Tyler

didn't warnock play a weakened team against united as he felt better off resting players for a game the following weekend that he thought they would get something from teams in title race could have complained about that but didn't

you're right but its the same for most "prestigious" sporting events where demand is greater than supply what gets me is that travel agents/ticket agents can source these tickets almost at will which suggests there is a definite grey market in these tickets once that is tolerated then this will happen as somebody pointed out above there is a real security risk if the wrong two teams end up in the final play the final as a home and away game anyone?

i thought we would win on penalties and he would score the fifth happy to be proved wrong though

I think that losing 1-0 in the away leg helped in the sense that when we scored last night we kept attacking as it was such a precarious position in that if they scored we would need two. If it was 2-1 last night and we were one up - human nature would have meant we would have started to hang on as they would need two to knock us out

diamond travel are taking bookings as well for 2,750 one night trip

have got two quotes premier soccer - 1299 - no ticket included and ticket not guaranteed abbey travel - ticket included - 1999 if its milan 3249 if its united both two night trips

packages or are you making your own way any idea on who will be running a package trip

8 ball got it wrong for the first game dare we trust it this time crowd needs to come out of the blocks quickly no saving themselves for extra time and penalties club should provide something to gargle with at half time and full time no flags needed

is this chelsea's fourth cl semi final in four years? can't remember if they were in semi final last year

statistics do suggest that chelsea will go through tonight fowler to win the game with the fifth penalty of a penalty shoot out is what will happen though I expect a juventus type performance tonight - tempo tempo tempo chelsea are expected to play 4 - 3 - 3 cech cole terry essien ferreira lampard makele mikel cole drogba kalou going to be very difficult to play through that need to get finnan, riise, pennant, gerrard/gonzalez into advanced positions to cross ball for crouch at back post where he can knock down or get on target rafa has said that chelsea targetted agger in last game - will be interesting to see what we do to counteract it - maybe sissoko will start instead of mascherano and play in front of drogba

mind games

assume he comes on for 20 minutes tonight surely there is nothing to lose in naming him on the bench tomorrow 10 minutes to go and we need a goal - throw him on

two years ago there was a spontaneity about it will be interesting to see if it will be as intense again finnan reported as being fit i expect team to be reina finnan carra agger arbe gerrard alonso masch riise crouch kuyt in some ways i would like to see us play reina finnan carra agger riise pennant alonso mascherano gonzalez gerrard crouch

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i agree - crowd may not shake them this time but it should raise our lads games

interesting three at the back would certainly be surprising - sami is also a goal threat from corners we didn't threaten once at stamford bridge from corners could be an option if finnan is still out we need to play diagonal balls to back post for crouch to knock down and hopefully gerrard/riise arrving from midfield can get on the end of them i could see front two being crouch and bellamy. bellamy is more mobile than kuyt and could get on the end of knock downs from crouch i think we will score against them so keeping a clean sheet is key close down/charge down every thing they do/crowd will help but its a question of who wants it more saturday result could galvanise chelsea as their backs are to the wall if we score early it will get interesting i would like to see us have a real go at them and see if they crack

anybody think hyypia will come in for agger?

if true it definitely helps us

key is to stop them scoring we will get a chance or two - question is will we take them

our delivery is generally shocking we didn't threaten from corners last night finnan should take corners and gerrard should be in the box

agger should have hacked him down in midfield during the run that led to their goal we need to inject some cynicism into our game

i think rafa played it tight tonight zenden played to give us solidity especially with riise behind pennant or gonzalez would have left riise exposed we had a lot of possession and chelsea played like the away team we do seem to lack a cutting edge at times but i think at anfield the players will have more belief our record at stamford bridge is fairly shocking though when did we last win there?

their defence looked good because we played in front of them need to get behind them with pace on tuesday

zenden did well we didn't commit enough players forward also tried to play it through the middle too much asking too much of kuyt gerrard mash alonso in midfield kewell pennant out wide crouch up front for next game finnan was missed as well arbe didn't get forward quickly enough still in it but lack of an away goal is worrying