Chelsea (H) | Pre-Match Thread

[Manchester_lalala]

Cannot understand people saying make loads of changes.
Win this game then we can rotate all we want until Istanbul

It is purely to keep our whole squad happy and keep fitness levels up. Torres and Sergio scored last week and it will be good for their confidence to start.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Cannot understand people saying make loads of changes.
Win this game then we can rotate all we want until Istanbul

Tactical reasons for the final. Don’t show our hand against them too early. Don’t give them the opportunity to learn how their system works v our best team (or how it doesn’t). Don’t let them see which individual match ups work in reality. Just don’t give them all this information that they can then turn against us when it REALLY matters. There’s no need for it. Let them have to adjust at half time in the final when they are already behind, as opposed to making the adjustments pre-match with what they learnt this weekend.

Then focus on keeping the key players ticking over in the other remaining league games.

 

[city saint]

Wouldn't 5th be enough for Chelsea to get champions league now because it's an all English final?

not if city win as weve already qualified

 

[Plain Speaking]

If Chelsea win the FA cup and CL it would completely undermine our own achievements of a league cup and Premiership title double, just like, Liverpool's CL win undermined our domestic success a couple of seasons ago.

The reason Chelsea knocked us out of the FA cup is we made 8 changes. When we brought our regular first team players on we dominated but they were already ahead and have a strong defence it was too late. That win albeit against a weakened team will have given them confidence. We must play a strong enough team to win. We must reassert our dominance. We don't want to boost their confidence a second time.

 

[Franny's toilet roll]

Get what your saying but Pep is an overthinker, he will want every tiny advantage possible. Not giving them a chance of a psychological boost and not giving Tuchel any experience of playing against our best side before a potential final are two key factors

I think you are over thinking it. We need to field a strong team, beat them and fuck their condfidence before the CL final. If worst comes to the worst and they do well against our strongest side, it gives Pep more time to think about his tactics

 

[Bluethemaway]

Play strongest team possible and play the same tactics as against PSG, be a solid unit and deny them space, we will grab a couple of goals and hopefully keep a clean sheet.

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

Tactical reasons for the final. Don’t show our hand against them too early. Don’t give them the opportunity to learn how their system works v our best team (or how it doesn’t). Don’t let them see which individual match ups work in reality. Just don’t give them all this information that they can then turn against us when it REALLY matters. There’s no need for it. Let them have to adjust at half time in the final when they are already behind, as opposed to making the adjustments pre-match with what they learnt this weekend.

Then focus on keeping the key players ticking over in the other remaining league games.

IMO We should put out our strongest side on Saturday and thrash them soundly so that he engraver can get to work on the PL trophy.
I want them to experience how we play at our best, have them learn all about us, have them learn that we’re a better side than them, have them learn that we’re going to thrash them in the CL final.

All than talk of engineering a weaker performance than would be possible, to ‘hide our hand’, is crazy, because the last time we played them we got beat and if that happens again tomorrow then they’ll be going into the final full of confidence while we’ll be dreading getting beaten by them 3 times on the trot.

Let’s go full strength, blow them away and show them who's the Daddy!

 

[richards30]

pick the team to win the title please pep!!

 

[Franknorgrovesnephew]

Just win don't care what team he picks

 

[Tricky_Trev]

IMO We should put out our strongest side on Saturday and thrash them soundly so that he engraver can get to work on the PL trophy.
I want them to experience how we play at our best, have them learn all about us, have them learn that we’re a better side than them, have them learn that we’re going to thrash them in the CL final.

All than talk of engineering a weaker performance than would be possible, to ‘hide our hand’, is crazy, because the last time we played them we got beat and if that happens again tomorrow then they’ll be going into the final full of confidence while we’ll be dreading getting beaten by them 3 times on the trot.

Let’s go full strength, blow them away and show them who's the Daddy!

It’s not crazy though. We beat them 6-0 in the league once. Then just 2 weeks later we drew 0-0 with them in the League Cup Final and had to rely on pens. SIX. NIL. What happened to them “learning we will thrash them again”? They learned from it and nearly beat us. And they are a better team with a better manager now.