Chelsea v Maccabi Tel Aviv, UCL 7:45pm K/O

GavRedKing

Teams are,

Chelsea : Begovic; Azpilicueta, Zouma, Cahill (c), Baba Rahman; Loftus-Cheek, Fabregas; Willian, Oscar, Hazard; Remy

Subs : Blackman, Terry, Ivanovic, Ramires, Matic, Traore, Diego Costa.

M. Tel Aviv : Rajkovic, Shpungin, Tibi, Ben Harush, Ben-Haim, Alberman, Zahavi, Rikan, Mitrovic, Igiebor, Ben-Haim

Subs : Lif****z, Carlos Garcia, Miha, Vermouth, Peretz, Itzhaki, Radonji

Expecting only our 2nd win of the season although if its a struggle it wont help going into the Arsenal game Saturday.

Edit : Sub GK's name has set off the swear filter :pac:

SureYWouldntYa

Big game for RLC, only midfielder who can provide any real cover to the defence, he better have a good one

GavRedKing

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

Big game for RLC, only midfielder who can provide any real cover to the defence, he better have a good one

Surprised he played Cesc next to him, we've no real holding midfielder and Rahman and Azp will probably bomb on, that what im hoping for the FBs anyway.

1st time we've had natural Fbs since Luis last year.

GavRedKing

RLC booked after 60 secs f*k sake

duploelabs

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

Big game for RLC, only midfielder who can provide any real cover to the defence, he better have a good one

Aaaaaand a yellow within 3 minutes, brilliant start

GavRedKing

The exact same tackle and no booking now :rolleyes:

GavRedKing

duploelabs wrote: »

Aaaaaand a yellow within 3 minutes, brilliant start

Was very harsh

GavRedKing

Penalty

vicwatson

This on TV? Arse on rte :-(

GavRedKing

he should be off too

GavRedKing

Hazard f**king misses then

Rayne Wooney

Only realising now that Sky have no CL, what a joke

Thought I could flick between this and the arsenal one

Kirby

Not chelsea's season so far is it?

LightningBlue

What the actual fúck Hazard - he has been horrendous this season

Keeper should have been sent off though.

Kirby

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Only realising now that Sky have no CL, what a joke

Thought I could flick between this and the arsenal one

You can. BT europe has Arsenal. BTsports2 have chelsea.

NomadicGray

wow, thats hilarious

GavRedKing

GK should be off but that penalty, f**k me was horrific.

Johner

That really does sum our season up.

jamesbere

Defensively tel aviv aren't great so far, Chelsea will probably still score

GavRedKing

This ref is terrible :pac:

should be good to watch for the rest of the game.

LightningBlue

Pressing and tempo seems much better with Willian, Oscar and Remy.

HalloweenJack

Knew he was going to miss it.

Pen I mean, meant to post this a while back.

GavRedKing

have we swapped Hazard for a worse clone?

jamesbere

Fella on the tel aviv bench called lifsh**s

Rayne Wooney

Kirby wrote: »

You can. BT europe has Arsenal. BTsports2 have chelsea.

Will have to rethink the sky package

GavRedKing

Jamy git

Johner

Shocking goalkeeping.

LightningBlue

Nice delivery by Willian. We'll take that bit of luck.

GavRedKing

After Hazard missing from 12 yards Willian scores from nearly 3 times further out :pac:

jamesbere

Johner wrote: »

Shocking goalkeeping.

How did he leave that in. Ruined my first goal scorer bet

Kirby

The pace in this chelsea team compared to the last time out is telling. Oscar, Willian, Remy, Loftus-cheek, both fullbacks. Take plodders out like Costa, Ivanovic, Matic and you have some zip in your play. Not that they are poor players....they are just not mobile enough.

HalloweenJack

Willian our new free-kick specialist. :P

GavRedKing

Willian pole axed on the far side looks like.

jamesbere

Will I am is injured

GavRedKing

Kirby wrote: »

The pace in this chelsea team compared to the last time out is telling. Oscar, Willian, Remy, Loftus-cheek, both fullbacks. Take plodders out like Costa, Ivanovic, Matic and you have some zip in your play. Not that they are poor players....they are just not mobile enough.

Ivanovic slows down everything on his side, he cant do f**k all with the ball at his feet.

GavRedKing

Bring on traore give him a run.

HalloweenJack

Jesus, never thought I'd be against subbing Willian off.

GavRedKing

And traore is off warming up, good shout.

GavRedKing

I'd take willian off with Arsenal on Saturdayy

Johner

GavRedKing wrote: »

Ivanovic slows down everything on his side, he cant do f**k all with the ball at his feet.

We won't be seeing Ivan again hopefully.

HalloweenJack

Hair on your man in front of Pedro.

GavRedKing

Johner wrote: »

We won't be seeing Ivan again hopefully.

Hes only got a few months left on his deal too, playing like he is wont see him get a renewal.

Dozen Wicked Words

Johner wrote: »

We won't be seeing Ivan again hopefully.

He just needs a few weeks to find his mojo. I still have faith there is a season of two left in him. I hope.

GavRedKing

Costa for willian and remy wide it seems.

Waste of a sub, should have been traore and let remy a chance at CF

GavRedKing

hopefully Costa gets off the mark in Europe tonight.

jamesbere

Did he think he was in croke Park

GavRedKing

Thats not a bad chance

GavRedKing

Decent half but we need a 2nd

GavRedKing

How the f**k is that dangerous play when nobody is around him?

GavRedKing

These officials are a bunch of clowns.

jamesbere

Another penalty