our fa cup final jersey looks quite nice actually. and it can surely blind howard when our players get close to him.
u guys gathering for the match tonight? i wonder if modesto's is screening..hmm

time to go bed.

sleeping zzzzz

wake me 12am tonite

Modesto's won't be screening wee hours in the morning match. But if we are through to the final. Prepare yourself.

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Added on April 28, 2009, 3:50 pmThat's UCl 06/07 group stage match at the Bridge. Not 2005.

This post has been edited by plokoon: Apr 28 2009, 03:50 PM

wow, thats a real pile driver from drogs.

err, no one here doesnt even know what happen to carvalho?

groin injured leh...

ahh no screening aye. allright then.

i don't think riccy has any injury problems. probably isn't 100% match fit. so hiddink must be banking on alex's growing consistency levels.
does anyone remember how different barca's current side is compared to the one that lost to utd last season?
their attack remains about the same right? the ones i know who are new to their defensive setup are alves at RB and keita in midfield.
anybody i missed?

Of all Chelsea's goals against us, I remember Lampard's genius strike the most. Y'all surely know which one right

Excited to have the opportunity to face you guys again. Hoping for a great match up tonight. Make it way better in terms of standards than tomorrow's clash

Actually Carvalho is injured again. Hamstring. Monara if you call yourself a fan, you would do well to read up often at the official Chelsea site. Otherwise, just ignore my comment.

This post has been edited by plokoon: Apr 28 2009, 04:44 PM

I will help you answer this

yes, Barca is really different if compared to last season, in terms of tactical strategies
yes, our attacker are the same as last year
yes, we only bought Pique, Alves and Keita to bolster our defense. I believe however that Keita won't be in starting line up though.
no, you didn't miss anybody. Well, we did add Hleb to our team for our attack, but he was rarely used

heheh who could forget that. ridiculous angle and it still went in!
but ronaldinho's strike at the bridge was sublime too.
its going to be a monumental game that's for sure..better than 'tomorrow's' clash? perhaps..

whoops my bad. damn i thought he recovered..sigh. injury problems really starting to pile up for riccy now.

edited: yup it was a hamstring injury for a match in the reserves, on 25th april 2009. haih. tough luck.

This post has been edited by Kerplunk: Apr 28 2009, 05:11 PM

Case of too much too fast for Ricky. He needed games to be match-fit, but instead got injured again. Looks like this season's a write-off for him. Alex would have to seize his chances to book a place in the Cup final and maybe possibly UCL final too.

Cracker of 2 matches I would say, it'd be good if we can get a score draw at the Nou Camp, and finish them off at the Bridge.

yeap. a draw would be all good but i hope they dont rule out the possibility of getting an away goal.

hey, what about R10 80? already forget him erk...

score draw is a good result tonight, but win is even better!
owh, i thought RC is already displaced by alex (quite surprise if its happen though) due to the latter ability in freekick/setpieces.

so its iva vs henry, alex-JT vs etoo, boss vs messi, and 2 michaels vs xavi-iniesta.....
as a whole, i think their attacking are already better than our defense (feel free to differ )
but for me the real culprit is messi.

so, really hope for boss to get his job done against that guy. tbh, i prefer essien to play there, using his brute strength against messi small body..
lol, well, i think after ronnie and deco leave them, their setpiece/freekick is not as good as previously. then its better to concede foul rather than let him do his magis solo run until in front of our goal...


owh, i forgot one more thing. its not boss vs messi, its boss vs messi-alves!

I still remember him, bro. He single handedly brought Barca to greatness again to be frank. Its just that he was largely anonymous last season. With him last season and without him this season, I just can't feel the difference. I do still miss him though

And because of the bolded part I found all this who's-goin-to-mark-Messi is ridiculous. Messi is not the only threat. Guus knows this well. He knows the key for Chelsea to stop Barca is by preparing his players mentally. Chelsea must not get frustrated if they fail to get hold onto the ball. Expect Barca to control the ball over 60% share of possession, and stay guarded all the time.

I'm skeptical what type of tactic Guus will come out tonight.

draw could be very dangerous coz if they can score at SB we all dead.

winning at nou camp would be the key to the finale..

Let us march to camp nou...and get ourself some aways goals...aye???

thanks. oh yea pique has checked in as well. hleb must be quite frustrated with all the talent in front of him.
you're right about messi not being the only threat. if we pay too much attention to him, we might get done in by another tricky little speedster by the name of iniesta. his dribbling is deceptively simple yet he can get past two, three players easily. when this kid came on against us in 2005, he went past two defenders in the blink of an eye and smashed a shot against the post within moments. from there i knew this dude was something special.
turns out he is. true, hiddink will have to come up with a master plan to contain barcelona but i feel a lot of focus will be given to iniesta and messi as gerrard and torres were focused on in our previous tie. whether it works or not is another matter though.

Haha.. eventhough I got exam tomorrow but my heart will always be with chelsea..or mybe I could study till morning and watch the games..
really want to watch the games man.. expecially when it comes to our newly recruit left back..
btw drogba can used physical strength or his highest when it comes to challenging the ball in the air.. I think drogba is way better in the air compare to puyol, and mybe pique..

Hope our team will regain victory.. Go go goo chelsea !!

This post has been edited by cipan2001: Apr 28 2009, 08:07 PM

@cipan

u r right,drogba is great in that way.malouda and kalou must feed him kaw2 tonite.