Chelsea (H) | Pre-Match Thread

[willipp]

CFC need to take something from this game because of the CL qualification. Their run-in is very difficult. W

Weds 12th May Arsenal (home).

Sat 15th May. FA Cup Final Leicester

Tues 18th May Leicester (home)

Sunday 23rd May Villa (away)

Saturday 29th May CL Final ! City

Funny how often after a cup final, the two teams play each other straight after in the league. Didnt we play Stoke straight after we beat them in the cup final. Also Arsenal in the league cup a few years ago. Chelsea lose to us on Sat then it really opens up 4th spot and puts them under pressure. Really important we give them no easy games to the end of the season.

 

[gazinho]

There's a hell of a lot of people advocating playing our 'B' side on Saturday so Tuchel doesnt know what to expect in the final, whilst I get that going full strength against his side could help surely to God he'll have watched both legs against PSG and will be planning his team for the 29th May accordingly.

Basically just go as strong as we can get the title boxed off then we can do whatever the fuck we like for the next 3 weeks, we win tomorrow and we can wrap KDB, Foden, Dias etc up in cotton wool and play fucking Garcia for all I care.

Get it won City

 

[Marvin]

Funny how often after a cup final, the two teams play each other straight after in the league. Didnt we play Stoke straight after we beat them in the cup final. Also Arsenal in the league cup a few years ago. Chelsea lose to us on Sat then it really opens up 4th spot and puts them under pressure. Really important we give them no easy games to the end of the season.

I don''t think CFC's workload over the remaining fortnight is going to be a big factor in the CL final but if they do miss out on 4th it will raise question marks against them and put them under pressure.

 

[willipp]

I don''t think CFC's workload over the remaining fortnight is going to be a big factor in the CL final but if they do miss out on 4th it will raise question marks against them and put them under pressure.

What it will mean is he cant really rest and rotate like we can and the mental fatigue of so many big games will eventually catch up with them, especially if they do miss out on top 4.

 

[Marvin]

There's a hell of a lot of people advocating playing our 'B' side on Saturday so Tuchel doesnt know what to expect in the final, whilst I get that going full strength against his side could help surely to God he'll have watched both legs against PSG and will be planning his team for the 29th May accordingly.

Basically just go as strong as we can get the title boxed off then we can do whatever the fuck we like for the next 3 weeks, we win tomorrow and we can wrap KDB, Foden, Dias etc up in cotton wool and play fucking Garcia for all I care.

Get it won City

But having played a seriously draining game on Tuesday, what is our best side? Important that we keep players thinking that they can win a place in the CL starting line-up. There's also tactics. What maybe ur best side against PSG might not be our best side against another side. For example, what in your opinion is the defensive weakness of CFC? I would say lack of pace at the back i.e., Chilwell and Azpilcueta so that's another argument to play Sterling, and Jesus.

 

[bulldogblue]

Got a good feeling about this game. 2 or 3-0 City.
Champions.

 

[M12Blue]

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[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

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.

We didn’t play our strongest 11 against them in the FAC semi and look what happened there.

If we start messing about trying to just scrape by tomorrow then we’ll probably get beaten again and then have to go into a CL final on the back of 2 recent defeats against them.

We need to put out a better team, play better football and beat them tomorrow.
Teach them that they get beat when they play us, let them fear our best 11 so that their hearts sink when they see our team sheet an hour before kick off in Turkey.

 

[bluethai]

It's as simple as that to just beat them 2 times and we'll get 2 trophies!

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

There's a hell of a lot of people advocating playing our 'B' side on Saturday so Tuchel doesnt know what to expect in the final, whilst I get that going full strength against his side could help surely to God he'll have watched both legs against PSG and will be planning his team for the 29th May accordingly.

Basically just go as strong as we can get the title boxed off then we can do whatever the fuck we like for the next 3 weeks, we win tomorrow and we can wrap KDB, Foden, Dias etc up in cotton wool and play fucking Garcia for all I care.

Get it won City

I not so much that Tuchel gets a look at us but his players. If that team that played on Tuesday walks out in the final with the same attitude and his players haven't played the majority of ours recently that could be a huge psychological advantage to us.

As has been said, it's a really difficult decision for both managers but I think Pep will go strong.