***chelsea v city official match day thread***

[gmercer1]

Watch out for the bunch of cheating diving fuckers......oh and the ref!

Wonder how many fouls Hazard will get today, well over 15 I reckon.

[Abu Dhabi]

4-1 City

Come on!

[Herb]

We won't have a better chance of beating them than this. But it's still feeling like a 0-0 or cunting 0-1 Hazard counter attack sucker punch after we've been all over them.

We need Sergio to be the difference today.

We need Sergio to be Sergio . . he's not been himself since he returned from injury . . before injury (when he was himself) he was absolutely lethal, possibly the best striker in Europe in the period just before he got crocked. A bit of that today and we'll take 3 points unless we have goalkeeping howlers.

Stay awake Joe, come back Sergio and come on you Blues!

[phips]

If Ivanovic is out then I think Chelsea will park the bus like they did vs Liverpool last year. And good thing they didn't get Cuadrado in time as he'd play RB.

I think Costa and Luis are the only ones who will miss.


how do we think MP will line up? will Milner play on the right to help Zaba with Hazard?

Id like to see

Hart
Zaba Demich Mangala Clichy
Fern 1 Fern 2
Milner Ageruo Silva
Dzeko

but who am i kidding, Manuel won't drop Vinny

[blues2win]

Two big calls for Pellegrini; centre back pairing and Jovetic or Milner. He could play Dzeko and Aguero but that is too dangerous against Chelsea's midfield. I'd play Milner on the left to secure the flank.

[blues2win]

Mourinho will apparently not speak to Sky either before or after the match today.

[gmercer1]

Mourinho will apparently not speak to Sky either before or after the match today.

The soft arse!

[Moonchesteri]

@MCFC: TEAM NEWS @MCFC: Hart, Sagna, Kompany (C), Demichelis, Clichy, Navas, Fernando, Fernandinho, Milner, Silva, Aguero #chelseavcity

Wheres Zabba?

[stevefromdonny]

COME ON CITY

[clippo22]

Sagna? Really?

[Moonchesteri]

@MCFC: SUBS NEWS @MCFC: Caballero, Zabaleta, Boyata, Kolarov, Lampard, Jovetic, Dzeko #chelseavcity

[clippo22]

That chelsea bench offers nothing if it's not going right for them

[blues2win]

Zaba dropped; he's on the bench. He's played poorly recently so it's not unfair. Kompany favoured over Mangala. Vinny's lucky and needs to justify his place today. Not surprised at Milner over Jovetic. Fernandinho needs to do more than play a holding role. Love to see some late runs into the box.

[South Stand Balti]

Zaba dropped; he's on the bench. He's played poorly recently so it's not unfair. Kompany favoured over Mangala. Vinny's lucky and needs to justify his place today. Not surprised at Milner over Jovetic. Fernandinho needs to do more than play a holding role. Love to see some late runs into the box.

Mangala is not even on the bench. Boyata is there. No Fabregas for Chavs but Ivan is playing.

[london blue 2]

Sagna. We're screwed.

[blues2win]

Ok. Must be Mangala's shoulder issue keeping him out of the squad today. Cahill dropped for Zouma. Worried about Aguero's pace probably. Ramires in for Fabregas.

[phips]

Cahill dropped for Zouma.

Cahill has been dropped for the last few.

[Ted Hughes]

Sagna. We're screwed.

Could just as easily say the same about Zaba. He was terrible in the last game & got turned inside out by Hazard this time last year. Not an easy decision to make.

[phips]

hopefully Milner is on the right but that totally eradicates Navas' right-footed crosses…unless he plays like AJ

[Mase]

Playing Navas without Dzeko really is pointless. Have we not learnt yet?