Chelsea vs Bordeaux | 16-Sep-08 @ 19:45 UK
Chelsea kick off their champions league campaign this season by playing Bordeaux tonight. I know nothing about Bordeaux except that they are a club from from the French league. And they are meant to be a problem for Roma, than for Chelsea. The objective today should be to get this match out of our calendar with as minimum fuss as possible. Playing at the Bridge, we should be able to beat them with considerable ease. If you think I’m being very arrogant, look at this:
1. Chelsea 124.996
2. Liverpool 118.996
3. Barcelona 117.837
4. Arsenal 110.996
5. Man Utd 107.996
6. Lyon 99.380
7. Inter 96.934
8. Real Madrid 93.837
9. Bayern Munich 92.078
10. PSV Eindhoven 91.610
11. Villarreal 90.837
12. Roma 81.934
13. Porto 81.176
14. Werder Bremen 74.078
15. Sporting 67.176
16. Juventus 66.934
These are the seedings and ranking points for the top 16 champions league contenders this season. These are based on the performance of the clubs in champions league in the last few seasons. Chelsea top the list and Bordeaux are not in this list at all. They are in fact the 21st seeded team in the champions league. So this match is No.1 vs No.21 at the record making home ground of No.1. Was it a fair hope that we would beat them with considerable ease? I hear you saying upsets are possible and have always happened. But the Chelsea I know, even in their worst form, are difficult to beat even for top oppositions.
Now we’re brimming with confidence after our performance against Man City. We have got some key personnel back. We have the best defence in Europe along with some world class midfelders. Even if we don’t play our first teamers, they’ll be on the bench to hop on in case of any untoward scenarios. One thing to note will be that we have to play Man Utd this Sunday. The team selection will have to take this into account. I wouldn’t mind if we change our back four. We can have Alex, Ivanovic, Bridge and Belletti take up the back four roles while Joe Cole and Lampard also being rested. They played the internationals and had to play another crucial match and if they play this one and the one against Man Utd, it would mean playing 4 key matches in 10 days. I don’t think we need to stretch them so much given our team strength.
Ballack is fit for this match and Felipao is not sure now if he can play 45 mins or more. We should get Ballack on the pitch in preparation for the Sunday cracker. Drogba is still unavailable, thanks to his Zidanesque stunt in the finals last season. So does that mean Anelka again? He scored a goal against Man City so he has renewed his first team stay? Okay fine but if we get to a comfortable situation, we should definitely bring on Franco. He is on the champions league squad while Fabio Paim is not. So we should use Franco as much as possible. I’ve seen glimpses of him and I’m very excited to see him. I’m sure even the fans at Stamford Bridge would be thrilled to see a genuinely young Chelsea striker on the pitch. If you have any doubts, Mikel is in the champions league squad and is fully eligible to play.
Also tonight, Roma plays Cluj. So we’ll know what Cluj is all about. Even otherwise, Felipao seems to know about every club in the world and has couple of friends in every club. Good for us. In Barcelona vs Sporting, a win for Sporting would be nice. I want to see Madrid and Barca dumped down this season. Also a thorough beating for the Pool at Marseille would be great.
I won’t be watching it, unless the streams are good enough. Let us know if you have any good streams to watch. I know this one – www.justin.tv – where you get the streams of all matches. If you have anything else or anything better, let us all know. Chelsea to beat Bordeaux 3-0. Franco to play and score!
good post as always BC. I’m excited about tonight’s game. The Champions League is back and this year i’m confident that we can go all the way. With the squad we have (which isn’t much different from last year) and with Felipe at the helm i know we can do it this year. It’ll be interesting to see what changes he makes to the squad because of the Man Utd game on Sunday. I think if we play ok we’ll win 2-0. If we play brilliantly like the Pompey game we’ll 4-0 again. :) GO THE BLUES!!! :)
Bordeaux are gonna get fried..french fries
@BC
zee sports is showin d the chelsea match at 12.30
We will win Bordeox 3-0
and win United on saturday 3-1!
Scorers will be Lamps with 2 and Anelka with 1?
Maybe if im wrong..A defender might score.
United Game Scorers J.Cole,Ballack and Bosingwa.
di santo should play since drogba is suspended….lampard should start but joe cole should rest…lampard to play lesss than a full game…we should change the back 4 abit…with ferriera terry alex bridge
ivanovic to play DM
i am going to watch the match..it will be after midnight for singapore
Nice article BC.
Also if you didn’t know, there is the live telecast of the match on Zee Sports sometime around 12 AM.
Keep the blue flag flying….
Also if you didn’t know, there is the live telecast of the match on Zee Sports sometime around 12 AM
http://www.oleole.com/blogs/living-true-blue/posts/chelsea-vs-bordeaux-match-preview
Referee: Pieter Vink
Time : 0015 IST
TV Timings: 0015 Zee Sports(IST), 17/09/08.
terry not banned!!!!!!!available for next 3 matches!!!!!WOOOOHOOOOO
I am a die hard city fan, it was never a sending off and I am glad JT is available for the reds game. Just got to say as a football fan Chelsea were awesome on Saturday and if you can play like that every week you will have a great chance of stuffing the Singapore United. If that standard of football is what we have to look forward to bring it on, I just hope Mark Hughes can spend the money well, if not we may go after Jose Mourinho City fans loved him when he was your manager
cluj is full of brazilians, portoguese and argentinians. Scolari will know alot of them from his time managing country. Bordeux’s defense is very week since injuries and suspensions, their attack is solid but not too outstanding. Malouda should do well as well as anelka. Franco might not start but expect him to come in as sub if we start cruising. Expect kalou, maybe ferriera with belletti slotting in at DM again, ballack, ivanovic and deco to play. Should be interesting
Try this page:
http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=18417&part=sports
Chelsea 1 -0…….lamps as usual…..
im watchin the match at………http://www.iraqgoals.com/en/?page_id=5
Chelsea 2-0 ……lampard and joe cole……
@Unique #50275, BuildChelsea
Thanks a lot for the link buddy
u guys can watch at livefooty or justintv…..chelsea all the way! we started with a very strong squad…think we should be able to rest some players nw
2nd half nw…guess a 4-0 victory
yea..final 4-0..lampard joecole malouda and anelka score…belleti hit a screamer at the very last min but the keeper tip it to the woodwork before anelka finishes calmly…wow…belleti can shoot well…seems like he is a midfielder under scolari..cheers to chelsea fans…we go into sunday match with beaming confidence..:)
yay! good win from chelsea. pretty comfortable in the end. i liked the look of malouda tonight, took his goal really well. And apart from a few misplaced passes mikel played well too. well roma lost to CFR! should be interesting when we play them in two weeks. now we look foward to man utd on sunday. can’t wait :)CARN THE BLUES:)
http://www.eplmatches.com/index.php/2008/09/16/chelsea-vs-bordeaux-highlights/ ……Highlights to most of the matches are here .