Goalkeepers

1 Petr CECH
22 Ross TURNBULL
40 Henrique HILARIO Meireles Alves Sampaio

Defenders

2 Branislav IVANOVIC (UCL - 1)
3 Ashley COLE
4 David Luiz Moreira Marinho (UCL - 1)
17 José BOSINGWA Da Silva (BPL - 1)
19 Paulo Renato Rebocho FERREIRA
24 Gary James Cahill
26 John George TERRY(Captain) (BPL - 4)
33 ALEX Rodrigo Dias Da Costa

Midfielders

5 Michael ESSIEN
6 Oriol ROMEU Vidal
7 RAMIRES Santos do Nascimento (BPL - 3, UCL - 1)
8 Frank James LAMPARD (Vice Captain) (BPL - 6, UCL - 1)
10 Juan Manuel MATA García (BPL - 3, UCL - 1)
12 John Obi MIKEL
15 Florent Johan MALOUDA (BPL - 1)
16 Raul José Trindade MEIRELES (UCL - 1)
20 Joshua Mark McEACHRAN

Strikers

9 Fernando José TORRES Sanz (BPL - 2, UCL - 2)
11 Tebily Didier Yves DROGBA (BPL - 1, UCL - 1)
18 Romelu LUKAKU
21 Salomon Armand Magloire KALOU (UCL - 1, LGE - 1)
23 Daniel Andre STURRIDGE (BPL - 6, LGE - 1)


The Management

First Team Manager - Andre Villas-Boas
Assistant Manager I - Roberto Di Matteo
Assistant Manager II - Steve Holland
Goalkeeping coach - Christophe Lollichon
Reserve team manager - Dermot Drummy
Academy manager - Neil Bath
Medical Director - Paco Biosca

We Have History - The Trophy Cabinet

Domestic Honours

First Division/Premier League - 1954/55, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2009/10
Second Division - 83/84, 88/89
FA Cup - 1970, 1997, 2000, 2007, 2009, 2010
League Cup - 1965, 1998, 2005, 2007
FA Charity Shield/Community Shield - 1955, 2000, 2005, 2009
Full Members Cup - 1986, 1990

European Honours

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup - 1971, 1998
European Super Cup - 1998

Chelsea 11/12 Pre-season Results

16/07/11 Portsmouth v Chelsea 0:1 (Ben Haim - OG)
21/07/11 Malaysia XI v Chelsea 0:1 (Mohd Izham Tarmizi - OG)
24/07/11 Thailand All Stars v Chelsea 0:4 (Lampard, Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Malouda)
27/07/11 Kitchee FC v Chelsea 0:4 (Lampard, Luzardo - OG, Drogba, Sturridge)
30/07/10 Chelsea v Aston Villa 0:2 (McEachran, Torres)
06/08/11 Rangers FC v Chelsea 1:3 (Sturridge - 2, Malouda)

Chelsea 11/12 Season Results

14/08/11 Stoke City v Chelsea 0:0
20/08/11 Chelsea v West Bromwich Albion 2:1 (Anelka, Malouda)
27/08/11 Chelsea v Norwich City 3:1 (Bosingwa, Lampard - Pen, Mata)
10/09/11 Sunderland v Chelsea 1:2 (Terry, Sturridge)
13/09/11 Chelsea v Bayer Leverkusen (UCL) 2:0 (Luiz, Mata)
18/09/11 Manchester United v Chelsea 3:1 (Torres)
22/09/11 Chelsea v Fulham 0:0 Penalties (4-3)
24/09/11 Chelsea v Swansea City 4:1 (Torres, Ramires(2), Drogba)
02/10/11 Bolton Wanderers v Chelsea 5:1 (Sturridge(2), Lampard(3))
15/10/11 Chelsea v Everton 3:1 (Sturridge, Terry, Ramires)
20/10/11 Chelsea v Genk 5:0 (Mereiles, Torres(2), Ivanovic, Kalou)
23/10/11 QPR v Chelsea 1:0
27/10/11 Everton v Chelsea 1:2 (Kalou, Sturridge)
29/10/11 Chelsea v Arsenal 3:5 (Lampard, Terry, Mata)
02/11/11 Genk v Chelsea 1:1 (Ramires)
05/11/11 Blackburn Rovers v Chelsea 0:1 (Lampard)
20/11/11 Chelsea v Liverpool 1:2 (Sturridge)
24/11/11 Bayer Leverkusen v Chelsea 2:1 (Drogba)
26/11/11 Chelsea v Wolverhampton Wanderers 3:0 (Terry, Sturridge, Mata)
30/11/11 Chelsea v Liverpool 0:2 (Rodriguez, Kelly)
03/12/11 Newcastle United v Chelsea 0:3 (Drogba, Kalou, Sturridge)
10/12/11 Chelsea v Manchester City 2:1 (Meireles, Lampard - Pen, Balotelli)
17/12/11 Wigan Athletic v Chelsea 1:1 (Sturridge, Gomez)
20/12/11 Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea 1:1 (Adebayor, Sturridge)
26/12/11 Chelsea v Fulham 1:1 (Mata, Dempsey)
31/12/11 Chelsea v Aston Villa 1:3 (Drogba, Ireland, Petrov, Bent)
02/01/12 Wolverhampton Wanderers v Chelsea 1:2 (Ward, Ramires, Lampard)
14/01/12 Chelsea v Sunderland 1:0 (Lampard)
21/01/12 Norwich City v Chelsea 0:0
31/01/12 Swansea City v Chelsea
04/02/12 Chelsea v Manchester United
11/02/12 Everton v Chelsea
25/02/12 Chelsea v Bolton Wanderers
03/03/12 West Bromwich Albion v Chelsea
10/03/12 Chelsea v Stoke City
17/03/12 Manchester City v Chelsea
24/03/12 Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur
31/03/12 Aston Villa v Chelsea
07/04/12 Chelsea v Wigan Athletic
09/04/12 Fulham v Chelsea
14/04/12 Chelsea v Newcastle United
21/04/12 Arsenal v Chelsea
28/04/12 Chelsea v QPR
05/05/12 Liverpool v Chelsea
13/05/12 Chelsea v Blackburn Rovers

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This post has been edited by bennyray: Jan 31 2012, 10:16 PM

huhu.. can i consider the 1st seat here.. Chelsea Chelsea!!

2nd, goo win today by Chelsea, Drogba are back to his best

Third time the charm!

KTBFFH

Deporting..er..........i mean reporting..

watched the game, torres assist....

buyeahhhh torres

reporting in...

Reporting in.

Btw, did Luiz get his 5th yellow card today? Is he eligible for City game?

reporting in...
good win today. drogba is good, juan mata MOTM as usual
sturridge is harassing their defense all the time but imo, he is a bit selfish sometimes. nevertheless, he deserved that goal after so many tries.

lastly, thank you alex and anelka for contributing all these while..good bye

lipoting in

tered lipoted

Great win against Newcastle Cheers for the new thread!

--------------cech-------------
ivanovic--luiz--terry--ashley
-------------romeu------------
------ramires---meireles----
---studge--drogba--j mata--

stick to this players for next valencia game ...

REPORTING IN !!

He cannot play..yes..that yellow card..he cannot play against City...

Iva to move inside and Bosingwa to play as RB...

urm.. against City..
I prefer Iva on the right side but I think it wont happen because of Luiz yellow card..
Juz afraid that Bosigwa will go forward too much.

This post has been edited by cipan2001: Dec 4 2011, 11:19 AM

it's great morale booster for us after victory against NU so our next home game @ valencia really critical indeed, we must go all out to get early goal(s) ........

anelka & alex had transfer request accepted. so that, AVB will spent in January.

AVb must insist that he can only play half of the pitch..Sturridge flourish if RB do not mover so high...

Yup, especially CB. Bruma already said he don't want to return to Chelsea from loan just to warm bench.

Somehow, the more I watch Gary Cahill play, the more lousy I see he is. Don't know why he's linked to so many big clubs.




lol, AVB's words.
“David is the No.1 central defender for Brazil and they have six world championship titles so I think he will be one of the best central defenders in the world and in two years’ time he will be nominated for the best football defender in the world. I have that much confidence in them.”

This post has been edited by HumbleCMY: Dec 4 2011, 11:53 AM

Reporting...

New thread new Victory...
KTBFFH

new thread....

alex & anelka bye2...

reporting in. eh how come the chelsea logo is missing from the thumbnail.

im noob how to get that done?

ask Kerplunk or aw13 help u to insert it liao.

Thanks

Use the thumbnail URL link

TS pls post next match date and kickoff time thx thx

why is luiz still playing??!!
Romeu is goodd..=))

reporting in,
i hope we will do well in champion league clash this week ,KTBFFH!

where anelka n alex wanna go? and drgoba dun wan sign continue contract.. we got not enough stricker then..

Alex gonna leave, and Luiz is actually very good bar a few concentration lapse.

Don't listen to media and commentators too much, they'll make you think Luiz is worse than Malaysia League standard.

When Luiz go on a bombarding forward run, they'll say Luiz is mad. But when Man utd's Phil Jones does the same, they praise him as though he's the best defender on earth.

3-0 against wolves , 3-0 against nucastle , next is valencia n be the first team to beat mancity this season !

Wonder Meireles or Lampard will start for Valencia game.

?maybe malouda?

1 CB, 1 forward. hope AVB will get good player for replacement. Hulk maybe

I really like Luiz. I like it when he does his forwards runs if there's someone like Iva covering him. He just need to get his head straight and have strong mentality like Terry. Luiz-Terry is still the best center back combo for us.

indeed

Yup. Luiz-Terry our best combo now if Ivanovic covers for Luiz when he attacks.

Wonder all the pundits who say Luiz should be DM got watch Chelsea play before or not?
If you watch Chelsea play, we all know our DM never goes forward and always covers for attacking CB like Terry or Luiz.
If Luiz becomes DM, then his attacking capabilities will be further limited.

Possible Play luiz as ball playing midfield? or maybe give him a free role...

CB like Luiz is a CB that Barca looking at. Chelsea should keep him well.

This is what I meant previously. Stop the rotation policy AVB! It's time to choose your trusted best eleventh!

drogba should start every game. during 25-30 minutes remaining, sub him with torres. at that moment, opposition's defence must be quite tired. torres can make some trouble with his pace...

Portsmouth for us at home in the 3rd round of FA Cup....

Chelsea will play at home against Portsmouth in the third round of the FA Cup. The tie is to be played the weekend of 7 and 8 January.

The tie, which is a repeat of the 2010 FA Cup Final, is to be played the weekend of 7 and 8 January.

and you expect we got who?

last newcastle game is already have our best eleven player.

later when your so-called best eleven doesn't perform you'll blame him for not giving chance to others and youngsters pulak.

stop asking what he should and should not do. believe our manager, believe the players and believe Chelsea.

YNWA..oh wai..

Hulk is an incredible player, but I don't think we will spend the money to buy him. Sturridge is offering some Hulk's capabilities, AVB said that too.
We need a RB/CB and a left wing. Mata can play as playmarker role in the middle with a new left wing running down the left side.

well said bro, please have faith in AVB whatever he has done / will be doing is for the good of the team... rumours has it that Liverpool is to sign Le Sulk from us...

OK.. Let's AVB be our manager for 10years.. then he can be like Ferguson..

AVB didn't choose Drogba because he's Drogba, Drogba is chosen because he is the better striker for AVB's formation.

Read the news about Anelka & Alex leaving chelsea..... a bit shocked on AVB leaving them on training and barring them from entering the training facilities.... cant blame AVB on that one.... since he have to protect his 1st team mindset & mentality....

anyway, thank you Anelka & Alex for your contribution......

P/S: to Alex, ur stunning strike against Liverpool and Arsenal will always be remembered....

KTBFFH!!!!

Agree with your first part, but I wouldn't say Torres doesn't fit in AVB formation.
Clearly,Drogba is a better player than Torres at the moment.
I would love to see Drogba to start more games. If we're given a choice, I would like to see us keeping Drogba at least for this season.
Drogba is a player who can offer, it's not just about scoring for him, it's about the contribution for the team.
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying Torres is a player that can't offer, but his contribution is clearly lesser than Drogba. They are different player.

Drogba can't start every games, he's old now. But, when we got our team settled, then we can start Torres. I can see we're delivering some through ball for torres to run against Newcastle. This is what Torres need. In next few games, or in february when we're done with our shopping, Torres should be back. Believe in AVB, believe in Chelsea.

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Added on December 5, 2011, 11:44 amOh,no one here mentioned about Lampard? Honestly, I wasn't happy to see Lampard fuming on the bench. You had a bad second half, you're subbed off, you must respect the manager.
What are your thoughts guys?

This post has been edited by ericling: Dec 5 2011, 11:44 AM

Drogba is a legend for Chelsea.. it's a sad news he leave soon~

Anelka maybe he got not much of playing time so he have to leave, but i hope Alex can be here as he can always change formation with Luiz..

i like where this is going. slowly, the older players are going to leave and there is more youth in the team.

i think AVB is building a solid foundation and it takes time, he's been with the club for not over a year and we're not Porto, no disrespect. he also has brought in some exciting players like Mata, Romeu and Luiz.

i believe in what AVB is doing, he is a very intelligent manager and he has the trophies to back him up, recent trophies. who are you to say he doesnt know what his best 11 is, what he is doing. im already satisfied if we can get top 3 in the league this season and win the FA cup.

would u rather not win the league this season and 3 in a row in coming seasons! lol.

Always believe in your manager. I believe when AVB just took over Porto, most would had said he was stupid for let Raul Meireles leave porto. But he delivered for them a treble.

Can't wait for Valencia game.

"Contrary to reports elsewhere, Chelsea are not guaranteed to qualify with a 0-0 draw. If Leverkusen lose in Belgium then Chelsea would be eliminated with any draw, including 0-0."

That means if Leverkusen lose to Genk and we draw 0-0, we will not be going into knock out stages. Oh god..please let it be a win this Wednesday morning.. believe in AVB

danglish wanna sign Anelka if he have the chance. this is what i heard from radio.

+1 for DROGBA time and time he have been bench in favor of another striker, although age is catching up but he has not stop proving to CHELSEA fans he is still the best striker we got now

But worry not ANC coming, TORRES will have a whole month of games to prove himself, i will be real disappointed if LUKAKU outperform him and get the starting line up.

I heard we're seriously going for this lad in January but the only problem is the fee......

since when fee is a problem. LOL jk.

It's impossible that all the chosen eleventh were rubbish all and at the same time eh? We need consistency and by rotating players, it's hard to get a consistent result week in and week out unless it's for strategy agenda. Did you call up Ranieri? I bet he still do that rotation thang at Inter eh?


They say believing is deceiving. I believe in results because that is the most important thing as a football manager.

Just for the record, I'm not asking AVB anything as I do not have his contact number but I'm expressing my opinion in a small Chelsea section thread. Relax!

Actually, AVB don't even rotate much. If you look at his selections, only two spot is not fixed.

----Cech-----
Iva--Luiz--Terry--Cole
--Romeu/Mikel---
Ramires--Lampard/Meireles
Danny--Drogba--Mata

Only our holding midfielder and 2nd midfielder constantly change.

As for Forward, Drogba's clearly number 1. No doubt judging from AVB's action.

I know we all want Torres to regain his form by playing a lot, but can you blame AVB for not choosing Torres?
Torres not even performing well, and if he doesn't, us fans will starting calling for AVB's head when we don't win.
I don't think that's a risk worth taking.

Since we gave up on Hulk, Aguero, Alvaro Pereira.........

[quote=HumbleCMY,Dec 4 2011, 11:48 AM]
Yup, especially CB. Bruma already said he don't want to return to Chelsea from loan just to warm bench.

Somehow, the more I watch Gary Cahill play, the more lousy I see he is. Don't know why he's linked to so many big clubs.


English.

we gave up on Aguero? i thought we lost in bidding?

(L) UEFA Champions League 2011/12
Showing at 03:30 on ESPN #812
Wednesday, 7th Dec 2011
Chelsea FC v Valencia live from Stamford Bridge, London, England.

this should be a cracking game. KTBFFH...!!!

Lukas Podolski also good. Currently eyeing to leave his current club

I'm not the manager, but he ain't not much different from Torres.

Btw, since when Podolski wanted to leave Koln? Koln now not bad, some more he everyday say he wants to be Koln legend.

everytime i go out with friends they will say "uuu wheres ur 50 mil pound man this and that. 50 mil is for scoring striker not some assist blablabla"

im sick of it. torres got to buck up and start giving back what the club had paid for him

we seriously need a striker who can score when drogba leaves. and for god sake how many times do i have to point out some bloody wingers!!

From now on, I want AVB to start Drogba, then we maybe around 70minutes on,especially when opponent is looking for a goal, they're going to leave a big space behind the defense. That's the time to unleash Torres. We have seen this against Newcastle. This enable Torres to score easier and might be the KEY to build his confidence again. But of course, if the opponent still keep their defense tight, no point subbing Torres in for Drogba.

Say it in a simpler way, we need to look for the RIGHT TIME to play Torres.

This post has been edited by ericling: Dec 5 2011, 08:33 PM

I'm very sure AVB just subbed out Drogba because he too tired to press enemy defense already, not to exploit tired defence.

Yes, that's one of the reason. But what I meant just now is, we should start finding the right time to play Torres so that we can build his confidence and his sharpness again.
With Torres current form, I don't think he can break any fresh defense, so subbing him in might be a better option.
Drogba is a good player if he can play 90 minutes ,but too bad, he can't. Subbing Torres in for Drogba every match is not a good thing, it became a definite sub, and the 3 subs eventually became 2 subs.

luiz have a bright future in chelsea, with a good decision-making if he really need to go for attacking and clear ball very well. but as a young player, he often made mistakes in keeping posession ( one of it cost us a loss to MUFC ).


as for now, the only young lads that i see will give a great foundation for our club is david luiz and sturridge. but before that, they need to learn from their seniors.

Lukaku scored a double againts Aston Villa on reserve game.

any highlight vids for that match?

match still going on thou, got the news from Chelsea official twitter

i tot its over oledi.. haha

anelka and alex playing for reserve?

Not possible since they have been banned from entering the training ground

haha super-sub indeed! i think sooner or later kalou has to accept that this is his best role. judging by the lack of a transfer request, i'd like to think he has. salomon made quite an impact with a neat defence splitting pass and a goal. studge must've been a little miffed as he tried to break krul down with countless shots, and kalou nonchalantly puts one in with his first on target. priceless.

MOTM was a close fight between mata and the crossbar. i'm leaning slightly towards the crossbar on this one.

thank you for pointing that out! he was offside, and any linesman with a good eye would have put up his flag and luiz shouldn't even be booked. how convenient for alan pardew to leave that part out i think after that luiz had another bad mistake where demba ba barged him off the ball, but from then on he was very good. not as good JT on the night, but still very good.

Studge got the goal he richly deserved, and AVB's plan to turn him into the hulk seems to be working. He was thorn in newcastle's side for 90 mins and if not for krul, could've bagged a hattrick. Such a tantalising performance by the lads vs newcastle, and i was most impressed by their confidence in attack and in possession. Yes the defence looked a bit shaky at times, but a cleansheet at st.james is by no means easy. Remember this is the team which snatched a point from old trafford.

If we took all our chances it could so easily have been five or six and anybody who watched the game would know it wasn't a scoreline that flattered us. Although we're out of the carling cup which is such a shame for our youngsters (haih kesian josh), for me this result makes up for it and will have a huge impact on where we finish this season. Meanwhile, all the best to nico and alex at their future clubs. They've contributed a lot and their time at chelsea will be remembered fondly.

p. s: to a certain extent i agree with jovi, it would be good if AVB settles on a starting line-up, particularly upfront. but u can see he's managing torres carefully now, and the way our spaniard celebrated his assist for kalou fills me with optimism, because it shows deep down he knows its about the TEAM performance. when u have that mentality, half the battle is already won. apart from that i didn't like how lampsy reacted after being subbed.

Sincerely hope Kalou can stay.

Btw, why is so many young eastern european kids being linked to us? I always thought youngsters get linked to Arsenal year in year out, now our turn?

at least we can hope they buy youngsters but dun sell it after they r in form.. this is not a business or something like little chick, feed them grown up and sell it out..

Just to confirm.
Our UCL game is "tonight" 3.45AM right?!

is tomorrow 3.45AM morning..

Alan Pardew is a moron, when his team is in the good end of decisions, you never see him complaining. we were the better team on that day and we won. its too bad his defender got injured and we capitalize on that to make the scoreline worse for them.

what Torres needs is players that plays to his style and provides him the assist he needs. the african gang in Chelsea is definitely not cooperating.

and to be honest, another thing lacking compared to the old Chelsea is our talisman, Frank Lampard. the 20 goals a season he contributes is gone and its a huge blow to alot of our title chase. i used to remember everytime we needed a goal to win, sooner or later, Frankie is gonna give it, the superman headers, the well timed runs, the 30 yard curlers, the ever reliable penalties and the free kicks.

and he missed that penalty last game.. sigh~

subscribe to eskweston on youtube. he always upload reserve and youth team game highlight.

I freaking love his free kicks!! (well, used to).. LoL
He's still my #1 player hahaha

Our friend was referring to money was not a problem for the club. If the club wanted Aguero so bad, they have to bid him with an absurd amount of money in order to fend off clubs like Citeh.

We should put a £50m on Aguero instead of a player who has not been himself since before the world cup in Africa.....

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Added on December 6, 2011, 1:15 pm
Spot on. Did he know how he got a point against United?

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Added on December 6, 2011, 1:19 pmWhat I meant was if he wants Drogba just play Drogba week in and week out. Let Torres as a sub and otherwise.

You're being sarcastic! Roman will chop you!

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Added on December 6, 2011, 1:45 pm

Now how inappropriate is that, Kenny?

I remembered what Drogba said during our CL against Barcelona...... WAFD?

Pro players should avoid from being racist, swearing and obscene gesture.

This post has been edited by jovigrunge: Dec 6 2011, 01:49 PM

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may be now not much senior players to target at ?

else kaka ?

Kinda nervous for tonite "do-or-die" match!!!! Hopefully ChelseaFC prevail....

P/S:- knock out or not, in AVB we trust!!!!