Preseason Match 3 - July 24th, 2009 - Chelsea FC vs. AC Milan

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Venue:
M&T Bank Stadium. (Baltimore, Maryland)


Match Times & TV Listings:
8:00 PM EST (Local Time)
5:00 PM PST
1:00 AM GMT (Saturday Morning)

US TV: Live ESPN | ESPN HD | ESPN Deportes
UK TV: Live Chelsea TV
CN TV: ---
Online & Mobile: ESPN MobileTV


2009 World Football Challenge Table Position:
Chelsea 1-0-0-0, 5 PTS, 2nd Place (-3)
AC Milan, 0-0-0-1, 0 PTS, 4th Place (-7)


News:
Live on Big Blue
Official Chelsea FC Website
Latest Chelsea News on Soccernet
Team Talk Chelsea
BBC-Chelsea
Latest Chelsea News From Google
Latest Chelsea News from EuroSport


Notes:
- Ancelotti and that guy with the cool hair, face off against their old club.

- Eddie26's Chelsea in Baltimore Thread:
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1076519

Nice job - I know its pre-season, but don't forget the [R] at the end of the title...

I think we should have one thread starter this year, btw. Not sure what everyone else is thinking.

I'm thinking..."Heeeeeeeeeeeeell Yeah!!!!!!!!!""" Imagonna be there!!!!!

Ashley trying to get on my goodside says the League is the bigggest prize

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/288925.html

as does Supah, but he is always on my goodside:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...k-Lampard-Premier-League-is-the-priority.html

another win please, put both milans where they belong

somehow i expect pirlo to give us a good fight, if hes playing that is

They both are doing a good job. Kudos to them. I guess it would be unfair to pick one of them. I guess they can divide the season between them.

My 2 cents.

One does Homes, one does Aways. Simples.

Ashley making friends with his old team, or sucking up to hopefully new rich friends, he wants City to knock them out of top 4

http://www.espnstar.com/football/pr...l/item296551/Cole-backs-City-to-oust-Arsenal/

Someone explain how this works, please?

FYI, the practice tonight was cancelled

We've had torrential rains today.


BTW, the Milan team bus is about to pull up to the hotel next to my office. Chelsea are staying somewhere else.

This 82°F will tomorrow's weather 6pm according to weather.com.

I didn't get down in time to throw anything, much less get any photos of my coworker shilling for autographs.

I'll be heading up to Baltimore around 5ish today.

This one will be a really interesting match to watch. I want to really see how Ancelotti will setup the team versus his ex-team. Ancelotti knows Milan perfectly and new Milan coach, Leonardo knows Ancelotti very well, so it'll be very curious to see what kind of game will come out all of this. Leonardo is probably one of the most hazardous moves a club in Italy has ever undertaken in these last years, probably trying to set another Guardiola-effect. I must admit this for me, as I'm both a Chelsea and Milan fan, is probably the hottest match of this summer to watch.

It's weird to see your name in blue rather than red.
And yea, you know pre-season is where we work out all the kinks, before the real stuff starts...things shall be perfect for the regular season lol

Mod, can you edit the [R] in the title, por favor?

And I don't mind doing the thread or splitting with Kaz

Yessir!

The table goes like this:

Wins -- PK Wins -- PK Losses -- Losses

- 3 points for a win
- 2 points for a PK win
- 1 point for a PK loss

You also get a point for every goal scored in regulation time. (Maximum of 3 points)

Shame I'm unable to go to this one.

Anyway, if Zhirkov has his permit sorted out I want to see him start and a partnership of Drogba-Sturridge.

EDIT: http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~1731793,00.html All I can say is hell yeah.

effing journo's (except Kaz of couse, well usually)

but here is the full Mikel quote from Carlo, far less worring than how the Telegraph, I think, had it

Sat alongside Ancelotti was John Mikel Obi, who it was announced this week has signed a new contract with the club that runs until 2014.


'Obi is a young player, he has great quality, technical, tactical, for the present and for the future he is a very important player for us,' the manager said.


'We are very happy he has signed a new contract, and I hope that he stays at Chelsea for a lot of years and I would like that he puts for the team his great quality.'

Should be fun to see tomorrow night. Stinks I couldn't make it down with the job. Have fun all. Wondering if you kids in Europe are staying up for the live broadcast

Cheers.

Go On Chelsea.

Don't know about the kids but this grumpy old sod will be there. I got up at 5Am to watch the 2nd half of the Inter game live before heading out to work. I caught the rest when I got back. Looking forward to seeing what Zhirkov can do and where he is played.

I finish work at 11, so I'll stay up and try to catch a stream.



To all those going to Bodymore, Muddaland - don't get captured

Funny thing - when I was typing kids I was thinking of you