Looks like Boss will be the most likely candidate for LB position this Tuesday.

First time seeing him save the penalty . Confindence boosted

Not really the first time but he has a poor record of saving penalties. He's good at 1on1's though.
If Im not mistaken he did save Ronaldo's penalty in last year's UCL final, right?

This post has been edited by kink_ass: Apr 26 2009, 11:00 AM

yep..

If he can sharpen up his penalty saving skill and high ball saving (where he often give away recently after his head bang with Fu@king Hunt) he would be unbeatable. .

He already world number 1 at least at chelsea .

First time? Where were you when we were in the UCl final?

clean sheet woooot! good pen save from cech..however there was one nightmare moment when he didn't get to the ball during a corner.
someone got in a header and tristan flicked it towards goal. thankfully mikel was guarding the post. oh well..its still a clean sheet and this will be a timely boost to cech's confidence ahead of the barca game. the catalans drew 2-2 at valencia btw. valencia were leading and could've won it if not for a silly mistake by their keeper. so they're not as 'unstoppable' as everyone hypes them up to be.

The Barca players do have one weakness. The lack of aerial threat. Mourinho says we can capitalise on that.

This post has been edited by plokoon: Apr 26 2009, 03:26 PM

my mistake. but i never mean on the penalty shootout. what i mean is in match penalty kick.

because he always try to pick/guess a direction before before taker kick the ball, which in my opinion it is not a good method.
wherelese Van der sar/ reina will wait to see and choose the direction of the ball hit by takers that is why they have a higher save ratio.

Wooo...many player was rested just to meet barca...any possible lineup against barca...?

what was d line up ar?

my predict line up:

-----------------------------chech---------------------------

-----ivanovic--------alex----------terry------bosingwa---

-----------------------------essien--------------------------

-----------------ballack----------------lampard------------

----------anelka----------------------------malouda-------

----------------------------drogba---------------------------



substitutions :

carvalho,di santo,hilario,mikel obi,beletti,kalou,mancienne.

hiddink will use same tactic vs pool n gunners ..

back 4 except ashley,same midfield trio.. same forwards ..same result = win !

------cech
iva-jt-alex-bos
-----essien
--balak-lamps
nico-drog-malou

god! u are so tempting....the three up front against puyol milito Alves and abidal? not sure it will be an easy task my fren...huhu

they will use open play tactic.mid will control possession while anelka + malouda will feed drog with crossing.meanwhile,lamps and 13allack will try as lot as possible long shoot,hope that drogba will snap any possibelities of 'bola muntah' from keeper.that the only way we can trash em.(noob manager here,always dream being football manager )

i think hiddink will go for the 4-2-3-1 again. who knows iva is going to take the left back. dont let him bombard too far down. bosingwa can stay on the right back and continue the flank. besides, iva played on left back once in his previous club if im not mistaken?

if i was hiddink. i'd go for

-----------cech-----------
bos---alex---terry---iva
----ballack-----essien---
kalou--lamps--malouda
---------drogba----------

i left anelka out for the starting lineup because he is at his best when is subbed in lol. sounds like a stupid reason.

sound logic lol

sumtimes he can be supersub.

yeap. provided that super cross to drogba from the right. he deserves huge credit for that.

i like anelka coz his performance seems consistance even he not score plus he is not the person that like to waste ball.he will find whatever way to pass the ball to teammate.he also good with 1 on 1.im sure this wednesday he can assist some goal for chelsea.

indeed. anelka is a very good player. i wonder what is happening on the training ground, the coaches rarely partners anelka with drogba. instead keeping anelka on the wings.