Chelsea (H) - Sat 15th Jan, 12:30 | Pre-Match Thread

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Hope you’re ok.

Cheers Rammy. Roller coaster 10 days, but all seems well in the end. Apart from the 6 inch square wound in my abdomen.

I sold my ticket before the game time for close as I would be properly tempted to go anyway!

 

[BringBackSwales]

Gutted (literally) that I can’t make this one, but having had a laparotomy a few days ago, gonna have to give this a miss.

Come on you Blue boys!

Hope you’re ok. Thought you’d said labotomy for a moment, but then I realised you’re Alan Harper not alan davies

 

[mancity1]

Hope you’re ok.

Plenty of fish and meat and vegies and AHT will be a good as new in 6-8 weeks.

If the forecasts regarding how many in the UK will get the virus in the next 6-8 weeks its a good thing he will be a home recuperating , the downside if the predictions are only 30 per cent correct there won't be much premiership football to watch.

 

[alexmcity]

If we have any aspirations in wanting to win the CL this season , i think we need to be playing Stones and Dias together. We look a lot more solid and less vulnerable imo.

You may be right. I hope we'll have Stones available and in top form. But we may be underestimating our defensive record with Laporte. We have conceded 13 goals in 21 league games. That's excellent! Before Leicester, we had conceded 9 goals in 18 league games. That's outstanding. We conceded 3 goals vs Leicester because we were 4 goals up and stopped to play (and also because we didn't have Rodri and Walker).

Now imagine that we had Stones (2 starts) instead of Laporte (17 starts). You say we look "a lot more solid" with Stones and Dias. Would you translate that in numbers? We had conceded 9 goals in 18 games prior to Leicester. How many would we have conceded with Stones and Dias? 3 goals? 5 goals? 7 goals?

IMO, it's a myth we are "a lot more solid" with Stones and Dias. It depends on their form. Dias was a world beater last season, but played too many minutes and lost a bit of form (both with us and Portugal). Both Stones and Dias were poor in the CL final, especially Stones who was all over the place. And now people want us to believe Stones is the key to winning the CL? They may be right! But I think the consensus is a bit premature. Time will tell. The most important thing now is that Stones regains form and stays fit for more than 3-4 games.

 

[richards30]

chelsea have a few missing still dont they? Mendy, Chilwell and Reece James at least?

 

[KS55]

It has to be Eddie….every time. His placement is superb. Stick Kyle Walker in goal whilst Eddie takes the penalty.
One of the times when you miss….James Milner.

When you miss.......mad Mario

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Hope you’re ok. Thought you’d said labotomy for a moment, but then I realised you’re Alan Harper not alan davies

Alan fucking Davies caused me so much pain whilst laughing along to his rant!

Am on the mend, but don’t recommend this surgery. 0 out of 10; not funny.

 

[Blue Smarties]

chelsea have a few missing still dont they? Mendy, Chilwell and Reece James at least?

Mendy, James, Chilwell, Chalobah all out. Kante and Silva 50/50, but I assume would be out of isolation so will come down to a late fitness test - might be an off the bench job.

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[SidJames]

Win for me.

Lets ask young Phil ?

 

[Goodlove]

Just been told by a Chelsea fan mate to expect 5000 inflatable champions league trophies on Saturday. Funny fuckers.


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