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Chelsea General Chat & Starting XI Thread

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Likely playing squad - Wiki page

Keepers
P Cech
H Hilario
M Schwarzer

Full Backs
C Azpilicueta
R Bertrand
A Cole
C Cuevas
B Ivanovic

Centre Backs
N Ake
G Cahill
T Kalas
D Luiz
J Terry

Midfielders
K De Bruyne
M Essien
E Hazard
T Hazard
F Lampard
J Mata
J McEachran
J Mikel
V Moses
Oscar
Ramires
A Schurrle
M van Ginkel

Strikers
D Ba
R Lukaku
L Piazon
F Torres

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Re: Chelsea 2013/14 General Chat & Starting XI Thread

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Do you think Azpilicueta will be first choice RB under Jose, or is he more likely to prefer Ivanovic?

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pokergod wrote:Do you think Azpilicueta will be first choice RB under Jose, or is he more likely to prefer Ivanovic?
With Wallace, who'd be #3 RB, going out on loan chances are that they'll share the slot during the season, much depends on who JM sees as the CB pairing and also whether he considers Luiz as being dependable enough to play CB without wandering off up field frequently and leaving the defence exposed. Wouldn't surprise me to see both start games with Azpilicueta subbed for a CB and Ivanovic switching from CB to RB.

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cech
cesar/ivan luiz terry/cahill cole
lamps/luiz/mikel/essien/ramires (for 2 slots)
mata oscar/schurrle/KDB hazard
lukaku/torres/ba



Bolded should get a majority of the games

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Surely JT is going to feature every week under Jose?

At times last season Ivanovic & Luiz/Cahill looked very shaky in defence.

I can see Terry and Luiz being first choice with Ivanovic at rb.

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I really hope so ... :grin:

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theclash wrote:Surely JT is going to feature every week under Jose?

At times last season Ivanovic & Luiz/Cahill looked very shaky in defence.

I can see Terry and Luiz being first choice with Ivanovic at rb.
Even if JM is a Terry fan, his legs arent up to regular football, i think Luiz and Ivanovic will play most games but accross two positions each. So when Terry starts Ivan at RB or Luiz at CM, remember Cahill is in the mix too.

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What's people's thoughts on frank lampard? I've seen a few predicted teams around the forum, suggesting that he's not going to be first choice on the teamsheet.

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sjh_bcfc wrote:What's people's thoughts on frank lampard? I've seen a few predicted teams around the forum, suggesting that he's not going to be first choice on the teamsheet.
JM already said he will be played less than last year

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Barcelona put in an offer for Luiz! Bet that's just to annoy Jose.

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Torres, Mata and Soldado NOT in the Spanish team for the Equador game...

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Mata is a nice curve-ball for those planning to omit him initially specifically because of the journey from Quito. :wink:

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Mata may still be injured though - it seems likely that he wouldn't play in both games at any rate. Hazard seems a lot safer.

I can definitely see Azpilicueta playing more games at rightback than Ivanovic, but I suspect they'll share a few games.

I don't think Cole or Terry will be able to play every week (the former has a worsening knee(?) problem).

van Ginkel might be interesting... Depends how much Mourinho rates Mikel I think, and I am hoping he agrees with all the fans who think he's crap. I'd expect him to play most of the games that Lampard doesn't, so he could easily be playing 65%. Not much use for fantasy football yet though, unless Lampard re-injures himself at Scotland on Weds.

I'm also hoping Lukaku plays 65%+ games too, but that's probably too few for fantasy football too.

Mata/Cech/Luiz are the only players I'd expect to play 90%+ of games, and even Luiz depends on Mourinho sometimes playing him in midfield. Hazard/Cole/Azpilicueta/Ivanovic maybe 80% of games.

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Can you see Cahill playing a few games? I was going to have him in from the start..

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Kevin De Bruyne will feature a lot for Chelsea this season. Look on any Chelsea forum and he's predicted to start against Hull this weekend and tipped to shine this season. He's only £3.1m but will be rotated quite a bit with them having lots of midfielders.

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Most games it's a case of longer term thinking who's going to play most games, but with the DGW1 a few games (Metro, FPL, Sky-captains armband maybe others) it's important to try and guess who's starting both games.

Who do we think is nailed on to start both, anybody else 80%+ to start both. Is Mourinho likely to keep the majority of the starting line-up from Sunday to Wednesday?

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Looking at the Roma game mata wasnt even on the bench can we safely assume he wont be in the squad vs Hull ? Luiz started so safe bet he will be in the starting 11 come Saturday ?

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Midlander wrote:Kevin De Bruyne will feature a lot for Chelsea this season. Look on any Chelsea forum and he's predicted to start against Hull this weekend and tipped to shine this season. He's only £3.1m but will be rotated quite a bit with them having lots of midfielders.
I think he's going to get plenty game time. Subject to more arrivals it's likely to be 3 from Oscar, KDB, Mata, & Hazard virtually every week. That's working on the presumption that Frank, Ramirez, Shurle, MVG are generally vying for the holding 2.

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CptPugwash wrote:
Midlander wrote:Kevin De Bruyne will feature a lot for Chelsea this season. Look on any Chelsea forum and he's predicted to start against Hull this weekend and tipped to shine this season. He's only £3.1m but will be rotated quite a bit with them having lots of midfielders.
I think he's going to get plenty game time. Subject to more arrivals it's likely to be 3 from Oscar, KDB, Mata, & Hazard virtually every week. That's working on the presumption that Frank, Ramirez, Shurle, MVG are generally vying for the holding 2.
Schurrle is a left winger who can play either side. I doubt he'll be holding?

I'm thinking they line up like this:

...................Cech
Ivanovic...Luiz....Terry.....Cole (Azpil & Cahill getting gametime too)
.......Ramires.....Van Ginkel..... (Lampard (Even Essien?) coming in for some Gametime)
Oscar........Hazard...........Mata (Schurrle for Oscar, either RW or pushing Mata to the middle)
................Torres................... (Ba/Lukaku if not going well)

I still see KDB (& Moses) as more bit part players.

Be interesting to hear what some Chelsea fans think... :wink:

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De Bruyne will feature a lot this season. I think he'll start against Hull.

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does anyone know anything about mata he was going to feature heavily in my sun dt's but if hes not even in the squad match day 1 hes likely only to be bench or worse week 2 which means there zero point having him until tw2 in the sun i been on the chelsea fans forums by the way they are shite not a lot on there in useful info from what i can see

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There's threads on the Chelsea forums predicting the lineup for Hull. Mata is only on the bench at best in everyone's teams. He's had a knock so he's very doubtful, but I think he'll be on the bench. He'll start next wednesday against us (Villa).

The general consensus for their first 11 this season seems to be:

Cech
Ivanovic Luiz Terry Cole
Ramires van Ginkel
Oscar/De Bruyne Mata Hazard
Torres/Lukaku

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Midlander wrote:The general consensus for their first 11 this season seems to be:

Cech
Ivanovic Luiz Terry Cole
Ramires van Ginkel
Oscar/De Bruyne Mata Hazard
Torres/Lukaku
Interesting, especially after Mourinho's comments and tendency to play inverted wingers, I'd have expected Mata to start pretty much all the games on the right tbh, with something like this being what I personally suspect (plenty of rotation in some positions tbh):

Cech
Azpil/Ivan, Luiz, Terry/Cahill, Cole
Lampard/Ramires, Essien/Van Ginkel
Mata, Hazard, Oscar/DeBruyne/Moses/Schurrle
Lukaku/Torres

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Juan Mata has played down fears over his Chelsea future, blaming his slow start to the new season on a niggling thigh injury.

http://metro.co.uk/2013/09/09/juan-mata ... k-3955270/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;?

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Torres only banned for Norwich

Chelsea striker Fernando Torres will not face retrospective action

The FA will take no action against Chelsea’s Fernando Torres in relation to an incident involving Tottenham Hotspur's Jan Vertonghen which occurred in the 50th minute of their match on Saturday 28 September 2013.

One of the match officials saw the coming together of the two players, albeit not in its entirety.

Read more at http://www.thefa.com/News/governance/20 ... TkBMr5e.99" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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An older article, and not really relevant to Chelsea (except that it references Mourihno), but a "feel-good" story worth sharing...

One man's journey from Los Angeles to Real Madrid good-luck charm

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Anyone know if Hazard will play or be rested tonight?

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chesea line up?

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What does everyone think the line up will be?
I think

Coutois

Azpilicueta
Cahill
Terry
Ivanovic

Matic
Fabregas

Hazard
Oscar
Willian

Costa

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Plenty of links, hints etc here

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http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... ch-preview" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bit of a preview :)

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