnbull is a terrible, terrible keeper!

hots

Some effort from ivanovic... better than Torres has managed all game.

kingshankly

The last few times I have seen hazard he has been very ordinary

klose

Hail michu

GavRedKing

That was a terrible mistake for the Swansea goal. Absolutely useless.

1st half we dominated and somehow 1-0 down, terrible concentration all together.

Barr

BA for the second half plssss

Johner

kingshankly wrote: »

The last few times I have seen hazard he has been very ordinary

He's been very good tonight.

justshane

Anyone else think we could end up winning this game 5-1? Similar to both the Leeds and Southampton cup games....

MUSEIST

ugh, frustrating to dominate and then concede a sloppy goal like that. I'm not worried that they got an away goal cause I really think we can score in wales. The worst we can come away with here is a draw otherwise we are in trouble.

Andersonisgod

Honestly that was terrific stuff. Some of he football on show from Chelsea was nothing short of Barcelona-like. In particular Oscar, Hazard and Luiz have all been a joy to watch.

What's missing though is a finish (and a finisher). Also I've never been a big fan of Ivanovic at centre back and it's lapses in concentration like that that has led to that opinion.

If it stays 1-0 it will be interesting to see how long Benitez waits to introduce Ba because at the moment it's ten and a half men against Swansea.

MUSEIST

justshane wrote: »

Anyone else think we could end up winning this game 5-1? Similar to both the Leeds and Southampton cup games....

If we take our chances then yes but you get the feeling it's one of those nights where nothing goes in.

Barr

I’m pretty confident we could still win this easily in the second half , most of the play has been in the Swansea half.

Would love to see BA coming on.

MUSEIST

BAAAAAA please

pistolpetes11

Swansea deserve there lead ,

1 chance 1 goal , we simply have not taken ours , Mata and Rambo being the culprits ,

Had a horrible arsenal look about us , trying to walk it into the net

kingshankly

Barr wrote: »

I’m pretty confident we could still win this easily in the second half , most of the play has been in the Swansea half.

Would love to see BA coming on.

You can get 15/8 on betfair

Pro. F

Wise made a good point there about Swansea defending too deep. They've been doing that too much this season. They have such a good back four you'd think they'd be a bit braver and defend further up the pitch.

Great finish from Michu.

Caveman1

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

Swansea deserve there lead ,

1 chance 1 goal , we simply have not taken ours , Mata and Rambo being the culprits ,

Had a horrible arsenal look about us , trying to walk it into the net

Regardless of how poor Chelsea have been in front of goal, you still can't justify saying Swansea deserve the lead, they have been piss poor, if Chelsea had better luck in front of goal it could be easily 4/5 -1

Crann na Beatha

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hots

Take Torres off now.

hots

Phoenix wrote: »

Ba on please for christ sakes!

...great minds

Francie Barrett

Am I the only one who doesn't understand why Oscar is so hyped?

hots

I think Ivanovic has been playing with Luiz for too long... Stop shooting and stop running with the ball ffs.