My lineup and prediction

———————-Cech———————-

Belleti——–Calvaho——Alex———-Bridge

——————–Essien——————–

———–Lampard———–Ballack————

Joecole————————————Anelka

——————–Drogba———————–

Subs, Cudicini, Brigde, Kalou, Mikel and Swp

Prediction: 2-1 or separated through Penalty kicks and i will tip Spurs to win if it comes to penalty kicks

———————-Cech———————-

Belleti——–Calvaho——Alex———-Bridge

——————–Essien——————–

———–Lampard———–Ballack————

j cole ———————————— malouda
——————–Drogba———————–

subs : cudicni, brigde, swp, kalou and pizarro

i would like this line up:
————cech——————–
belletti—–carvalho—-terry—cole
————–mikel/essien—————–
——-ballack——-lampard——–
—-J.cole—————-anelka————–
————–Drogba——————

subs: alex,essien/mikel,swp,malouda,pizzaro

chelsea to win 2-1 ,,,,second goal in extra time.

my starting 11

_________________cech__________________

belletti____riccy____jt__________bridge

__lampard_______essien______ballack____

j cole__________drogba______anelka_____

subs: cudicini,swp,alex,malouda,sheva
and a.cole may not play he is more worried abt cheryl at the moment
2-1 to chelsea

—–cech————–
bella—-ric.c——alex——-bridge
——essien———————-
—————-ballack————
—-joe.c—————–swp——
———-anelka——————
——————drogba———-
sub– cuds, maluda, kalou,lampard,ben haim

cech,belletti,alex,carvalho,bridge,lampard,makelele,ballack,joe cole,drogba,anelka

bench-cudicini,swp,essien,sheva,JT.

a 2-0 win for chelsea with alex and anelka scoring..Cheers!!

its a battle between the two new managers. the diffrence is that avram has a much stronger team so if chelsea will loose i really hope avram gets sacked.

—————-cech—————-

belletti—carv—-j.terry——bridge

———–mikel——essien——–

—-swp———————–lampard-

————–anelka——————–

———————-drogba————

subs: sheva balack makelele alex j.cole gudicini

Whatever selection of players I can not see Spurs beating Chelsea,
Based on the last performance I saw from Spuds it is a forgone conclusion.
No matter which team AG fields chelsea players are far superior to the ones Spurs have, so I am confident that it will be a victory for Chelsea.
I will be very interested in AG tactics, and I am keeping a close look at the “man management”. Although I do not think AG has the balls to leave JT and FL out, I believe discontent started amongst the players, leave Anelka out??? hmmmm another player that can cause trouble. If JT, FL DD and maybe riccy, that I know is not very happy with AG, and this I know for a fact, they can distabelise the other players.
So I do not believe AG will leave both players out, maybe one not both. He maybe the boss, but you only boss people around if they let you, after all these players are not “paupers” they have plenty money and plenty cluibs after them.
Interesting to see the outcome.

B’ngham - ArsenaL 2:2 McFadden..

Awesome draw to arsenal in last minute penalty!!!

we can win the title now but may be man utd has a much better chance now…

blue fan @7, that is the line up for me- a 4-4-2 and one having SWP rather than joe cole. Though shawn shoes inconsistency, I think he gives us more on his good days than joey- i think joey is not really in his elements- i will play both kalou and SWP ahead of him anytime.

By the way, BC, i love the new look. keep up the great work.

And lets give the devil his due- I take my hat for AG for having the balls last tuesday to bench foth lamps and terry- that is one thing my hero Jose could never do much to my chagrin- we need to develoop a system of non- untouchables- no one should feel as long as he is fit he should walk straight into the starting line up.

alex is doing a super job and lamp must demonstrate that he deserves it ahaed of ballack, essien, mikel and maka.

kudos AG, but i still want you to leave after this season even tho i have this funny feeling that your streak of luck might just make us have a historic season. but even after quadruple, i will still want to see the back of you.

my biggest problem is grants marriage to 4-3-3, yes its a great formation but maybe try something new, 4-2-4 would be interesting with essien and mikel holding the midfield and anelka, drogba and two wingers adding in alot of attacking power, maybe not for spurs or a big game but why not for the little guys who just turtle against chelsea.
My prediction chelsea gets a lucky goal and avram changes to 5-3-2 for the rest of the game. expect berbatov to perform for spurs

chelsea should win easily unless grant shows his intelligence. i wonder why chelsea has got someone like avram, of all pupil. avram back at israel was nothing but a lucky charm. his teams were very boring to watch and the only reason he won things there was through his luck.

it should be 3-0.

I don’t think Grant has the balls to leave JT and Lampard out either actually.

On paper this is a no brainer - we should win it - whatever Grant’s tactics are good or bad the team is far superior to Spurs in almost all departments and more importantly is used to winning trophies by now.

Spurs are not and I think unless Ramos has worked mentally on them they will get stage fright,

3-1 or 2-1 to us - probably quite an open game too.

And on an unrelated note, can I just wish Eduardo all the best and pray he fully recovers - my thoughts are with you.

————Cech————

Bridge—Terry—Alex—Cole

Cole—Ballack–Lampard–Malouda

——-Drogba—-Anelka——–

prediction: 1-0 from a deflection.

————————–Cech—————————
——Belletti—CArvalho——-Terry—–Bridge——–
———————-Makelele————————–
————–Ballack———–Essien——————
———————-Lampard—————————
————–Drogba———–ANelka——————-

It will be very hard for Chelsea to score….I can see Chelsea losing this game….

———cech———
belett-alex-terry-bridge
—-lampard mikel—-
-j.cole——–kalou-
—drogba–anelka—

sub: cudicini, carvalho, ballack, essien, shevchenko

Guys! We’re gonna win! My customary pre-match XBOX 360 simulation goes like this:

Chelsea 1-0 Tottenham. Joe Cole scores from a terrific volley at the 31st minute. The match is a very tactical and closed one. Chelsea has 47% possession. In 90 minutes, Chelsea has 3 shots on goal while Spurs had 2. Drogba misses a couple of sitters like a blind man and Cech becomes a super hero in the last 10 minutes. In the end, the Chelsea are the champions.

————Cech————

Bridge—Terry—ricardo—Cole

——-makalele———–

SWP—Ballack–Lampard–Malouda

————Drogba—-——–

————————————————–
SUB:
CUDICINI
ANELKA
J.COLE
ALEX
MIKEL

————Cech————

Bridge—Terry—ricardo—Cole

——-ESSIEN———–

SWP—Ballack–Lampard–Malouda

————Drogba—-——–

————————————————–
SUB:
CUDICINI
ANELKA
J.COLE
ALEX
MIKEL

lets hope it happens BC

Chelsea is gone win Joe Cole is gone score

My team for the first League Cup Final at (new) Wembley:

CECHY
BELLETTI-JT(c)-RICCY-ASHLEY
OBI
SWP-LAMPS-JOEY
DROGS

(4-1-4-1)

Subs: CARLO, ALEX, MAKA, BALLACK, NICO, KALOU.

Prediction: 2-1 to CHELSEA. Goalscorers: LAMPS, SWP, BERBATOV.

C’mon you CHELS!

————————- Cech —————————-
Belleti————-Terry——–Carvalho————–Bridge
Esseien
———————-Lampard——-Ballack—————-
Joe Cole—————–Drogba—————–Maloua

cech
bellet1
Carvalho
terry
bridge
mikel
lampard
essien
SWP
anelka
Drogs
Subs
I DONT REALLT CARE AS LONG AS CFC WINZ

COME ON CFC

chelsea is playing crap at the moment. This is so embarassing. Where is alex? What is SWP doing in this game? Where is joe cole or ballack? so sad.

@30…y r u so surprised…most of the Chelsea players are crap….they can’t pass, can’t run,can’t move ball….

1-0 up at half time. DROGBA!!!!!! free kick blasted into the bottom right corner

dd rocks!!! spurs very unfortunate to score any till now yet dominating… lets see..?a great match till now.. our defending very poor

DROGBA!!!!!!!!!! Free kick like C. Ronaldo vs. Pourtsmouth! Amazing!!! Hope everything will be good after half time…

i would like to have joe cole for SWP at half time… we are not creating any chances !!

and look at the grant pic with carling cup in background !! ha ha hilarious…

another goal from set pieces…lolol…can this Chelsea team ever learn to score goals by creating chances…

What was robinson doing,that was his side of the goal!like ronaldo vs portsmouth?ur ‘aving a laugh!

I have only one verdict, Grant should be sacked. Zokora should have scored just now for totenham and i don’t understand how he missed that. This doesn’t look like a final, it looks like we are playing at the white hart lane. This match is so embarrassing.

PUT JOE COLE IN THE MATCH, YOU FOOLISH AVRAM!!!

hahaha…i really laugh on those fans who don’t know what their team is capable of and start making predictions like 3-0,3-1 blah blah…it will take either a long time or another round of heavy investment by RA to put Mourinho’s memories to death…

shevchenko is the best.don`t fórget it.ok

Sugar daddy fc lose!hahahahahahahahahaha no luck this time!quadruple? please!

Jajaja. And with Drogba and Anelka. Nothing. Nothing. Loosers.

IT’S ALL OVER. IF WE CAN’T WIN AN ORDINARY CARLING CUP FINAL AGAINST TOTTENHAM,THEN I’M SORRY TO SAY THAT WE ARE NOT WINNING ANYTHING THIS SEASON.

Mourinho must be laughing right now…..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH… THEY CAN’T WIN ANYTHING WITHOUT ME….lol

hmmmmmmm anyways carling cup was never our priority… get over it.. ramos is certainly making another chelsea which jose made!!!

they were the better side… deserved to win.. problem always started with the initial line up.. i never got what we wanted to play.. leave aside the worst play of our players who cant even pass a ball cleanly.. seriously dd after his injury looked like playing for spurs..

Though I am a Chelsea fan, I’m really happy that Tottenham beat us today. I was cheering when Spurs scored thier first and second goals. Why? Because I call this a death of negative football. This match was more of a match between Ramos and Grant - positive and negative footbal, rather than between Chelsea and Tottenham. Since positive football won, I am happy as ever.

After this game you can imagine what will happen to Grant’s Chelsea when they draw with the likes of Barcelona, Man Utd, Milan, Arsenal, Sevilla, Real Madrid, or even Liverpool in the further stages of the Champions League given they eliminate Olimpiakos, which is not for granted at all.

There is nothing much to say..

As I told before this Chelsea is going nowhere! I laugh at those people who regularly talk about a Quadruple. This team with this manager will hardly win a single trophy this season.

so. anelka !1 does anybody can tell what he did in this macth…!!

Even Fenerbahce play more attacking, beautiful, positive football than Chelsea.

All the millions spent by Abramovich went down the drain.

Please Sack idiot rubber stamp Advram Grant …………….

We played without our best player of this entire season “Joe Cloe” and best player for last serveral week’s Ballack,Where was lampard and Terry in wembley….. “Joe cole is the only untouchable player in chelsea ,MAD Avram Grant rested him.

This Season chelsea will not win any thing Sure, Because Avram Grant does not have the character to Win………..He even donot know his best 11 player’s .

Chelsea has the best squad in world ,But a weak foolish MANAGER .if Jose was our manager then chelsea may have won all the 4 trophies.

While Manchester United scores 3-4 goals per match, we score a goal per match. That sums it up!

Sacking Jose Mourinho was a right decision, but replacing him with Avram Grant made that sacking a wrong decision.

i will fuc*** beat the shit out of that fat isralien as*hole. sack him real fasst.

anelka did nothing because grant shoved him into a place where he couldn’t do anything.

i’m normally a defender of grant, i thought he hadn’t had a chance to prove himself and many bad performances were due to the players. But in a cup situation a manager plays a big part in the teams mentality, and he made a lot of stupid sub and starting 11 decisions. Where was Joe cole? Anelka was wasted, essien rather than lampard?

Such a horrible game to watch for a chelsea supporter, rubbish attitude, although with keane having a bit of a blubber at the end and them acting like they’d just won the champions league, maybe they appreciated it alot more than we would. Oh well, i still have hopes for grinding out premiership results better than arsenal and utd, and perhaps we could get a few lucky fixtures in the other cups hopefully barnsley and olympiakos are apart of a bigger pattern.

gunners fc u lost 5-1. so shut your mouth

The mistake no one here seems to understand :

As long as Drogba play center forward ,AG is back to JM game.
and only JM can play this boring tactical ,non attractive ,bad passing - nothing game.

The moment Drogba take back his position the whole game changes and
everything AG said he wants to do is null.

Yeah but our players didnt play 180 mins for a losers medal!we gonna win the league!

what was anelka doing alongside drogba in a 4-3-3???

Why didnt Joe cole come on after half time???

What on earth was AG thinking when he made his substitutions???
Kalou for SWP
Ballack for Essien
Joe for Mikel

Common sense said
Joe for Shaun
Ballack For Lampard
Kalou for Anelka

that would have been a more steady n effective 4-3-3

But sadly AG doesnt know what to do n when to do it…his luck also ran out today..the linesman spotting Bridge’s handball n woodgate scoring without intending to

we will probaly reach the final of the FA cup as well..n we ll probably be facing Man utd in the final…n the way we play big matches under grant..I dont even want to think about whats going to happen

Nowadays..Any team that plays at a level just a lill above average rip us apart..we are winning only against teams performing far below their best..

RA ..please take notice..no use spending 500 millionm on the club n saying u love the club if u cant keep ego out of football matters

Abramovich should sack Grant and bring Ramos next year whatever the cost.

If this is what Abramovich wanted then I’m very happy for him! Chelsea have turned into his toy.

Typical modern Chelsea supporters comment from Midfield_Decider! Without Abramovich’s money trying to buy success you would be F**k All of a club. You have no real history of success until recently. Your cocky “supporters??” were outclassed by the Spurs faithful. Chelsea a big club? Don’t make me laugh. Big heads but small hearts!

Duquemin,
your IQ level must be hitting the ground!

1 gone 3 to go.
Guys it was on the cards, just recall the performances of cfc since this moron AG got the the job. One thing I am absolutely sure of JM would not lose this game, as for sure Martin Jol would not win it either. When I read the cfc players and compared to spurs ones what a difference in quality, mentality I couldnt see cfc lose this game at all, there is no doubt in my minds that the real winner of this match is Juande Ramos, what an acheivement he has done with very very poor players, apart 1 or 2.
The real loser is definetely AG, this moron has been living on LOTS and LOTS of LUCK. When chelsea gets a team with slightly better players it struggles badly. Gone are the olympiakos and huddersfields of this world, to help cfc achieve anything at all.
So SACK all the players but KEEP AG, the master in tactics, the man that claims the hand ball that gave the penalty was not a penalty, incredible he doesnt even know the rules, this pathetic plonker
(AG) claims that he has been AROUND THE WORLD watching football and NEVER saw a referee finishing the game when chelsea was attacking, this AG may have seen the world but sure THE WORLD has not SEEN this moron, only RA has seen him.
Yes I insist JM would not lose this final, even thou Ramos has the same mentality as JM, in front by 1-0 JM would shut shop, at least when chelsea used to shut shop the players knew how to pass the ball.
It only shows that with a team with JM players except Anelka, AG could not defeat a very ordinary team, with 2 days less rest, even in ET chelsea did not know what to do.
No doubt in my mind chelsea lost this mickey mouse cup because of AG tactics.
Well prove me wrong.

AGfriend,

You are right on that. There’s no doubt that Chelsea lost today because of Grant! Not only today, but overall Chelsea plays sh*t because of Grant. Now, I didn’t like Jose either but, as you said, if Jose was around he would definitely win this game even with his negative football. The thing is JM knew how to play negative footie and succeed but AG doesn’t know that.

As a Chelsea fan, I want Roman to bring someone like Ramos to manage our team.

AGfriend,

and yes about “1 gone 3 to go”, 3 will go too pretty soon.

Midfield_Decider,
Even if my IQ was subterranean it would be higher than yours matey. Go check your stats. You think you are a big club like Man Utd,Liverpool or as much as it pains me to say even the Arse. Go compare your stats with theirs. Then compare your stats with Spurs too. Eat some humble pie mate. They sell it at all the Spurs shops….we’re used to it…tastes terrible!

For the love of God

Ya’ll are always surprised when we lose these games!!!

Whether you wanna blame AG or not…it cant be 100% his fault!!

At the end of the day…players are the ones on the pitch…….Sure Ag aint good enuf but he is not 100% to be blamed!!

I said it b4 and I’ll say it agin!!!!

Chelsea wont win any good teams playing the way we are playing now!!! Simple stuff….I aint seen a good comprehensive display from Chelsea in the recent past…..and im still waiting

Whether it AG or not…..the lads aint playing snit!!

Duquemin,
Your last message sums it up perfectly that you are clown! Who here speaks of a size of a club? Who here compares Chelsea with Arsenal or Man Utd? Is that the issue now? What are you up to? And where are you from? From Clownsland?

Good Win to Ramos and Tottehnam….They showed what should happen when you change a manager in the middle of the season!!

Many of us are so hyprocritical…we polay snit and expect to win!!

Tott played better so they deserved to win……We won about 4 games where we played snit and still won….guess our luck has run out!!!

Anyway Congrats to Totthenam!

O ye AgentBlue,
“Sure Ag aint good enuf but he is not 100% to be blamed!!”

I would like to know how these players start to play if we replace Grant with Ramos. They either will play or will warm the bench, as simple as that.

Ramos won 2 consecutive UEFA cups with Sevilla while playing fantastic football and has turned Tottenham in a cup winning team in less than a year! And he doesn’t even has the budget AG has. At this level it’s all about a manager! It’s him to praise or blame. Period.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

M_D @67, tell that Duduemin, that with all their sizeour turnover is bigger than theirs. he should check our respective financial statements.

AG, what can i say? Roman must be having a laugh. Thank you Roman, you really love Chelsea. keep loving by maintaining grant as our coach.

but guys, I beg to differ on Joe cole- he is all antics without much result. i prefer kalou by far.

Tottenham fully deserved the victory today, and I watched the match surrounded by rival supporters. I was sat next to someone who claimed to be Chelsea, but the only real reason was that they had a bet on a 2-1 victory which looked to succeed until Woodgate scored the winning goal, then he threatened to stab pretty much everybody and wouldn’t sit down until the end of the game because he was so drunk.

I thought the team selection was definitely daring. We know that Wright-Phillips does not play his best on the wing, so why Avram put him there I still don’t know. I would have started Ballack over Essien, and played a diamond. Anelka was ineffective on the wing, which is to be expected really so I have no criticism of him. Drogba was our best player today, but not by much.

As soon as Tottenham scored the second goal, I knew we would lose. Avram Grant does not have the ability to change a game like Jose did. If Jose were still in charge, I think we would have at least managed to get to penalties. Grant is not the man to carry this club forward; he is enough to keep us a top four side undoubtedly, but under him I doubt we will win a major trophy again.

After the match, I shook the hands of three of my Tottenham supporting friends and bought them all a drink. The win was fully deserved and I am always gracious in defeat. Better days are sure to follow. Keep the blue flag flying high, no matter how it seems right now. It might be a while, but our time will come again.

Guys there is still a chance to save the season at Chelsea, please apply here, anyone of us could do a better job than AG.

apply here:
http://www.myfootballnews.co.u…..ory=804098

Is he realisng that he is not taylored to the job?
is he going to start again with his digs at JM? well with JM sometimes were very dull negative football, and i repeat sometimes, most of the times Chelsea played very positive football. But even with the JM negative football Chelsea were winning.
Unlike now, with better organised teams, discount the olympiakos, huddersfileds and barnsleys of this world.

We took the p*** on the pitch and off it, again!

midfield_decider makes me very embarassed to be a chelsea supporter.

its ALL grants fault. and for u whos not a chelsea supporter and talks shit jut think about how many times chelsea FU*KED upp your team.and the supporters kicked your a*s . this year we wont win a thing with grant. just replace him at the end of the season.

CHELSEA 4 LIfE

The Line up was screwed from the beginning, chelsea now have 2 class strikers and a 4-5-1 won’t accomadate anelka and drogba.
I too would have picked the diamond formation that chelsea played under mourinho before schevchenko was dropped.
I was dismayed to see mikel and swp start instead of ballack and joe cole. I think Grant did a mclaren impression and made the wrong choices.
Tottenham played very well but we could have beaten them so easily.
I have faith that Grant can maintain Chelsea but I can’t help but say, he is nothing in comparison to Mourinho and the fact he isn’t qualified has shown today. Champions league trophy is the only on ewe need and should focus on as Mourinho didn’t win it.

like jose mourinho once said ..is this performance of champions??? i cant really say it is. it is just playing some idiots in the street .avram grant is the one responsible for that no tactics no playing football (we dont made one clear attack) .avram grant must be sacked and MOURINHO come back to his beloved club and return to his beloved supporters and to trophies …and by the way the ones saying that lamps must be subistituted by ballack he is the best player in the match today ,,i dont know is this chelsea that we knew ,,,,fuck grant.

We have a top team but we don’t have a top manager now.

A lesser team with a better manager

beat

a better team witha lesser manager