Chelsea (1) v (2) PSG, UCL Round of 16, 2nd Leg

GavRedKing

3rd time in as many years we've met PSG, theyve gone through once and we've gone through once, time to complete the trilogy.

Chelsea have it all to do and Terry is 100% but Kenedy, Pedro and Costa should be back, Matic is also available after being suspended for the 1st leg but he'll more than likely be benched. We've kept 1 clean sheet at home under Guus and that was against Scunthorpe, PSG pose a tiny bit more of a threat IMO.

PSG have the upper hand after the 1st leg in Paris, they've got late fitness tests on Verratti and Matudia with the Italian pretty doubtful for the game, no problem, just swap him out for Pastore or more than likely Rabiot, Marquinhos could go CB and Luiz into CM too so theyre not short of options.

Teams likely to be

Courtois
Azp Ivan Cahill Rahman
Mikel Cesc
Willian Oscar Hazard
Costa

vs

Trapp
Marquinhos Luiz Silva Maxwell
Matudi Verratti Thiago
Di Maria Ibra Moura

I cant see Chelsea keeping a clean sheet tonight, we cant buy one at the moment so 1-1 on the night and lose on aggregate.

Chancer3001

Wouldn't be surprised to see mikel and matic both start

GavRedKing

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Wouldn't be surprised to see mikel and matic both start

Me neither but I would be annoyed. Its a bad state of affairs when Mikel is the nailed on starter of the two, shows how much Matic has regressed.

Canadel

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Wouldn't be surprised to see mikel and matic both start

Fabregas has to start. He was good in the away leg as well. Cesc craves these big nights where he can showcase his ability to the world.

ShoulderChip

Looking forward to this one

should be a nervy one, but Chelsea are well overdue some magic this season

Turtwig

Chelsea more than held their own against them in Paris. The potential loss of Veratti could be huge. Yeah they have quality to replace him but he's not really replaceable imo. Different team when he plays.

I think Chelsea can do it. Hate to say but if they had Cech I'd be more confident.

grumpymunster

I would be surprised if it is not that team indeed Gav, best we have at the minute I guess. Outside chance of Pedro instead of Oscar but I cant see Uncle Guus being that adventurous not to start at least we really cannot concede early.

GavRedKing

grumpymunster wrote: »

I would be surprised if it is not that team indeed Gav, best we have at the minute I guess. Outside chance of Pedro instead of Oscar but I cant see Uncle Guus being that adventurous not to start at least we really cannot concede early.

I cant remember where I said it but these kind of nights were made for Ramires.

He usually performed well in the big European nights and I'd be more confident if we had hi next to Mikel and Cesc slightly further forward.

It'll be interesting to see how PSG approach it, if they leave in 2 goals they'll still only need 1 goal so they shouldnt panic or be over awed by the occasion.

Panthro

PSG will capsize under the weight of the Bridge.
Hon the Blues!

GavRedKing

Pato offside winner, 91st min.

Harry Palmr

2-1 is the best I can see for Chelsea, aftr that though who knows?

hullaballoo

Harry Palmr wrote: »

2-1 is the best I can see for Chelsea, aftr that though who knows?

It's extra time and penos after that.

GavRedKing

Team to play PSG: Courtois; Azpilicueta, Cahill, Ivanovic (c), Kenedy; Mikel, Fabregas; Pedro, Willian, Hazard; Diego Costa

GavRedKing

Sbs : Begovic, Baba Rahman, Matic, Loftus-Cheek, Oscar, Traore, Remy

GavRedKing

Thats a very open team from us, Kenedy at LB is a huge risk, equally, Pedro on the right is a risk.

GavRedKing

PSG :
Trapp,
Marquinhos, Thiago Silva, David Luiz, Maxwell,
Thiago Motta, Rabiot, Matuidi,
Di Maria, Moura, Ibrahimovic.

Canadel

Interested to see Rabiot after all the hype. Might be a bridge too far for him tonight.

StringerBell

How have you never seen Rabiot before?

Bret Hart

2-1 Chelsea in normal time. PSG to grab a goal in ET too dump Chelsea out. 4-3 PSG after ET. Di Maria seeing red would also be a lovely sight too see.

Bobby Baccala

Dunphy not wasting any time and getting straight to the waffle talk

Bateman

Strongly fancy the Chels tonight, hopefully Willian to play out of his skin and do enough in the 90 minutes to progress

dirkmeister

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Dunphy not wasting any time and getting straight to the waffle talk

Costa hasn't delivered for Chelsea according to Dunphy.

According to Wikipedia he scored 20 goals in 26 league appearances last year.....Dunphy has some neck calling him a fraud.

Canadel

StringerBell wrote: »

How have you never seen Rabiot before?

Not in a high level game. At least I don't think so. If I did, he didn't stand out.

Is he quite an elegant footballer? How would you describe him?

Crackle

I think it'll be a score draw. With the silly goals this defence have been giving up, I don't fancy them to keep PSG out. 1-1

Bret Hart

George getting his facts wrong.

Bobby Baccala

dirkmeister wrote: »

Costa hasn't delivered for Chelsea according to Dunphy.

According to Wikipedia he scored 20 goals in 26 league appearances last year.....Dunphy has some neck calling him a fraud.

Winning the league and scoring that amount in his first season is only ever not delivering when you apply dunphy logic. It's blatantly obvious he doesn't watch much football any more and is just waffling his way through matches the past few years.

Harry Palmr

Why is George Hamilton spouting random off topic nonsense?

mansize

Watching here in SF at 1145. Weird

mansize

I've got Martin Tyler! :-P

Bobby Baccala

Abramovic on the pitch according to the commentators :pac:

Crackle

So far we've had Hamilton say Ibrahimovic when referring to Ivanovic, and Beglin say Abramovich instead of Ibrahimovic. Michael Owen is the alternative on BT. Christ.

mansize

Crackle wrote: »

So far we've had Hamilton say Ibrahimovic when referring to Ivanovic, and Beglin say Abramovich instead of Ibrahimovic. Michael Owen is the alternative on BT. Christ.

Hate that! All hail Fox Sports 1

Bobby Baccala

All psg so far, Chelsea looking shakey at the back

RobertKK

Matuidi got off lightly, it is not rugby they are playing.

irishguitarlad

Lads is martin tyler always this **** as commentator?

Harry Palmr

Goodnight

mansize

Well that's done!

Bret Hart

Lovely goal.

Osmosis Jones

Well worked goal, Ibra was given miles of space for the cross though, too easy.

LuckyGent88

Lovely goal. So simple. Brilliant pick out by ibra

mansize

irishguitarlad wrote: »

Lads is martin tyler always this **** as commentator?

I think he's fine.

glued

Brilliant ball from Ibra

Crackle

Been coming. Awful defending.

StringerBell

I love Ibra

Great desire by Rabiot, state of the defending.

blueser

It's been coming, to be fair. By far the better side so far. But at least Chelsea have plenty of time to rectify the situation.

Moneymaker

Jesus that's shocking from Cahill.

That_Guy

That camera pan to John Terry was delicious.

Bobby Baccala

Ibra as dangerous as ever, some ball.

irishguitarlad

Cahill showing why england are always so bad defensively

Osmosis Jones

Cahill was caught between two positions, inexperience shown from Kennedy(?) at LB.

blueser

That_Guy wrote: »

That camera pan to John Terry was delicious.

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