Newcastle V Chelsea

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Chelsea are not the team Alan Pardew would have wanted the weekend after losing at Sunderland. With Newcastle having won only one league game at home this season, and Chelsea on a hot streak, this promises to be a tough afternoon for Pardew's talented but inconsistent team. It hardly helps the Geordie cause that injuries dictate Fabricio Coloccini and Steven Taylor, Newcastle's best central-defensive pair, are unavailable to try to halt the Fernando Torres renaissance. Louise Taylor

Kick-off today 12.45pm

Venue St James' Park

Last season Newcastle 3 Chelsea 2

Live BT Sport 1

Referee L Mason

This season G6, Y23, R1, 4.2 cards per game

Odds H 5-1 A 8-13 D 31-10


*Courtesy of http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/01/newcastle-chelsea-squad-sheets-premier-league

GavRedKing

I reckon 3-1 Chelsea.

Im not sure will Luiz or Cahill start though and its touch and go between Mata, Schurrle or Willian to play alongside Oscar and Hazard.

mike65

1 T. Krul
26 M. Debuchy
13 M. Yanga-Mbiwa
6 M. Williamson
3 D. Santon
4 Y. Cabaye
24 C. Tioté
7 M. Sissoko
23 Shola Ameobi
14 L. Rémy
11 Y. Gouffran


1 P. Čech
3 A. Cole
26 J. Terry
2 B. Ivanović
4 David Luiz
8 F. Lampard
7 Ramires
17 E. Hazard
11 Oscar
9 Fernando Torres
10 Mata

GavRedKing

Chelsea bemch : schwarzer, azp, cahill, mikel, willian, schurrle, eto'o

Panthro

Mata starts, deserved.

prettyboy81

Be amazed if NUFC get anything out of this game.

Johner

Liking that front 4, Newcastle's centre half pairing look very dodgy.

GavRedKing

prettyboy81 wrote: »

Be amazed if NUFC get anything out of this game.

Our record up north is very sketchy so I wouldnt write it off just yet....

GavRedKing

No kind of rhythm in the game at the moment.

GavRedKing

Twice hit the bar, ffs.

GavRedKing

Good by Torres

GavRedKing

Newcastle sitting in making things difficult, can they keep it up all day though?

Moneymaker

Could end up being a rout the way this is going.

homer simpson

Jose's loyalty to Lampard needs to take a back seat me thinks. He is very much a passenger in almost every game this season thus far, today so far has been poor his passing and set piece taking just isn't what it used to be anymore.

Panthro

Torres is a man reborn under Jose.

M5

Setting up to defend win you can't defend for sh1t is setting up to fail.

Players unable to control the ball or pass it 3 yards.

Matter of time and how many

GavRedKing

homer simpson wrote: »

Jose's loyalty to Lampard needs to take a back seat me thinks. He is very much a passenger in almost every game this season thus far, today so far has been poor his passing and set piece taking just isn't what it used to be anymore.

Yup he just played a sh*te a ball there when we were nearly in.

Panthro

celery...CELERY!..

GavRedKing

M5 wrote: »

Setting up to defend win you can't defend for sh1t is setting up to fail.

Players unable to control the ball or pass it 3 yards.

Matter of time and how many

We havent being threatening yet apart from the corner, if it goes to HT at 0-0 Newcastle will be the happier anyway.

homer simpson

GavRedKing wrote: »

Yup he just played a sh*te a ball there when we were nearly in.

1 decent pass so far this game <<<< he has been terrible of late and doesn't deserve a starting place.

GavRedKing

homer simpson wrote: »

1 decent pass so far this game <<<< he has been terrible of late and doesn't deserve a starting place.

I'd agree with ya, only other option is Mikel or Luiz really.

M5

GavRedKing wrote: »

We havent being threatening yet apart from the corner, if it goes to HT at 0-0 Newcastle will be the happier anyway.

Nufc have been utterly garbage all year. If ye don't create anything we will gift ye a goal. Pass percentage and failure to clear a stats must be horrible...

Panthro

Would love to see Luiz Ramires in there.

GavRedKing

f**k sake Hazard

GavRedKing

M5 wrote: »

Nufc have been utterly garbage all year. If ye don't create anything we will gift ye a goal. Pass percentage and failure to clear a stats must be horrible...

Ye managed to get a 0-0 with City up to the 90mins didnt ye?

Panthro

Are there 4 Terrys in defense?!
He's everywhere!

GavRedKing

Everything is just to slow from us, no urgency.

GavRedKing

Lampard....... :rolleyes:

Passenger again so far.

M5

GavRedKing wrote: »

Ye managed to get a 0-0 with City up to the 90mins didnt ye?

Was city reserves for a start. The game before was against a team who have won 3 games this year. 2 against us.

No confidence whatsoever in the team. Pretty much every player has been under performing for months now.

Williamson starting is equivalent to starting 1 down.

3rd worst defense in the league last year is the third worst this year so far. Funny that

GavRedKing

Good from torres

GavRedKing

M5 wrote: »

Was city reserves for a start. The game before was against a team who have won 3 games this year. 2 against us.

No confidence whatsoever in the team. Pretty much every player has been under performing for months now.

Williamson starting is equivalent to starting 1 down.

3rd worst defense in the league last year is the third worst this year so far. Funny that

Yeve done alright so far anyway.

GavRedKing

Jaysus.....

M5

Jasis awful marking for the corner. Great through ball by the Chelsea player to.start the counter. About the only way we can create is a deflected pass

GavRedKing

This is reminding me of the everton game TBH.

M5

Ridiculous pointless challenge

hots

Not able to watch this, it's making for miserable enough reading anyway...

GavRedKing

Thta is very very soft

GavRedKing

Sh*te half, 0-0 is pretty fair at this stage.

Panthro

Hazard needs to stop going down so bloody easily.

Seannew1

M5 wrote: »

Was city reserves for a start. The game before was against a team who have won 3 games this year. 2 against us.

No confidence whatsoever in the team. Pretty much every player has been under performing for months now.

Williamson starting is equivalent to starting 1 down.

3rd worst defense in the league last year is the third worst this year so far. Funny that

In fairness to Tiote,he's been very good again today. I was the lad's harshest critic over the last year but he's really starting to rediscover that form again.

M5

Looked like an inevitability up to the 30th min. Nufc much improved since. Just need to survive the Pardew ht team talk now!

Paully D

Poor stuff so far. Chelsea with all the ball but not up to much in the final third. Newcastle defending well.

Looks like it may take a set piece to win this one, but it's a game that title challengers really need to take three points from.

If Chelsea score one Newcastle should fold like a deck of cards but while it's 0-0 they could easily pop up with one.

Andersonisgod

I do just wonder about the Ramires/Lampard midfield duo in a tight game like this. Very congested, Newcastle not pressing the two centre backs but once it goes into midfield they are challenging the first touch and the question is if Lampard and Ramires have the ability to resist that challenge and if their teammates trust them enough to play it to feet even if they are under pressure because right now the best out ball looks like being through David Luiz.

Maybe just lacking a bit of pace in forward areas at the moment too, wouldn't be overly surprised to see Schurrle or Willian fairly early in the second half.

mike65

Paully D wrote: »

If Chelsea score one Newcastle should fold like a deck of cards but while it's 0-0 they could easily pop up with one.

Deckchair! It's a deckchair!

JPA

I thought Ginola would have been sacked.

super_furry

Dreadful first half of football. Newcastle have no intention of attacking and the team Mourinho has out there and the way he has them lined up doesn't look like they have enough to break them down. If Chelsea make positive changes at the break, they can run away with this.

GavRedKing

super_furry wrote: »

Dreadful first half of football. Newcastle have no intention of attacking and the team Mourinho has out there and the way he has them lined up doesn't look like they have enough to break them down. If Chelsea make positive changes at the break, they can run away with this.

Whip Lamps bring on Cahill, Luiz into CM.

GavRedKing

Also Oscar and Mata have to get into more

Francie Barrett

Jose will grind this out - he always does.

Paully D

mike65 wrote: »

Deckchair! It's a deckchair!

Cheers :pac: I'm extremely hungover and this game is doing nothing to aid my recovery.

GavRedKing

Old Torres is back :pac: