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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 4:07pm On Apr 16, 2021

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 4:06pm On Apr 16, 2021

TT and Money Mase.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 2:59pm On Apr 16, 2021

Lana1:
AWB looks like he's rehearsing cultural dance for the next new yam festival

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 2:57pm On Apr 16, 2021

Tuchel confirms both Kovacic and Christensen will be out for tomorrow's game, but Kante and Gilmour are available.

He also warned Man City: "From day one next season, we will hunt them."

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 1:27pm On Apr 16, 2021

Dost42:
Madrid have a lot of runners and trying to dominate the likes of kross and modric won't be easy.I'd prefer the midfield trio of kante-kov-mount and puli -havertz our front 2,werner should be ideal for these games but id rather have a back 5 that should keep madrid at bay

Seems most of us want this midfield trio.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 1:25pm On Apr 16, 2021

Lana1:
The lost art of ball chesting in 2021

Ain't nun wrong with the way Mount chested that ball sir

But see Two-Bissaka nau grin

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 8:27am On Apr 16, 2021

Chelsea signed a highly rated talent with the initials 'EH' after winning the Champions League in 2012.

They are in the semifinals right now.

A certain 'EH' looks set to leave his club this summer.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 10:08pm On Apr 15, 2021

Hmmm
I love the yellow sha.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 9:59pm On Apr 15, 2021

The UCL golden glove will definitely be going to England this season.

Mendy and Ederson have 7 & 6 Clean sheets respectively, while Courtois and Navas have 3 & 2 respectively.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 8:26pm On Apr 15, 2021

Arsenal no come get chills for Prague.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 2:26pm On Apr 15, 2021

nihilistjnr:
Vinicius is not that good. He only has 3 goals in UCL this season, and scored 2 of those against pool

He has only 3 league goals this season.

Also 3 atb mitigates some of the risks of a tricky winger isolating a wb/rb on the flank. I need Hudson and Puli to be carileros on those flanks ala Ramires.

Wait, so you want Odoi AND Puli to start at the two wingback positions?

Forget am, Tuchel no go do reach that one. At most, CHO will start at RWB, with Chilwell on the left. Pulisic will prolly start in attack.

TT has tried Pulisic at RWB before, but I don't think he'll try that against Madrid.

Another interesting thing is the choice of CBs. Assuming all our centre backs are fit, who would y'all rather have at the back three?

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 2:21pm On Apr 15, 2021

Ibime:
I don't know where you guys are seeing this pace in James sha.

I think he uses his body well to block off and unbalance runners and stay with them over short distance but I don't see any speed endurance in him for any distance over 20 metres.

He isn't very fast, but he's got good pace nonetheless. Standard for a modern day fullback/wingback.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 9:53am On Apr 15, 2021

nihilistjnr:
That Kroos-Modric Midfield no be here. If we play 343, against their midfield 3, e no get how them no go dominate us

I think this is a counter attack job

Nothing but raw pace on the flanks and look to overload them there.

I would play Hudson and Puli at wingback, with Werner and Mount either side of Giroud.

No point in trying to pass it around, just straight clearances to the flanks and let Hudson and Pulisic carry the ball upfield for us.

Hmmm...CHO at wingback against Vinicius

He has the pace, but does he have the defensive awareness/nous to cope with someone as tricky as Vinicius?

I'd feel more secure with James starting. Though CHO brings more to offense.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 9:49am On Apr 15, 2021

Lana1:
Nice to not see United in a top 4 race for once.

Let the little kids battle it out.

I would like the season to end like this...

City
United
Leicester
West Ham

Also nice to see United aren't in the run-in for the UCL or FA Cup, though that isn't strange...let the little kids battle that one out too lipsrsealed

Arsenal

You had to do this grin

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 9:35am On Apr 15, 2021

We've got the toughest run-in, added to the FA Cup and UCL involvement.

The next 6/7 weeks will be tense.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 8:14am On Apr 15, 2021

Hmmm...

Hazard & Courtois vs their former club.

Kovacic & Alonso vs their former club

'F1 Car' vs 'Go-Kart'

Edouard Mendy vs his cousin Ferland Mendy

And a DM battle that has been muted for years: Kante vs Casemiro

Should be interesting.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 10:46pm On Apr 14, 2021

Ibime:
Madrid are really hitting form just before playing us. They should chill out small.

They've been in form for a while. It may seem as though they're catching fire cos they recently beat Liverpool and Barca.

But Liverpool haven't been been in very fine form of recent, and - not to take anything away from Los Blancos - Liverpool's dreadful first half performance in the first leg, and their poor finishing in this game ultimately cost them.

Barca had been in blistering form, but their coach foolishly played right into Zidane's hands.

This time they will be meeting another inform team, whose coach is smart enough not to make the same mistakes Koeman made.

It's gonna be a tough one, but I sha remain confident.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 10:40pm On Apr 14, 2021

ShadowCracker:
Yeah he also scored.

Wow. Nice one.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 10:35pm On Apr 14, 2021

I imagine if fans were allowed back in the stadium...Hazard would certainly get a huge reaction at Stamford Bridge.

Courtois certainly would not. grin

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 10:21pm On Apr 14, 2021

Meanwhile I heard Xavier Mbuyamba finally made his debut today abi yesterday, and he was impressive for the PL2 side.

That's one guy I'm really looking out for.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by BlueMann: 10:14pm On Apr 14, 2021

This Real are a tough side sha. But there isn't anything 'exceptional' about them for us to be scared of.

We have to press the life out of Modric and Kroos. Even Casemiro sef shouldn't be allowed too much time on the ball, cos he too can play some nice passes. Also, we should be very wary of Federico Valverde, that guy knows how to drive with the ball from defence to attack.

A watchful eye should be kept on Vinicius of course, while we should also be wary of Benzema, who can cause problems with his movements outside the box.

We've been good at snuffing out potential counter attacks before they materialize in previous big games, and our press is good as well. I think we should be winning this tie.

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