Ba HAS to start, and we need to score early too.

Come on blues, this is our best chance of a trophy this season.

It is indeed!

FA Cup is fully on, Benitez knows what he's doing in Europe as well so we've got a shot at that as long we commit to it. I don't think this is our only chance at silverware at all.

Would not have thought so, The guy is a number 1 and wont want to come here to play league cup games.

Dont see him in a Chelsea shirt for another season or so yet, Plus we keep Madrid sweet hopefully builds a rel/ship between the two club and give us a head start in signing a certain striker of theirs

We have their keeper (which they love) and a former striker they would want back.

Surely thats a good start to bargaining for that striker of theirs?

Torries will only get us so far with them, Although they love Torries out there (it was 5-1 on which fans had Torries shirts on when i went to the Super-cup), Giving them one of the top keepers for another 2 seasons will be the bigger deal and maybe just swing it for us

It works for us as Cech is still good enough (and with Lamps going we need his experence on the pitch) plus he getting games in week out on loan which is another good point for us.

We do need to find a backup keeper which wont be easy, I dont trust Turnbull (although he has done okish when called) enough for me to think we could go with him for a long run of games.

Torres on bench

Hazard Oscar Mata and Ba up front!

Lets hope it doesn't get snowed off

Glad Ba's starting, if we have any chance of getting through we needed him to start and he his. I'm confident we can do it.

We simply have to score first. Lets hope we start strong with a high tempo.

Backing us to win tonight, i think Swansea were lucky against us previously so i really do think we could smash them tonight.

Not good, Demba.

Comical from Ba.

Michu should have buried that.

Swansea looking dangerous! Have to keep them out.

Sky have replayed the Ba incident 12 times and yes, it's still blatantly obvious that he dived.

At least arsenal are losing at west ham, keeping us out of the headlines tomorrow!

That would be of no comfort to me.

We look shit.

Come on, we need an early goal to put some pressure on Swansea.

I think it's safe to say that post-32 minutes is no longer early.

slow start not really threatened at all but Swansea look deadly on the counter and should already be 1-0 up, Michu not burying a brilliant chance is a rarity. Still think if we can get a goal by half time we will go on and win this.

Let me rephrase that...

We need to get a goal before half time to give Swansea something to think about.

Too many players are shaving the sides of their heads.


I don't like it. Stop it, right now.

Every commentator in Britain pronounces Eden Hazard's name differently.

We'll improve when Luiz comes on in the 80th minute.

Ray Parlour has used 6 different pronunciations himself in the first half hour this evening. What an unprofessional idiot.