Barca Barca Barca v Chavskis

[Beard]

Is this good news or bad news for us? I for one, was hoping that Barca would smash them and completely demoralise them for the FA cup.

But, does their win mean they will have there minds elsewhere come the FA cup final?

[Steven - Dublin]

Originally Posted by Beard

Is this good news or bad news for us? I for one, was hoping that Barca would smash them and completely demoralise them for the FA cup.

But, does their win mean they will have there minds elsewhere come the FA cup final?

I would say bad news. Confidence is high and winning is a habit. There's 2 weeks between the FA Cup and the Champions League final plus they'll have a few players who won't be playing in Munich.

[Insidious]

They'll surely try harder to actually attack when playing us, given we're (right now I'm afraid) very much a mid-table side (in terms of points) and they are, in their own minds, the team that beat Barcelona.

I'd be more concerned about beating them if they played the way they did against Barca than if they attack us a bit, which I believe they will.

If Barca found unlocking their defence tricky, fuck knows how poorly we'd fare.

Don't particularly care how we do it, but we must win. Beat United and Everton to get to where we are.

Have to believe we can beat them. No depending on them playing poorly rubbish, let's just play really well.

Already beaten them twice this season, both of which were at the Bridge.

[morroccanroll]

Originally Posted by Insidious

They'll surely try harder to actually attack when playing us, given we're (right now I'm afraid) very much a mid-table side (in terms of points) and they are, in their own minds, the team that beat Barcelona.

I'd be more concerned about beating them if they played the way they did against Barca than if they attack us a bit, which I believe they will.

If Barca found unlocking their defence tricky, fuck knows how poorly we'd fare.
Don't particularly care how we do it, but we must win. Beat United and Everton to get to where we are.

Have to believe we can beat them. No depending on them playing poorly rubbish, let's just play really well.

Already beaten them twice this season, both of which were at the Bridge.

You answered your own question there.

[Insidious]

Originally Posted by morroccanroll

You answered your own question there.

Get your point, but Chelsea didn't play with that same style in our games as they did against Barca.

I thing we're more likely to be able to beat them should they actually try to "play" than if they sit back in the box and counter.

[Nineteenx]

Originally Posted by Steven - Dublin

I would say bad news. Confidence is high and winning is a habit. There's 2 weeks between the FA Cup and the Champions League final plus they'll have a few players who won't be playing in Munich.

I don't think it will make a difference, we have the sign over them right now and besides defending with 11 men behind the ball (if you like that sort of thing) and hoping for a lucky break for 180 minutes v Barca they're still not playing well in a normal open game and I think we'll have too much for them, even if the field all their players who will miss the Champions League final so they're all fired up.

I think it's a final for Maxi and Bellers

Reina

Johnson Skrtel Agger Enrique

Henderson Spearing Gerrard Maxi

Bellamy Suarez

[dicko1969]

Will they play like Stoke though ???

[Nineteenx]

Originally Posted by dicko1969

Will they play like Stoke though ???

They'll hoof it to Drogba a lot, but as long as we have Skrtel and Agger together at the back I think it will prove a futile exercise, I don't think they'll play with 11 behind the ball though, it's important we score first as the ymight try that if they get ahead.

[dicko1969]

Will Grogba fall over like a fairy?

[Nineteenx]

Originally Posted by dicko1969

Will Grogba fall over like a fairy?

Skrtel and Agger have both got better at anticipating such actions, also from games i have seen Dowd seems to have Drogba's antics figured out

[dicko1969]

Thought that barca, did well by keeping the ball in play, when Bamba fell over yet again.

Fuck Drogba and his cheating. The Elephants would be embarrassed!

[Nineteenx]

Originally Posted by dicko1969

Thought that barca, did well by keeping the ball in play, when Bamba fell over yet again.

Fuck Drogba and his cheating. The Elephants would be embarrassed!

Oh and I'd tell all my players NOT to put the ball out or stop playing whenever that clown starts rolling around AND not to go over to him either, just ignore him, when players leave these players rolling around in their own embarrassment and the referee is happily playing on, there's always one muppet player who goes over and trys to appear to be "doing the right thing" then the ref sees this and often then stops the game, FUCK HIM and FUCK all the others like him, play on, keep playing our game and give the divers no attention.

[justme]

Thats the only problem i hope the ref dont fall for the drogba falls in the final..
A fair refereing preformance thats all anyone wants..

[Nineteenx]

It's important that as well as dealing with Drogba we keep tabs on Ramirez as they look to find him for the counter quite often and he's a quick powerful mother fucker, so we don't want to let him get it down and get turned, nudge him off it, lean on him so he has to turn back towards his own goal, step up (when possible) if he's running off Drogba looking for the flick on, and Mata who likes to try and sneak around the back

[Nineteenx]

Also I don't want to see all this fucking falling over at Wembley, we've been there twice, we should know what the pitch is like and what the appropriate footwear is