The Official Thread of Chelsea FC

[ross4life]

Free-Scoring Chelsea drawing their first game this season I'm generally shocked!

[Norf Tyrone]

A real stinker of a trip for Chelsea tonight, and the only bright spot is that it's on a Tuesday rather than a Wednesday.

With Lampard, Drogba, Bosingwa, Sturridge, Alex, Benayoun, nor Ramires all injured, and big doubts over Essien, A Cole and Terry it'll be a makeshift X1 that features tonight/ today.

The word is that Cole will not feature due to the type of injury and the artificial surface but Essien and Terry play,

Based on that it looks like;

Cech
Fererria
Terry
Ivanovic
Zhirkov

Mikel
Essien
MacEacheran

Kalou
Anelka
Malouda

Thankfully the two wins in the first two games takes the pressure largely off for this clash tonight.

[Minder]

I was gonna stick Chelsea in my bet tonight but with that absentee list I don't think I will bother.

[Norf Tyrone]

Cole starts allowing Zhirkov to go into the centre. Not too bad.

[Norf Tyrone]

Subs: 22 Ross Turnbull, 47 Billy Clifford, 43 Jeffrey Bruma, 38 Patrick van Aanholt, 46 Josh McEachran, 52 Jacob Mellis, 44 Gael Kakuta.

[ross4life]

Not a happy hunting ground for Terry,Anelka at least we won't see any tears from the big man tonight 

[Norf Tyrone]

Not a happy hunting ground for Terry,Anelka at least we won't see any tears from the big man tonight 

Nope you'll see them all over on the United thread!   

[ross4life]

Not a happy hunting ground for Terry,Anelka at least we won't see any tears from the big man tonight 

Nope you'll see them all over on the United thread!   

Crying over a player that want's out v crying over that missed peno that cost ye the European cup

No contest   

[Square Ball]

some goal from Zhirkov, was he in flash gordon?

[ross4life]

Two goals from two attempts on target that's an impressive strike rate

[Peter Solan the Great]

[paco]

I was gonna stick Chelsea in my bet tonight but with that absentee list I don't think I will bother.

I did.

Obviously karma will come back and make a **** out of me after this.

[Minder]

I was gonna stick Chelsea in my bet tonight but with that absentee list I don't think I will bother.

I did.

Obviously karma will come back and make a **** out of me after this.

I ended up putting them in, another three teams to go though.......

[ross4life]

I was gonna stick Chelsea in my bet tonight but with that absentee list I don't think I will bother.

I did.

Obviously karma will come back and make a **** out of me after this.

Who else did you bet?

Edit same question to you minder

[paco]

Another 5, got greedy

All home teams: Real Madrid, Arsenal, Roma, Marseille and Braga. Not overly confident about Braga, know very little about them or Partizan, but they haven't won a match yet and this is their best chance at home to weak opposition.