Jose Mourinho is adamant that his Chelsea team is not in crisis, however he will have to win impressively against Fulham to ease the pressure.
Chelsea have not won a single game in about a month and if that barren run continues then surely the outburst of fans may increase even for the Special One.
Nevertheless, Chelsea are favorites to beat Fulham side who are struggling to find form as yet. Here is how Chelsea’s starting XI may look like against Fulham.
Goalie
Surely Cech is going to keep his starting place.
Defense
Ashley Cole, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry (Luiz cannot stop the urge of moving into midfield, may be moved to bench for this game.
Midfield
Lampard, Ramires, Hazard, Oscar, Schurlle (Rested for the Champions league game, likely to start ahead of Juan Mata again and also Willian).
Striker
Eto’o has been bright in his two games for the club but still has to score for the Blues. Torres and Ba still wait for their starting place. Cameroonian will most probably be preferred by Jose Mourinho again.
Prediction
Chelsea 2-0 Fulham
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Fullham not to be taken lightly they can always upset them londeners
MOur is a braggered who does’t up grade himself. He shld go and learn coaching very wél his pattern is outdated.
If you must criticize let it be a constructive one. Mourinho should update himself? What a funny comment.
If MOU has eyes Lamps will b on d bench so that Mikel will partner with Remires
chelsea fans must be patient, we will bounce back in style. We know how to handle pressure.
I am not really impressed with the performance of the presence Chelsea team.Mou selection is questionable. He has to change his tactics against Fulham. or face the axe as usual.
Mou, has to be accurate in his team selection. am sure things will change in a short possible time
Mikel Ramires Hazard Mata Oscar is my prefered players to play in midfield today. If not chelsea are in for another loss.Toress must start upfront
You can complain about other players but Torres has shown that he is no longer capable. He has been given many times but failed to prove himself. Let Eto’o start
Chelsea bouncing back is sure, But for me I prefer hazard, mata, Ramirez & Mikel in midfield & eto taking d striking role for 60min and Torres for d rest of d game. UP CHELSEA
i never wanted mourihno at the bridge again.dimateo is all i wanted.
Hazard doesn’t deserve to play any more, he is the problem whom many doesn’t notice, just holding no passing, Oscar, Mata, willian, shurrle to play fulham
I tink MOU should caution hazard in his pattern of play.He keep on running and dribling and at the end of the day spoiling possesion.I prefer william to mata.Mata dnt have body balance and he doesnt come back to help the defence.
For Mou to succeed he must stop the Favoritism! Lampard is the major cause of our problem this season! Benitez, di matteo detected this problem last 2 seasons and lampard-terry were only used for less crucial games! Without lampard and terry last season we did not only defeated manU but took possesion as well!! unlike this season were lampard presence mounts unnecessary pressure on the team! He is good at scoring goals but please in that position we need people who can tackle as well as link the defence to attack! All lampard does is to run forward in search of goals and can’t link the defence to the attacking midfielders which inturn forces luiz,cole,iva to run out of there positions just to do lampard’s job therefore making us vulnerable at the back when countered ! Mou watch our last season games please
JOSE has miles to cover with his style of play now, the like of playing Lampd in place of Mikel in every match will never favour the team since Lamp has no helping hand to lend in our defence. Harzd is good but must be called to other, he holds ball more than required, Mata is good but still need more balance and must be ready to pose challange to opponent, therefore I prefer William to Mata. The agility of Rami and strength of Mikel is needed in front of our defenders. Oscar is still the best of the moment. Eto should be giving more chance as he has more biting spirit than Toress considering the number of games played by the two strikers but Ba must remain the last option! Our defenders are good! Up BLUES.
Hazard and lampard are not good to start game because lampard is too old he can’t control game, he just running around f player he has to be bench.and hazard is too much drubling and running, wasting ball and not giving d ball to striker so give a chance for a rest players (de bruyen, willian, scherrel)
Mikel should maintain the defensive midfield while Williams should b given the chance to master with chelsea’s pattern cos he is better than Mata. Eto is better than any of chelsea’s strikers so he shud start 1st
sorry but alot of the comments in this blog are totally rubbish from people who just don’t understand. Firstly up front before season started i said we need a striker. By that I mean what a striker is suppose top do, i.e score goals. we have played 6 games now, 4 premiership, 1 super cup &1 european cup. torres scored in super cup & i think that is the only goal from a striker so far. we needed to spend our money on a striker or at least not loan out our best protential striker in Lukaka. Instead we get Eto, I know it’s only been 2 games but he has been shocking should of got a hatrick against Everton what a waste. as for the idiot who said hazard doesn’t deserve to play you don’t know what you are talking about. then some of you say play mikel, I don’t think he is playng well at all and too slow. so please give me your responses good or bad.
My ideal team,,Cech,Azp,Cole,Cahil,Luiz,Ramires,mikel,Oscar,Willian,Mata and Eto…For today’s game.. Subs Hazard,De Bruyne,Terry,Iva,Ba,Andre,Van G..
Mou if you can hear the cries of the fanz that will keep your favour in them and hopefully help the team. What wrong has Mata to you? Being the clubs player of the year twice? No plz find him a place in the starting lineup. He can alwez bring magic to the game even in tough times. You can not compare him to Schirrie or de Bruyne nonono!
Mou should start..,.a cole,ivanovic,cahill and luiz from defence..,.mikel,ramirez,oscar hazard and mata.then willian to substitute mata after 60mins,then torres should start up forward,while eto to replace him.LONG LIVE BLUES.
thank u my brother,mourinho system of coaching is absolutely excommunicated and redundant.he should low himself by doing away frm pride and go for updating in his coaching career