Cech - Injured
Terry - Injured
Ramires - Suspended?
Mikel to play because he's out for the AM 2nd Leg.
Eto'o - Return from injury?
Hazard - Return from injury?
Chelsea are coming into this with a massive headache on selection.
They could be forced into playing fringe players anyway the way things are going.
I'm sure that was where the questions would have been heading coming up to the game.
Suddenly there are two very important games in the space of a few days and you can't
rotate the team the way you would have liked.
How to combat this or cut off this line of questioning?
Be a c**t and suggest that you'll throw away the Premier League, even though you're 5 points behind.
Mourinho was going to have to rest players coming into these games.
Of course he's used it as an attempt to claim some high moral ground and hint at victim status.
So now we know.
No questions about how to rotate the team given the challenges of being in both competitions.
No questions about how Mourinho prioritises the games from either competition.
Mourinho is the victim and we should all show compassion.
So how does the fringe team line out then Mourinho?
Well you'd probably put in the well rested, ineligible for Europe, Salah and Matic for starters
along with Mikel, who is out of the 2nd league due to the yellow card he collected.
In the process drop Luiz into CB to replace the injured Terry. Oh and Oscar didn't play during
the week so he should be fresh. If you wanted to pretend it was a proper fringe side you could
probably put Schurrle up front.
Here we go.
Same as Atletico Madrid?
Park the F***ing bus mate.
Schwarzer
Azpilicueta Cahill Luiz Cole
Matic Mikel
Willian Oscar Salah
Schurrle
This will be a hard fought game no matter how Mourinho tries to coat it.
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