Reading vs Chelsea FA Premier League K.O 20:00

Crann na Beatha

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MUSEIST

Wonder which chelsea will turn up, the side that beat everton and stoke away or the side that went out in pathetic fashion against swansea and lost at home to QPR.

Tis fairly hard to predict chelsea this season.

The_Kew_Tour

Plenty of Goals in this one I say.

Going 4-2 Chelsea.

GavRedKing

Taking a stab at our team tonight and will say its going to be :

Turnbull

Ivan Cahill JT Cole

Lamps Ramires

Oscar Mata Bertrand

Ba



Although i wouldnt be surprised to see us playing 4-2-2-2 and going with :

Turnbull

Ivan Cahill JT Cole

Lamps Ramires

Oscar Mata

Ba Torres

This would see one of the CF's playing a bit wider and deeper when we dont ahve the ball, which Rafa has done with both Ba and Torres.

what a day

Is this match on TV any one know?

Johner

Much more confident about this game being away! Think Chelsea will win easily enough.

Johner

what a day wrote: »

Is this match on TV any one know?

Arsenal - Liverpool is on Sky Sports.

Reading - Chelsea is on Fox Soccer Plus in the US so there should be some decent streams about.

Sgt Pepper 64

Ba and Torres upfront?

GavRedKing

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

Ba and Torres upfront?

Could be, if we want goals might aswell play all our attacking options.

Duck Soup

I don't doubt the quality of the players we have, I just wonder if there's a lack of leaders on the pitch. Be interesting to see if JT manages to galvanize/kick up the jacksie the team's attitude.

GavRedKing

We need Luiz back to, hes a dynamic in his apparoach and always vocal, natural leader IMO.

DazMarz

Nothing to be taken for granted here. We have enough quality, but it is really a question of which Chelsea turn up; the ones who put in heroic shifts against Everton and Stoke, or the pathetic, could-care-less mob that turned up all too often through the season.

Chelsea should win this... but that dreadful word "should" has been bandied about far too much in regards Chelsea this season.

I'll stick my neck out and say 1-2 or 1-3 to Chelsea. Chelsea will concede at least once, as has been the style thus far, but can hopefully outscore Reading come what may.

Sgt Pepper 64

Chelsea have WON every match that Mata has started :eek:

GavRedKing

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

Chelsea have WON every match that Mata has started :eek:

Thats a load of lies, wheres that stat from, Twitter?

I can think of about 6 examples when hes started and we didnt win.

Sgt Pepper 64

GavRedKing wrote: »

Thats a load of lies, wheres that stat from, Twitter?

I can think of about 6 examples when hes started and we didnt win.

chelsea chat, but yeah you are right! draw with Southampton is one!

GavRedKing

Off the top of my head, City at home, Utd at home, Juventus Home/Away, West Ham away.

Lukker-

Any team news?

peteeeed

Torres starting

Johner

Chelsea: Turnbull, Azpi, Cahill, Ivanovic, Cole; Lampard, Ramires; Bertrand, Oscar, Mata; Torres

Ba not starting is a joke.

Francie Barrett

Weak enough line-up.

MUSEIST

Oh dear god, I hope for rafas sake that we win this. I can't even begin to understand that line up:(

Johner

Chelsea subs: Hilario, Ferreira, Terry, Ake, Benayoun, Marin, Ba.

Bench looks fairly weak.

MUSEIST

Johner wrote: »

Chelsea subs: Hilario, Ferreira, Terry, Ake, Benayoun, Marin, Ba.

Bench looks fairly weak.

Team and bench very weak, shows how small our squad is

Duck Soup

This is another of Rafa's "Ah, sure we'll walk this one lads, rest a few players" games.

Sgt Pepper 64

Oh dear god, he comlains that Torres is tired and then keeps on benching Ba

I despair

and Bertrand on the wing again? If RDM hadnt done it first, he would never have gone for that

Lukker-

Absolutely no width again. It's gonna be all through the middle and will be severely crowded. Ivanovic should have been rested and Terry should have started.Ba. Obviously. Benitez must really not rate Marin

MUSEIST

I'm not too confident about this.

Johner

Marin has been nothing short of shocking when he has got a chance.

Johner

MUSEIST wrote: »

I'm not too confident about this.

I am for some reason! Weird feeling that Torres will score. :eek:

grumpymunster

That is a shocking line up any confidence gone, hope I am wrong but why JT and Ba on the bench.

Lukker-

Johner wrote: »

Marin has been nothing short of shocking when he has got a chance.

Starting to make sense why Di Matteo left him in the reserves for so long

MUSEIST

I would have liked to see 4-4-2 for this game given all the players we have missing. It's hard to play 4-2-3-1 without any holding midfielders avaliable (luiz, mikel, romeu).

I would have liked to see this. Bertrand instead of mata as an alternative to this with mata swapping with Oscar.

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cech

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Ivan

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Cahill

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Jt----cole--

Oscar

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ramres----lamps----mata

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ba

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torres

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Panthro

Was hoping to see Ba start this one.

grumpymunster

I think our interim know's he is out and is just taking the Micky at this stage. If Moyes going to be next manager why not give Everton some money and get him now, God knows we gave Porto a good bundle

Panthro

Yahoo stat:

This will be Rafael Benitez’s 12th Premier League game in charge of Chelsea and he’s won 21 points so far. Roberto Di Matteo won 24 points in his 12 PL games in charge of the Blues this term.

Johner

Better touch and bertand was in.

Crann na Beatha

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justshane

anyone pm me a stram please?? I'm panicing my usual is letting me down

the_monkey

pm sent.

Reganio 2

Same here if you can monkey.

the_monkey

This away strip is growing on me ...

MUSEIST

jesus cahill, do better with the header

hots

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Dozen Wicked Words

Who is doing the summarising? Birmingham accent? Fairly dull, but then what he is commenting on doesn't help him.

getuponthis

This is painful to watch, very tempted to stick on el Classico soon!

the_monkey

hey that hot physio again !! best thing of this game so far, but I thought she left?

Panthro

Jesus Yossi, forgot about him!

the_monkey

Wtf ????

Panthro

We miss Moses

MUSEIST

Did the ref just give ramires a card because he is black. Can't think of any other reason why he gave it:rolleyes:

Johner

Good effort Torres, getting closer!out for a throw in! Next time it might hit the corner flag if hes lucky. :rolleyes: