Please use this thread for all posts relating to our UEFA Conference League match against Gent at Stamford Bridge before, during and after the game.

The match is scheduled to kick off at 20:00 hours on Thursday, 3rd October 2024 (Local UK time/date) (Live on TNT Sports)

On the positive side, we won't find Oliver in any REF or VAR role for this. 😁

They won 3-0 over the weekend, so we'll have to make sure we're a lot better than we were in both legs against Servette. 

 

Fully expecting the changes to be rung here, would be happy to see Nkunku, Madueke and Sancho stop up top.  Hopefully we can get ourselves off to a strong start. 

My team: 

Jorgensen 

Tosin Disasi Badiashile Chilwell 

Enzo Veiga 

Madueke Felix Sancho 

Nkunku

Looking forward to this as I assume it will be the same as the Barrow lineup. Expecting a lot of goals (in both nets haha).

6 hours ago, CarefreeMuratcan said:

Looking forward to this as I assume it will be the same as the Barrow lineup. Expecting a lot of goals (in both nets haha).

Guess it must be. Maybe Gusto doesn't play, as his record isn't great either.

 

Nice to look forward to games again. 

Eidur Gudjohnsen's son plays for Gent.

14 hours ago, Bert19 said:

They won 3-0 over the weekend, so we'll have to make sure we're a lot better than we were in both legs against Servette. 

 

Fully expecting the changes to be rung here, would be happy to see Nkunku, Madueke and Sancho stop up top.  Hopefully we can get ourselves off to a strong start. 

My team: 

Jorgensen 

Tosin Disasi Badiashile Chilwell 

Enzo Veiga 

Madueke Felix Sancho 

Nkunku

Don’t think chilwell was registered (could be wrong) would like to see chukwuemeka maybe Dewsbury-Hall in midfield 

9 hours ago, CarefreeMuratcan said:

Eidur Gudjohnsen's son plays for Gent.

Is it the little one who scored at the Bridge when he was a toddler and then held his arms aloft in triumph? Hope so.

57 minutes ago, Mark Kelly said:

Is it the little one who scored at the Bridge when he was a toddler and then held his arms aloft in triumph? Hope so.

Such a lovely moment. As for Eidur…no words. For me, just a genius. Magnificent, amazing footballer who loved Chelsea and we loved him.  Since my first match in 1979 I’ve seen so many incredible players and it’s so hard to rank them but Eidur is one of the top 5 for me. 🇮🇸 🇬🇧 @JaneB 
 

PS for me, 1. Sir Franco  2. SFL  3. King Kerry 4. Eidur 5. Pat Nevin 

10 hours ago, CarefreeMuratcan said:

Eidur Gudjohnsen's son plays for Gent.

Marvellous.

1 hour ago, Mark Kelly said:

Is it the little one who scored at the Bridge when he was a toddler and then held his arms aloft in triumph? Hope so.

Christ, I am old.

Was at the game.

21 minutes ago, Chelsea_Matt said:

Such a lovely moment. As for Eidur…no words. For me, just a genius. Magnificent, amazing footballer who loved Chelsea and we loved him.  Since my first match in 1979 I’ve seen so many incredible players and it’s so hard to rank them but Eidur is one of the top 5 for me. 🇮🇸 🇬🇧 @JaneB 
 

PS for me, 1. Sir Franco  2. SFL  3. King Kerry 4. Eidur 5. Pat Nevin 

Loved Eidur. Fabulous to watch. If he had a yard more pace, he'd have been absolutely elite.

2 hours ago, Mark Kelly said:

Is it the little one who scored at the Bridge when he was a toddler and then held his arms aloft in triumph? Hope so.

Blimey - thought that was only a couple of years ago - how time flies ...

1 hour ago, paulw66 said:

Marvellous.

Christ, I am old.

Was at the game.

Loved Eidur. Fabulous to watch. If he had a yard more pace, he'd have been absolutely elite.

 

1 hour ago, Chelsea_Matt said:

Such a lovely moment. As for Eidur…no words. For me, just a genius. Magnificent, amazing footballer who loved Chelsea and we loved him.  Since my first match in 1979 I’ve seen so many incredible players and it’s so hard to rank them but Eidur is one of the top 5 for me. 🇮🇸 🇬🇧 @JaneB 
 

PS for me, 1. Sir Franco  2. SFL  3. King Kerry 4. Eidur 5. Pat Nevin 

In my mind I associate him with the pre Roman Ranieri era, but he of course nabbed himself 2 PL titles before he left.

Just looked at his stats, in 04-05 PL 37 games played and 12 goals scored. Not too shabby. I was at the hatrick he scored against Blackburn that season (Arjen Robben's debut as well that game).
 
But my favourite memories of him will forever be the overhead kick against Leeds in 02-03, goal at Old Trafford in 3-0 win in 01-02 and his opening goal in the 4-2 win vs Barca (the latter is still my favourite ever Chelsea game I have attended).

18 minutes ago, CarefreeMuratcan said:

 

In my mind I associate him with the pre Roman Ranieri era, but he of course nabbed himself 2 PL titles before he left.

Just looked at his stats, in 04-05 PL 37 games played and 12 goals scored. Not too shabby. I was at the hatrick he scored against Blackburn that season (Arjen Robben's debut as well that game).
 
But my favourite memories of him will forever be the overhead kick against Leeds in 02-03, goal at Old Trafford in 3-0 win in 01-02 and his opening goal in the 4-2 win vs Barca (the latter is still my favourite ever Chelsea game I have attended).

I was in the West Posho seats when he scored THAT goal against Leeds. What a game. So glad we won but even more so because of that moment. 🇮🇸🫶🏻🤩

Eidur and Jimmy........WOW!!!!

I wonder if we might field an all changed side from Saturday? 

IE: 

Jorgensen, Veiga, Disasi, Tosin, Badiashile, Lavia, KDH, Chukwuemeka,  Felix, Nkunku, Mudryk. 

Would be pretty cool and a fun exercise showing how deep our squad is now. 

Edited October 1, 2024Oct 1 by Morgs

2 hours ago, Morgs said:

I wonder if we might field an all changed side from Saturday? 

IE: 

Jorgensen, Veiga, Disasi, Tosin, Badiashile, Lavia, KDH, Chukwuemeka,  Felix, Nkunku, Mudryk. 

Would be pretty cool and a fun exercise showing how deep our squad is now. 

Are they all in the UECL squad? I'm sure Lavia isn't. 

20 hours ago, Morgs said:

I wonder if we might field an all changed side from Saturday? 

IE: 

Jorgensen, Veiga, Disasi, Tosin, Badiashile, Lavia, KDH, Chukwuemeka,  Felix, Nkunku, Mudryk. 

Would be pretty cool and a fun exercise showing how deep our squad is now. 

well, we did it in the league cup

at the moment, not impossible we have a cup XI and a league XI

 

Looking forward to this one, looking forward to seeing how the 'back ups' get on and maybe another Nkunku hat trick! I presume it will be 11 changes again, so I expect to see:

Looking to see Casadei play again..get the feeling he is a "sleeper" somewhat under the radar at this time and at 21 has time on his side.

Not a nailed on prophecy but worth watching I think.

26 minutes ago, chara said:

Looking to see Casadei play again..get the feeling he is a "sleeper" somewhat under the radar at this time and at 21 has time on his side.

Not a nailed on prophecy but worth watching I think.

He's quite a unit too.  Useful in a battle.  

7 minutes ago, Ham said:

He's quite a unit too.  Useful in a battle.  

That's what I thought....seemed to be "rallying the troops" as well...all understated but when I recall so many cases of "The Next Coming" only to see them fall short (for whatever reason) I like the understated.

On 30/09/2024 at 22:26, CarefreeMuratcan said:

Eidur Gudjohnsen's son plays for Gent.

We should role out the blue carpet for that young man. What a beautiful player Eidur was….and a true blue too boot. 

On 01/10/2024 at 08:50, Chelsea_Matt said:

Such a lovely moment. As for Eidur…no words. For me, just a genius. Magnificent, amazing footballer who loved Chelsea and we loved him.  Since my first match in 1979 I’ve seen so many incredible players and it’s so hard to rank them but Eidur is one of the top 5 for me. 🇮🇸 🇬🇧 @JaneB 
 

PS for me, 1. Sir Franco  2. SFL  3. King Kerry 4. Eidur 5. Pat Nevin 

Interesting isn’t when people say  we only became a team when Roman arrived. Some of those 80s and 90s teams still make my heart sing. Happy and maybe more uncomplicated times.