***Chelsea v Champions Official Match Thread***

[nottsblue]

Back to the bread and butter of the PL

Fresh from a rag beating last week which is always welcome

Tough fixture first up and sometimes it’s not a bad thing to get it out of the way. Both sides are cold with a fractured pre season so there’s little form to go on

Predicting the team selection won’t be easy. Rodri almost certainly won’t start though I’d be surprised if he wasn’t on the bench. Foden will likely start on the bench. KDB may well get the nod. We shall see.

A narrow win I reckon

1-0 Haaland

[johnny crossan]

Rodri not in the squad - here's the embargoed PC

Watch on youtube.com

Ederson;
Manuel Akanji, Rúben Dias, Joško Gvardiol. Nathan Aké;
Kevin de Bruyne, Mateo Kovačic, Bernardo Silva;
Jérémy Doku, Erling Haaland (F/L), Jack Grealish:

Bench: Stefan Ortega, Kyle Walker, John Stones, Rico Lewis, Matheus Nunes, Nico O'Reilly, Phil Foden, James McAtee, Savinho.

City win 0-3​

[gmercer1]

Team without Rodri = car crash

[blues2win]

Re Stones. He didn’t come back quickly at the end of last season. He was on the bench match after match and played very few minutes. We got him fit for England.

[salford city]

Re Stones. He didn’t come back quickly at the end of last season. He was on the bench match after match and played very few minutes. We got him fit for England.

He wants to be starting today especially as Rodders wont be

[blues2win]

I don’t think he’ll start to be honest.

[salford city]

I don’t think he’ll start to be honest.

There is going to be a big hole through the centre of our team todsy, someone needs to plug it. If not, we are going to need our strongest defence. Mind, saying that, would not surprise me if Pep looks to put Manu in the Rodders role

[blues2win]

I suspect he’ll play Kovacic and Bernardo as a double pivot when we’re out of possession.

[Bournemouthcityfan]

Trains are seriously delayed so the team won’t have a lot of support that’s how it looks at moment

[CTID Hants]

Trains are seriously delayed so the team won’t have a lot of support that’s how it looks at moment

Planned engineering?

[johnny crossan]

Team without Rodri = car crash

didn't win the Cup Final with him in the team as I recall

[Harry Dowd scored]

Anybody got a reliable river can’t get the game here in el campo

[Nick]

Shit are they? Mates all on them.at 8am

Trying for a west ham away

Streams been fucked this weekend cos of ISP blocks

[stevefromdonny]

is it already the start of the season, thought it was only a couple of weks ago of the england final, time goes quick when you are old

[Mase]

Hope Ederson has another class game <3

[CTID Hants]

XI | Ederson, Lewis, Akanji, Dias, Gvardiol, Kovacic, De Bruyne (C), Bernardo, Doku, Savinho, Haaland

SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Walker, Stones, Ake, Grealish, Nunes, Foden, O'Reilly, McAtee

[sheblue]

Like the look of that team.

[blues2win]

As expected. None of the England returnees start. Doku instead of Grealish is perhaps a slight surprise. I suspect Bernardo and Kovacic will play double pivot when we haven’t got the ball.

[blues2win]

Sterling not even in the Chelsea squad.

[PeterParker]

Are we one up yet?