why not the match scheduled for today...instead of tomorrow!

w8..the match later today right..this morning..?? within a few hours??

nope, tomorrow

i already wear the jersey.. damn it..

wrong timing dude, hahahaha

the world has worked out something that it not always to your liking im also quite confused actually but looking at last week when fulham beat liv (in midweek) it kinda sinked in

LIVE Showing at 03:30 on ESPN #812 , 13 December 2011 ,
Barclays Premier League 2011/12: Chelsea FC v Manchester City from Stamford Bridge, London, England.

hope we can pecah the telur tonight.

I don't really expect much from this game. We never really had luck against Man City. But hopefully some magic from Ramires and Luiz like last season will come to us again. Too bad, we will not see Luiz in this game and that's a huge question to our defense. Alex is so called 'banned' and Bosingwa back to right back? Anyway, we need to have faith on our player right?

Mata Drogba Sturridge
Meireles Romeu Ramires
Cole Terry Iva Bosingwa
Cech

Tactics that I would like AVB to use:
1. Defend deep
2. Counter attack
3. Exploit their wing backs with our fantastic wingers
4. Tackles all around in the centre of the pitch
5. Midfielders track Yaya and Silva run

I would say these five are the most important one.
I prefer Meireles over Lampard because he can press and he can track the MCY dangerous midfield run.
Romeu will be the man to do job number 4. Look at Lucas at Liverpool, made countless of tackles and Liverpool managed to stop City. I believed these are the only ways we can stop City.

Anyway, brace yourself tonight guys, 3.30 am and the blue flags will be flying high!

AVB's words on official site:

"We have to see. We have plenty of central defenders on loan we have a buyback option on [Slobodan] Rajkovic, and we don't know if Alex will go. Then we have [Jeffrey] Bruma, Rajkovic, [Sam] Hutchinson and [Nathaniel] Chalobah so we have a lot of talent coming through and it is not 100 per cent sure."

Oh, almost forgot about Hutchinson. But there is no way he can make it to the squad now right? Has he even started training at Chelsea yet?

Not sure if Hutchinson eligible to play . AVB gave him shirt number, means there might be a chance he will be among the subs soon. He coached last year, so maybe he can become a captain material soon.

is it 4am tomorrow morning? or 3.30?

Not sure about timing too, I just wake up at 3.30 in case.

Btw, good luck to Nico in China, wish him good luck there.

Kickoff time is 4AM

thanks anelka for all you have offered to us. good luck and all the best. enjoy your future career in china...

AVB favorite player during the pre-season was Rajkovic..i dont know that we have the buy back option for him..Good! If he can ge the work permit then bring Rajkovic back AVB!!..Bruma..I dont think we should disturb his development..Hutchinson..if AVB confident about his fitness then we can include his into the squad this January.. and I think we will..already a regular in the reserves..Chalobah is the next big thing for us..but maybe not this season...

This post has been edited by Ichighost: Dec 12 2011, 07:13 PM

Rajkovic should be a good replacement of JT. he's tall.

Also good for Hamburg, their best senior central defender ( Westermann) can go back into central of defence to partner Bruma there.

Don't know about work permit issue though, maybe he needs to perform better for Hamburg first and break into national team, then got chance get it.

For god sake pls defend deep this time around.... with so many playmaker in their teams, i don't want David Silva to rip us apart like what he did to Man Utd with his defend splitting crisp pass....even Aguero has the ability to create chances for his teammates...i dun even want our full backs to overcommit flanking.... hope Sturridge can capitalize on any crosses...hes our golden boy at the moment.