Chelsea play against QPR at Stamford Bridge on Wedesday 2nd a 7:45 kick off. In this fixture last season Chelsea thrashed QPR 6-1. A Chelsea win will put Chelsea back into third place with a game in hand. Petr Cech is set to miss out as he suffered an ankle injury against Everton. Team line ups: Chelsea: Turnbull; Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, Cahill, Bertrand; David Luiz, Lampard (c); Moses, Oscar, Marin: Torres. Subs: Hilario, Cole, Ferreira, Ramires, Hazard, Mata, Piazon. QPR: Julio Cesar Hill Onuoha Nelsen Fabio Derry Taarabt Granero M'bia Mackie Hoilett Substitutes Green Ferdinand Park Ji-sung Wright-Phillips Dyer Faurlin Cisse MATCH FACTS Head-to-head Of 11 meetings in the Premier League, QPR have won just twice compared to Chelsea's five victories. The Hoops have never scored more than one goal in any of those 11 fixtures. QPR have not won in the league at Stamford Bridge since a 2-0 second tier win in April 1983. Chelsea Have won four Premier League games on the spin, scoring 14 and conceding twice. The Blues have now won three successive Premier League away games within the same season for the first time since August-September 2009. Frank Lampard has scored five or more Premier League goals in each of the last 16 seasons (and scored 10 or more in the past nine seasons for Chelsea). QPR Only once has the team bottom of the Premier League table at the end of the year avoided relegation: West Brom in 2004-05. The Hoops have conceded three or more goals before half time on four occasions since the start of last season, more than any other side in the top flight. They ended 2012 with 23 Premier League defeats. Only three teams have lost more top-flight matches in a calendar year in the history of the Premier League. Harry Redknapp has taken charge of 600 Premier League matches, becoming the third boss to reach the milestone in the division after Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger. He has won 228, drawn 157, and lost 215.
I reckon I good 3-0/4-0 should be in order. I'm not sure if it's a risk worth taking, but Mata needs to rest. Maybe Marin, Oscar and Hazard up top? Mata hasn't looked on top form recently.
if they can get to half time without conceding it could be a tricky one, never pays to be over confident.
If your players took to the pitch in their club suits with bare feet after spending the day getting ****ered and stoned it might only be 3-0.
Watford maybe we can direct some more Chelsea fans to the ground like last season. Couldn't belive the amount of so called Chelsea fans that asked where the ground was? Muppets
We are always dogshite in midweek PL matches. God knows what will happen but I just hope we keep a clean sheet, if we do I'm confident we'll win. Just need to take the initiative and move on to Southampton, squad rotation key
I'm sure you've got a long list of relevant insults and wum threads on standby, ready to go seconds after the final whistle. If you spent a bit less time asking people on here why they don't like QPR and having digs at our support and a bit more appreciating your own very exciting team then you might eventually be able to get over one defeat from over a year ago. Your ability to convert some of the minions on here to your way of thinking is quite impressive though. Maybe start a thread lambasting East Stirling's away support and wait and see how long it takes for them to follow if you ever fancy a change.
Well spotted V2. Mata looks tired, and was only one of a few who were below par last start. Surely we have enough talent to rest him against QPR ??? If not then we are in trouble !!! We still need consistency. One week we play brilliantly, next week we make hard work of things. Still convinced we need that midfielder who can direct the traffic, more than we need a striker. Luiz has been a revelation in a position where he is still a novice. Imagine if we had someone of the calibre of Sjneider pulling the strings??
I think we will win... and by quite a few... I'm going for 4-0 though I expect it to be a tight first 45 mins. I'm looking forward to this. First visit to the Bridge in 2013
I'm with CP. I'd rest Mata and start Oscar instead. Although Mata makes us tick we can always bring him on 2nd half if we are struggling. We need to learn to be less reliant on Mata and condition him appropriately. My team is GK, Bertrand, Cahill, Ivanovic, Azpilicueta, Mikel, Ramires, Moses, Oscar, Hazard, Torres. I'd like to see Marin and Mata feature as well.
Agree Watford It's easy to support a team with a rich owner and a winning team but what about the 80's 90's, where were all the famous CFC at home to Cov? All 9K of them? Or even in the 2000's the 900 that Went to Blackburn the Week after doing well in Champs lge? Alot of these fans can try and mock but as i said many have only been here as long as Roman. AS for the game, i see us losing but hopefully not like last season
Or maybe there are soe like myself who may not have been born in the 80's and early 90's due to the fact I wasn't born... I did go to my first game at the age of 2 in '96 and now have season tickets at the Bridge and do nearly all away games... I agree that we do have many fans who joined when Roman came along but it ammoys me that this view is used to describe nearly all Chelsea fans.
It is repetitive to say the least but nothing like the digs, factual and not, about QPR that you'll find on here every week whether we play you or not. Bucks- you're presumably a similar age to me and come across as a very decent guy. Of course the reality is that there's a couple of thousand Chelsea fans just like you that do the vast majority home and away but it can get a bit galling to see the constant pops at our support when a significant percentage of yours is, as you say, so new and Chelsea haven't always been the best supported side in the land.
