Revenge is a dish best served aggressively in to Chelsea’s face
Add comment February 7th, 2010
I’ve spent the past week in Manchester. Taking in to account our result against United last week, you’d think that’d be a painful experience. Fortunately, however, there aren’t all that many United fans in Manchester. It’s actually trickier to be in the South.
Should we lose today against Chelsea, there’ll be no escape. Not only am I committed to being in London for the next seven days, but I’m related to a good many Chelsea fans. The pain of our 0-3 trouncing back in November is still strong – today is a chance to overturn that.
Team selection will be interesting today. Last week’s performance suggests changes ought to be made, but there are two problems with that: 1) the likes of Bendtner and Diaby are not yet back to full fitness, and 2) it’s almost too big a game to throw more inexperienced players, like Fabianski and Ramsey, in to the fray.
Of those two the Welshman is more likely to start, with Denilson the man who seems the most probably absentee. Upfront Andrey Arshavin will struggle manfully against Chelsea’s centre-backs, but it’s going to take some rather special attacking play for us to score today. Either that, or Andrey disguises himself as a French lingerie model.
The players know the score today. Winning would be fantastic – avoiding defeat is essential.
Come On You Reds.
