Chelsea will host Manchester United this Sunday, November 5. It'll be on NBCSports at 11:30AM. If Chelsea lose this match, Conte will get the sack. I've been enjoying this really low alcohol pale ale by Zero Gravity Brewing called Little Wolf. Refreshing and tasty. And great can packaging, I might add. This is a brewery in Burlington, VT, which is a pretty cool place I haven't been to in awhile. I'm sure it's changed a lot. https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/zero-gravity-little-wolf/318187/ If you're in the NYC area, they make Doc's Cider in cans now, which is awesome. It's probably the Best Cider Ever Made in the History of this post.
Hopefully Kante can go the full 90. Fabregas needs to be on the bench no matter what. Would like to see a back 3 of AC-Luiz-Rudi. Unfortunately I think we'll see Gary-Luiz-Dave no matter what. Imagine Jose is counting on Fabregas starting when he sets up his side. In the 2nd half Fellaini will come on and look to get isolated on Dave and they'll play high balls at him.
I'm not predicting a win. I'm not predicting a loss. I'm not even predicting a draw. I am, however, predicting boredom.
I would love boring. Our defense being a shitshow = no fun, drab draw happening. So lets hope we don't get murdered, everyone suddenly wakes up, Kante's presence makes us not shit and we come out of this with a decent result.
I really hope to see 1 of these 2 formations... -----------Hazard------Morata---------- Alsono--Cesc--Luiz--Kante--Zappa -----Rudy---Christensen--Dave---- Or Hazard------Morata----------Pedro Alsono--Baka----Kante--Zappa ---Christensen--Luiz---Dave--- Cesc used as a second have sub here. Rudy was poor against Roma and while Dave has been off this year he's earned the benefit of the doubt in a huge game with large implications.
Just win. Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League in the UK, and Sportsnet World for the Canadians. I will most likely be exhausted because I have a concert tonight.
Well forget the football, the real topic here is beer in cans, for those of us in the UK of a certain age that means party 4s and party 7s Yuck. It has to be from the pump or at a pinch from the bottle. Well I will be travelling to the game on Sunday with a heavy heart. I gather that Conte read the riot act after the Roma game it will be interesting to see if this will prove to be an Arsenal moment or the beginning of the end as the players down tools.
I grew up going to CAMRA events and pubs with mum and dad and well versed in the world of real ale and tales of Party Sevens. I would also say that canned beer these days is better than bottled. Firstly, beer from a can doesn't taste metallic unless you drink from the can, so use a glass. They have done so many blind taste tests on this that it's long been put to bed. There is a lining in the can that prevents the metal from tainting the beer. Secondly, the can itself is a superior container for beer. Beer can get affected by heat, light and oxygen. Both a bottle and a can will have similar protection against heat, modern cans have better seals and far superior light protection as they are opaque whereas bottles generally are not. Game set match cans. Now, beer on draft wins every time but for beer that has been packaged at a brewery and sent to your local offy or supermarket, provided you don' drink from the container itself (and you really shouldn't) the can will be as good if not better than the bottle. And if you drink those abysmal adjuncts or euro pales then you deserve whatever bad taste comes your way. I agree though, this is an important topic and at least somewhat interesting
Chelsea team: Courtois; Azpilicueta, Christensen, Cahill (c); Zappacosta, Bakayoko, Kante, Fabregas, Alonso; Hazard, Morata.
did not make the team. A training injury perhaps? Chelsea FCVerified account @ChelseaFC 1m1 minute ago Chelsea subs today: Caballero, Rudiger, Ampadu, Drinkwater, Willian, Pedro, Batshuayi. #
Conte (not very convincingly) said it was tactical. Apparently a rumor they had a falling out. Who knows.
Will be interesting to see how much better he plays in a freer creative role now that Kante is back. Not much width the way we are set up so it may be too congested to open them up but also harder to break us down (not that it could be any easier).