Chelsea Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014/15

GavRedKing

That sunderland game last year still haunts me, how we f**ked away a 1-0 lead to lose to them is beyond me.

Players dropped the ball seriously in the run in.

So a good weekend could be ahead of us.

Utd v Everton - Tricky one, I'd expect a draw given how bad Utd are at the back but they could blow Everton away whove been terrible at the back too.
Liverpool v WBA - expect a big home win.
Villa v City - expect City to put Villa to sword easily.
Chelsea v Arsenal - Hopeful of a home win.
Spurs v S'Hampton - Tricky one, I'd expect a draw.

So if all results go as above it'll be

Chelsea 19pts
City 14pts
S'Hampton 14Pts
Utd 11Pts
Liverpool 10Pts
Arsenal 10Pts
Everton 6Pts
Spurs 9Pts

grumpymunster

Techless wrote: »

True, but I find it very frustrating that with so many technically gifted players we have that we struggle to be able to retain possession when needed to curb opposition pressure. At times last night, we just couldn't seem to retain the ball when pressurised and gave away possession too easily.

In fairness to Sporting they pressed pretty much all night, their energy levels I thought were very impressive. How they kept it up for 90 minutes I am not sure but they did.

GavRedKing

If you offered me 4 clear cut chances and we won 1-0 this weekend I'd take it, although you'd imagine Arsenal will be much harder to score against and they'll pose a greater threat.

Some more stats on the back of this game

Top Scorers
Chelsea - Costa 8
Arsenal - Sanchez/Ramsey 2

Assists
Chelsea - Cesc 6
Arsenal - Many, many players on 1

GavRedKing

37.5k at the City v Roma game.

:pac: thats bloody terrible.

MaroonAndGreen

GavRedKing wrote: »

37.5k at the City v Roma game.

:pac: thats bloody terrible.

Shocking. Have they got a very small amount of supporters in Manchester or what?

GavRedKing

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

Shocking. Have they got a very small amount of supporters in Manchester or what?

I dont know, they struggle to fill the stadium when the big teams in the EPL come to Manchester too.

Ticket prices are very reasonable considering how much those in London pay for tickets and youre getting arguably the best football in the league, why wouldnt ya turn up?

Dozen Wicked Words

Its a big stadium to fill and the Champions League is hyped beyond all that is healthy. I'd rather go to a league game or even a cup game than the Champions League, maybe some Manchester City fans feel the same. Maybe they have a historical support base that hasn't got too many hangers on yet.

I'm not that confident that Chelsea would fill a 60,000 seater stadium week in week out that easily.

GavRedKing

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Its a big stadium to fill and the Champions League is hyped beyond all that is healthy. I'd rather go to a league game or even a cup game than the Champions League, maybe some Manchester City fans feel the same.

Theyve got empty seats for league games too, a lot of clubs inflate figures anyway but City are up around top of the chart.

Theyre expanding the Etihad too, close to 60k, they'll never fill the bloody place.

cadaliac

The "Empyhad"

grumpymunster

Martin Atkinson in the middle on Saturday, normally an OK ref.

GavRedKing

grumpymunster wrote: »

Martin Atkinson in the middle on Saturday, normally an OK ref.

Should have brought back Andre Marriner :pac:

MaroonAndGreen

Arsenal (H)
Palace (A)
Man Utd (A)
QPR (H)

Thats our next 4 league fixtures and will take us up til November 1st. Anyone take 8 points ? I would.

GavRedKing

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

Arsenal (H)
Palace (A)
Man Utd (A)
QPR (H)

Thats our next 4 league fixtures and will take us up til November 1st. Anyone take 8 points ? I would.

Not a hope. I want 10 at a minimum.

beat everyone and at least draw with utd. Lets start by winning on Sunday though and then we'll see how we stand with injuries.

GavRedKing

Arsenal strolling but playing with 10 men for the last 25-30mins.

Shouldnt matter come Sunday anyway even if we've had a days more rest, had the match been Saturday it might be different.

MaroonAndGreen

GavRedKing wrote: »

Not a hope. I want 10 at a minimum.

beat everyone and at least draw with utd. Lets start by winning on Sunday though and then we'll see how we stand with injuries.

We only took 7 points from them fixtures last season though.. I dont expect us to go to Utd and win. You cant 'expect' to win that fixture, or even Arsenal at home either IMO. Very difficult fixtures that draws arent very bad results in.

SureYWouldntYa

Did Sanchez go off injured ? He's probably their top attacking threat

Soups123

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

Did Sanchez go off injured ? He's probably their top attacking threat

Nah he went off as Chez was sent off, did take a couple of heavy tackles and was icing the ankle

GavRedKing

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

We only took 7 points from them fixtures last season though.. I dont expect us to go to Utd and win. You cant 'expect' to win that fixture, or even Arsenal at home either IMO. Very difficult fixtures that draws arent very bad results in.

Last years team is history.

Im confident we'll beat Arsenal, Palace and QPR.

Utd are a mess they could blow us away or lose 3-0.

GavRedKing

Also, we owe QPR a beating big time.

GavRedKing

Cant wait for the weekend. First time a title challenger has come to the Bridge this season, given we've a difficult run in the next few games a draw wouldnt be a disaster but I reckon the majority expect a win. Theres no foregone conclusions in football but i think we'll just shade it, it wont be anything like the 6-0 last year barring an Arsenal collapse.

If we start like we did that year, in their face, aggresive, we may get joy but remember before we scored last year Giroud had a great chance that Cech tipped wide.

On the counter this year theyre more of a threat with Sanchez, Welbeck, Ox and all 3 will probably start on Sunday.

GavRedKing

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/01/john-terry-chelsea-title-collapse-tears

the perfect tonic would to be to go and win another one JT, some words on the new guys below.

“I was in tears over the Premier League last year, over throwing that away and not winning it,”

Matic had to come to Portugal [with Benfica] and gain experience, but came back to Chelsea a completely different player and a man now.

Cesc has been in England before so he knew what to expect, and you expect him to hit the ground running, which he’s done.

“With Diego we didn’t know. We’ve seen it before: some strikers take months and months. But he’s hit the ground running. Eight goals already is superb and it’s great for us. He’s a good character, a great character. Without speaking a word of English he gets by and gets on great with everyone. He puts himself about but gets up and battles on, and plays with little niggles. That’s what you want. That’s why he’s come to the Premier League: to win. He made that clear to everyone in pre-season. He’s come here to win trophies. That’s what he wants to do.”

Johner

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. :cool:

hullaballoo

Incredible stupidity to give that away. Should have been a red card, imo.

GavRedKing

Demba Ba, my 3rd fav chelsea CF :pac:

the_monkey

I'm nervous about Sunday - just have a sneaky feeling Arsenal could get something here ..

Johner

I'm a bit worried about the defence but in the big games our defence usually does well, ah feck defence we'll just outscore them. 6-2 :pac:

Johner

A Fabregas goal as well please.

GavRedKing

the_monkey wrote: »

I'm nervous about Sunday - just have a sneaky feeling Arsenal could get something here ..

I'd never write off a team but Jose loves the big games and the players usually are well up for them too. I reckon we'll win on Sunday. 3-1.

Johner wrote: »

I'm a bit worried about the defence but in the big games our defence usually does well, ah feck defence we'll just outscore them. 6-2 :pac:

Ya, I think we'll be well drilled on what to do on Sunday and we'll have a game plan thats being worked on all week, Sporting was a tough battle for us even though it should have been a stroll.

Johner wrote: »

A Fabregas goal as well please.

Go 1-0, Drogba with the equalisier, Cesc with the winner = Internet Meltdown :pac:

GavRedKing

Jose Mourinho confirms Diego Costa will play against Arsenal and says he isn't surprised the striker has been called up by Spain. #CFC

Jose: '6-0 happens every 50 years, occasionally. What happens in the past is the past. It's a difficult match against a good team.' #CFC

Jose: 'Cesc is a Chelsea player and he's been phenomenal for us in every game, no exception. I couldn't be happier.' #CFC

Jose: 'Their approach doesn't matter, they will always be a difficult opponent.' #CFC

Jose: 'I like to play against the best, so do my players. When you play big matches you know the players are more than ready.' #CFC

Mourinho says Ramires and Didier Drogba are both out of Sunday's game. #CFC

Essien

I'm not worried about Sunday. I don't really fancy either side to keep a clean sheet but we've got more than enough to outscore them.

Crann na Beatha

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McDave

I'm looking forward to this one. Arsenal will come out all guns blazing.

For us, it's a real opportunity to lay down a marker against a main rival. Can't see less than a draw. Under Jose a win has to be odds on.

peteeeed

Chelsea team to play Arsenal: Courtois, Ivanovic, Cahill, JT (c), Azpilicueta; Matic, Fabregas; Schurrle, Oscar, Hazard; Diego Costa.

peteeeed

Chelsea substitutes Cech, Zouma, Filipe Luis, Mikel, Willian, Salah, Remy.

peteeeed

KO delayed 15 mins

Johner

A win, clean sheet, Costa goal and Fabregas assist/MOTM. Happy days, just hope Coutois is okay.

Johner

Would have given MOTM to Hazard though he was brilliant.

peteeeed

Johner wrote: »

A win, clean sheet, Costa goal and Fabregas assist/MOTM. Happy days, just hope Coutois is okay.

i think that sums it all up very nicely

Lukker-

2 goals and a clean sheet. Perfect afternoon. Hope Thiabout is ok. Thought Cech looked sharp when he came on , even though he didn't have much to do. Schurrle with another stinker. I would give Willian or Salah a go instead.

hots

Delighted with that, very strong performance. Agreed with Schurrle but wouldn't let Salah near it, Willian or one of the young lads ahead of him...

Lukker-

hobbit of the shire wrote: »

Delighted with that, very strong performance. Agreed with Schurrle but wouldn't let Salah near it, Willian or one of the young lads ahead of him...

Thought he looked bright the other night and id like to see him given a run of games to prove himself.

Crann na Beatha

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Essien

Costa waits til he's offside to get the bad ones out of his system.

Nice guy

GavRedKing

Phoenix wrote: »

Missed the whole game lads bloody time difference... How did we play?see Diego bagged another,how was Cesc playin!?and Schurrle

Arsenal were better in the 2nd half but we soaked up pressure and hit on the break.

Costa was pretty quiet but took his chance when he had it.

Schurrle was poor.

GavRedKing

I hope courtois is ok too.

Crann na Beatha

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peteeeed

quotes from jose after the game

Mourinho says Courtois is being examined as a precaution. But it is thought there is no serious problem.

"I was just worried about the kid. Not abot the game & the performance. Because we have 2 of the best 3 goalkeepers in the world."

Mourinho says the shove from Wenger was 'no problem'. Didn't shake hands, and has't seen him post-match.

"Now they go to the international break and I stay with Schwarzer, Terry and Drogba."

Mourinho on Wenger's shove: "The behaviour he has, is the beahviour I have, is the behavior we all have. No problem at all."

GavRedKing

Phoenix wrote: »

What happened there

He went for a 50/50 with sanchez and got a knee/thigh into tje ear and went off a few mins later with blood from the ear.

McDave

GavRedKing wrote: »

Arsenal were better in the 2nd half but we soaked up pressure and hit on the break.

Costa was pretty quiet but took his chance when he had it.

Schurrle was poor.

Arsenal weren't bad. They competed (Ozil aside). Had they fashioned the first goal, they would have been hard to break down. However, they're as ineffective up front as we were last season.

Schurrle didn't do himself any favours. Hazard moved up a gear without being dominant. Made the difference when it counted. He's a complete foul magnet. Refs are going to want to step in a bit more with cards to protect him.

Costa got involved enough considering he was completely alone up front. If he hadn't scored, his performance would have been 6/10. With that goal he was 8/10. Cesc did what he had to do. Two brilliant signings by Jose, who really has made the difference. 5 points clear of the field already.

grumpymunster

For me an easy game Arsenal have nothing up front did either keeper Chelsea make a save, don't think so. Arsenal were very lucky to finish the game with 11 men though in fairness to the ref he did try to keep 22 players on the pitch. We will have much harder games against United and Liverpool than that game.