Chelsea make the long journey up north to Tyneside on Saturday to face off against Sunderland, in what will be their final match before making the even longer journey halfway 'round the world to Japan to participate in the FIFA World Club Cup.

Chelsea come into this match having not won in the League in a month an a half, although the 6-1 rout of FC Nordsjaelland in the Champions League mid-week will have doubtless raised spirits and confidence among the camp a bit.

Sunderland themselves have been in shocking form this season as well, and are being sucked into the relegation fight further and further every week. The Black Cats now have just 2 wins in their last 22 Premier League games, and the pressure on manager Martin O'Neill is increasing by the week.

Sunderland will be without Lee Clattermole, Steven Fletcher, John O'Shea, and Wes Brown, while Chelsea will be missing captain John Terry, whilst news on the statuses of Daniel Sturridge and Frank Lampard is set to come later in the week.

Gotta love Shed and his previews

Soul wrote:Gotta love Shed and his previews

Eh, the synopses themselves are pretty garbage, I just try to write anything down so we can have a thread to discuss each match


And, considering you lazy lot have left the responsibilty of these individual match threads solely up to me, you'll get what you get and you'll like it, dammit!

lol you know, at first I thought you were just linking some stuff externally but after we started to decline your emotions started to show and I got that you were the one writing the synopsis all along

Soul wrote:lol you know, at first I thought you were just linking some stuff externally but after we started to decline your emotions started to show and I got that you were the one writing the synopsis all along

Yep, it's all me. A few minutes to write that, as well as 5-10 to make my usual graphic, and that's about it

damn u actually write that? awesome mate! u know i could offer you a job at this site called goal legacy to preview Chelsea matches.

lol, I would make them but I am too busy! If you want Shed, we can alternate weeks or matches if you don't want to do them.

Kick wrote:lol, I would make them but I am too busy! If you want Shed, we can alternate weeks or matches if you don't want to do them.

Nah, I don't mind. Just thought I'd put on a little pity party for myself while I had the chance

Seems FSW doesn't have the balls to play all of Hazard, Mata and Oscar at the same time, even against relegation fodder

So now we're without Ramires and Mikel for Leeds, in addition to Romeu having gone off injured and Lampard just returning from 2 months on the sideline.

Great

lampard-oscar pivot FTW

Ganso wrote:lampard-oscar pivot FTW

Against one of the worst sides in the league...

ShedEnd1905 wrote:Seems FSW doesn't have the balls to play all of Hazard, Mata and Oscar at the same time, even against relegation fodder

I read in an interview with RDM a month or two ago that his original intention was not to have all three of them play together, but have depth to each of their positions, but it turned out great that they mesh so well, thought it was interesting.

http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/109116758#pm_cmp=vid_OEV_P_P

Full MOTD highlights

nice to see Torres score for a change... Hazard was good too

good to get a win, I couldn't watch the match but it seemed the early goal helped. It was a good goal too.