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Theres no way we'll get anything today, put your house on it. I admire the optimists here saying we'll win but you get it in every match thread. Quality will shine through again, as soon as we concede, more will follow. Dont have any confidence in our defence or midfield, brittle and feeble. They really did well though at Anfield, and the few games that preceeded it, but the 8-0 will leave them feeling very nervous today, something the yids attacking talent will exploit with relative ease.. Roll on january

Defoe equalised late on then laursen notched straight after from a corner

That one was away mate yea, reo-coker and a gomes classic spill from A.Youngs shot! Think DB scored for them that night too. Ahh, good times..

I remember JPA scoring an early winner when we were going well under DOL Last time was in O'Neills 2nd season I think, 2-1, Mellberg and Laursen

an outsider looking at those starting lineups would have compared it to Brazil vs. San Marino. It was that way on paper, and incidentally, on the pitch too.

0-7 with Lambert being pleased on an improvement from Sunday

Lol how embarrassing. Raped, owned will never live this down. Happy Christmas, nice one

They have scored good goals, but we have made it easy for them, Guzans done well to keep it down. Defence is a joke

No grit or steel or determination today. Heads gone, embarrasing result already. Herd is awful, never rated him. Testing times ahead.

**** sake

Torres loves playing us. We needed to stay at 0-0 longer. I think theres a goal here for us today, cant afford to concede anymore though

Thats it

Perfecto

Yeah Chelsea look like they have a few goals in them, will be a big ask for our backline to keep up the workrate shown over the last month. I think Chelsea will need to have an off day for us to get a point. Was more hopeful before I just watched that.

Well done Leeds. Give them confidence with your janky defending. Hope Mata gets injured in training tomorrow

Ashdown u doughnut

Lets hope they hold this lead, we draw Bradford in the semi's and then see a repeat of '96 in the final

These are the ones that get kept in my sky planner for months

We did play well at WHL until we went behind and probably should have got something, and looked the morr likely against Arsenal but nice to see people taking notice of recent performances. Its such a fine line these days between success and failure in the PL, we should have picked up more points, but these are still early days. Its good everyone is on side now with the recent results giving everyone a more positive outlook on this project. I for one was still very concerned a few weeks back, still a long way to go but we're getting better!

Great time to play them, like you say win/win as to what they do on Wednesday. We are a definite bogey side for Chelsea, hopefully we can maintain that Sunday. Score draw the likely outcome for me.

Never a pen they both were at it. If it was in their box, yes youd be screaming for a pen and be fuming if it werent given, but you'd see it was 6 of one half a dozen of the other and know it was the right decision. Would defo of been a peno at the Etihad though. Mention to our brothers at Anfield yesterday, brilliant support as per

Brilliant result, shame to concede but a great away performance where we did what was necessary. The defence worries me when I see the teamsheet but they keep surprising me, solid for weeks now and handling the pressure like veterans of the game. I was worried when Vlaar got injured but we're unbeaten since he's been out! Benteke was superb, and yes that 2nd goal was Barcelona-esque, you'll all get to see it in HD pn game of the day at 8.25 if you're stream was crappy! I went for Guzan MOTM, didnt put a foot wrong, so comfortable and assuring, doesnt get the credit, it will all go to Tekkers. But what a great week for us, onwards and upwards. Chelsea have 2 game to play before we go there so lets keep this run going. UTF'NV :)

Guzan is so assuring between the sticks. Cant believe we're 2 up tbh, but both goals were beauties. Need to keep it tight second half and hope for a third. UTV

What a goal. Gonna be painful viewing theyve been all over us

Suicidal defending, lucky baker prevented that certain goal. Once again, its just a matter of time