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)

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 1:1 (Sinclair, N.Dyer o.g)
04/02/12 Chelsea v Manchester United 3:3 ( Evans o.g, Mata, Luiz, Rooney - Pen, Rooney - Pen, Hernandez)
11/02/12 Everton v Chelsea 2:0 (Pienaar, Stracqualursi)
25/02/12 Chelsea v Bolton Wanderers 3:0 (Luiz, Drogba, Lampard)
03/03/12 West Bromwich Albion v Chelsea 1:0 (McAuley)
10/03/12 Chelsea v Stoke City 1:0 (Drogba)
17/03/12 Manchester City v Chelsea 2:1 (Cahill, Aguero - Pen, Nasri)
24/03/12 Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur 0:0
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

Match Highlights



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Club Songs/Chants





This post has been edited by bennyray: May 6 2012, 02:09 AM

First to post !

Can't wait for the match tonight! KTBFFH

wooot!

hey where's the lyrics for blue is the colour?

wow new thread

KTBFFH!

Yes this is only English football team left.

superfrank reporting.

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Added on March 27, 2012, 8:40 pmresult UCL tak update.

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Added on March 27, 2012, 8:40 pm1st post sila update ye encik ts.

This post has been edited by kucingmainan: Mar 27 2012, 08:40 PM

yep i think we can profit.it'll definitely be a refreshing way of doing things around the club.

for tonight,i want studge back on the right!for some reason he appears to be lethargic and slow on the left.

Kerplunk,

I would agree with you. Studge is a good RAM ( Right Attacking Midfielder ) in my honest opinion. He cuts through the right into the box very well, and can pay the ball at the very edge of the line while producing a low cross to the center where the likes of Drogba or Lukaku can finish off clinically.

This post has been edited by Kernkraft400: Mar 27 2012, 08:52 PM

good luck to RDM and the lads tonight. please bring back a positive result to stamford bridge. KTBFFH...

all the best to our team in tomolo morning match (local time) and it's always important to have away goal(s) so at least we are comfortable playing the remaining leg @home

cheers.

Who's going to work with red eyes tomorrow?

/Raise

put up a strong fight lads!! win or lose doesn't matter, having through this far in this prestige tournament already prove we're the best in England. especially after having a relatively poor season. I just hope the team put a very brave spirited performance and let the best team win.

congratz on new thread...to watch or not to watch?!?!?!

Not for me, just cameback from site visit... Still lethargic... Going to bed now... Hope we win... Look forward to win the first tie...

what time the match tonight?

2.45am.

2.45AM gua...

hope the lads win tonite. off to sleep before watch the match

Come on Chelsea, beat Barca in the semis

awwww thanks

lets take 1 game at a time.. we must beat Benfica first..

LULZ HARD !



This post has been edited by annalies: Mar 28 2012, 12:42 AM

TEAM LINE-UP
Cech Ferreira,David Luiz,Terry ©,A.Cole
Obi Mikel,Meireles;Kalou,Mata,Ramires
Torres

Chelsea will line-up in the following 4-2-3-1 formation:
1 Petr Cech
19 Paulo Ferreira
4 David Luiz
26 John Terry ©
3 Ashley Cole
12 John Mikel Obi
16 Raul Meireles
21 Salomon Kalou
10 Juan Mata
7 Ramires
9 Fernando Torres

Subs: 22 Ross Turnbull, 17 Jose Bosingwa, 24 Gary Cahill, 5 Michael Essien, 8 Frank Lampard, 23 Daniel Sturridge, 11 Didier Drogba.

look like ramires will start at wide left again.

ferreira starting after so many months. nice. (hopefully he can cover that right side well)

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This post has been edited by Fhaarkas: Mar 28 2012, 03:33 AM

Are you ready kids?

unleash the torres.

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Added on March 28, 2012, 2:50 amferreira look nervous. abit slow.

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Added on March 28, 2012, 3:05 amwtf la meireles.

This post has been edited by kucingmainan: Mar 28 2012, 03:05 AM

Flash streaming link anyone???

http://www.mypremium.tv/stream/?id=1455&1315148752

browser. pretty smooth.

Torres on that occassion should just slid the ball to Mata's path. Anyways, good to see him pushing hard.

nice shot meireles

half time

HT 0-0 ...

kalou n mata didnt give much impact yet

Bring in drogbaaaaa...

oooo damnnnnn ...goal post by mata againnnnnn .....

Very tight angle...wud hv been epic goal if he scored

bring in the subs already la rdm. drogba for kalou.

lampard in for meireles..

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Added on March 28, 2012, 4:17 amkalouuuuuuu..... Nice assist torres!

This post has been edited by bo0t: Mar 28 2012, 04:17 AM

TORRES... KALOU!

KALOU !!!

Yessss ! Nice work from torres and finishing from kalou. We hv been lucky so far for escaping few penalty shouts from benfica...

feirera kalou off ,.. Studge bosingwa in ..

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Added on March 28, 2012, 4:28 ambtw, spurs 2-0 against bolton in facup .. So its chelsea - spurs in semi final facup ..

This post has been edited by bo0t: Mar 28 2012, 04:28 AM

Good performance.
So technically we don't have any away goal "advantage" right?

pheww... 1 goal advantage for us to keep. greeeeeeeat.

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Added on March 28, 2012, 4:41 amyup. a draw and we'll march to semis.

This post has been edited by kucingmainan: Mar 28 2012, 04:41 AM

tidur with a smile.

Ahhh, good performance away from home.

FT Benfica 0 - 1 Chelsea

FT Spurs 3 - 1 Bolton

niceeeeee.

Great great win. Love Torres assist, and well done Kalou too
We are against Spurs next round in FA CUP then?

I slept ealry last night. Read the review online this mornng. Is it torres perform?

Good luck chelsea. When is the 2nd leg?

next week on thursday morning ..

a win is good but i think that was a rather poor performance by the team. if we get through against benfica, we will face barca in the semi and with this kind of performance, we will be punching bag for them.

somehow, we are back to the the old chelsea. very very VERY slow in moving the ball especially in first half. 2nd, our midfielders are at total lost. all source of invention came from our defenders and that is really sad to watch. 3rd, wtf is RDM thinking putting mikel + meireless at DM? this fetish towards DM is one of the factor that i think contribute to the inefficiency of our midfielders. why? because there is a gap between the front three (mata-torres-ramires) and the rest of the team. nobody was there to plug the gap and float the ball when the marking is tight upfront. the introduction of lampard is necessary but it was already late.

we are lucky to get away with full points in this match when we haven't done enough. thanks to torres for the lovely assist. he was lively whenever he got the ball. he provide good chances to team mates but as usual, he did not receive any supply of ammunition.

it going to be busy schedule for the lads. RDM are still waits for the appeal results from the FA to rearrange the schedule.

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Added on March 28, 2012, 8:58 am

This post has been edited by acam2812: Mar 28 2012, 08:58 AM

RDM tried to slow the tempo of benfica game by puting 2 DM there, to drop back for defend since not a team successful to stop benfica from scoring at they home, so there is gonna create gap between midfield and frontthree.
It is not a good choice but it success.

after saw the highlight, i can see torres satisfaction!

yes.. i'm glad Torres form is way better than b4, i like his dribbling..previously cant run much.. happy..

and.. oops.. Mata miss that shot..

lol that reaction from torres i nvr see one like that before
and he need more love

Few games i saw Torres played, found out he is not selfish, he's a team player and not a glory seeker player.

yeahh win..

well, not the best performance but it was a decent away european result for us. it will give us a driving seat heading into the 2nd leg. you gotta give credit to RDM. he changed the team a little bit, took a gamble and yeah, it paid off...

I think torres a bit of afraid to score. He afraid of failure to score a goal. Thats why he keep assisting. Just my opinion.

However, its good for the team! Keep assisting, and let the other players score

the thing is he didnt hv the chance to score. how to score?

This season torres hasnt scored much but assisted quite a lot...but im sure his assist in this match is one of the most crucial in this season so far. Credits hv got to be given to him.

Jesus said, "We didn't deserve to lose."
I say 'you should give credit where it's due, dude.'

+1
his reaction after Kalou score was priceless, he's really happy.

Despite not having many chances last night, the lads were pretty alright at the back, although I thought Meireles and Mikel could have done better. Ramires and Luiz had quite a good game, especially Ramires with his bursting run! Too bad there's a few misses from him.

Despite not scoring, Torres played a good game as well and can see that he's full of energy, the way he pressed each player when not having possesion and how he setup the goal for Kalou.

If they played like that next week, I'm sure we can get through to the next round, either facing Barca or Milan, that will just be something we will have to see in the coming game.

Hope Mata and Ramires gets some rest for this weekend. Go play direct style or anything, but I fear Mata and Ramires will become overworked soon.


I think a lot people overlooked effeciency of Ferreira, he so old already, but still perform much more solid than Bosingwa. Although he didnt support attack much. Hopefully Bosingwa can improve so that he can become a world class RB.

Mata look burned out. His decision making, composure, passing & ball control been poor for the last two-three matches. He should really being given a decent rest. We need him fresh for the next critical fixtures.

+1.

Some random comments at eurosport website

i think RDM made all the right decisions with his selection today. say what u will, but this is exactly the way to perform when you're playing away from home in europe. no complaints on the mikel + raul combo either, both of them stuck to their jobs efficiently and the former had a really solid game again. even gary neville noticed his huge contribution in keeping aimar quiet up to the point he had to be SUBSTITUTED and i'm glad he's back in the team. good defensive midfielders are so under-appreciated nowadays as no club would ever bid big money for them.

terry and luiz were close to perfect. i think terry let cardozo in behind him only once, while luiz read all their attacking plays like a book! ferreira came in and once again proved his value as a squad player, and ashley was energetic down that left although he didn't join in the attack that often. the torres and kalou combo was a good choice, demonstrated by nando's superb cross which kalou should've converted in the second half, as well as the pinpoint delivery for the ivorian's tap in. u have to give credit to both of their work rates, i don't think either of them stopped running for the duration that they were on the pitch.

which brings me to our next pocket dynamo in the form of ramires. set nando away for the spaniard to lay it on a plate for kalou, and looked back to his lung-busting best. however he still needs to work on that final ball of his. mata (again) seems to have lost his way in midfield and was surprised RDM didn't take him off. the amount of passes he misplaced was..disappointing to put it lightly. his early to mid-season form though, means he's essential to our starting 11 and i think RDM is thinking along the same lines as he's one of those players capable of pulling off that little bit of magic to unlock defenses.

slightly unhappy we failed to get a second goal, as two or three brilliant counterattacks which had their defence outnumbered were ruined by overhit/misplaced passes. midfield players were all guilty here. still a good performance, and should give us some confidence in facing villa this weekend.

Well said kerpy

torres celebration after the goal, that was priceless. just pure joy eventhough he didn't score the goal. his assists have been crucial to the team all season. well done fernando. keep it up...

Should Lukaku feature agaisnt Villa? Sharing match time with Drogba probably

And Romeu too, is he fit?

This post has been edited by Zeuss1220: Mar 29 2012, 02:35 PM

Lukaku will probably feature in these few weeks epl matches...rdm probably wont let him play in our crucial uefa cl and fa cup fixtures.. i believe rdm will do a good job in rotating the squad and at the same time keeping everyone happy..

About Romeu, really hvnt seen him in a while...i rmb that our win % is higher when he played, no ?

it looks like chelsea will be having too many games lol
what if the players get tired and cannot give their 100%?
what if chelsea don't win the ucl, and also fail to qualify for ucl next season?
rdm : "decision, decision..."

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im not sure but if put too many youngsters for rest of the games is quite a gamble i say, esp its almost end of season now. must not screwed up. subs at 80s mybe..
imho

Di Maria to Chelsea ? Sos

the sun? teehee.

very low possibility I feel...

A very good statistic to show RDM rotation.
http://www.carefreechronicles.com/2012/03/...statistics.html

And, very interesting how RDM explained his squad 'rotation' policy.

From the press conference he did just now.
http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0...2706234,00.html

Meireles is likely to miss out, and BRANA IS BACK. Yes, awesome news.
I think Lampard and Essien will get the nods against Aston Villa.Or how about our Oreo? Not sure about the attacking side,RDM is giving us some great suspense!

This post has been edited by ericling: Mar 30 2012, 09:43 PM

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This post has been edited by Angel of Deth: Mar 30 2012, 11:03 PM

CHELSEA!! everyday gonna be blues days

haha.. monday blue, tuesday blue, wednesday blue, thursday blue, friday blue, saturday and sunday also blue..

everyday watching blue ah. haha.

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Team: Cech; Iva, D Luiz, JT ©, Cole; Mik, Lamps; Sturr, Mata, Kal; Torres. - subs: Turn, Bos, Bert, Cahill, Ess, Mal, Ram

from Chelsea FC twitter

i like RDM rotating player style

today attacking look interesting XD...hope torres can score. No matter what win 1st...Go chelsea!