2nd Fixture - August 18th, 2009: Sunderland AFC v. Chelsea FC [R]

[Kazuma]

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Venue:
The Stadium of Light (Sunderland) (http://www.stadiumguide.com/stadiumoflight.htm)

Match Times & TV Listings:
07:45 PM BST (Local Time)
02:45 PM EST
11:45 AM PST

US TV: LIVE Setanta Sports USA
UK TV: ---- (Will change should something come up)
CN TV: LIVE Setanta Sports Canada;

Chelsea News:
Live on Big Blue (http://tv.chelseafc.com/)
Official Chelsea FC Website (http://www.chelseafc.com/)
Latest Chelsea News on Soccernet (http://soccernet.espn.go.com/team?id=363&cc=5901)
Team Talk Chelsea (http://www.teamtalk.com/football/news/0,16370,1773,00.html)
BBC-Chelsea (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/default.stm)
Latest Chelsea News From Google (http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=UTF-8&q=Chelsea+)
Latest Chelsea News from EuroSport (http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/chelsea/)
Chelsea News from NewsNow (http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Sport/Football/Premier+League/Chelsea)

Last Season's Corresponding Fixture:
Sunderland 2 : Chelsea 3

Injuries:
Ferreira (ACL) (http://www.chelseafc.com/news/paulos-progress-20090811_2243335_1750953)
J. Cole (Meniscus)
Zhirkov (Knee)
Alex (Groin)
Belletti (Achilles)

[Kazuma]

Let's not concede two like last time.

Anyway, I won't be able to watch this tomorrow as I have exams unfortunately so I'll be avoiding all footy related sites from noon till the early evening.

[Dear_Claudio]

FSC and their Champions League... should be plenty of streams tomorrow for those of us who don't have Setanta.

[srd....]

my Setanta channels are showing champions league matches ffs :mad:

[GPK]

We play tomorrow? Wow. I need to print a new schedule and post it in my cube.

[fernb8]

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/safc/Wide-boys-are-doubts-for.5560258.jp

Sunlun missing a few players.

[I-Got-The-BLUES]

On vacation, so gonna miss this one as well.
2+ goals and a clean sheet will do me fine though.

[Ben7021]

I'm predicting two goals until we have a game that goes differently.

[I-Got-The-BLUES]

I'm predicting two goals until we have a game that goes differently.76 goals for the season....can't complain about that:cool:

[yasik19]

This is going to be a tougher game than Hull City. Bent and Jones can give us some trouble, and I don't expect the diamond to click just yet.

[SteelShot]

Crap, didnt know we had a game so soon. Well boys, lets get another 3 pts.

[Dear_Claudio]

Methinks this will be a tough one. Sunderland have improved by leaps and bounds since they came up and are a bona fide Premier League team atm with a solid manager. Not only that, but we are going way up narf on a Tuesday night and it's their first home match. If we scrape a win I will be pleased.

[fernb8]

Methinks this will be a tough one. Sunderland have improved by leaps and bounds since they came up and are a bona fide Premier League team atm with a solid manager. Not only that, but we are going way up narf on a Tuesday night and it's their first home match. If we scrape a win I will be pleased.

would not be suprised to see Ivanovic deployed at RB for this one

as for the rest- I think you are spot on.

[Dear_Claudio]

Looks like they are getting Mensah on loan from Lyon, certainly not in time for this game which is good news.

[fernb8]

Looks like they are getting Mensah on loan from Lyon, certainly not in time for this game which is good news.

Bruce is quietly building a good squad, although they do need to upgrade on the defensive end.

[Bruckner283]

Methinks this will be a tough one. Sunderland have improved by leaps and bounds since they came up and are a bona fide Premier League team atm with a solid manager. Not only that, but we are going way up narf on a Tuesday night and it's their first home match. If we scrape a win I will be pleased.

Indeed. Hopefully another 2-1 but I can see a 1-1 draw happening as well.

[sstarch1]

Indeed. Hopefully another 2-1 but I can see a 1-1 draw happening as well.

I wish we had a name like "The Stadium of Light".

[La-Furia]

Deco to score 5 and fernb8 to fly to New Zealand to stab me.

I kid! I love how often games are, you gotta keep up!

[nicephoras]

I wish we had a name like "The Stadium of Light".

I quite like having a stadium named for the site of one of the most iconic battles of the Middle Ages.

[Dear_Claudio]

I was gonna say, Stamford Bridge is one of the best stadium names in the world. There is at least one more Stadium of Light in the world and it's a better venue.