Chelski chat
Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 9:28 amI can honestly say I don't have any feeling, one way or the other about this game. Obviously I want City to win, but I think you can't fight the system, and the system doesn't want us to win. CTID Hants has it exactly right in the predictions thread. This game has been completely engineered by the FA and the media, and not in our favour. The Count has made it clear that the CL is the priority, so screw em! I would send the ground staff to play tomorrow afternoon, and see what the BBC do with that.
For what it's worth, the chavs seem pretty reasonable with their comments.
Enjoy :)
Team Selection
Courtois
Azpilicueta - Cahill - Ivanovic - Baba
Matic - Fabregas
Pedro - Willian - Pato
Costa
And the rest...
Optimistic for this one. City have enough quality to win but I thought the players gave a good account of themselves in Paris...Home advantage and City thinking about the CL mean I think we might pip this one 2-1
Agree with you, I'm optimistic for this game and also It's a must win game for save our (poor) season...We will have to put the same XI than yesterday...2-0 to us
Really looking forward to this. We've had a couple of trial runs as it were, and good ones at that, can't wait.
Man City are playing like a side that has nothing left to give after the announcement that Pep would be taking over in the summer...Quietly confident we'll win this especially at home.
A lot of talk that they will be resting a good bit of players for CL next week.
City look to have lost impetus to win anything after Pep's announcement. That is the only reason why I think we have a chance. Hope we keep Aguero quiet. And I am not sure Matic is much of an upgrade over Mikel, He has been terrible this entire season.
good time to be playing them, i think they have totally binned this season with the pepe announcement and mugged pellegrini right off but... i am still not confident, we seem to struggle against them
Biiiiiiig Game
I have no idea how this game will go. Hopefully City have another off day
I think they will and I'm massively confident we're going to walk this. Be interesting to see which team they pick though because they went with Caballero and Iheanacho headling a slightly weaker line-up in the last round away to Villa with Aguero and Silva on the bench alongside a group of youngsters...Having a match in Kiev 3 days later before a league cup final next weekend isn't the easiest thing to prepare for either so there's plenty of scope for their eyes to be off the ball...I think we score at least twice and progress comfortably which will inevitably be hailed as a 'turning point'.
Apparently JT is not going to be ready for this match, so I guess the line up will be like the one in Paris, with the doubt of Hazard starting or not.
If they play a weakened team ahead of CL, I fancy us
This trophy is our last chance to silverware this season and Hiddink has made this competition our No. 1 priority. He'll put the best team out there no doubt about it…We should go through on Sunday if they indeed rest their best players.
I fancied us in this game even without the supposed weakened lineup. Will be utterly shocked if we don't win.
Youngsters can turn out better than senior players in some games so you never know.
Should be straightforward on paper but so many games have been and ended up far from it.weak team means sod all.we need to just make sure we turn up from the start
I'd rather Man City play their real team than play their kids as is being suggested. Imagine if we lose to the pier youth team whilst we're playing our best XI…
This game is more important than the PSG one was.
3-1 us....Costa x2, Willian and Inehacho for them
Live on BBC 1
For what it's worth, the chavs seem pretty reasonable with their comments.
Enjoy :)
Team Selection
Courtois
Azpilicueta - Cahill - Ivanovic - Baba
Matic - Fabregas
Pedro - Willian - Pato
Costa
And the rest...
Optimistic for this one. City have enough quality to win but I thought the players gave a good account of themselves in Paris...Home advantage and City thinking about the CL mean I think we might pip this one 2-1
Agree with you, I'm optimistic for this game and also It's a must win game for save our (poor) season...We will have to put the same XI than yesterday...2-0 to us
Really looking forward to this. We've had a couple of trial runs as it were, and good ones at that, can't wait.
Man City are playing like a side that has nothing left to give after the announcement that Pep would be taking over in the summer...Quietly confident we'll win this especially at home.
A lot of talk that they will be resting a good bit of players for CL next week.
City look to have lost impetus to win anything after Pep's announcement. That is the only reason why I think we have a chance. Hope we keep Aguero quiet. And I am not sure Matic is much of an upgrade over Mikel, He has been terrible this entire season.
good time to be playing them, i think they have totally binned this season with the pepe announcement and mugged pellegrini right off but... i am still not confident, we seem to struggle against them
Biiiiiiig Game
I have no idea how this game will go. Hopefully City have another off day
I think they will and I'm massively confident we're going to walk this. Be interesting to see which team they pick though because they went with Caballero and Iheanacho headling a slightly weaker line-up in the last round away to Villa with Aguero and Silva on the bench alongside a group of youngsters...Having a match in Kiev 3 days later before a league cup final next weekend isn't the easiest thing to prepare for either so there's plenty of scope for their eyes to be off the ball...I think we score at least twice and progress comfortably which will inevitably be hailed as a 'turning point'.
Apparently JT is not going to be ready for this match, so I guess the line up will be like the one in Paris, with the doubt of Hazard starting or not.
If they play a weakened team ahead of CL, I fancy us
This trophy is our last chance to silverware this season and Hiddink has made this competition our No. 1 priority. He'll put the best team out there no doubt about it…We should go through on Sunday if they indeed rest their best players.
I fancied us in this game even without the supposed weakened lineup. Will be utterly shocked if we don't win.
Youngsters can turn out better than senior players in some games so you never know.
Should be straightforward on paper but so many games have been and ended up far from it.weak team means sod all.we need to just make sure we turn up from the start
I'd rather Man City play their real team than play their kids as is being suggested. Imagine if we lose to the pier youth team whilst we're playing our best XI…
This game is more important than the PSG one was.
3-1 us....Costa x2, Willian and Inehacho for them
Live on BBC 1