Chelsea Build Up

[G]

I might be wrong but I dont get why playing for a nil nil away from home in Europe is a good tactic. This day and age an away goal seems crucial. If I was Simeone Id be happy with a clean sheet

Yep, said it last night, I hope they get beat on away goals after serving up that ****fest last night. Be hilarious.

[twistnkuyt]

**** mourinho and his ****ing alehouse tactics

I cannot ****ing wait for this game. I can't remember the last time before this season that i look forward to every single game so much. I fully expect us to smash them.
Everyone knows that if we play as well as we can we'll win.

We are Liverpool tr la la la la

[PTP]

good thing for us is it changes nothing - we will prepare and set up the same way, with the same tactics and same mentality whether we were playing chelsea's kids in a friendly or whether it was the intergalactic cup final against the Milky Way All Stars.

It will help us of course that chelsea will no doubt rest a few key players...but they still have a strong enough squad to field a good side...


however what is key is the mindset........for weeks/months jose has been saying his strikers are **** and guess what, they all look ****ing fed up and play ****. For weeks jose's been saying they aren't in the title chase.....and guess what....the team doesn't turn up and loses points to palace, villa and sunderland.

so if he carries on with this attitude then great. They'll turn up here and their target will be "just don't get turned over 6-0"

[Muddled]

The point about mind-set is a good one, PeeTeePee.

Sure, what is said in public may be different to what Mourinho parps to the players, but if those players chosen think of themselves as part of a 'weakened team', then that can't be good for morale.

I'm sure some players will see what happened to Cech and Terry and think twice about that 50/50 ball on Sunday if Mourinho keeps saying they're going for the Champions League.

[dom9]

Haha, if I were City, I'd be absolutely fuming.

[PTP]

i think it's back fired on him and made him look even more of a tit

he goes in to his press conferences, all smug and cocky and full off himself

and he feeds all this **** out - prob thinking he is being clever, i'll act all like this to the world - but behind close doors i'll tell my players different etc etc

problem is - he continues to do it....non stop....he continues to act petulant....to blame other people etc etc - it's slowly started to filter through into his players.

Theyve already been given the excuses and had any blame taken away from them

[Sarb]

I dont think Mourinho likes the Spanish guys at City. Tixi and co. Think he wanted the City job aswell.

In all honesty, it should be pretty tough for Chelsea to win the title even if they beat us. He probably realises that

[Sarb]

Some expert highlighted just this. Said more you say it the players start to believe it or lose a bit of an edge.

[PTP]

Ramires is the key one

i think if he gets suspended, Mourinho will completley flip - then in what he will see as a protest and snub to the league, he'll defo pick a joke side for us

his argument will be "you (the fa) don't want to help me, you are against us, we are in europe representing you, but you don't want us to be successful in europe" blah blah blah

i look at the chelsea side and think - key players

cech
terry
cahill
ramires
hazard

they are the ones that fight, make them tick. Perform big - win games - Cech/Terry defo out, and i'd be shocked if Hazard made a return from injury for our game as they will want him 100% fit for the 2nd leg

Cahill is an interesting one though......will Jose 'risk' cahill against us? - surely Cahill has to start against us...but if he got a knock and missed the 2nd leg then they'd be ****ed.

And if ramires gets a ban, i'd be buzzing - because he's their engine.

[PTP]

Some expert highlighted just this. Said more you say it the players start to believe it or lose a bit of an edge.

thanks Sarb.

[I, Ravel Morrison]

Agree with what everyone's saying. The latest from him is a whopper even by his standards. Even if the Chav team fielded on Sunday are told otherwise in private, the resounding message is that they're the expendables.

[Sarb]

thanks Sarb.

You are a legend PTP

Your formation posts are legendary. Wasted on here

[Charly]

duplicated post.

[I, Ravel Morrison]

Anyone else caught the post Norwich match presser from Brendan? Just oozes class. The man artfully deflects any title talk and centres the convo on the performance, getting 96 goals, aiming to improve the players, to get more goals, and the wins will follow. "We only focus on ourselves." "Sunderland's win certainly helped but you have to help yourself."

He even turned a question about Chelsea stumbling in the title race with the loss at home to Sunderland into praise about Mourinho's incredible home record!

[captainfog]

This game terrifies me far more than any other so far this season. We should be good enough to beat them but I have a feeling he's going to try every dirty trick in the book. It's going to be tough this game, really tough.

His tedious mind games should start tomorrow too once they've got the Ateltico game out of the way

Terrified? What have we got to be scared of?

Nervous? Yes, of course, it's the biggest game we've had since the last one (they are all ****ing massive now), but we have nothing to be scared of.

Chelsea struggle to score goals and only have an OK record away from home. We score goals for fun and have a mega home record. Nothing to be scared of at all. They'll be tough to beat, but unlike City I'm not sure they have the players to rip us apart if they have a great day.