Mata is definitely coming on.. I'd take Marin off.. And Oscar.

Put Ba on too. And keep the crosses coming in. You can't play silky passes on this surface... and it's only gonna get worse.

How does it make you feel when you see Torres walking around earning £200k a week against those lot.

He's probably earning 4x the total salary of the whole Brentford team put together.

I've defended him quite a lot for you lot but he's a disgrace today.

bet365 offering 15/8 for chelsea to win? that pretty much sums up how sheeite we were in the first half.

Fair to say we are in a serious bit of bother here.

The game reminds me a lot of the Barnsley match 5 years which was also played on a difficult pitch and bearing in mind Rafa's track record with substitutions I don't fancy us.

This is sort of pitch to play both Ba and Torres cause we are not going to pass neatly and quick through sand and mud.

Oscar what's going on? You were always the big donkey's champion?

Mata and Yossi for Marin and Bertrand/Cole

The pitch is bad but remember, this is the one our under-21's play on.
We can't complain too hard about it.

Oscar

I thought Torres was gonna kick start his career after that CL goal against Barca, but he's heading in the wrong direction since

Ba on for Torres NOW.

Give Torres his P45.

Roman....no we to go direct. this pitch is not for the lightweight players who pass short..

Biggish...............

I do not want a replay under any circumstances............This squad needs a rest.

10 behind the ball in the 2nd half ?..............It's going to be tough !

like i mentioned this game is following a distinct trend with deep lying teams who counter and profit from our Ck ups! woeful ! however the worst thing is we just havnt learnt from all those previous games that went the same way...

rather a replay than a defeat Flash

ROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE BLUE, I SUCK AT RHYMING, SO RAFA CAN GO AND FCK HIMSELF

so Rafa fúck you?

I feel a wum fest coming our way....

Couldn't Care less of we win or lose

As long as we finish in top 4means more, don't want any trophies with rafa n charge

Yeah keep Torres on take of Bertrand for Ba and and maybe Oscar for Mata, seriously the pitch on our half is not that bad we should see a lot more passes coming off, but you just know they are going to be parking the bus.

Rafa

Players to blame for that first 45 minutes not the manager, but Rafa has the responsibility to put it right but making the right subs

Thank god i don't pay to watch ESPN.............I'd feel devastated if i got it just to see this match.

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to be fair our U21 squad would have done betther the first half than this shower. We have become a 2 man team and a bunch of passengers

At least with Di Matteo our team looked like they were playing for each other.

Now we're just a team of individuals pulling in different directions. Shameful.

Di Matteo was doing better with the pressure of trying to get us to play a very attacking way, then Benitez is now without that pressure.

Rafa is a joke. Roman is a joke for hiring him.