If Torres plays we'll lose, Ba plays i reckon we'll get a result. Will be very hard but i honestly feel City are there for the taking, don't think much of them at all. Don't think they'll ever seriously be challenging for the league again tbh
My real fear is that a bad loss to £ity will lead to your spiraling downwards at the business-end of the season, and allowing Arsenal to finish 4th above you. Yes, it would be poetic justice for you having stolen our CL place, this season, but I'd still rather you got CL footy by the skin of your teeth, than AFC finish in the top 4. Unfortunately, I have very little faith in Coco.
dunno what's funnier, thinking we somehow 'robbed' you by winning the most prestigious club competition in history or the fact you think Spuds are nailed on 3rd.
Bad Boys What You Gonna Do? What You Gonna Do When They (Arsenal) Coming For You? Anyway I see this ending 1-1 with City throwing away a lead in the last few minutes.
They will, a blue moon rises about once every 44 years so it will happen again in the future and last for six months or so.
Might as well make this the match chat - Chelsea - Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, Luiz, Cole, Mikel, Lamps (c), Ramires, Mata, Hazard, Ba Subs - Turn, Azpili, JT, Bert, Oscar, Moses, Torres City - Hart, Zabaleta (C), Kolo Toure, Nastasic, Clichy, Garcia, Milner, Rodwell, Silva, Yaya Toure, Aguero Subs - I have no idea, but I'd assume Nasri, Dzeko, Tevez etc. I am a lot less confident now - we haven't played Rami on the wing, or Lampard and Mikel together, or Luiz at CB, or Ivan at RB for a while. Could be embarrassing.
Match thread it is. Got to be honest, I prefer Ivan as a right back however Azpilicueta has been a revelation there this season.
The line up that Rafa picked is begging to be a 4-3-3 with Lamps - Mikel - Ramires in the 3. Definitely a 4-2-3-1 though...
I'm sure Rafa's gone with a 433 too. Not sure about how well suited Hazard is to some proper wing play but he and Mata are there for the counter, predominantly. That defence looks worrying though and I think you'll spend a lot of the game on the back foot. Not impressed by City's line up either though, I'd have had Milner in the centre alongside either Rodwell or Garcia. Wilkins reckons lots of goals, I don't. That's not to say there won't be goals but I don't think it will be a game full of chances, maybe a 2-0/2-1 to City.
That defensive unit for City is vulnerable to the movement of the likes of Mata and Ba in my opinion, Rodwell, Garcia, K.Toure and Nastasic aren't exactly players to be feared.
We're set up like a non-league side at Liverpool in 3rd round of the cup, all wingers and one man up, and a part time centre back (Loopy Lu), who's weekday job is hospital DJ.
Mikel + Lamps - recipe for disaster! worst player of the century goes to either Mikel or Torres - depends on who plays on the week.. saw Essien yesterday against Deportivo - he was reduced to Mikel's levels through injury and feel for him. atleast Essien has that odd very very very important goal in him!! Rafa striving for another 0-0 guess
