Chelsea v Southampton FC 3 pm, Sunday 22nd April 2018 Referee: Martin Atkinson Assistant Referees: Simon Bennett & Steve Child Fourth Official: Neil Swarbrick Reserve Assistant: Edward Smart VAR: Michael Jones AVAR: Andrew Garratt
Win this and maybe the need to earn a place in the squad for the final will mean our players will start putting some actual effort in during our last few league games.
Finished work early, sat outside a pub in the sun with a cold pint in hand. Bring on the weekend. Got a feeling we're going to smash em 1-0.
Would have come in handy the last time we went to Wembley (in the cup). Or just the last time we played Chelsea. You know it'll work against now this Sunday.
I'm just thinking about what our "one or two changes" might be. Given that JWP and Long were subbed off last night, I'm expecting them to both start. (Indeed, I'd suggest that they're both pretty vital to our defensive set-up working: Long for his pace, JWP for his set pieces). So maybe PEH and Tadic? If Lemina is available, we could go him or Davis for PEH. Whilst there are a number of options to replace Tadic, including Austin if we were to shift to a 5-3-2. (I'm not saying that I want PEH or Tadic left out btw. I'm just thinking of who Hughes might be referring to.)
Or maybe we'll make no changes and he said that so to not give away his team to the opposition on Friday...wait till 1pm Sunday for that