Chelsea v. Aston Villa 20:00

DazMarz

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Chelsea team:

Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Cole, Ramires, Lampard, Oscar, Mata, Hazard, Ba.

Subs: Schwarzer, Mikel, Schurrle, De Bruyne, Van Ginkel, Lukaku, Azpilicueta


Aston Villa team:

Guzan, Lowton, Vlaar, Clark, Luna, El Ahmadi, Westwood, Delph, Weimann, Benteke, Agbonlahor.

Subs: Steer, Bennett, Okore, Bacuna, Helenius, Sylla, Tonev.


Both teams coming off the back of winning opening weekends, but Villa capturing a huge scalp at the start (and away from home) will mean they will have much less fear coming into this game than they probably should.

Chelsea showed how well they can inflict damage on teams in the first half of the game against Hull. But it was quite unnerving to see how quickly the foot was taken off the accelerator in the second half. You'll get away with that against Hull. Not against teams that are better and teams that have the likes of Benteke lurking around.

Last season, Chelsea inflicted a record-equalling 8-0 thrashing in the Bridge and then scraped past 1-2 in Villa Park towards the end of the season.

Villa will have their tails up and will not care who they are playing. Chelsea must not get complacent or they could suffer the same fate as Arsenal.

I reckon this will finish 3-1 to Chelsea (Hazard, Mata, Lamps; Benteke for the visitors).

Frankie Lee

19:45 is the start time.

jimbling

Eh, is this not on TV?? Can't find it anywhere.....

homer simpson

Nope not on telly unfortunately.

Paully D

The fourth day of competitive football in a row. It's great to have it back

MagicMarker

An extra 16 quid for more sports channels and still miss out on games. FFS.

Johner

8-0 again.:pac:

Bounty Hunter

As pointed out in the Villa thread it's on an American channel and thus will be online

Hank Scorpio

Torres injured?

Rayne Wooney

I wouldn't be surprised if Mourinho went with Lukaku against United, great squad depth at Chelsea

Duck Soup

Terry and Cahill the CB pairing? Hardly a combination to deal with the speed of the opposition attack.

RasTa

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

I wouldn't be surprised if Mourinho went with Lukaku against United, great squad depth at Chelsea

He has made 2 changes?

Duck Soup

And what does Lukaku have to do to get a start?

max life

Its on Canal+ Futbol

DazMarz

Had to get a stream of it online... and yes, 19:45 was the kickoff. Apologies. Game is 2 minutes old at the moment.

Terry and Cahill will want to be on their toes to deal with the speed of the Villa attack.

Rayne Wooney

RasTa wrote: »

He has made 2 changes?

I was talking in general they have good squad depth.

wonderboysam

balls

Johner

Yesssssssss

DazMarz

Hazard you beauty!!! Get in there!!!

Bounty Hunter

A jaysus was about to say hazard has me worried...

We came back from an early goal vs Arsenal but this will be tough

DazMarz

Actually an O.G. by Luna.

tigger123

Get in! Through ball was tasty to!!

kaimera

Chelsea look very comfortable on the ball.

Villa finding it tough to keep it/get the ball

Bounty Hunter

The important thing was the floodgates didn't open after the goal cos Chelsea were looking very dangerous. Travelling support finding their voices now just hope bent eke and co can give em something to cheer about.

Conceding again would be a nightmare tho as the team is set up to counter attack atm

Btw in ff does nobody get an assist for an OG thought hazard would have

DazMarz

Clark off injured. Okore on for Villa.

Good for Chelsea. An inexperienced new signing being brought on. Hopefully can capitalise now.

Bounty Hunter

Baker replaced by Clark vs Arsenal now Okore will get his competitive debut replacing Clark.

Is it just me or does anyone else think he looks like he should be asking "what you talking about willis?"

DazMarz

He is the spit of Gary Coleman, isn't he? :P

Kylo Ren

So boring.

kaimera

well well well

1-1

DazMarz

Motherfúcking fúck...

Professional Griefer

TEKKERS!!

Bounty Hunter

Benteke!!!

you beauty. Premierleague top scorer this season

wonderboysam

boooooooooom baby!

Darkglasses

Benteke livens things up a bit :O

Paully D

Who else?

Bounty Hunter

Keno 92 wrote: »

So boring.

now thats what I call timing :pac:

JPA

We really do have a superstar.

astonaidan

BENTEKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DazMarz

Shíte defending. Complacent, sat back, did nothing. Great goal from Benteke. Chelsea's defenders need to ask serious questions of themselves now. The first decent chance Villa have had, and they breach the defence. Terrible from Chelsea's players. Hopefully Mourinho eats the fukken heads off the lot of them.

Patser

TEKKERS!!!!!!

Listening on a dodgy radio, someone describe tge goal please.

Lord TSC

So calm. God love him. That's a 15/4 bet in. Have him at 25/1 to score 2 or more as well.

Podge2k7

Great finish!

Duck Soup

The half-time talk should be lively.

Bounty Hunter

Patser wrote: »

TEKKERS!!!!!!

Listening on a dodgy radio, someone describe tge goal please.

Benteke- ball- net- Beast!

will be a little more detailed if I see a replay

kevohmsford

Agbonlahor beat Ivanovic down the left and pulled the ball back for Benteke.

Nice finish in off Cech's right post.

JPA

Patser wrote: »

TEKKERS!!!!!!

Listening on a dodgy radio, someone describe tge goal please.

Talking of strikers, what a goal this is, from one of the best in the Premier League.

Aston Villa get their reward for their steady improvement as the half went on, as Gabriel Agbonlahor raids down the left leaving Branislav Ivanovic in his wake and pulls the ball back for Christian Benteke, who takes a touch before squeezing the the ball between Petr Cech and his right-hand post, the ball clipping the upright on its way in. John Terry will not enjoy watching the replay, because he left Benteke far too much room.


Really good goal, control and shot away fast and with decent power.

Patser

JPA that's cheating. Just read that off BBC live text. Looking for more emotional Villa tinted response.

Gabby supplying Benteke well so far, is Weimann off the pace again.

Duck Soup

Ba's been awful. Lukaku should have started and he should be on the pitch at the start of the second half.

Bounty Hunter

JPA wrote: »

Talking of strikers, what a goal this is, from one of the best in the Premier League.

Aston Villa get their reward for their steady improvement as the half went on, as Gabriel Agbonlahor raids down the left leaving Branislav Ivanovic in his wake and pulls the ball back for Christian Benteke, who takes a touch before squeezing the the ball between Petr Cech and his right-hand post, the ball clipping the upright on its way in. John Terry will not enjoy watching the replay, because he left Benteke far too much room.


Really good goal, control and shot away fast and with decent power.

what he said. Mourinho will tear them a new one at half time though so Villa will need to be focussed as they start the 2nd half and hopefully not have a repeat of the first few mins of the 1st

edit - ahh that was from BBC:

Gabby with a great turn and burst of pace takes it down the right and past Ivanovic befoe pulling it back into Benteke in the box. He is free but has Terry blocking most of the goal not far infront of him and coming towards him. He has enough time to take 1 touch then boom low and hard (musta been pretty fast too) hits the post and in.

karma_

Not impressed with Chelsea at all these last two games, I think they may be some what overrated this season as favourites.

Not an enjoyable game this at all, too scrappy.

Bounty Hunter

not long till the other big Belgian forward makes his appearance I would guess