EPL Round 28 - March 3, 2007 - Portsmouth v. Chelsea FC [R]

[GPK]

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5:15 PM GMT
12:15 PM EST

US TV: Live FSC
CN TV: SDD 12:30PM Rogers Sportsnet
UK TV: Live Premiership Plus PPV

Chelsea FC 18-6-3, 57 PTS, 2nd Place (-9)
Portsmouth 11-8-9, 41 PTS, 8th Place (-28)

Live on Big Blue & 102.2 FM London (tv.chelseafc.com)

ChelseaFC.com (http://www.chelseafc.com)

News on Soccernet (http://soccernet.espn.go.com/team?id=363&cc=5901)

TEAMtalk-Chelsea (http://www.teamtalk.com/teamtalk/News/Story_Listing/0,7759,1773,00.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+)

Other Fixtures - US TV

Saturday, March 3, 2007

07:45 ET Liverpool v Man Utd Live Setanta
10:00 ET Arsenal v Reading Live Setanta
10:00 ET Fulham v Aston Villa Live Setanta Xtra
10:00 ET Man City v Wigan SDD 2:15PM FSC
10:00 ET Newcastle v Middlesbrough Live FSC
10:00 ET Sheff Utd v Everton
10:00 ET Watford v Charlton

Sunday, March 4, 2007

08:35 ET Bolton v Blackburn Live Setanta
11:00 ET West Ham v Tottenham Live FSC

[GPK]

A couple of notes:

-I thought FSC got the 1st pick for the Saturday 10AM match? Why in the world would you choose Middlesbrough v. Newcastle over Arsenal v. Reading or the Fulham game with 3 Americans on the team?

-The Champions League game on Tuesday the 6th is on Setanta live at 2:45PM - its also on Internet PPV through Soccernet so make your plans...

-The FA Cup Quarterfinal v. Tottenham is on PPV on Sunday the 11th at 8:30AM ET. I would bet its $19.95, but not confirmed.

[yasik19]

the $1 million question is will Terry play?

[Gustav]

Very important game, a must win game for us. ManU will drop points at 'pool hopefully

[cooldude]

every game looks that way now.

[Clan]

Through the quirks of league scheduling, we have a favourable time to play Pompey.
Had we played them a few months ago, we would have had a far tougher game than I expect to see this weekend.

We are teams going in opposite directions right now.
We're on a high, fresh from a cup win, they're starting t oslide, remembering the days of not letting in goals and winning match after match as if it were from another season.

Tony Adams was on sky just the other day, saying they had to stick together and show the proper mettle to get through their current run and come back strong for the seasons end.

Mourinho will take that famous American quote..."Just win baby"

We could win big here.

[sportinglisbon1]

I'd start Robben and have him run right at Jonno for 90 minutes.

[fbinjamil]

I'd start Robben and have him run right at Jonno for 90 minutes.

jonno can't play, he's loaned from us, i bet primus will start at rightback

[cooldude]

I haven't watched much of portsmouth but i can tell he and kanu have been their best players. I dont like kanu and benjani (i just cant get his name right)
up against essein. They are exactly what jose describes as "classic EPL strikers" and portsmouth are a threat in set pieces too.
I hope we can sneak one here and i'll go out of my way to wish liverpool luck this weekend.

[Brook]

Another match I'll be at!

[Fenerbahce SK]

Johnson didn't play list time (can't play against us) and IIRC Pamorat (sp) played at RB. Robben had a blinder but couldn't score. Playing Robben in the starting 11 is inevitable.

[yasik19]

on Terry (http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/6516604)

[dooku]

Portsmouth away is a tough fixture anyday. Dont think that Terry should be risked if he hasnt sufficiently recovered from the blow mentally or physically. So that would mean Essien at CB and Robben starting. Robben is going to to give a torrid time to Pomarat and moreover he seems to have a good understanding with Bridge and Sheva so expecting us to dominate the left flank. And hoping for 'pool to do us a favour, we need it.

[fbinjamil]

Portsmouth away is a tough fixture anyday. Dont think that Terry should be risked if he hasnt sufficiently recovered from the blow mentally or physically. So that would mean Essien at CB and Robben starting. Robben is going to to give a torrid time to Pomarat and moreover he seems to have a good understanding with Bridge and Sheva so expecting us to dominate the left flank. And hoping for 'pool to do us a favour, we need it.

Terry is gonna play, no doubt about it, so Essien will probably start in midfield. i think Ballack should be dropped...

[CherryBomb]

Is Pompey in the prem?

;)

[Subbietron]

I wish Jose'd just go and smash the 3-3-4 system again, i so long to see Robben fully back in action, but anyways its pretty evident Jose's miffed in love with Ballack and sees something in him that the rest of the world DON'T...

[cooldude]

It's actually 4-3-3 and yes, ballack baffles me too.

[Subbietron]

^^^You got the gist....

[jorcaryvan]

I would like to see this:

---------------Cech----------------
--Ess----Riccy-------JT---Bridgey--
-----Diarra-----Maka----Lamps------
---Kalou--------DD-------Robben---

Subs:Carlo, Cashley, Bollocks, SWP, Sheva

It probably won't happen but you can always hope (if Mikel was available it would have been Mikel for Ballack on the bench).

[cooldude]

Why is essein at RB? Diarra has impressed me a lot this season but him for essein is one step too much.