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Not much is known about the team from Cyprus. APOEL are the champions of Cyprus after winning their league pretty comfortably last term, losing just one game all of last season. It does appear that the APOEL manager has brought in some reinforcements over the summer with one of those being a Polish striker by the name of Adrian Sikora. The 29 year old scored a brace at the weekend as APOEL strolled to a 3-0 victory at home to Doxa, and that was the ideal result to take into such a daunting and yet exciting fixture with English giants Chelsea.APOEL have struggled to live up to their champions tag, winning just one of four fixtures this season. That solitary win being their weekend victory at home to Doxa and it could be possible that the players sheer excitement ahead of this fixture spurred them onto their first victory of the season at the weekend. However, prior to that win, APOEL had drawn two on the spin, both being very dull affairs, and when you consider that they spent most of the game with Athletico Madrid on the back foot, it’s clear that APOEL tend to play in a defensive manner in a bid to nick a share of the spoils.


Chelsea’s preparations ahead of this rare trip to Cyprus are far from ideal after they received a big blow when their unbeaten start to the season came crashing to an end on Saturday. Carlo Ancelotti isn’t used to losing at Chelsea, what with Chelsea previously winning every single game under the new management of the former AC Milan gaffer, eight in all, but will their recent defeat away at Wigan Athletic leave the Chelsea players slightly low on confidence and derail the early momentum Chelsea had built up under the Carlo Ancelotti reform.Even with that defeat away at Wigan, Chelsea still find themselves in a prominent position back in the Premiership and, in all fairness, they won’t need to be at their absolute best to beat APOEL. However, for the very first time this season, we started to see chinks in the Chelsea armour. Wigan were rampant at the weekend and they overran a usually enthusiastic Chelsea side. The dismissal of Petr Cech midway through the second half certainly didn’t help their cause but, to be brutally honest, Chelsea didn’t deserve to get anything out of a game they never played well in and Ancelotti must perform his first recovery act of the season. The big worry for Carlo Ancelotti will be the departure of Ashley Cole against Wigan when the England full-back limped off in the dying minutes of that defeat. He looks a doubt for this trip to Cyprus and that could mean Branislav Ivanovic or Juliano Belletti will have to deputise at left-back. Joe Cole has made his return to first team action after he captained Chelsea to a 1-0 win earlier in midweek in the Carling Cup, but he wasn’t even a named substitute on Saturday, but, considering the stature of their opponent, Joe Cole could get a run out at some point against APOEL.

Ever biased preview. Bush girl.

how so?

abeg na cashley part sweet me pass

chelsea will win.have placed my bet already

Ceteris paribus,
Chelsea will win this.

mukina2:

how so?

abeg na cashley part sweet me pass

Ashley already has a wife , so get off his back

This should be a stroll in the park for us, Ancelloti must be retarded not to start atleast 8 fringe players for this match
to keep the squad fresh for the liverpool game

come who send you message

me? love cashley?

God forbid bad thing

waka oh

This just gonna be a WALK OVER !

ALL chelski fans made us to believe that wigan was a walk in the park. am begining to hear that again. hpe u wont come bck to console urselves here that u will do better nxt time. if Ancelotti looses this one,his ass will be on romans firing pin for sure. chelski fans can take that to the bank.
GO GUNNERS

well said

mukina2:

how so?

abeg na cashley part sweet me pass

You love to see players injured eh? don't worry very soon, it will reach your avenue.

I'm already celebrating our winning with the six points ahead.cos i know CHELSEA is the ULTIMATE club despite losing against Wigan.CHELSEA Kwenu iya, CHELSEA Kwenu iya, CHELSEA kwezue iyooöö, [color=#006600][/color]

Chelsea will win this.

Chelsea should take this on a good day, i hope they do cos the fans will start calling for Ancelotti's sack it by any chance they lose this one, should end 0-2 in favor of the Millionnaires

FBS:

You love to see players injured eh? don't worry very soon, it will reach your avenue.

please is cashley's leg broken forever?

:p :p

chelsea should have an easy win over apoel unless they want they wigan defeat to bring them down

adebayo201:

:p :p

this is not Man U forum ok?

mukina2:

please is cashley's leg broken forever?

something you would have loved to see abi? shameless girl!  

FBS:

something you would have loved to see abi? shameless girl!  

i wish some mean defender can end his career break his legs

Sorry FBS who is this shameless girl dat u hav been shaming all the way 4rm de top.but any way shaa she derserve it.unfortunatly i would love to know she is

stevo4shiz:

chelsea will win.have placed my bet already

i will advice you go and collect your money back

its always good to bounce back from dissapointing defeats like the one we suffered last week at the hands of lowly wigan.
And what better way than to carry out our frustration on minnows apoel,
It was never in doubt that we'll qualify for the next round

Chelsea haters won't find a creek to hide their eye sockets
after the game tonight.

Mikel (Knee), Ballack (Calf) and Alex injured
A Cole in but nt 100% fit.

Blues all d way.

the viper:

ALL chelski fans made us to believe that wigan was a walk in the park. am begining to hear that again. hpe u wont come bck to console urselves here that u will do better nxt time. if Ancelotti looses this one,his ass will be on romans firing pin for sure. chelski fans can take that to the bank.
GO GUNNERS

if common Kano pillars (wigan) wipe chelski ass, i wonder how Apoel fc will trash chelsea at home to compare what wigan did to them

get a life

We must WIN this.
Expected line up:

                                                                       Cech


                                  B. Ivanovic      J. Terry      R. Carvalho     Y. Zhirkov


                         J. Cole     F. Lampard      M. Essien       F. Malouda       S. Kalou


                                                                      N. Anelka

Subs:

Hilario
Hutchinson
Alex
Belletti
Sturridge
Borini

@bluediva your line up is interesting but i think Cech should sit this one out and let give Hilario some match time to prep him for Sunday's game.

Is Alex now fit? tot he was out and Sturridge too?

My starting today will most likely be  this

-----------------Hilario----------------------
Ivanovic--Carvahlo--Terry----Zhikov
-----------------Essien-------------------
J.Cole---------Lampard------------Malouda
---------Borini-------Anelka--------------

And i'm not crazy, Borini upfront with Anelka. The young lad deserves to build some mileage too.

Subs
Kalou
Turnbull/Cech
Hutchinson
Belleti
Alex
Sturridge
Ashley Cole

mufasa:

@bluediva your line up is interesting but i think Cech should sit this one out and let give Hilario some match time to prep him for Sunday's game.

Is Alex now fit? tot he was out and Sturridge too?

My starting today will most likely be this

-----------------Hilario----------------------
Bosingwa--Carvahlo--Terry----Zhikov
-----------------Essien-------------------
J.Cole---------Lampard------------Malouda
---------Borini-------Anelka--------------

And i'm not crazy, Borini upfront with Anelka. The young lad deserves to build some mileage too.

Subs
Kalou
Turnbull/Cech
Hutchinson
Belleti
Alex
Sturridge
Ashley Cole

Has bosingwa completed his Uefa ban