Schalke vs Chelsea 7:45pm SS2

GavRedKing

Big game tonight in the Veltins Arena over in Gelsenkirchen.

A win for Schalke and its 9pts from 9, Chelsea will be hoping for all 3 points but will have one eye on the Steaua v Basle game as a Basle victory and Chelsea dropping points will see Basle leap frog in to 2nd.

Schalke are missing Marco Hoger, Jefferson Farfan, Jermaine Jones, Sead Kolasinac, Kyriakos Papadopoulos and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar.

Chelsea have travelled without Ashley Cole and Marco Van Ginkel is out for the foreseeable future, Schurrle and Torres are both fit with the latter playing a aprt in the Cardiff victory on Saturday.

Going for a 2-0 Chelsea win team to line out as

Cech
Ivanovic Luiz Jt Bertrand
Lamps Ramires
Hazard Oscar Schurrle
Torres

Soby

Hoping Schurrle carries over his international form .

GavRedKing

Soby wrote: »

Hoping Schurrle carries over his international form .

+1.

He needs to add goals to his Chelsea career, every other part of his game is good thus far.

ShoulderChip

GavRedKing wrote: »

+1.

He needs to add goals to his Chelsea career, every other part of his game is good thus far.

He will enjoy the chance to do it against his fellow countrymen too.
Can't wait for the game tonight, pity it clashes with Dortmund V Arsenal though.

Crann na Beatha

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chelseaaremagic

drei nul bitte

GavRedKing

Ya there's a few good games tonight, Real v Juventus is another.

GavRedKing

Team is :

Cech; Ivanovic, Cahill, JT (c), Azpilicueta; Ramires, Lampard; Schurrle, Oscar, Hazard; Torres

GavRedKing

Bertie, Luiz, Willian, Eto'o and Mata drop out for Cahill, Azp, Oscar, Schurrle and Torres.

GavRedKing

Bench :

Schwarzer, David Luiz, Bertrand, Mikel, Willian, Mata, Eto'o.

GavRedKing

De Bruyne cant buy a game at this rate.

GavRedKing

Scahlke team is :

Hildebrand, Uchida, Höwedes, Matip, Aogo, Neustädter, Jones, Clemens, Meyer, Draxler, Boateng

Bench :

Fährmann, Hoogland, Felipe Santana, Kolasinac, Goretzka, Fuchs, Szalai

RichT

Anyone remember what happened last time we played in Germany.......?

Memory seems a bit blurry, although I do seem to remember waking up with the mother of all overhangs the next morning.

Johner

Hoping we nick it, will be a tough game though!

GavRedKing

Johner wrote: »

Hoping we nick it, will be a tough game though!

Theyre missing a few so that's helped our cause no end, we've managed to make 5 changes though and our team looks even stronger then the one that started at the weekend.

racso1975

Thank god thought this thread was gonna be gav posing all night by himself:D

RichT

No recognized striker starting for Schalke :eek:

RichT

racso1975 wrote: »

Thank god thought this thread was gonna be gav posing all night by himself:D

He might put his delete posts super hero cape on yet......

GavRedKing

racso1975 wrote: »

Thank god thought this thread was gonna be gav posing all night by himself:D

You've seen some of the Chelsea match threads so ya?

Gives me somewhere to vent also :pac:

GavRedKing

Stat on Sky, Jose has lost his last 6 games in Germany :eek:

weiland79

Anyone else just getting a blank screen on Sky sports 2 and 3?

getuponthis

Yeah blank screen for me too on sky sports 2 and 3!

GavRedKing

Yup, Ive gone to the laptop.

Big night for Azpilicueta to impress.

GavRedKing

Good start

weiland79

its working on tv now

GavRedKing

Get in Nando

Johner

Nandoooooo

weiland79

Cracking start

GavRedKing

Hes missed those before so a good start, keep on the pressure now lads

smuckers

That was a real poachers goal

Johner

GavRedKing wrote: »

Hes missed those before so a good start, keep on the pressure now lads

If that was a few seasons ago he somehow would have found row Z with that header. :pac:

Crann na Beatha

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GavRedKing

Johner wrote: »

If that was a few seasons ago he somehow would have found row Z with that header. :pac:

Given his recent outtings after scoring hes going either A) get sent off or get injured :pac:

GavRedKing

Lamps with a chance there, G.K. got lucky

GavRedKing

Hazard makes difficult turns and movement look very easy, such an elegant player.

smallerthanyou

Balls, missed the goal cos Sky Sports down so I went out of the living room for a minute.

First Champs League game for me in ages as missed the first two while on holiday. Been too long!

weiland79

We still don't look too convincing at the back

Edit That god for Cech

GavRedKing

Even though he was offside that was a good save.

smallerthanyou

Torres 100th start for Chelsea.

Saw the replay for goal. Nice.

GavRedKing

At the moment we're top on goal difference.

GavRedKing

That was some brilliant 1 touch play

GavRedKing

Hilderbrand hasnt looked to solid so far with his kicking.

GavRedKing

Schalke FB's are a danger, Schurrle and Hazard have to up there work rate and help out.

Johner

Lovely stuff by Hazard. Unlucky.

GavRedKing

Just about hung on, christ.

GavRedKing

Half time cant come quick enough for us.

smallerthanyou

GavRedKing wrote: »

Half time cant come quick enough for us.

Be good to get in ahead alright. Need it to break the momentum building for Schalke.

Johner

Schalke really stepped it up in the last 10 minutes, we looked comfortable until then.

GavRedKing

Fortunate to go in 1-0 up Torres has been a statue since his goal and his build up play has been poor, no support for him either.

GavRedKing

Very unlucky nando

Duck Soup

Ooooh Fernando....