Chelsea Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2016

hots

GavRedKing wrote: »

I wouldnt have taken off RLC being honest, I would have whipped Pedro and thrown Ramires RW and MAtic CM and left RLC on but I suppose Jose wanted experience too, at least MAtic was decent once he came on and got more than 20/25mins :pac:

Yeah Pedro was poor, himself Hazard and Oscar are hopefully all worrying about their starting spots at the moment with Ramires and Willian coming into form lately. Willian actually reminded me of Hazard last year so much, taking loads of responsibility on the ball, coming deep to create and then getting up with Costa in attack too. I'd imagine with Fab, Ramires and RLC/Matic he felt a bit free-er from defensive duties.

GavRedKing

hots wrote: »

Yeah Pedro was poor, himself Hazard and Oscar are hopefully all worrying about their starting spots at the moment with Ramires and Willian coming into form lately. Willian actually reminded me of Hazard last year so much, taking loads of responsibility on the ball, coming deep to create and then getting up with Costa in attack too. I'd imagine with Fab, Ramires and RLC/Matic he felt a bit free-er from defensive duties.

Willian is finally looking somewhat like a 30m player, he still needs to do much more IMO.

I'd love if we could get Hazard and Willian firing on all cylinders as it hasnt happened enough for us so far in their time at the club.

GavRedKing

A weird stat for the West Ham game, we're as bad away from home 4pts from 4games, as West Ham are at home, 4pts from 4 games.

Picking up a win there would be a great boost to the season too IMO.

GavRedKing

Didnt see this linked but anyway, apparently, accorindg to Daniel Levy, Chelsea are preparing to offer the FA £15m a year for exclusive use of Wembley during the construction of the stadium.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/tottenham-hotspur/11934230/Chelsea-make-four-year-bid-to-land-Wembley-damaging-Tottenhams-chances-of-playing-there-for-a-season.html

Spurs only require Wembley for 1 year while we need it for at least 3 and maybe 4 years.

Be gas if Spurs were made to play in Milton Keys

Lukker-

No way we should be sharing a ground with Spurs we are above that.

GavRedKing

Lukker- wrote: »

No way we should be sharing a ground with Spurs we are above that.

I'd say the FA will do it anyway, it treats but clubs fairly and instead of 15m from us they get 30m for having 2 clubs using it.

Not sure how they'll work around us playing on Tuesday/Wednesday and Spurs on Thursday and us back on Saturday and Spurs Sunday when the European fixtures roll around though.

GavRedKing

Big week in the UCL for us and other English sides.

Hoping we get it right and get a result against Kyiv.

Cant see RLC starting being honest but I reckon 8 or 9 of those who started on Saturday will start.

hots

GavRedKing wrote: »

Big week in the UCL for us and other English sides.

Hoping we get it right and get a result against Kyiv.

Cant see RLC starting being honest but I reckon 8 or 9 of those who started on Saturday will start.

There's 5 sticky games coming up and as someone said earlier coming through those unbeaten would be a great feat based on our current form. I think if there's to be any hope of that a bit of consistency and fighting spirit needs to be developed in the first 11.

Would expect Matic back in which is grand and maybe give Cahill a chance to get back in. No more than that hopefully.

peteeeed

GavRedKing wrote: »

Big week in the UCL for us and other English sides.

Hoping we get it right and get a result against Kyiv.

Cant see RLC starting being honest but I reckon 8 or 9 of those who started on Saturday will start.

Remy and pedro have not travelled

GavRedKing

peteeeed wrote: »

Remy and pedro have not travelled

If I was guessing the XI i would have dropped PEdro myself and thrown in OScar or Hazard.

Team will probably be

Begovic
Zouma Cahill JT Azp
Matic Cesc
Willian Oscar Hazard
Costa

hots

GavRedKing wrote: »

If I was guessing the XI i would have dropped PEdro myself and thrown in OScar or Hazard.

Team will probably be

Begovic
Zouma Cahill JT Azp
Matic Cesc
Willian Oscar Hazard
Costa

I'd say Baba plays again, I don't think it's worth more shuffling to play Zouma out of position and now seems like a risk-free time to blood him in. If he's going to come good he'll need game time.

GavRedKing

hots wrote: »

I'd say Baba plays again, I don't think it's worth more shuffling to play Zouma out of position and now seems like a risk-free time to blood him in. If he's going to come good he'll need game time.

Away to Kyiv? That'll be a real test for any LB, let alone a guy whos struggling against Villa.

I just dont think Jose will play him, I could be wrong but after result in Portugal, I reckon Jose will revert to type and hope for a solid away performance and take a draw.

GavRedKing

All the English sides this year have started pretty poorly, Arsenal have a huge double header against Munich as theyre the only side without any points and if they'll need points to ensure they get 2nd.

City, us and Utd all have 1 win and 1 loss.

I think its huge we dont lose this game as two teams could easily go 4 points above us with 3 games to go, granted we'd have to play both of those teams at home in those 3 games but that kind of total could be hard to claw back.

If that was the case I'd prefer to come 4th than 3rd.

Lukker-

I think Baba will start too. He needs games to get settled in the team. I think the CL is more forgiving for foreign players too compared to the PL.

GavRedKing

I'm just worried what Yarmolenko will do to him if he starts wide left, that guy is a talented winger and would test even the best FB.

peteeeed

jose and eden nominated for Ballon D’Or

http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2015/10/hazard-and-mourinho-nominated-for-world-awards.html

GavRedKing

Now all we need is Hazard to play like last year and Jose to pick him and we're sorted :pac:

GavRedKing

Seen a recent picutre of Cesc online and hes in serious shape. Pretty much liek Costa and Hazard, who were carrying extra weight into the season.

Which all harps back to us coming in late for pre-season. It goes back to Jsoe giving the team extra time off.

The blame falls with him but the players do look like theyre trying to get back to what they were when we won the league few months ago, its probabyl too late for this year but build for next year and push on in the cups and learn from the mistakes of this pre-season.

GavRedKing

Training tonight so not sure if I'll see the game.

Hope we get the job done now, I'd happily take a draw being honest and beat them at the Bridge.

rottie 11

Any chance were on itv tonight ?

GavRedKing

rottie 11 wrote: »

Any chance were on itv tonight ?

I've not checked but I'd assume it sArsenal v bayern, its a huge game.

GavRedKing

I just hope we dont bloody lose tonight, its very likely that Porto will win and if Porto and Kyiv both win we're 4 points behind both. Not a great situation to be in.

Hoping we start as strong as possible which would mean Hazard playing and Matic too.

Dozen Wicked Words

rottie 11 wrote: »

Any chance were on itv tonight ?

ITV don't have Champions League any more do they?

GavRedKing

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

ITV don't have Champions League any more do they?

Youre right, the game will be on RTE and by game I mean Arsenal v Bayern, ITV are only allowed to show the final FTA.

Kirby

BT have all the games. Watch it there.

GavRedKing

Sky package, no BT.

Feckin baxtards

ussjtrunks

GavRedKing wrote: »

Sky package, no BT.

Feckin baxtards

We Didnt know ourselves when we had every match on sky sports and the 2 english matches on FTA, I dont want to pay for BT atm so I guess I wont see any CL games except for United and Arsnel this season T-T

kev1.3s

There are other ways to see them, it sickens me that the packages get split up under the pretence of trying to stop any one provider getting a monopoly and in the end it only costing the fans more!
I'm all for monopoly's me.

hots

Is the free Setanta channel showing us tonight lads? Our first one was on that I think...

hots

hots wrote: »

Is the free Setanta channel showing us tonight lads? Our first one was on that I think...

nvm, it looks as though we are according to their listings page.

peteeeed

team v Dynamo Kiev: Begovic; Zouma, Cahill, Terry (c), Azpilicueta; Ramires, Matic; Willian, Fabregas, Hazard; Diego Costa.

peteeeed

subs tonight: Blackman, Baba, Mikel, Oscar, Traore, Kenedy, Falcao.

GavRedKing

GavRedKing wrote: »

If I was guessing the XI i would have dropped PEdro myself and thrown in OScar or Hazard.

Team will probably be

Begovic
Zouma Cahill JT Azp
Matic Cesc
Willian Oscar Hazard
Costa

I was close.

Knew zouma would be RB too.

GavRedKing

No RLC is seriously disappointing though

GavRedKing

No RLC is seriously disappointing though

ussjtrunks

hots wrote: »

Is the free Setanta channel showing us tonight lads? Our first one was on that I think...

there is a free Setanta channel?

rottie 11

GavRedKing wrote: »

Sky package, no BT.

Feckin baxtards

+1

peteeeed

Looks like they are freezing

duploelabs

Robbie Savage commentating on our game and mark lawrenson on the arsenal game

Johner

Unlucky Hazard, hits the post.

Johner

Kiev don't seem up to much, will be disappointed if we don't win here.

Johner

What a ball from Willian, unlucky.

GavRedKing

We should have had a penalty too.

Johner

Super run from Matic, should have scored though.

GavRedKing

We're very unlucky not to be a goal up at least

Johner

GavRedKing wrote: »

We're very unlucky not to be a goal up at least

Would be typical if Kiev ran up and scored now, we really should win this game though.

Johner

Super free kick from Willian, so unlucky.

rottie 11

Ffs

McDave

Cahill. FFS.

McDave

Ramires. FFS.