Rant Box: Chelsea v. AC Milan

By: Jack | July 28th, 2012

Chelsea’s tour of the United States comes to a close tonight on South Beach against Milan, a club we defeated on American soil three years ago. Drogba opened with a stunner that evening. Expect some proper competition tonight – and, you know, a little bit of Nando.

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I’ll miss Sheva.

Team sheets
Chelsea
Petr Cech; Branislav Ivanovic, David Luiz, John Terry (c), Ashley Cole; John Mikel Obi, Frank Lampard; Ramires, Eden Hazard, Raul Meireles; Romelu Lukaku. Bench: Jamal Blackman, Paulo Ferreira, Sam Hutchinson, Nathaniel Chalobah, Gary Cahill, Michael Essien, Marko Marin, Florent Malouda, Lucas Piazon, Fernando Torres.

AC Milan
AC Milan: Marco Amelia, Luca Antonini, Mario Yepes, Daniele Bonera, Djamel Mesbah, Massimo Ambrosini, Bakaye Traore, Mathieu Flamini, Kevin Prince-Boateng, Urby Emanuelson, Stephen El Shaarawy. Bench: Mattia De Sciglio, Antonio Nocerino, Francesco Acerbi, Riccardo Montolvio, Ignazio Abate, Bryan Cristante, Simone Andrea Ganz, Mattia Valoti, Edoardo Pazzagli, Philipp Prosenik, Antonio Cassano.

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Max_curran

Over Monday and Tuesday i have not stopped thinking about this ridiculous result Liverpool achieved on the weekend.

As Chelsea SHOULD of learnt through the years that we thave to be
putting away the chances against Liverpool. We shown that we are the
better side against united and Liverpool but this result could prove to
be fatal.

Tactial we were great although we seem to drop off through part of the game. But the substitutions were off.

RDM……Who doesn’t t love him but Sunday he brought on the wrong people.
Torres shouldn’t of come off….football is made of moments and who knows
what would of happened…people say he wouldn’t of scored but it seemed to
be set up for him to do so.. some may not agree but this may prove
chelsea are fed up with the non scoring antics but yet he is only 4 away
from the top scorers. Dont get me wrong we do need another striker but
it will take torres one game or moment to prove he is up to it.

Oscar…What a signing…the unknown turns into the most known, vital to
chelsea. gives chelsea that tick but surley if studridge is going to
come he better on the wing although he thinks he not, he proved last
season he was up for it but this season it seems like he cant connect to
way chelsea going aka Oscar mata hazzard torres link play well. I’m
just not sure if he is up to it.

Moses-Marin these players
need to show them selves and moses has done so…(Great replacement for
kalou) Marin, the man is a unknown player but was meant to be a bargain
when we brought him…

Im sure people might get my gist but there is a long way to go and i
think man city can not be forgotten about as they have not lost a
game!!!!

Im Aware of the process we going through but the squad needs to be expanded,

Profits risen but roman step up again my friend cause we want this chelsea to team to be the greatest of all time!
acmilanroster

This was an amazing friendly game for AC Milan. Chelsea suffer defeat again in per-season as Urby Emanuelson helps Milan beat Roberto di Matteo’s side 1-0 in Miami.
iakobou

There were a lot of positives from this whole preseason tour. Hazard, Marin, and Chalobah looked good, especially the former two. Lukaku needs some work, but so does Torres if yesterday's game was any indication. The Euro was a better indicator of Torres in my estimation, and while he earned the Golden Boot, he still wasn't on top of his game. We will be relying on our midfield now more than ever, and it is going to take some offensive adjustments, which we saw mere glimpses of in this US tour. I'm hopeful and optimistic that as Mata enters back into the fold and as we get used to our new offensive approach we will meet success again this season. All things considered, we went head to head and toe to toe with PSG and we dominated Milan albeit the one offsides-attributed-goal. Good stuff.
Blue Lions

Another thought -- I am REALLY looking forward to seeing Mata and Sturridge back in the CFC lineup again. I really miss those guys after watching these somewhat lackluster preseason results. Yes, I know it's preseason and we have a lot of new players, but we need familiarity and those two will give it to us, going forward.
Blue Lions

I think Oscar is going to be playing more sooner than later, maybe at Lampard's spot as deep-lying playmaker. Just a thought.