Chelsea’s home form has left a lot to be desired since Rafael Benitez took up the post as interim manager but they must turn it around against Stamford Bridge on Sunday and the Spaniard may call on captain John Terry to give the Blues the boost and leadership they desperately need.
John Obi Mikel and Victor Moses, on international duty, are unavailable whilst Oriol Romeu remains the only injury concern.
Arsenal’s defender Laurent Koscielny returns following a one-match suspension, but Mikel Arteta and Tomas Rosicky are sidelined with calf injuries and Gervinho is at the African Cup on Nations.
Who’d be in your Chelsea XI for tomorrow’s game?
P. Cech
C. Azpilicueta – D. Luiz – J. Terry (c) – A. Cole
Ramires – Lampard
Oscar – J. Mata – E. Hazard
Ba
Hopefully Terry’s return will have the desired effect for Chelsea as we need to turn our home form around and maintain the gap on the sides that our chasing us.
Which side would you pick?
It is really painful that sentiments,racism and legendary is blinding our choice of selection, it will not take a blind man a second to know that the problem that the team is having against strong attacking teams whose midfield are well co-ordinated is ‘Lampard’… Lampard is aging yet you are playing him in every game and even out of position.. He can no longer compete with the attacking minded players neither can he meet the demand of a defensive minded player, so bring him in from 70 mins when we must ve been leading or let him go!.. He has done enough for the club, we the fans will never forget, but right now, we must move on and face reality… David luis is one of the finest player we ve rightnow, but must be cautioned or benched for some games b/c of his forsaking habit of giving out possessions in the name of long pases, when he should use his nearest man… It is very stupid and silly to play oscar from the flank, why not play oscar in the middle then mata and hazard from the flank or pair luis and oscar or Remires and oscar at the double pivot to accomodate Marin at the wing(which ever ways the MAZARCA wil be unstoppable).. We ve the finest midfielders & wingers in EPL yet we are struggling, I hereby urge all chelsea fans and even the coach to wake up and stop allowing our choice of selection to be overclouded by Legendary, sentiments and Racism. Blues till I die!!!
It is really painful that sentiments,racism and legendary is blinding our choice of selection, it will not take a blind man a second to know that the problem that the team is having against strong attacking teams whose midfield are well co-ordinated is ‘Lampard’… Lampard is aging yet you are playing him in every game and even out of position.. He can no longer compete with the attacking minded players neither can he meet the demand of a defensive minded player, so bring him in from 70 mins when we must ve been leading or let him go!.. He has done enough for the club, we the fans will never forget, but right now, we must move on and face reality… David luis is one of the finest player we ve rightnow, but must be cautioned or benched for some games b/c of his forsaking habit of giving out possessions in the name of long pases, when he should use his nearest man… It is very stupid and silly to play oscar from the flank, why not play oscar in the middle then mata and hazard from the flank or pair luis and oscar or Remires and oscar at the double pivot to accomodate Marin/Torres at the wing(which ever ways the MAZARCA wil be unstoppable).. We ve the finest midfielders & wingers in EPL yet we are struggling, I hereby urge all chelsea fans and even the coach to wake up and stop allowing our choice of selection to be overclouded by Legendary, sentiments and Racism. Blues till I die!!!
Do u actually no what your talking about, although 34 he is still one of the fittest players in the league and he covers more miles on the pitch then any of our new signings( that’s not fact) and we are also to lose a game he has started so it goes to show how much of an I fluence he has How can you say what you have just said your crazy u can’t drop lampard for a bog game! Drop him against norwich or reading or the smaller teams not arsenal u melt
Cech, ivanovic, luiz, terry (C), cole, lampard, ramires, hazard, oscar, mata, ba. FINAL SCORE: Chelsea 3 – 0 Arsenal
Its my best after 4-2-3-1
3-2-3-2
……………………..Cech…………………………..
………Cahil… Ivanovic….Terry(c)…….
………….Luiz………………Ramirez………..
……..Oscar……….Mata……..Hadard…..
………………Torres………Ba……………………
Cech; cezar ivanovic terry cole; oscar ramires; marin mata hazard; demba ba. If chelsea can stick with these players continually as our first eleven without injuries or suspension the better 4 us in the remaining matches left 4 d season … Rotating players at defence is our main problem.we need constitency at the back 4.
My 1st 11 should be CECH…… Azpilicueta….. Cole……………… Oscar…………… John terry…… Luis……………… Ramires……… Lampard…… Damba Ba… Mata………….. Hazard………. The sub should be Turnbull….. Torres…… Ivanovic……… Betrand…….. Marin……. Ake……..
Since ivanovic is not in his best of form, i think he should replace azpilicueta who has picked well and in form, torres should come in for OSCAR so that he can pair up front with BA and if necessary MARIN for lampard if there wil be no injuries of which i pray for non. Good luck to all my chelsea players.
i dnt knw y benitez will always refuse 2 play marin. My team are, cech, ivanovic,cahil, terry, oscar nd ramires in d dmf, marin,hazard nd mata amf and Ba upfront. Benitez should allow dis attacking 3 2 interchange. Blues till u cry blood.
Chelsea fc IX
Cech,
azpi, ivanovic, terry, cole
luiz, Lampard.
Ramires, mata, hazard
BA
final score cfc 3-1 arsenal
Cech
Azpi ivanovic Terry cole
Lampard luiz
Ramires mata hazard
Ba