chicken n chips wrote:
davetheflower wrote:
chicken n chips wrote: With Mourinho bitching about all sorts of things and telling Benitez wife to watch what she feeds him I think that he is rattled even before the season kicks off. This match in all intents and purposes is a friendly but because of how the two managers feel about each other it will not be a friendly. Arsenal have looked very good in their friendlies whereas Chelsea lost to the 2nd team of the New York Red Bulls. The season kicks off next week and whoever wins this match will have a boost but in the end it means nothing. Where you finish come May is all what counts.
You forgot to mention Chelsea beat Barcelona after the Red Bulls Game and Arsenal played all their pre season games at The Emirates to suck some more wonga from their librarian fans.
these were the two teams when they played
:
Courtois, Ivanovic (c), Zouma, Cahill, Azpilicueta, Fabregas, Matic, Kenedy, Oscar, Hazard, Diego Costa.
Barcelona:
Ter Stegen, Bartra, Douglas, Adriano, Mathieu, Busquets (c), Rakitic, Gumbau, Ramirez, Suarez, El Haddadi.
a vitually full strength Chelsea side and a Barce team without Messi, Neymar, Iniesta, Alves, Alba, Mascherano I would not see or say too much about beating them
