XI to play Chelsea

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Howard

Coleman Heitinga Distin Baines

Gosling Arteta Cahill Rodwell Bily

Anichebe (vaughan)

An attempt to inject some physicality and urgency into the side and to somehow cope without the central midfield general that is Osman. Obviously if we can play 12 and suspended players I'd have Piennar in there as well. :blink:
 
Howard

Coleman (Neville) Heitinga (Senderos) Distin Baines

Donovan Neville (Heitinga) Arteta Bilyaletdinov

Cahill

Saha
 
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I practically got it right. DM has decided to keep Neville at rightback and go without a holding midfielder. I think it's a dicey strategy. Malouda and Lampard will have free reign to run at us and shoot from distance.

Cahill's probably going to have to drop deeper to give us some bite in the middle, which will leave Saha isolated.

I'm not overly optimistic. The only ray of hope is that Chelsea have such a poor away record recently.

Here's hoping for a low scoring draw. :unsure:
 
It looks like Chelsea could be lining up like this:

_____________Cech
Ivanovic Carvalho Terry A. Cole
____________Mikel
___Malouda Lampard Zhirkov
_______Anelka Drogba

Even though we've got five across the midfield, we'll still be quite narrow, which will give Ivanovic and Cole opportunity to push forward and attack down the flanks. We need to make sure that Donovan and Bily give us width and occupy the fullbacks, preventing them from bombing on.

We need to close down the Chelsea midfield quickly too and not allow them to take pot shots at our goal.
 

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