Chelsea duo Gary Cahill and Ramires will be available for selection against Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge tomorrow after serving a one-match suspension against Leeds in the Capital One Cup game midweek, but Jon Obi Mikel still has to serve the final game of his three-match ban whilst John Terry is sidelined with injury and Ryan Bertrand is doubtful.
As for the opposition, Ron Vlaar and Gabriel Agbonlahor are major doubts as they have both been out with calf problems. Stephen Ireland has recovered from illness and will be available for selection, and I hope he won’t have as good a time as he did at Stamford Bridge last season when he scored and assisted to help his side win 3-1.
The team I’d pick tomorrow:
P. Cech
C. Azpilicueta – B. Ivanovic – D. Luiz – A. Cole
F. Lampard – Ramires
Oscar – J. Mata – E. Hazard
F. Torres
It is a worrying statistic that Chelsea have used only 20 players this season, the fewest in the top flight, as it represents the fact that there’s not a whole lot of variety in the squad at the moment and it’s proving incredibly difficult to rest our players and give them the opportunity to recharge their batteries. Hopefully we will see a few new faces in the January transfer window as we foolishly went into a season with just the one recognised centre forward and sold Raul Meireles at a time in which we couldn’t possibly replace him.
But until then we will have to work with what we’ve got and we have some great players, it’s just the fatigue factor that is concerning me and it could be one of the reasons why we burnt out following a bright start.
I would take azpi. out and bring cahill back in the lineup because he has been good at the back,I think he is better than david luiz and mikel is doing good so leave him in and take ramires out
Dude,Mikel still serves a ban. I won’t be suprised to see Luiz in the midfield since we don’t have muscle there. Maybe he’ll get a rest because he played alot in recent weeks.
I think its hard to leave moses out hes definatly one of our best this season id like to see luiz in mid, and more of marin i think give him more time we’ll see an outstanding winger
I wil take cech azpilecueta ivanovic cahil cole luiz remires oscar mata hazard torres
Cech azpliecuta ivanovic cahil cole luiz remires mata oscar hazard torres
Cech Azp ivanovic cahill cole remires luiz mata osca hazard torres
I wil like 2 c d likes of cech,azpilicueta,cahill,ashly cole,then it should b either lampard with ramires or lampard with luiz,mata,oskar,hazard,torres
nd torres
cech azpi cahill ivan cole
luiz (oscar/lamps)
mata hazard (sturridge/moses)
torres
Cech
Azp Ivanovic Cahill Cole
Lampard Luiz
Mata Oscar Hazard
Benitez
Cech
Azp – Iva – Cahill – Cole
Lamp – Luiz
Hazard – Oscar – mata
Torres