Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas has revealed that he will make changes to his team ahead of our Champions League Group E match against Bayer Leverkusen tonight, with our big game against Manchester United at the weekend in mind.
The former Porto boss will take charge of his first Champions League game tonight and says that he will make the right choices so that Chelsea are in good shape for both the Leverkusen and United games.
AVB said:
“You’ll see some changes. Then we’ll make wise decisions for Sunday. It is very tight. Most of the players were away with their countries last week, we played at Sunderland on Saturday and now we have this European match.”
He added:
“We have only four days to recover for Old Trafford and this has to play a part in my team selection. Hopefully we will make the right choices to win this game and the players will also be up to the level on Sunday.”
Brazilian midfielder Ramires is unavailable for tonight’s game after his red card against Manchester United during last season’s competition. Romelu Lukaku and Ryan Bertrand are ineligible for selection, whilst Didier Drogba and Michael Essien are injury casualties.
With that information in mind, who would you select for tonight’s game?
I’d go for…
P. Cech
J. Bosingwa – Alex – D. Luiz – A. Cole
R. Meireles – J. Mikel – J. McEachran
D. Sturridge – F. Torres – J. Mata
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With the crucial league clash with man utd on sunday, avb knws he wld hv to rest players. So I thnk the sstarting line up wld be. Cech
Bosingwa luiz terry cole
Meireles. Romeu. Mata
Kalou Anelka Malouda
torres was bought for the holy grail and he should feature with the right players not the old Maloudas and Kalou and a certain Lampard who are very selfish
Lampard is no longer a first teamer AVB get rid him of him and move Meireles forward and put Oriel as the CDM AND jOSH AS THE DEEP PLAYMAKER.lAMPARD PLIZ YOUR TIME IS UP.lET jOSH BE YOU DESTROYING CAREERS.
I so much agree with you. Romeu and Meriles should play Mikel and Lampard’s role.
Cech
Bosingwa Luiz Ivanovich Cole
Mikel
Meireless McEacharan
Sturridge Torres Mata
Need to rest lamps, and terry for the manu game
Sturridge Torres and Mata upfront, Romeu, Josh and Meireles in midfield, usual backfour with Luiz in for either Terry or Ivanovic, Cech in goal. As long as Kalou doesn’t make the squad we should win easily.
torres needs enough playing time so as to exhibit his real capabilities as a top sticker besides you dont experct him to play to expectation when selfish Malouda,kalou,Drogba and ageing Lampard play with him
From d sat squad, change: lamp for mikel(then mikel holds & meirless play Lamp’s positn),Torres for Anelka and Iv/Luiz to pair Terry. TO FACE MAN.U.
From d sat squad, change: lamp for mikel(then mikel holds & meirless play Lamp’s positn),Anelka for Torres and Iv/Luiz to pair Terry. TO FACE MAN.U.
what the hell am i hearing anelka resting,who told you he is among our best 11.torres is still ahead of him by very far.what did he do in the last game to suggest he is better than torres.did he score,no.
if it were torres they complain he didnt score.i stronly believe anelka and malouda are blocking the way for us to perform.what if they are replaced with
hazard and Remy,or neymar,Goetze,Kakuta.or compare those two with young,valencia,nani.nasri,silva,aguero,adam johnson.they come last.our problem is not torres this two are the problem the sooner they go the better for us.tell me in which occasion when we won the league has anelka been so helpful to us that when he had missed through an injury we would have lost it.the recent one was until when the stupid Ancelloti decided to go with Drogba alone upfront and joe cole taking anelka place did we win the league .sell this two they are blocking us from success and good football.
I think they need sturridge against man u. sooo.
cech
ivanovic alex luiz cole
meireiles mikel mceacharan
kalou torres malouda