Chelsea (H) - Carabao Cup - Wed 9th Nov, 20:00 | Pre-Match Thread

[Bournemouth Blue]

Mostly picking up discarded half-chewed lumps of food under youngest grandson’s high chair. To be fair he is only 16.

I think City would beat England 8-0. OK, the 8 might be a stretch, but the 0 is nailed on

True, but the players from countries knocked out will be back with clubs and a fair few of our players will go and not get loads of minutes.

Ederson, Walker (potentially), Akanji (assuming they don’t progress very far), Ake, Rodri, Phillips, Foden (potentially), Grealish, Mahrez, Haaland, Alvarez all May not got loads of minutes.

Cancelo, Dias, Stones, Laporte, Bernardo, Gundogan are the ones that will be played all the time if fit.

Haaland is guaranteed not to have many minutes in the World Cup because Norway haven’t qualified. I doubt if he will play the friendlies next week if he isn’t 100% fit either

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Haaland is guaranteed not to have many minutes in the World Cup because Norway haven’t qualified. I doubt if he will play the friendlies next week if he isn’t 100% fit either

Mahrez too. Gomez wont be picked either.

I assume we will have behind closed door friendlies in December.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Are we on tv tomorrow?

Yes I know I should go but I'm disabled and it's a literal pain in the backside to get there and back these days.

Its on Sky mate.

 

[xgorton]

Are we on tv tomorrow?

Yes I know I should go but I'm disabled and it's a literal pain in the backside to get there and back these days.

Sky Wednesday night,BT Sport Saturday lunch time v Brentford.

 

[trumpton]

Whats everyone's opinion on Sterling Think he will get a good reception tomorrow

He will from me.

Had the decency to fuck off with a year remaining on his contract for a decent fee, rather than walking for free. Also saved us a season of opposite sides on this forum arguing he's good/shit!

Right, back to the Grealish thread!

 

[BringBackSwales]

True, but the players from countries knocked out will be back with clubs and a fair few of our players will go and not get loads of minutes.

Ederson, Walker (potentially), Akanji (assuming they don’t progress very far), Ake, Rodri, Phillips, Foden (potentially), Grealish, Mahrez, Haaland, Alvarez all May not got loads of minutes.

Cancelo, Dias, Stones, Laporte, Bernardo, Gundogan are the ones that will be played all the time if fit.

You missed KDB. He will get no rest from Martinez, doesn’t even get rested in friendlies

 

[Bluesince1979]

Good strong team for me please .

Pep likes winning the league cup. Winning breeds winning.

Can rest one or two on saturday of needs be

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

You missed KDB. He will get no rest from Martinez, doesn’t even get rested in friendlies

Fair. I don’t know how I missed him out of all the players!

He’ll probably be playing in the 3rd place playoff anyway.

 

[uwe rosler 28]

Yep get a strongest team out and try and progress a lot of all prem ties gives us a good chance of drawing a lower ranked team next round

 

[Zapcity]

Whats everyone's opinion on Sterling Think he will get a good reception tomorrow

Personally, though obviously not on the levels of a Zaba welcome, I feel he could (and should )get a fairly good reception if he plays.
Old Raheem seems to split opinion wherever he goes. Probably should have left earlier and could be very frustrating at times for us.
He certainly missed a fair few but he scored loads (very few recent players have scored more) and was involved in a lot of goals, and contributed a lot to many 'pots' we won.
Funnily enough, looking back to the really cool, composed penalty that won us the League Cup against Chelsea I am still a little surprised he did actually score that one though!
When Sterling, Sergio and Sane were all 'on fire' we were a phenomenal attacking unit. Don't mind if he grabs one tomorrow tbh, as long as it's only a consolation with us already well ahead (a bit like Andy May's one for 'Udders, in the 10:1)