Swansea v Chelsea

[ShearerTheLegend]

Tuesday 31st January 2012
Kick-off: 20.45
(live @ Sky Sport Extra)
Liberty Stadium



Swansea City
(13th)
v
Chelsea FC
(4th)

Swansea return to the Liberty Stadium after being dumped out of the FA Cup at Bolton. Brendan Rodgers’ side saw their four-game Barclays Premier League unbeaten run come to an end at Sunderland last time out and will be glad to return to home soil, where they beat Arsenal in their previous outing. Indeed, they have only tasted defeat once on their own patch this term, a 1-0 reverse to Manchester United, picking up 20 of their 26 points at home. Chelsea edged past QPR in the FA Cup on Saturday in controversial fashion. The Blues are unbeaten in their last six on the road, conceding just three goals in the process.





• Danny Graham has scored in four of his last six Premier League starts at the Liberty Stadium.
• Fernando Torres has now failed to score in 11 consecutive PL apps, beating his previous worst record of 10 apps (Jan-Apr 2011).



Brendan Rodgers will select his favoured XI for the visit of Chelsea after making several changes for Saturday's FA Cup tie against Bolton and the likes of Michel Vorm, Steven Caulker, Neil Taylor, Joe Allen, Gylfi Sigurdsson and Danny Graham are all set to return. But on-loan midfielder Josh McEachran is unavailable for selection against his parent club.

Chelsea captain John Terry is ruled out after aggravating a knee injury. That means £7million January signing Gary Cahill should make his debut for the club alongside Brazilian David Luiz at the heart of defence. Frank Lampard misses out with a calf niggle, John Obi Mikel has a hamstring injury, and Ramires faces up to four weeks on the sidelines with medial knee ligament damage.

Possible starting XIs:
M Vorm • A Rangel, S Caulker, A Williams, N Taylor • L Britton, J Allen • N Dyer, G Sigurdsson, S Sinclair • D Graham
P Cech • B Ivanovic (or J Bosingwa), D Luiz, G Cahill, A Cole • R Meireles, O Romeu, F Malouda • D Sturridge, F Torres, JM Mata

[antshearer]

1-1 con pari al 90esimo e sotto di un uomo. 12 gare di fila senza segnare per torres se ho letto bene (1,074 minutes)

[TNS_87]

Cole espulso al 86esimo per doppia ammonizione ed autorete di Neil Taylor al 93esimo.
Non ho visto la gara ma deduco sia stato il solito Chelsea lento di Boas.

[Parker]

Io l'ho vista e devo dire che è stato il solito Chelsea, molto presente in avanti, ma senza idee per concretizzare.

In più ha trovato uno Swansea che meritava ampiamente la vittoria e che ha giocato con molto cuore, alla fine è arrivata questa autorete sfortunatissima oltre che immeritata.

Peccato davvero, 3 punti che sarebbero stati d'oro per lo Swansea diventano 1 punto inutile per entrambe...