How Do We Play Chelsea?

Looking forward to Thursday morning's game. I have already discussed how we should line up, but how will Chelsea line up?

After hearing about chelsea's injuries from the bolton game i was really happy, any team missing their top scorer and inspirational captain / rock in defense would be pressing the panic button. I am secretly still hoping that they are being overoptimistic about their injuries.

anyway, if u believe the media chelsea, like us, should have a full team.

and they will play 4-3-3

Cech (gk)
Ferreira (rb) Terry + Carvalho (cb) A. Cole (lb)
Makélélé (dm)
Essien + Lampard (cm)
Wright-Phillips (rw) J. Cole (lw)
Drogba (st)

now this is a guess at best, i have no idea what chelsea are likely to do!

I say Ferreira over Belletti because he is Portuguese and has done a good job on ronaldo in the past. Makélélé over Mikel because of experience. Lampard over Ballack because they never seem to play well together, and Lampard is the vice captain. However personally i would be more threatened by Ballack. Wright-Phillips over Malouda because Malouda doesn't seem to get much game time anymore, even though i reckon Malouda is the better player. Expect the likes of Kalou and Anelka to make and impact as well!

I think Chelsea are going to double team ronaldo and not let him play. That is what they did last year in the FA cup and it worked brilliantly. I expect ronaldo to not be a superstar come Thursday morning, what i expect is that ronaldo will create space for the like of rooney and co. It will be important that ronaldo realises this and not be too selfish for once. PASS god damn it! I am hoping for some more team play from him, for example more running down the wing and less cutting in, play the percentages and trust ur team mates to do a job as well.

Also, how funny is the comment vidic made about drogba! so funny to watch a huge black guy fall like a ton of bricks when given the slightest nudge. That really made my day, vidic is not one to talk to the press and stir controversy, so there is extra sting.

Overall
even though avram is supposed to be a more attacking manager, i expect the players to play very conservative. They will try hit us on the counter and hassle ronaldo to no end.

The game will be a boring one unless there is an early goal. If that happens then one team will chase the game and it should become a much better game! I just hope we score first!