Chelsea (a) pre-match thread 25/06/2020 8.15pm ko

[dublinblue12]

At least Raheem can take a corner kick without receiving racist abuse from their vile fans , never did hear anything about that in the aftermath , no prosecutions and no bans as far as i am aware. Play our strongest/fittest team for this ,my guess : EDERSON , WALKER DINHO , LAPORTE , MENDY + MAHREZ , KDB , GUNDO , RODRI , STERLING + JESUS , without their home support this will be easier , ive backed us to win 2-0 , which will set up a nice evening at the Etihad against the all conquering Dipshits.

Didn't the bloke get media shamed, arrested, banned by Chelsea and lose his job?

 

[SWPISHOME]

Thought Foden was showing as a doubt for this ? He had ice on his thigh following Monday’s game.

Football app I have is showing Foden out with an ankle injury until mid July. I didn't hear anything other than that about him being injured.

 

[Tb1981]

Get the first 11 rested for Newcastle
Has to be our priority
Dippers have done that all season
Rather win fa cup than delay them a week
May beat Chelsea anyway
Get Doyle in

 

[Healdplace]

Sadly I think not. I hope someone corrects me, but from what I’ve read, BT are the only company not making any of their matches free to watch.

Yes that seems the case. Amazon have a small number of games and it looks like you may need to take a free trial subscription. But it will cost nothing if you cancel at the end of the month trial. But they have not even confirmed that as yet so might make them free. Likely to be last choice games though.

BT don't have a freeview channel like Sky do to make free screenings easy. But they should have been persuaded to put their extra games on line - eg on You Tube. They are the only one of the 4 companies not making any freely accessible.

 

[HelloCity]

Weakened team for Chelsea ;)

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Has he really just said that Gundogan could play up front !

 

[Father Paul]

Has he really just said that Gundogan could play up front !

That was reported but surely can't be a realistic proposition.

 

[The Black Shed]

Has he really just said that Gundogan could play up front !

LOL! I know Pep is batshit crazy, but come on fella.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Well done Pep. He’s never swayed from his “the next game is the most important one” line until now but given there’s nothing to play for and any question of maintaining integrity has been thrown right out of the window it would have been crazy not to prioritise. I hope he picks his Newcastle line up first and then everybody else plays against Chelsea. I’d go as far as sticking Carson in net given Bravo is unavailable.

 

[hihosilva]

There both holding midfielders , you cannot play them together , its far to slow and negative and the reason we are 20 points behind .

Gundagan only started playing holding when we had injury in that position, he is though more of a play maker.