Stoke City vs Chelsea K.O 3pm,Setanta Ireland FA Premier League

Crann na Beatha

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MaroonAndGreen

Would be alot more confident if Cech was playing!

Although if Ba starts.. I think we have a good chance!

Caveman1

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

Would be alot more confident if Cech was playing!

Although if Ba starts.. I think we have a good chance!

Cech is 50/50 he's going to do the warm up and see how he gets on.

I just posted this is the Chelsea forum, Gary Cahill won't be playing, his girlfriend is gone into labour.

RichT

STOKE: Begovic; Cameron, Shawcross (c), Huth, Wilkinson; Walters, Whelan, Nzonzi, Etherington; Adam; Jones
SUBS: Sorensen, Whitehead, Upson, Kightly, Crouch, Shotton, Jerome

CHELSEA: Cech, Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, Luiz, Cole, Lampard, Ramires, Bertrand, Mata, Hazard, Ba
SUBS: Turnbull, Terry, Ake, Ferreira, Marin, Oscar, Torres

JPA

RichT wrote: »

STOKE: Begovic; Cameron, Shawcross (c), Huth, Wilkinson; Walters, Whelan, Nzonzi, Etherington; Adam; Jones

CHELSEA: Cech, Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, Cole, Lampard, Ramires, Bertrand, Mata, Hazard, Ba

10 man chelsea?

RichT

JPA wrote: »

10 man chelsea?

Feck Twitter...........:o

Cantona's Collars

JPA wrote: »

10 man chelsea?

Rafa's latest experiment.

JPA

RichT wrote: »

Feck Twitter...........:o

Luiz as well, just checked.

MUSEIST

Luiz with a haircut, this will be interesting:D

willmunny1990

At least Ba starts. This is going to be a very tough game.

Johner

For some reason I think we will win. Probably because Torres isnt starting.:pac:

Barr

Stoke away is always a real tough game - can't wait to see BA in action.

homer simpson

I'm looking forward to seeing us play with Ba starting, I'm not however looking forward to Luiz at CB, although it's against stoke if it was against a team like Swansea or a team with a bit of pace up front I'd be more worried.

1-3 Chelsea win me-thinks!

Barr

Stoke are the only team in England not to loose at home - hope this can be broken today.

hots

Does everyone else think these commentators are tucked up at home instead of at the ground... just sounds very weird?

hots

Bertrand hasn't been great so far imo

Leiva

Walters is having a cracking season so far.

dfx-

Have to say bar the Kenwyne Jones chance, Chelsea are defending very well..

Up to this freekick..

hots

Good save from Begovic

Garzorico

Bertrand is p*iss poor again

klose

Frank should have buried that but still a good save by begovic. Bertrand isint very good

Barr

Begović is such a great keeper.

Garzorico

Luiz would have scored that

dfx-

Stoke fans roaring "boring" as that move developed right up until Lampard's shot:pac:

EdenHazard

Good play from Walters there.

Crann na Beatha

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EdenHazard

Why do Stoke get so much hate? They play like virtually everyone else in England. They hit a few log balls but I'd hardly call their football 'caveman' as you see so often. They do seem to foul a lot but nothing malicious.

JPA

EdenHazard wrote: »

Why do Stoke get so much hate? They play like virtually everyone else in England. They hit a few log balls but I'd hardly call their football 'caveman' as you see so often. They do seem to foul a lot but nothing malicious.

You must never watch them. Ever.

EdenHazard

Their against Chelsea, a top team, with great creative(and small) players and they are not being overly physical. I can't imagine they become much worse against teams that they are more on a level football wise.

Good hit by Whelan, great technique.

Essien

Stoke have been very good at the back. Chelsea look like they might find a way through with a clever pass but so far Stoke have been recovering well in those positions.

MUSEIST

This has 1-0 stoke written all over it, lampard really needed to take that chance he had.

Crann na Beatha

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EdenHazard

Chelseaaaa! Harsh on Stoke.

Essien

Phoenix wrote: »

Wouldnt be suprised :eek:

I would

Crann na Beatha

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MUSEIST

MUSEIST wrote: »

This has 1-0 stoke written all over it, lampard really needed to take that chance he had.

maybe not :Dhehe......nice finish

hots

Great finish

DazMarz

Classic at Paul Merson trying to pronounce Azpilicueta's name...

Johner

Good lad Walters. :pac:

MUSEIST

Pulis with a touch of PMS

Leiva

Leiva wrote: »

Walters is having a cracking season so far.

Hmmmm there might be something to this .

"Van Persie, Evans and Carrick are having a cracking season so far"

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tigger123

Harsh on Walters, although if he hadn't tried to clear it Mata would have scored.

dfx-

Ramires was excellent in the first half, he was everywhere putting himself about has got Chelsea going forward, despite being kicked by Adam and running into Huth.

Wilkinson looks dodgy now against Hazard with his yellow, Mata is coming more into the game and Azpilicueta barged Jones over..

And Benitez smirking beside the ref as Pulis ranted..:)

niallo27

What's wrong with Pullis, the ref has had full all to do. I really don't like that man.

Leiva

niallo27 wrote: »

What's wrong with Pullis

he is losing

MUSEIST

Chelsea will need to keep defending well and hopefully more space will open up on the counter. Hazard has his man in all sorts of trouble and he's already on a yellow.

smuckers

Stoke are a bunch of thugs.

Best half I've seen Hazard play in a while

EdenHazard

OK throwing out that Stoke are a bunch of thugs adter that first half just shows that Stoke's roughness is complete overstated. They hardly did anything. I think it was 7 fouls to 5, and none of Stokes tackles had any malice. They were just mistimed, or little pushes

Turtyturd

EdenHazard wrote: »

OK throwing out that Stoke are a bunch of thugs adter that first half just shows that Stoke's roughness is complete overstated. They hardly did anything. I think it was 7 fouls to 5, and none of Stokes tackles had any malice. They were just mistimed, or little pushes

Did people only start calling them thugs 45 minutes ago?

Your sample is flawed....just throwing it out there.

Essien

EdenHazard wrote: »

OK throwing out that Stoke are a bunch of thugs adter that first half just shows that Stoke's roughness is complete overstated. They hardly did anything. I think it was 7 fouls to 5, and none of Stokes tackles had any malice. They were just mistimed, or little pushes

Have to agree with this, physicality is key to their game and they use it well, rarely overstepping the mark IMO.

They won a lot of ball in that half through sheer strength and hard work.