Looking ahead to Dortmund – Talk Chelsea

Chelsea face Borussia Dortmund within the final 16 of the Champions League this night in leg one.

It presents Chelsea with a somewhat pressure-free likelihood for those who like, to place in a great efficiency and hopefully come away with a great consequence to convey again to Stamford Bridge. I say pressure-free, however with our social media fanbase you may by no means be absolutely pressure-free at Chelsea. However in a way that no one is anticipating us to win the UCL this season, and I’m positive not many are even anticipating us to get previous Dortmund, so the expectations are low off the again of our poor type and outcomes.

Whether or not that makes any odds in any respect stays to be recognized, however I could be within the minority once more in pondering we are able to knock Dortmund out right here.

Dortmund got here second of their UCL group, solely profitable two video games, drawing three, and shedding one.

Within the Bundesliga although, they’re in third place simply three factors off high spot after profitable each one among their final 5 matches. They rating lots of targets, however in addition they concede pretty freely.

Clearly we all know their dangermen, with Jude Bellingham being one among them. Though, it was reported yesterday that Youssoufa Moukoko is prone to be out for each legs after struggling an harm. That’s nice information for us.

They’ve a stable staff although with good expertise and high quality. They line up with a again 4, with Emre Can holding in entrance.

It will likely be fascinating to see how they strategy this recreation, with Dortmund additionally being a staff that prefer to have the lions share of possession, as do Chelsea. I can’t see them altering their ethos and which may really swimsuit Chelsea.

We have now struggled taking part in towards these low block groups who sit off and allow us to management, we battle to interrupt them down and discover probabilities. And with the likes of Mykhailo Mudryk, Noni Madueke, Joao Felix, and Enzo Fernandez, we may actually thrive with more room opening up in assault and taking part in extra on the counter for those who like. We have now some immense tempo and imaginative and prescient now, we are able to actually use that in one of these recreation.

It will likely be an fascinating match up for positive, and it’s a tough one to name. But when Chelsea can go there and get a consequence, not less than a draw, then now we have a extremely good likelihood to knock them out.

You’d assume that each Denis Zakaria and Mateo Kovacic will likely be in line for the squad, and Kovacic might be barely forward by way of a beginning place.

So with that in thoughts, right here is my predicted Potter beginning Xl:

Clearly there’s a query of fatigue for a few of the gamers comparable to Thiago Silva and even Reece James. However I additionally assume Potter will likely be very eager on placing on a great efficiency in entrance of the world, that he wont have a lot freedom to relaxation gamers. He wants all his key gamers.

I’m hoping that Ben Chilwell is lastly prepared for a begin too, as a result of Marc Cucurella must be taken out of the limelight.

The midfield issues me with a scarcity of defensive stability, however there actually aren’t many different choices nonetheless.

I feel we draw the primary leg and win the second again at Stamford Bridge! Let’s go Chelsea!