Chelsea FC versus Manchester United Champions League Quarter Final 1st Leg Wed 19.45

shadowcomplex

MANCHESTER UNITED


VERSUS



CHELSEA FC

The wait is almost over Manchester United and Chelsea go head to head this wednesday in the first leg of the champions league quarter final at 19.45 at stamford bridge in what will be a Titantic tusscle between these two power houses.

Predicted Line ups

Manchester united:

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VDS

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Fabio

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Rio

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Vidic

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Evra

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scholes

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carrick

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Rooney

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valencia

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nani

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hernandez

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Chelsea:

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cech

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bosingwa

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terry----ivanovic

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cole
ramires

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lampard---essien

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malouda

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anelka

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drogba

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Prediction:1-1

Essien

I'd fancy us to just about do it over the 2 games.

It's gonna be epic one way or the other. I'll say 1-1 at Stamford Bridge and 2-2 at OT.

shadowcomplex

Essien wrote: »

I'd fancy us to just about do it over the 2 games.

It's gonna be epic one way or the other. I'll say 1-1 at Stamford Bridge and 2-2 at OT.

if its 1-1 at stamford bridge chelsea will be going out

Essien

shadowcomplex wrote: »

if its 1-1 at stamford bridge chelsea will be going out

Not if it's 2-2 at Old Trafford though.

See what I did there.

Lukker-

3-1 to Chelsea overall.

Johner

shadowcomplex wrote: »

if its 1-1 at stamford bridge chelsea will be going out

We have a very good record at Old Trafford so I wouldn't say that, realistically though we do need to be taking a lead to Old Trafford, hopefully with no away goal conceeded. :pac:

Le King

Predicting two draws here.

Team for SB:

VDS
Fabio Smalling Vidic Evra
Valencia Scholes Carrick Park
Rooney
Hernandez

eZe^

shadowcomplex wrote: »

Titantic tusscle

Cantona's Collars

Le King wrote: »

Predicting two draws here.

Team for SB:

VDS
Fabio Smalling Vidic Evra
Valencia Scholes Carrick Park
Rooney
Hernandez

Park instead of Nani??? Can't see Nani not starting,Fergie only gave him 3 minutes against West Ham so he'll be fresh.
It's gona be a tough game seeing as Stoke all but ended Chelsea's league chances so they'll be pushing hard for the CL.
Fergie has started the mind games already,claiming Chelsea have had all the luck against Utd.

Anyhow I predict a 1-1 at Stamford Bridge and United to got through after a 2-1 win at OT.

JerryHandbag

2-1 Chelsea at the Bridge, 2-1 Utd at OT. After that extra time and god only knows what

shadowcomplex

JerryHandbag wrote: »

2-1 Chelsea at the Bridge, 2-1 Utd at OT. After that extra time and god only knows what

Hopefully This

Le King

zerks wrote: »

Park instead of Nani??? Can't see Nani not starting,Fergie only gave him 3 minutes against West Ham so he'll be fresh.
It's gona be a tough game seeing as Stoke all but ended Chelsea's league chances so they'll be pushing hard for the CL.
Fergie has started the mind games already,claiming Chelsea have had all the luck against Utd.

Anyhow I predict a 1-1 at Stamford Bridge and United to got through after a 2-1 win at OT.

Fergie likes to play Park in big games like this to keep things tights on the left. Don't be surprised.

Peyton Manning

I'd expect something like...

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VDS

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-Fabio----Smalling----Vidic

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Evra

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Scholes---Carrick

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Valencia

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Park

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Nani

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Rooney

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Pauleta

I fancy Chelsea for this as long as they keep Torres on the bench

shadowcomplex

I can nearly see Berbatov playing in this, he turned the game when he came on yesterday

shadowcomplex

I think we should go with

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vds

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fabio-vidic-smalling-evra
valencia-scholes-carrick-park-

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berbatov-rooney--

When scholes tires put park in the centre beside carrick and bring on giggs or nani

KaiserGunner

I think Chelsea will win the overall tie by two goals. 3-1 to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and 1-1 at old trafford.

mike65

Two draws, extra time and a red card, peno missed/saved, shoot-out with 3-2 result for Utd.

ShamoBuc

I think Chelsea will win 3-1 at SB and United 1-0 at OT.
Really looking forwad to this. I hope Chelsea really go all out in the first leg and I think that's the only attitude for them to have. Utd will concede goals, how many I think will be down to how happy Chelsea will be to be 1 or 2 up. If they go for it they could get 3 I think. Torres will get off the mark in Europe iver the 2 legs - it is kinda set up for him.
Either way I see Chelsea going through over the 2 legs.

curry-muff

Anyone else good with banning the use of the Terry crying pic in this thread? Im a United fan and even Im sick of it.

SlickRic

Rooney is the key IMO.

he's getting his finger out at just the right point in the season. if he continues to do it, he'll be hard to stop.

having said that, my money's on Chelsea overall. just.

flahavaj

Certain defeat for United. No question in my mind.:)

I'd go for goals at Stamford Bridge myself, f*cking take the shackles off, have a right go at them. In particular have Nani run constantly at Boswinga who I think is a bit of a weak link. Away goals will decide this, theres no reason why United couldn't go back to OT with a couple in the bag.

Paully D

1-0 Chelsea and 0-0 in the 2nd leg.

Essien

flahavaj wrote: »

Certain defeat for United. No question in my mind.:)

I'd say its about time you got one right tbh

LuckyGent88

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VDS

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Fabio-Vidic-Smalling-Evra
Valencia-Scholes-Carrick-Park

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Rooney

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Chicharito

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Think Rooney is much better when he is running at goal, not with his back to goal and seems to have a good reletationship with Chicha.
Bring Nani on for Park when he starts to tire and the game opens up.

Think United's biggest problem will be defending set pieces against Chelsea whi are very powerfull in the air.

1-1 at Stamford Bridge and 2-1 to United at Old Trafford HOPEFULLY ANYWAY

superfrank

Our biggest Problem is mis firing strikers.Hopefully Malouda stays on the bench!!! Hoping Ramires will cause problems & help Bozzy handle Nani!

jaykay74

The loss of Luiz and Atkinson will be hard to overcome for Chelsea

1-1 1st leg. United to win 2-0 at OT.

superfrank

jaykay74 wrote: »

The loss of Luiz and Atkinson will be hard to overcome for Chelsea

1-1 1st leg. United to win 2-0 at OT.

As long as Mark Clatternburgs/Howard Webbs european cousin isn't the Ref..We should manage it!!

shadowcomplex

curry-muff wrote: »

Anyone else good with banning the use of the Terry crying pic in this thread? Im a United fan and even Im sick of it.

sick enough to make you cry?

Soby

Think our main plus is our midfield.Lamps,Essien and Ramires should dominate it for the entire game.

Essien

jaykay74 wrote: »

The loss of Luiz and Atkinson will be hard to overcome for Chelsea

We'll be fine, I heard Webb is doubtful for United too :pac:

Wilson91

Soby wrote: »

Think our main plus is our midfield.Lamps,Essien and Ramires should dominate it for the entire game.

Sadly I can see this happening... We'd need to spread play out to the wings and use Nani / Valencia as much as possible. Midfield just isn't going to cut it against Lampard and Essien. Hopefully Scholes plays out of his skin just one last time

MUSEIST

I cant make my mind up on this one, its 50/50. The thing is that both sides are well capable of going to the others patch and winning. Actually I can see it going to penalties, cringe:mad:

Kylo Ren

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VDS

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Fabio

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Smalling

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Vidic----Evra

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Carrick

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Scholes

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---Valencia

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Park

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Nani---

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Rooney

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Or swap Rooney with Park and have Chich go up front

Nailz

Keno 92 wrote: »

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VDS

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Fabio

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Smalling

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Vidic----Evra

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Carrick

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Scholes

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Park

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Nani---

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Rooney

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Or swap Rooney with Park and have Chich go up front

After Berbatov's performance when he came on yesterday he should definitely start; then have Hernandez come on if necessary. I can see a scored draw in this half of the tie — that's only my prediction — but overall it's really hard to figure who will go through, United and Chelsea are both more than able to beat each other.

But this is a two leg European Cup tie, not a Premier League game, I don't know why, but I reckon this makes a massive difference..... In United's favour, just a feeling.

Turtyturd

Chelsea to go through fairly comfortably...The game a few weeks ago was pretty much dominated by Chelsea no matter how many dodgy ref claims were thrown about. United don't have the midfield to compete with Chelsea. Don't think Hernandez is cut out for this kind of game and Berbatov should get the nod ahead of him.

Hopefully Torres will get off the mark too.

Panthro

Wonder what duo Carlo will put up front.
Another goal by the Drogba at the weekend must surely have him penciled in for a start. Don't think theres any point in playing him with Torres though (famous last words!) hes not too fond of passing the ball in the Spaniard's direction too often.
Hopefully go with Anelka and Torres, the last half hour, bring on the Drog and let him do the bullying of the United CB's.
Wonder will Yossi come off the bench...

RandolphEsq

Hopefully Torres starts for Chelsea. United midfield needs Nani and Valencia to start on the wings.

Sgt Pepper 64

Turtyturd wrote: »

Chelsea to go through fairly comfortably...The game a few weeks ago was pretty much dominated by Chelsea no matter how many dodgy ref claims were thrown about. United don't have the midfield to compete with Chelsea. Don't think Hernandez is cut out for this kind of game and Berbatov should get the nod ahead of him.

Hopefully Torres will get off the mark too.

yet we couldnt beat Stoke with our strongest team and got outplayed!
Cech was our best player, says a lot really!

The curse of the Manager and Player of the month award strikes again!

shadowcomplex

Turtyturd wrote: »

Chelsea to go through fairly comfortably...The game a few weeks ago was pretty much dominated by Chelsea no matter how many dodgy ref claims were thrown about. United don't have the midfield to compete with Chelsea. Don't think Hernandez is cut out for this kind of game and Berbatov should get the nod ahead of him.

Hopefully Torres will get off the mark too.

****e talk, united dominated the first half

Gonzovision

Cech
Bosingwa
Ivanovic
Terry
Cole
Ramires
Essien
Lamaprd
Malouda
Drogba
Anelka

Change Malouda for Zhirkov and I'd be happy enough.

Panthro

gonzovision wrote: »

Cech
Bosingwa
Ivanovic
Terry
Cole
Ramires
Essien
Lamaprd
Malouda
Drogba
Anelka

Change Malouda for Zhirkov and I'd be happy enough.

its that the team confirmed for the game?

Gonzovision

papagormo wrote: »

its that the team confirmed for the game?

No, just my opinion

GavRedKing

Im confident Chelsea will go through.

I think 2-1 at SB and 1-1 at OT.

Jax Teller

I think Nani will definitely start , might rest Valencia for this one as he's played a good lot lately after coming back from injury.

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keysersoze_88 wrote: »

I think Nani will definitely start , might rest Valencia for this one as he's played a good lot lately after coming back from injury.

I think it might be Giggs and Nani on the wings with possibly Park through the middle behind Rooney. Chico and Valencia as impact subs or bring on Berba if we have a lead.

v3ttel

Looks like Fletch is definitely out. Wouldn't be overly shocked to see both Raf & Rio starting.

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VDS
Raf-Smalling-Vidic-Evra
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Park

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Valencia

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Nani

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Rooney

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double GG

I wonder will these fans be at Stamford Bridge tomorrow night?

GavRedKing

Of course they will. They're Chelsea fans, why would they not be at Stamford Bridge?

Panthro

double GG wrote: »

I wonder will these fans be at Stamford Bridge tomorrow night?

Possibly, except given that Torres is now a Blue, I'm guessing that they will be aiming the big bad "F" word to that Rooney chap for the shíts n giggles 'n all.

partyndbs

gonna be a **** match but unmissable