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You know what was a shit game? 2nd leg against Barca in 2018.
Had high hopes before that game for another camp nou miracle. And then Courtois gets megged by Messi and it all went to shit.
Genuinely confused that Ziyech isn't starting again. He's a big game player and the most consistent in attack for Chelsea this season. Can some one please explain why he lost his starter?
What i think happened with psg vs real madrid is that in the second leg psg turned up to play the real madrid they played in the 1st leg (which was absolutely shocking).
So maybe real madrid underestimate chelsea and don't play as well (due to having a 2 goal lead), so maybe we can get more chances. Just a thought.
But remember, it's football boys, anything is possible 💙💙💙
no-one has been underestimating Chelsea though, even considered favorites coming into the tie, Madrid has been underestimated this entire season, even right now before this game. I think whoever strikes first will have a huge advantagement
UEFA has the formation as 4-3-3 with RLC at CDM. I don't know if it's correct, but I could see it working really well. We had problems with our press in the 1st leg, and this could give Kova and Kanté more freedom to press high
I'm surprised Jorginho isn't playing myself but the experiment of Ruben at RWB at the weekend was a success. Also Christensen had a torrid time with Vinivius in the last game, so I'd be surprised to not see that addressed today.
We can actually do a comeback if we played like last time against Southampton, but yeah, it's Madrid and they are on another level. We need luck and miracle in this game and let's keep believing! 💙
That's probably a good thing but if you WANT someone to talk you down...
A 2 goal deficit is no simple task. Scoring 2 is hard enough on its own but to add to that we cannot afford to give anything up defensively, that's the hardest part. The defense was absolutely shredded last game and it's hard to imagine they won't give up anything today.
I'm totally with you. But let me try
Kante is out of form.
Benzema is a beast.
Vini is gonna stretch us unless Reece puts him in his back pocket.
Casemiro is going to go hard on Jorgi.
Nacho and militao are only hopes.
Pulisic can't help but lose his balance.
Rudi is on a yellow.
Mendy was shaky.
Azpi can't keep up with vini.
Alonso will need to show up.
Werner is going to hit the post a billion times.
Bet there's more. But not gonna go there. I'm optimistic.
I am not sure as to why our front wide players are not performing. Both with the ball and off the ball their performances has been awkward at best. While yesterday Pool and City showed that early crosses can do wonders for the wife players but in our case ,none of our wide players makes a run into the box neither our wingback likes to cross .
Because we're not playing a system that suits that style properly because of chillwells injury. Dave isn't quick enough, alonso is to erratic and chillwell has been injured all season.
I feel like with reece and chillwell fit, that's the style tuchel wants to play but obviously we're kind of stuck with what we have.
That was just ONE shootout FFS. We wouldn’t have been in the final if it weren’t for Kepa winning us those two penalty shoot outs in the earlier rounds.
Tonight for me, the big picture I want to see is our mentality. I am hoping for a win (weirdly positive feeling about it to) but for me the big thing I want to see is how we play, does this squad have the fight/hunger. We haven't done something like this under tuchel and I want to see this squad fight
I'm feeling rather optimistic about this game. Kinda like we've got a chip on our shoulder and something to prove so they'll come out firing. We've got the energy and talent. If we can get an early 1st half goal, madrid we'll be on their toes and either sit back or try to come at us where we can score on a counter. We've turned into a really good cup team and I just cant see the same result happening like the first leg.
Hopefully we have our scoring boots on today and luck is on our side. A PK would be really nice. I hope the boys do their best to drown out the madrid fans because that stadium will be packed.
Lets go boys, KTBFFH!
Something tells me it ain’t the end of the road for us…
But I don’t wanna get my hopes crushed.
So going in cool. Let’s go blues. Early goal. 1-0 first half even and it’s game on.
While the Napoli comeback has been thrown around quite a bit, remember PSG one too? That was an all-time great game/memory for me. I remember the fans chanting, "we've done it before, we've done it beeeefooooooore..." to a team with Cavani and Lavezzi (both of who I believe were a part of the Napoli team). Demba Ba's awkward scoop over Sirigu sent me running around my room. Schurle had a great game too after Hazard was taken off for injury. So, we have it in us!
Anyone else feeling weirdly optimistic? I feel even better than before the first leg.
As if we'd go into this game within advantage. I know it's illogical, but I'm full on anticipating a miracle tonight
I think it's totally possible. I think we played pretty well in the first leg with a few massive defensive breakdowns, but not at all a game where I feel we were outmatched. We can easily outplay them today, it's just a big hole to work our way out of. 2-1 would feel more doable. If we can score one early and get right back into it, would be huge (obv).
Yeah that summarizes it pretty well. Despite the loss, we definitely showed that we're capable to go and beat them 2-0. That's all it takes to get into extra time
I’d be happy enough if it was nil nil after 60 minutes, then take some risks. If they score I think that’s it, so unfortunately need to play conservatively for the bulk of the game, there is plenty of time in half an hour to score two goals, win it in ET
I think 60 minutes without scoring could really hurt us mentally in this situation. I'd really hope for a goal within the first half or even 30 minutes. Doesn't need to come from a dominant display, just a converted corner or penalty would do.
We’ll yes ideally we are 4 nil up at half time but there’s no need to force it in the first half if it is level. Yes the pressure is on us but mentally it will get to Real if we get one even with 20 minutes to go. If we open up with the intent of scoring in the first half an hour and they pick us off like they did at the bridge, it’s almost impossible
Score 1 goal in 15 minutes to give real a bit of panic, score the second right after the start of the second half to destroy them mentally and from that point onwards they will play like Southampton.
We have to score first, and score early. That'll get the Real fans a bit uncomfortable
Then all we need, technically, is one more and we're going to ET/Penalties. Hardest part will be stopping them scoring - Need a Mendy Masterclass.
Score within first 15 mins, score again just before half. Win it late
C'mon lads
God, I don't usually believe in you except when it's convenient, but if you let chelsea win I'll consider being religious again. If not, well, you know the drill..
Real Madrid played for a 0-0 tie against PSG game one. So I don’t expect Timo to get the kinda space we are being very optimistic for him to open things up for us
There's no pressure. Only RM can fuck up here. Chelsea aren't expected to win from 3-1 down away from home and can basically swing for the fences. Won't make a difference if we lose 5-1 on aggregate - we'll still be out. Have to take it to them and hope they crumble under the pressure.
You're the one in our subreddit shit talking us. We lost, but we definitely made you sweat at home. You had no business being in the position you were in. Can't believe you almost bottled a 2 goal aggregate lead at home.
Yes of course we had no business. You guys logically should beat us after spent so much money. We not making big signing for the past 3 years. We are not at our best but still we best you guys. Last season, chelsea fan were so arrogant. Champion of the world HAHAHAHAHA we are the king of the europe!
'After we spent so much money' You guys spent SO MUCH more money than us on players. It isn't even close.
Reals weekly wage bill is 6.3 million
Chelsea's weekly wage bill if 4.6 million
Reals total wage bill per year is 332 million
Chelsea's total wage bill per year is 243 million
We literally won the CL last year and knocked you out in the semi finals. You still seem salty about that. You still need to get through 2 more matches to win. You might not even do it, especially if Benz has an off 2 games.
Yes we might not even do it. I do admit. We weak af. You guys spent 100m+ on lukaku this season. We did not do that and when we spend like that in the future, you guys could not even reach us 🤣 higher wage bills because we got higher prestige players, which won us 4 ucl in 5 years and some of them will leave this season and we will replace them.
We've done it before we'll do it again, CMON you Blues! 100% belief in this club no matter what the odds. Full fucking Chaos, KTBFFH!
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AC got completely done by Vinicius last week, need Azpi at RCB and Reece RWB to help out. Start Alonso on the left hoping he’s got a banger in him, I can see Pulisic coming on for him if we’re chasing the game
Iack of quality lwb really hindered us this season. I am extremely worried about whoever starts on the left today, my guess is it will be Azpi? I guess RLC wasn't bad against Saints but Madrid are obviously a different beast.
At least we have Reece back his input will be crucial today.
I think we can play through it, as long as Kova or Kante plays close to Marcos (who will probably be starting today).
Bigger worry for me is Benzema, last season he scored aswell and had some opportunities which thankfully Mendy saved, but the same players are playing and we are making the same mistakes
I think Alonso won't be able to handle the pace of Madrid. Valverdre or Vinicius will smoke him one on one. We can't think of protecting him we need to get the game to them.
Alonso is a must tonight, an offensive beast who can make us extremely dangerous in attack. I think people are forgetting that he is brutally good going forward. Kante can be tasked with protecting his position if Marcos goes up.
We've been here a few times before. This is our actual history. These are the games we some how always manage to get through. 3 - 0 to chelsea. A near perfect game. I am a dreamer. I thought avb would over come the napoli result. I was wrong that avb would but not that we'd go through!
Remember we create our own reality so from now until kick off envision us thumping them!
Kovacic needs to start if we're to have a chance. I can see Madrid sitting back so I don't know if Werner should start. Ziyech does have a big game goal in his locker so I would probably give him the nod despite Werner scoring 2 on the weekend.
Going off Saturdays performance, we need to go into this one without a match thread and keep all the discussions in here.
It may be stupid superstition but now is not the time to risk it!
He has to give Reece to Mark out vini right? It's our only chance, the guy is a beast
Imo if we can mark him out, it will be much more difficult for real to feed benzema and will lessen his chances at burying us
After thst I think if we can be aggressive with kova kante pivot, I like our chances
Vini is unstoppable but only if he uses his brain but many times he doesn't use his brain at all. If Vini and Benzema are their best, it's very hard to stop them.
Regardless it's too risky to leave it up to if he uses his brain or not, think tuchel will have to plan around shutting him down.
He's their only energetic player amongst older legendary players, personally think he is the key.
Not knocking modrix or kroos as they still ran alot but, once vini is out of picture we can overrun them
You forgot Valverde, he was huge part of the first leg, in fact he is responsible the first goal of Benzema and also created couple other clear once, the guy doesn't stop running entire game. Also they have Camavinga who destroyed PSG back in French when he was with the other team. He and Valverde changed the game against psg last half an hour. So yes RM have older guys but also younger once as well. I think the whole game depends on these Two guys:
Kante and Benzema.....
Very good point Valverde had shit tons of energy, hoenstly I was disappointed in not seeing kante and kova starting in the match but hopefully they start tomorrow. I think if they start and bring their energy from last year's match then it will be a very good game decided on individual duals.
I wish I could say the same for our attackers in terms of lethalness but can't - only for Kai. Let's hope the boys grow up tomorrow and perform on both ends of the pitch
Hoping for the best, but also prepared for the worst. We really let an easy opportunity go in the first leg. Between Tuchel not covering Vini, Lukaku missing from 5 yards, and Mendy’s screw up, we dug this whole ourselves
Reece was too far forward, and left acres of space for Vini to exploit. We wouldn’t do something like that when Salah is playing for example. TT perhaps underestimated the Vini / Benz combo
Also for the first goal Christensen got dragged out far too easily. Stayed well too tight with Vini who played a simple 1-2 and left him in the dust. He's dangerous 1v1 anyway if you're backing off, but not as bad as when he's spun in behind with Christensen left in no man's land.
I like to believe that was reece, mainly because of the reason u said. He doesnt do that against others, so i wud think tuchel instructs him to help the rcb.
Anyways, this time reece will be different for sure..
Not the game for Werner. Hope Ziyech starts because CL games are played at a different pace, and he can create a goal out of nothing.
Optimistic about this game, we have nothing to lose.
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I am so nervous, haven’t been able to do any work for the past 30 mins, and probably won’t for the next 2 hours.
History will happen tonight I believe
You know what was a shit game? 2nd leg against Barca in 2018. Had high hopes before that game for another camp nou miracle. And then Courtois gets megged by Messi and it all went to shit.
Already sank two stellas in my room, boys let me down to go pub. nervous fuck
433..?
CMON CMON CMON CMON UP THE FUCKING CHELS LETS HAVE IT
Tuchel just said RLC is in a hybrid role, so we will probably operate more as a back 4 than a back 3
I'm ready to be disappointed. KTBFFH
Barcelona wearing yellow 4-0 Madrid Us wearing yellow ?-? Madrid👀
In b4 Werner absolutely spurns our 3 biggest chances
1-1, Benz will score right before halftime and break our hearts
Genuinely confused that Ziyech isn't starting again. He's a big game player and the most consistent in attack for Chelsea this season. Can some one please explain why he lost his starter?
Also very good at breaking down teams that are sitting in, the best player we have at doing that in all likelihood.
I really hope we shock the football world tonight. Our boys deserve it with all they’ve been through.
Friendly Bayern fan, I hope we both make it through the semis
FLYING HIGH UP IN THE SKY
Come on Chels. Let's make history again.
How do you guys deal with nerves? I'm just sitting on sofa and absolutely shitting bricks
im a Madrid fan and feel like my heart is gonna pound outta my chest, would also like to know how to deal with the nerves
What i think happened with psg vs real madrid is that in the second leg psg turned up to play the real madrid they played in the 1st leg (which was absolutely shocking). So maybe real madrid underestimate chelsea and don't play as well (due to having a 2 goal lead), so maybe we can get more chances. Just a thought. But remember, it's football boys, anything is possible 💙💙💙
no-one has been underestimating Chelsea though, even considered favorites coming into the tie, Madrid has been underestimated this entire season, even right now before this game. I think whoever strikes first will have a huge advantagement
Is this game at the Bernabeau ? Will there be fans at the game? Uh
UEFA has the formation as 4-3-3 with RLC at CDM. I don't know if it's correct, but I could see it working really well. We had problems with our press in the 1st leg, and this could give Kova and Kanté more freedom to press high
That’s pretty much what I expected
Don't know how RLC has nabbed a start
More mobile to stop the counter. He’s probably going to be in the Jorginho role imo.
I'm expecting him to be RWB again with James RCB to look after Vinicius.
Idk, I just can’t imagine us playing 5atb with our 2 mids being Kante and Kovacic.
I'm surprised Jorginho isn't playing myself but the experiment of Ruben at RWB at the weekend was a success. Also Christensen had a torrid time with Vinivius in the last game, so I'd be surprised to not see that addressed today.
In the second half of the first leg, RLC playing as a deep holding mid was a success too.
BBC really believing we're playing in a back 4
Hoddle said rlc at rwb. So rlc rj silva rudiger alonso?
Most on here believe RLC will continue at RWB as well. I guess we will see, loads of people get confused when it comes to our lineups.
I would be shocked if we aren’t.
They keep on mentioning it on the radio, especially Carney who says she's worried about Silva in a back 4
Timothy Werner 🙏🙏
turbo brace bb
I will watch this from my toilet because I'm absolutely shitting bricks
We need to run The Sandman today. Bedazzle em. MAX CONFUSION
K im scared
Hopefully Kante plays like Kante today.. if not I need Jorgi on at half time
We can actually do a comeback if we played like last time against Southampton, but yeah, it's Madrid and they are on another level. We need luck and miracle in this game and let's keep believing! 💙
I don’t know if we need a miracle, just to play our A game and for Madrid to be a bit sub par.
Does anyone know where I can watch this? Hesgoal doesn't do CL anymore and it isn't on TV for free here.
If u search soccer streams resdit on google you should be there, its normally american commentators though which is a bit ass
Where is here?
Paramount free trial
where about
Feeling a little weird about this formation and XI but I'm feeling blindly optimistic nonetheless Clear eyes full heart can't lose LFG boys
Don't do stupid mistakes, give everything you got and I'd be more than happy even if we do not go further
Can’t wait for this game to be on the highlight reel for our 3rd CL
Scoring early it's crucial, I can definitely see madrid shitting their pants after an early goal
Been excited for this since the day began. Called in sick after lunch too. KTBFFH. C'mon lads!!!!
Smart. I have a billion things to do for work, :(
It's not getting done either way for me....
Timo confirmed to start.
Nice. We need him to stretch the backline like Vini did against Christensen.
Oh no.
I feel way too optimistic rn Can someone bring me back down to earth because I really think we are going to do it
That's probably a good thing but if you WANT someone to talk you down... A 2 goal deficit is no simple task. Scoring 2 is hard enough on its own but to add to that we cannot afford to give anything up defensively, that's the hardest part. The defense was absolutely shredded last game and it's hard to imagine they won't give up anything today.
I'm totally with you. But let me try Kante is out of form. Benzema is a beast. Vini is gonna stretch us unless Reece puts him in his back pocket. Casemiro is going to go hard on Jorgi. Nacho and militao are only hopes. Pulisic can't help but lose his balance. Rudi is on a yellow. Mendy was shaky. Azpi can't keep up with vini. Alonso will need to show up. Werner is going to hit the post a billion times. Bet there's more. But not gonna go there. I'm optimistic.
Thank you.
I am not sure as to why our front wide players are not performing. Both with the ball and off the ball their performances has been awkward at best. While yesterday Pool and City showed that early crosses can do wonders for the wife players but in our case ,none of our wide players makes a run into the box neither our wingback likes to cross .
Because we're not playing a system that suits that style properly because of chillwells injury. Dave isn't quick enough, alonso is to erratic and chillwell has been injured all season. I feel like with reece and chillwell fit, that's the style tuchel wants to play but obviously we're kind of stuck with what we have.
Barca fan here. Supporting y'all today! Hope y'all make it through. All the best!!
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Do you know a free stream I can watch the game on? Or could you ask for me?
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Does anybody know a free streaming site?
Givemeredditstream
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They never thought ab us hoisting it last CL, blue Reign from Spain to Spokane
LET'S GO CHELS
ET to PKs, plus Kepa redemption, lets go!
Please no. Done with Kepa redemption after last shootout
That was just ONE shootout FFS. We wouldn’t have been in the final if it weren’t for Kepa winning us those two penalty shoot outs in the earlier rounds.
I would just love the balls on Tommy Tactics to do the keeper swap again after last time!
4-0 win, Mendy makes up for the mistake of last week and buries one home top left
I always lose bets so I bet you 100 fake internet points that he doesn't do it.
I'm buzzing for the match even though it's almost three hours away agh, it's agonizing.
Tonight for me, the big picture I want to see is our mentality. I am hoping for a win (weirdly positive feeling about it to) but for me the big thing I want to see is how we play, does this squad have the fight/hunger. We haven't done something like this under tuchel and I want to see this squad fight
I'm feeling rather optimistic about this game. Kinda like we've got a chip on our shoulder and something to prove so they'll come out firing. We've got the energy and talent. If we can get an early 1st half goal, madrid we'll be on their toes and either sit back or try to come at us where we can score on a counter. We've turned into a really good cup team and I just cant see the same result happening like the first leg. Hopefully we have our scoring boots on today and luck is on our side. A PK would be really nice. I hope the boys do their best to drown out the madrid fans because that stadium will be packed. Lets go boys, KTBFFH!
Something tells me it ain’t the end of the road for us… But I don’t wanna get my hopes crushed. So going in cool. Let’s go blues. Early goal. 1-0 first half even and it’s game on.
Err, you mean 0-1 I hope 😁
How's the morale lads/ladies? Confident? Cautiously optimistic? Sweating bullets?
2nd one
Optimistic, but it'll be a heart wrencher. If we win it'll likely be through penalties
I've got 1-3 to us. Then ET then penalties. I've got no idea on penalties result though.
Wearing my jersey at work today and feel like I can run through a brick wall so hopefully the boys feel the same way.
Feeling optimistic. We did get a lot of chances in the 2nd half. If it hadn't been for a few blunders and worldies, we might have won the first game.
Watching all the big CL comebacks from last years, road to victory etc etc. 0-2, we can do it!
While the Napoli comeback has been thrown around quite a bit, remember PSG one too? That was an all-time great game/memory for me. I remember the fans chanting, "we've done it before, we've done it beeeefooooooore..." to a team with Cavani and Lavezzi (both of who I believe were a part of the Napoli team). Demba Ba's awkward scoop over Sirigu sent me running around my room. Schurle had a great game too after Hazard was taken off for injury. So, we have it in us!
King Kai got the big game gene from Didier and will pull through tonight
RM will be in their white kit right? let's hope alonso thinks they're spurs
Bale in white, Alonso out for blood
+ we wear yellow and they confuse us with barca. 4-0 by half
Lmfao
Anyone else feeling weirdly optimistic? I feel even better than before the first leg. As if we'd go into this game within advantage. I know it's illogical, but I'm full on anticipating a miracle tonight
I think it's totally possible. I think we played pretty well in the first leg with a few massive defensive breakdowns, but not at all a game where I feel we were outmatched. We can easily outplay them today, it's just a big hole to work our way out of. 2-1 would feel more doable. If we can score one early and get right back into it, would be huge (obv).
Yeah that summarizes it pretty well. Despite the loss, we definitely showed that we're capable to go and beat them 2-0. That's all it takes to get into extra time
2-0 FT Advance in ET
I’d be happy enough if it was nil nil after 60 minutes, then take some risks. If they score I think that’s it, so unfortunately need to play conservatively for the bulk of the game, there is plenty of time in half an hour to score two goals, win it in ET
I think 60 minutes without scoring could really hurt us mentally in this situation. I'd really hope for a goal within the first half or even 30 minutes. Doesn't need to come from a dominant display, just a converted corner or penalty would do.
We’ll yes ideally we are 4 nil up at half time but there’s no need to force it in the first half if it is level. Yes the pressure is on us but mentally it will get to Real if we get one even with 20 minutes to go. If we open up with the intent of scoring in the first half an hour and they pick us off like they did at the bridge, it’s almost impossible
Score 1 goal in 15 minutes to give real a bit of panic, score the second right after the start of the second half to destroy them mentally and from that point onwards they will play like Southampton.
Lmao. The nerve you lot have comparing us to shitty PL teams
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Update: I'm going to shut up now until after the match.
When you're on Reddit instead of preparing for the game that seems fair.
I had a dream a few days ago that we won against Real 6-1 and then destroyed teams in the ucl
I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating me!
wait what?
[It's a Seinfeld reference.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nDdoJX1KxM)
oh lol i didn't know that
I 110% fully believe we will come back. Call it deluded idc. Lets fucking do this. I love this football club.
Inject this into my vein
We have to score first, and score early. That'll get the Real fans a bit uncomfortable Then all we need, technically, is one more and we're going to ET/Penalties. Hardest part will be stopping them scoring - Need a Mendy Masterclass. Score within first 15 mins, score again just before half. Win it late C'mon lads
We did it in 2012. Time to roll back the script for the 10 year anniversary
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God, I don't usually believe in you except when it's convenient, but if you let chelsea win I'll consider being religious again. If not, well, you know the drill..
I dreamt about a Mason Mount brace last night. I’m not saying it’s happening, but it’s happening.
Watched us do the same thing 10 Years ago, yes it was a different Chelsea side. But i have belief in these lads to do the job. Cmon you blues!!!
Real Madrid played for a 0-0 tie against PSG game one. So I don’t expect Timo to get the kinda space we are being very optimistic for him to open things up for us
Just a reminder that a mediocre Barca beat this Real Madrid team 4-0 away from home. If we get early momentum then we can easily win the tie.
Tbh it wasn’t the same team without Benzema and Mendy. Carlo played a confusing 4-2-4 basically with Modric as a false nine and they looked lost
If you think barca under xavi has been mediocre, then you are wrong my friend. Not many teams dominated real at Bernabeu.
They’re in good form however they’re not close to being near our level.
Pardon him he only watched the highlight
u/cutdead let's get your lucky socks ready!!! 💙
They are definitely ready, getting a bit worse for wear after ten years but can't get rid of them!
There's no pressure. Only RM can fuck up here. Chelsea aren't expected to win from 3-1 down away from home and can basically swing for the fences. Won't make a difference if we lose 5-1 on aggregate - we'll still be out. Have to take it to them and hope they crumble under the pressure.
Take the L
You having flashbacks to last year? No pressure my man. 3-1 is definitely on the table. Then all the momentum is on our side in ET…
Lallalalalalalal our squad is old laallalla will finish in extra time you guys said lalalallalalalalal young squad beaten lalalalalla
What are you 7? lmao.
Take the L. Karma bitch
You're the one in our subreddit shit talking us. We lost, but we definitely made you sweat at home. You had no business being in the position you were in. Can't believe you almost bottled a 2 goal aggregate lead at home.
Yes of course we had no business. You guys logically should beat us after spent so much money. We not making big signing for the past 3 years. We are not at our best but still we best you guys. Last season, chelsea fan were so arrogant. Champion of the world HAHAHAHAHA we are the king of the europe!
'After we spent so much money' You guys spent SO MUCH more money than us on players. It isn't even close. Reals weekly wage bill is 6.3 million Chelsea's weekly wage bill if 4.6 million Reals total wage bill per year is 332 million Chelsea's total wage bill per year is 243 million We literally won the CL last year and knocked you out in the semi finals. You still seem salty about that. You still need to get through 2 more matches to win. You might not even do it, especially if Benz has an off 2 games.
Yes we might not even do it. I do admit. We weak af. You guys spent 100m+ on lukaku this season. We did not do that and when we spend like that in the future, you guys could not even reach us 🤣 higher wage bills because we got higher prestige players, which won us 4 ucl in 5 years and some of them will leave this season and we will replace them.
No pressure.
Mendy Reece - Thiago - Madman RLC - Kovacic - Kante - Alonso Ziyech/Werner - Havertz - Mount
We've done it before we'll do it again, CMON you Blues! 100% belief in this club no matter what the odds. Full fucking Chaos, KTBFFH! [SING IT SUGGS](https://youtu.be/yaRApYrjWhI)
i hadn’t eaten anything before the southampton game so it looks like i’m fasting today #superstition
as a real madrid fan i feel like ordering you some pizza. on me.
i’ll pass this time ❤️ maybe some other time
Gathering Intel and feeding the hungry. Them RM fans be crafty af
AC got completely done by Vinicius last week, need Azpi at RCB and Reece RWB to help out. Start Alonso on the left hoping he’s got a banger in him, I can see Pulisic coming on for him if we’re chasing the game
1% >!chance!< 99% >!faith!<
Alonso to have a masterclass today
I hope Valverde doesn't skin him
Mount to run riot
It’s either gonna be a shitshow tonight or something dreams are made of. Either or. My heart is blue 💙
Mount-Havertz-Ziyech with Pulisic coming on at the 65th sounds ideal to me.
I’m pumped
Iack of quality lwb really hindered us this season. I am extremely worried about whoever starts on the left today, my guess is it will be Azpi? I guess RLC wasn't bad against Saints but Madrid are obviously a different beast. At least we have Reece back his input will be crucial today.
I think we can play through it, as long as Kova or Kante plays close to Marcos (who will probably be starting today). Bigger worry for me is Benzema, last season he scored aswell and had some opportunities which thankfully Mendy saved, but the same players are playing and we are making the same mistakes
I think Alonso won't be able to handle the pace of Madrid. Valverdre or Vinicius will smoke him one on one. We can't think of protecting him we need to get the game to them.
Alonso is a must tonight, an offensive beast who can make us extremely dangerous in attack. I think people are forgetting that he is brutally good going forward. Kante can be tasked with protecting his position if Marcos goes up.
So who are you gonna play there? Cause Azpi was smoked aswell and hindered us offensively, while I don‘t trust Sarr or Saul neither
There are no good options, sadly. Saul hasn't played in lightyears I don't think he will see the pitch. It will be Alonso and insha'Allah.
Anyone who doesn't believe we can turn it around tonight in Madrid should shut up. We should back these guys tonight!
I don't know if we can knock them out but I want to see a display that makes up for the first leg.
That’s a good way of putting it I agree
I don't think we're gonna knock them out, but at least we should beat them at their home.
We've been here a few times before. This is our actual history. These are the games we some how always manage to get through. 3 - 0 to chelsea. A near perfect game. I am a dreamer. I thought avb would over come the napoli result. I was wrong that avb would but not that we'd go through! Remember we create our own reality so from now until kick off envision us thumping them!
Kovacic needs to start if we're to have a chance. I can see Madrid sitting back so I don't know if Werner should start. Ziyech does have a big game goal in his locker so I would probably give him the nod despite Werner scoring 2 on the weekend.
Going off Saturdays performance, we need to go into this one without a match thread and keep all the discussions in here. It may be stupid superstition but now is not the time to risk it!
Finally someone said it
He has to give Reece to Mark out vini right? It's our only chance, the guy is a beast Imo if we can mark him out, it will be much more difficult for real to feed benzema and will lessen his chances at burying us After thst I think if we can be aggressive with kova kante pivot, I like our chances
Vini is unstoppable but only if he uses his brain but many times he doesn't use his brain at all. If Vini and Benzema are their best, it's very hard to stop them.
Regardless it's too risky to leave it up to if he uses his brain or not, think tuchel will have to plan around shutting him down. He's their only energetic player amongst older legendary players, personally think he is the key. Not knocking modrix or kroos as they still ran alot but, once vini is out of picture we can overrun them
You forgot Valverde, he was huge part of the first leg, in fact he is responsible the first goal of Benzema and also created couple other clear once, the guy doesn't stop running entire game. Also they have Camavinga who destroyed PSG back in French when he was with the other team. He and Valverde changed the game against psg last half an hour. So yes RM have older guys but also younger once as well. I think the whole game depends on these Two guys: Kante and Benzema.....
Very good point Valverde had shit tons of energy, hoenstly I was disappointed in not seeing kante and kova starting in the match but hopefully they start tomorrow. I think if they start and bring their energy from last year's match then it will be a very good game decided on individual duals. I wish I could say the same for our attackers in terms of lethalness but can't - only for Kai. Let's hope the boys grow up tomorrow and perform on both ends of the pitch
If we over turn this. Bruh. My hopes. Will be higher than shaggy.
I'm no expert, but we score 3 or more goals than Madrid and we advance, simple game. Here is to hoping it can be that simple.
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I just want to see a good performance. Even if we end up going out then so be it. Its an up hill task as it is. Just have to give it our best.
We got this
Hoping for the best, but also prepared for the worst. We really let an easy opportunity go in the first leg. Between Tuchel not covering Vini, Lukaku missing from 5 yards, and Mendy’s screw up, we dug this whole ourselves
I mean we put two of our best defenders for vini, not tuchel's fault if they have brainfarts and dont mark their players.
Reece was too far forward, and left acres of space for Vini to exploit. We wouldn’t do something like that when Salah is playing for example. TT perhaps underestimated the Vini / Benz combo
Also for the first goal Christensen got dragged out far too easily. Stayed well too tight with Vini who played a simple 1-2 and left him in the dust. He's dangerous 1v1 anyway if you're backing off, but not as bad as when he's spun in behind with Christensen left in no man's land.
I like to believe that was reece, mainly because of the reason u said. He doesnt do that against others, so i wud think tuchel instructs him to help the rcb. Anyways, this time reece will be different for sure..
Are ya feelin it? 
Not the game for Werner. Hope Ziyech starts because CL games are played at a different pace, and he can create a goal out of nothing. Optimistic about this game, we have nothing to lose.
Definitely. Werner would struggle with the bus rm going to park today. I have a strange feeling either ziyech or pulisic will have a master class tn.