Chelsea v Liverpool 12.45 BT Sport 1

Harry Palmr

[imagine pictures of crests, flags and bunting here if it pleases you]


Ref - Mark Clattenburg

Injury list

Chelsea - Courtios, Ivanovic, Pedro (maybe),Costa (maybe)
Liverpool - Rossiter, Sturridge, Henderson, Gomez, Ings, Flannagan, Enrique

6 game form guide (PL)

Chelsea L-W-D-L-W-L
Liverpool L-D-W-D-D-D

Two teams in need of a win, both for rather different reasons stuttering and spluttering like an old Fiat in winter. Barring accidents its impossible to see this as being anything other than more cagey than a very cagey thing in a dungeon to be honest. Klopp will set the side up to play compact with a high line and look to land a quick jab when possession is turned over. If Mourinho did exactly the same I'd not be shocked!

No leaks so far (!) but the starting line up is likely to be

Mig
Clyne/Sktrel/Sakho/Moreno/
Can/Lucas/Milner/
Coutinho/Lallana or Firmino.
Benteke

GavRedKing

Chelsea to play well and lose the game, its been the case for the last few games.

Guessing our starting XI will be

Begovic
Zouma Cahill JT Azp
Ramires Matic
Willian Cesc Hazard
Remy

brevity

I like bunting.

Panthro

Is zouma really the best FB option though.
That is the real question.

GavRedKing

Panthro wrote: »

Is zouma really the best FB option though.
That is the real question.

The correct answer is no but the team I'd like to see and the team that will line out are totally different things.

Panthro

Ain't that the truth. I'd go mad.

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Begovic

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Azp--Cahill--Zouma--Baba

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Cesc---Matic

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--Willian-Hazard-Kenedy--

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Remy

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Magico Gonzalez

Fabregas is on a horrible streak of form, from a Liverpool perspective am hoping to see him continue it.

Talking of people who should be dropped from the Liverpool side I'd nearly say Coutinho has played himself onto the bench. Lets give Firmino a go.

1-1. Predictably.

Can't see Liverpool winning, still pretty average

Chelsea can go level with Liverpool with a win. Dizzy heights

monkey9

One all. Close thread.

Osmosis Jones

Mignolet
Clyne-Skrtel-Sakho-Moreno
Lucas-Can
Ibe-Firmino-Coutinho
Benteke

suffering golfer

Can't see beyond a draw myself TBH. Have a feeling it will be tactical like the Manchester derby last week.

monkey9

suffering golfer wrote: »

Can't see beyond a draw myself TBH. Have a feeling it will be tactical like the Manchester derby last week.

Can't see where there'll be many goals from either side.

Dozen Wicked Words

Hope Chelsea win, expect Liverpool to win with at least one goal from Chelsea poorly defending a set piece.

monkey9

Hope Liverpool win, expect Chelsea to win with at least one goal from Liverpool poorly defending a set piece.

Panthro

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Hope Chelsea win, expect Liverpool to win with at least one goal from Chelsea poorly defending a set piece.

monkey9 wrote: »

Hope Liverpool win, expect Chelsea to win with at least one goal from Liverpool poorly defending a set piece.

Ya lazy bastard Monkey!:D

Harry Palmr

Jinxception

mikeym

I would like Liverpool to win.

Im still bitter over the loss at Anfield in 2014.

Cantona's Collars

5-5 in the game of the season with high paced attacking football and a few screamers of goals...........Nah,it'll be 0-0.

Grayditch

Chelsea to go 2-0 by 60 mins. Liverpool to pull one back.

So Chelsea by one.

symbolic

Hoping to see a Klopp win. He's a very likeable guy. The polar opposite to the other fella.

Dozen Wicked Words

monkey9 wrote: »

Hope Liverpool win, expect Chelsea to win with at least one goal from Liverpool poorly defending a set piece.

Don't think I could have put it better myself.

OwaynOTT

Anything to be said for combined elevens?

byte

Hoping for a Liverpool win, but feel it'll be a 1-1 draw.

Panthro

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Anything to be said for combined elevens?

Is there annnnnything to be said for saying another Mass?...

~Rebel~

1-1

Kerrigooney

Think Liverpool will sneak a win here.

I hope they make Jose cry.

5starpool

Chelsea to play well and win before losing to someone like Norwich or Bournemouth next week.

StringerBell

Chelsea @ better then evens, at home?

Have to like the home side here, perfect game for them to make a statement.

Call Me Jimmy

3-0 liverpool

BorneTobyWilde

Liverpool don't win as they can't score goals, but are far more rigid than Chelsea at the min. Could be another draw.
Klopp is planning something though, whether it comes off or not only time will tell. Will try to do a Jose and nick it 0-1 .

Bret Hart

With Benteke fit,I fancy Liverpool to nick it 2-1.

Rayne Wooney

Looking through that Chelsea squad United should try buy 2 or 3 in January, some of them are too good to be playing in the Championship

I'm going 2-1 result, could be either way

Jesus Wept

hoping for a draw for lols, again

efb

Jose to get Klopped

population

It's strange because with Rodgers in charge, this would have been the kind of game that Jose would look at with confidence to put the season back on track despite his misfiring team. However with Klopp in charge the mood is one of real uncertainty even though the Liverpool team is no different (perhaps even worse considering injuries) than it was with Rodgers at the helm.

I think it will be a Chelsea win though. It will be ugly as hell but I think they'll nick three points.

Kirby

Chelsea have been so poor so far this season you have to figure eventually they will get it together. It could very well be this game.

I'm going to go with an ambitious 3-0 victory. Liverpool have no striker capable of scoring at the moment. A Coutinho pot shot is always a danger of course but apart from that? They arent a scoring threat really.

Panthro

Kirby wrote: »

I'm going to go with an ambitious 3-0 victory. Liverpool have no striker capable of scoring at the moment. A Coutinho pot shot is always a danger of course but apart from that? They arent a scoring threat really.

Hard to see where Chelsea will score 3 goals.
Last time they scored more than two was against Arsenal over a month ago.
Before that they managed to against Newcastle and Villa. I'm not even to go into the games we've lost!
(Sticking to EPL in the above)

gosplan

Looking forward to this.

It's a game with a huge narrative and I don't really care who wins.

Can't see Chelsea getting too much change out of Liverpool tbh. If I was betting I'd go for a sour enough 1-1 but I wouldn't be surprised to see a kick start to someone's season today. A win for either would be massive.

Actually the only hope I have is for misery on Jose so maybe throw an awful decision into that 1-1 to send him over the edge again.

5starpool

Panthro wrote: »

Hard to see where Chelsea will score 3 goals.
Last time they scored more than two was against Arsenal over a month ago.
Before that they managed to against Newcastle and Villa. I'm not even to go into the games we've lost!
(Sticking to EPL in the above)

Since the the QPR game in early May, Liverpool have only scored more than 1 goal once in all competitions, and that was against Villa over a month ago. I think ye are still better equipped to score than us.

Tomagotchye

This will be 0-0 and the papers will run riot with more Mourinho antic and Klopp undermining, so the real result will be another loss for the average football fan sick of listening to that ****e

kingshankly

Wohoo just found out how to turn beta off
Thank god for that much better

jesus_thats_gre

5starpool wrote: »

Since the the QPR game in early May, Liverpool have only scored more than 1 goal once in all competitions, and that was against Villa over a month ago. I think ye are still better equipped to score than us.

Best league in the world.....

peteeeed

Costa looks happy

https://twitter.com/chelseafc/status/660419763601043456

5starpool

Liverpool FC ‏@LFC
Confirmed #LFC team v @ChelseaFC: Mignolet, Clyne, Skrtel, Sakho, Moreno, Lucas, Can, Milner, Lallana, Coutinho, Firmino

Liverpool FC ‏@LFC 8s8 seconds ago
Confirmed #LFC subs v @ChelseaFC: Bogdan, Lovren, Benteke, Allen, Ibe, Teixeira, Randall

peteeeed

Chelsea Team to face Liverpool: Begovic; Zouma, Cahill, Terry (c), Azpilicueta; Mikel, Ramires; Willian, Oscar, Hazard; Diego Costa.
subs: Amelia, Baba, Matic, Fabregas, Kenedy, Falcao, Remy.

Caovyn Lineah

5starpool wrote: »

Liverpool FC ‏@LFC
Confirmed #LFC team v @ChelseaFC: Mignolet, Clyne, Skrtel, Sakho, Moreno, Lucas, Can, Milner, Lallana, Coutinho, Firmino

Liverpool FC ‏@LFC 8s8 seconds ago
Confirmed #LFC subs v @ChelseaFC: Bogdan, Lovren, Benteke, Allen, Ibe, Teixeira, Randall

Klopp fairly confident, we dont even need a striker on the pitch to beat this lot.

Harry Palmr

Bad luck for Origi.

kingshankly

5starpool wrote: »

Liverpool FC ‏@LFC
Confirmed #LFC team v @ChelseaFC: Mignolet, Clyne, Skrtel, Sakho, Moreno, Lucas, Can, Milner, Lallana, Coutinho, Firmino

Liverpool FC ‏@LFC 8s8 seconds ago
Confirmed #LFC subs v @ChelseaFC: Bogdan, Lovren, Benteke, Allen, Ibe, Teixeira, Randall

If Rodgers went with no striker there would be war on here

5starpool

Caovyn Lineah wrote: »

Klopp fairly confident, we dont even need a striker on the pitch to beat this lot.

Well playing with one hasn't done us a lot of good so far this season. No Origi even on the bench is interesting.

Panthro

5starpool wrote: »

Since the the QPR game in early May, Liverpool have only scored more than 1 goal once in all competitions, and that was against Villa over a month ago. I think ye are still better equipped to score than us.

Are we officially having a " our team is shytter then yours" chat?!
Surely a Chelsea Liverpool fans first!

5starpool

Panthro wrote: »

Are we officially having a " our team is shytter then yours" chat?!
Surely a Chelsea Liverpool fans first!

We'll be at each other's throats soon, don't worry. Things will be back to normal soon enough