Chelsea (H) | Pre-Match Thread

[jimharri]

Thought Pep might have gone strong (okay, stronger) today. Get the PL tied up, then rotate for the last couple of games. But hey; what do I know?

 

[DATOIA]

WTF ?

Poor Rodri :D

The only explanation is that - Pep`s trying to test Chelsea and its tactics in a certain way.
Like how Chelsea plays against a counter-attack-er teams or can they create chances or not from the positional play..

But I would definitely like to see our best team and system here, so that they were confident for the final and could experience some aspects of Chelsea`s game.

At least Ruben, Rodri and Ederson will get that..

 

[coolcity]

Nervous because I would have put Tuchel as a future replacement for Pep, even before he joined Chelsea, but I think we'll do it today.

Having knocked us out of one major trophy, I just hope that as good as it gets as far as they're concerned. Tight game today but I'm going for 1-0 City.

 

[kaz7]

What the fuck is wrong with people , some of us can be disappointed in that team without getting aggro

 

[handsofstone]

Apart from Ziyech, Gilmour and Alonso, that's pretty much Chelsea's best XI (argument on James)

If we can beat them with essentially 3 of our best XI it'll be huge, whereas if they beat us it really doesn't matter as it's almost our reserves......

Looking forward to this, gonna be disjointed and we aren't favourites but I want some of our players to really take this opportunity, try and fight for their place in the team

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Fucking terrible team that. Why not go full strength and wrap up the title

It’s impossible for us to put out a terrible team. And how do you know we won’t wrap up the title?

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

Pep never fucking learns

Maybe not but maybe it’s the reason we’re so successful.

 

[Mancity1980]

Course i want to win the game, look at the players we’ve put out your telling me they can’t go on and win us this game ? Ederson Dias cancelo laporte rodri aguero Sterling Jesus etc
How will it give them a phycological advantage knowing they’ve beat was is seen as a 2nd string twice , now imagine this 2nd string beats them and 9 more in form players come in for the final. That will be a physological blow. We have come this Far rotating and keeping everyone on board what we’re trying to achieve they deserve to play and prove they can win us the league in a big game

Totally agree and no I am not by any means saying we won’t win this match, that would be plain dumb. Are you saying we definitely will win? No clearly you are not, but with a stronger lineup the result is more certain and the benefits by far outweighs the risks.

 

[Academica]

Pep never fucking learns

I know the bloke is totally clueless.

 

[Chi-town blues]

It‘ll take while for chelsea to adjust to our line up but still they’ll have to be on full alert till the end .