Chelsea vs Aston Villa Match Thread

[Bad English]

Sanson and Bailey on bench. Archer too. They'll shit up Chelsea on 65 minutes.

[JUAN PABLO]

Ollie looks like hes had a few Balti pies on that pic . . 

[PaulWinch again]

Disappointing not to see Bailey. But come on Villa.

[Bad English]

I've just noticed Traoré on the bench too.

[john e]

we’ll have a lot of creativity and attacking options to bring on when we’re three nil down

[Uknowthescore]

So negative. Thought them days of not trying to lose by too many had gone.

[Risso]

Barkley's on the bench for them. He's going to come on, have his one good game a year and score a worldie.

[jwarry]

Quite like the look of that if Axel is going to sit in front of the back 4. If it’s a back 5 I would worry

[SoccerHQ]

So negative. Thought them days of not trying to lose by too many had gone.

Don't see the issue, a few teams have switched to 5-3-2 v Chelsea since Tuchel came in and indeed Lampard played it a bit aswell.

Now question is how well we look trained in it given we haven't had all the players in during the week so that could be issue but this is simply one of the toughest games we'll play all season regardless of formation.

[jwarry]

Chelsea’s bench is just stupid

[DrGonzo]

Man, loving the positive vibes on here today!! It's one of the things that gives me the biggest rush on match day, you know, popping on here and seeing all the excitemant and anticipation from you guys!!  Remember what it was like 5 years ago when we were struggling to score in The Championship??  EEEKKKK!  Thank goodness those days are long gone and we can all enjoy match day now, huh??

Good luck, boys!  Everyone on H+V appears to have faith in you!!!

[cdbearsfan]

It isn't in any way three at the back. We have five defenders on the pitch, like when we lost eight-nil. Fucking garbage.

If McLeish did this he'd be getting torrents of abuse and quite rightly.

[Small Rodent]

It’s nice for us to have decent bench.

[Villa Lew]

Bailey not starting is due to fitness, will almost certainly get some game time, including today 4 out of next 5 games are away, trying to be optimistic, can only see 2 wins maximum.

[LukeJames]

Chelsea’s bench is just stupid

Is it one of those fancy avant-garde numbers?