Boxing Day Football

[hughy]

Probably my second best day of the footballing calendar, after FA Cup 3rd round Saturday.

Full PL program including Chelsea/West Ham and United/Newcastle.

 

[prawnsandwich]

12.45 kick off. This is the most interesting game of the day. West Ham played like they were terrified of Chelsea last season. Will they give them a game today?
Chelsea

• 13 Courtois
• 02 Ivanovic
• 24 Cahill
• 26 Terry
• 28 Azpilicueta
• 04 Fàbregas
• 21 Matic
• 22 Willian
• 08 Oscar
• 10 Hazard
• 19 Diego Costa

Substitutes

• 01 Cech
• 03 Filipe Luis
• 05 Zouma
• 07 Ramires
• 11 Drogba
• 12 Mikel
• 14 Schürrle

West Ham United

• 13 Adrián
• 19 Collins
• 02 Reid
• 03 Cresswell
• 18 Jenkinson
• 04 Nolan
• 11 Downing
• 16 Noble
• 08 Kouyaté
• 31 E Valencia
• 09 Carroll

Substitutes

• 07 Jarvis
• 15 Sakho
• 17 O'Brien
• 21 Amalfitano
• 22 Jääskeläinen
• 24 Cole
• 30 Song

Ref: Michael Oliver

 

[prawnsandwich]

Chelsea v West Ham 12:45 at Stamford Bridge Preview
Burnley v Liverpool 15:00 at Turf Moor Preview
Crystal Palace v Southampton 15:00 at Selhurst Park Preview
Everton v Stoke 15:00 at Goodison Park Preview
Leicester v Tottenham 15:00 at King Power Stadium Preview
Man Utd v Newcastle 15:00 at Old Trafford Preview
Sunderland v Hull 15:00 at Stadium of Light Preview
Swansea v Aston Villa 15:00 at Liberty Stadium Preview
West Brom v Man City 15:00 at The Hawthorns Preview
Arsenal v QPR 17:30 at Emirates Stadium Preview

 

[Blake Griffin]

west ham's side would be much better with song and sakho.

 

[prawnsandwich]

west ham's side would be much better with song and sakho.

Probably trying to get them both through the two games.

Jesus, Chelsea have some tough fixtures in January.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/fixtures

 

[Danners9]

Let a day of sitting in front of the TV commence!

 

[lol]

would take valencia in a heartbeat

 

[haxman]

That was inevitable....

 

[ClintEastwould]

I really do hate that wife stealing scumbag

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

As much as I despise Chelsea I hope they proper spank the Spammers today.

 

[mpickard2087]

I never see our players doing that though. Ignore the decent delivery/winning the header bit that we are also rubbish at, but none of our players ever seem to be on the move, anticipate the second ball and gamble on it. The only two in recent years that I can recall ever looking to do it was Gallas and Defoe.

A lot of the time its basic stuff like this, rather than extravagant quality bits of play, that make the difference.

 

[Ghost Hardware]

I hate the fact that i want Chelsea to win a football match.

 

[Ghost Hardware]

As much as I despise Chelsea I hope they proper spank the Spammers today.

Would rather it was a tight match, if Chelsea are winning by a large margin Jose will sub off Hazard etc and i would rather they were exhausted for their next match.

 

[lol]

insane offball movement

 

[haxman]

Diving cheating prick

 

[noggen]

What a cheat! Disgrace! Should've got the yellow.

 

[balalasaurus]

Can't believe I'm saying this but the chavs are playing some sublime football.

I find comfort in the fact that we were better than them for 17 minutes though.

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

Ah I forgot we've got them. Ok spanking and a few broken legs all round

 

[Dirty Ewok]

It is still mystifying to me that a team with Mark Noble, Stuart Downing, Kevin Nolan and James Collins in the starting lineup are in 4th at Christmas.

 

[lol]

The more i see valencia the more i like him. Can play left/right, can play up top alone, can play uptop wih another striker. Has pace, willing to press, smart runs off te ball, knows how to win the space first instead of the ball to get ahead of the defender.