Blackburn Rovers v Chelsea: early team news (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Blackburn Rovers v Chelsea: early team news
4:13pm Friday 19th March 2010 in
Sam Allardyce has a number of injury problems to cope with ahead of Blackburn’s game against Chelsea on Sunday.
Goalkeeper Paul Robinson (calf), captain Ryan Nelsen (knee), Gael Givet (groin), Lars Jacobsen (hernia) and Vince Grella (calf) are all missing while loan striker Franco di Santo cannot play against his parent club Chelsea.
Jason Brown will fill in for Robinson, with Mark Bunn being recalled from Sheffield United as cover.
Chelsea have no fresh injury concerns. Goalkeeper Petr Cech trained on Friday but remains a doubt and he will undergo a late fitness test on his calf injury. Hilario is also a doubt with a groin strain.
Michael Essien (knee), Ashley Cole (ankle) and Jose Bosingwa (knee) are all sidelined.
Rovers (from): Brown, Dunn, Olsson, Salgado, Pedersen, Nzonzi, Hoilett, Roberts, Diouf, Andrews, Kalinic, Dunn, Chimbonda, Basturk, Samba, Emerton, Jones.
Chelsea provisional squad: Turnbull, Taylor, Cech, Ivanovic, Kalou, Alex, Drogba, Malouda, Terry, Carvalho, Borini, Lampard, Obi, Deco, Anelka, Zhirkov, J Cole, Belletti, Ballack, Kakuta, Sturridge, Ferreira.
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BlueSkies
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5:32pm Fri 19 Mar 10
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It'd be nice to give Chelsea a game, that Terry fella has no pace and some of our young lads could really embarass him, hopefully!
Stone Cold
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6:08pm Fri 19 Mar 10
hasslem hasslem
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6:37pm Fri 19 Mar 10
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Man United is a one man team with Rooney
Liverpool is a two man team with Stevie GBH and Torres.
Chelsea is a one woman team with Vanessa
blueandwhitey79
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6:45pm Fri 19 Mar 10
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Roverino says...
4:35pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Di Santo inelegible.
Samba and who at centre back? Andrews? Jones? Move Chimbonda into the middle and shove Ollson at Left Back, Emerton Right?
I do think we can take something from the game but i'd feel a lot more comfortable with either the admiral or Givet fit.