Aston Villa v Chelsea Pre-Match Thread

[PeterWithesShin]

Chelsea FC

Plastic club? Check
Plastic ground? Check
Plastic seats? Check
Plastic fans? Check
Plastic goalkeeper? Cech

[Dave]

Lamps still out for further 2 weeks.Drogs out with fever   

Lamps?

Drogs?

Seriously?

[jembob]

Malouda absolutely destroyed Luke Young at Stamford Bridge last year.

I reckon he'll put him into Row Z after 6 minutes.

To be fair to Luke he had no cover, as MON flapped at half time and went 4-4-2 for the second half and moved Gabby into the middle. That match still winds me up as a display of mis-management on an enormous scale.

I'm not sure if Drogba being out will benefit us too much as they may change the way they play to suit the like of Anelka. It will still be a really tough game, as Chelsea have been the best team I've seen at VP over the past two seasons and they have good strength in depth. We normally have to defend really well against them but tomorrow I'm hoping that some of the new training will pay off and we'll keep the ball more.

I'd be happy to get anything out of the game.

[VillaAlways]

Lamps still out for further 2 weeks.Drogs out with fever   

Lamps?

Drogs?

Seriously?

No not seriously.It's what the Chavski fans call them

[Shrek]

Thinking about it Chelsea were really good last January when Drogba was out, they seemed to have much more fluencey in their play without Drogba.
But I have a good feeling about it and think Emile will bully Terry.

[SoccerHQ]

Drogba out is huge I think and if we can nulify Chelsea's first 11, then they have little on the bench to change things.

Have upgraded to 1-1 now which probably means we'll be royally turned over!

[Shrek]

Chelsea team is

Cech
Ferairra
Ivanovic
Terry
Cole

Essien
Mikel
Ramirez

Kakuta
Anelka
Malouda

That is some midfield isn't it !?!

[eric woolban woolban]

I'm very much looking forward to tomorrow, one of my house mates at Uni is a fellow Villa fan, another is a Chelsea season ticket holder. Needless to say we're all going down tomorrow, the last time all three of us went to the same football match it finished 7-1.

11th February 1995? lol ... http://www.statto.com/football/stats/results/1995-02-11

[eamonn]

Who the fook's Kakuta?

[Toronto Villa]

Who the fook's Kakuta?

He's the young lad they poached that caused all the fuss a season or so back.

[Arsey]

Gabby is out according to Pravda.  I've no idea if this is old news.

[carlos the third]

Heskey and Ash fit according to the OS

[tim]

Can see no good coming of this I tell you.
3-1 Chelsea. I have pretty much written this game off tbh. They're just too good.
On the plus side though it does mean there will be plenty of MOTD time dedicated to us!

[PaulTheVillan]

Chelsea have a few key players out, but that defense is still strong.

Ferairra is the weak link, we must attack him.

[Matt C]

1-1. Emile 'Drogba' Heskey for us, Anelka for them.