[Railroad]

Fa Cup quarterfinal.

Venue: Oakwell, Barnsley

Previous games in this season's FA Cup:

Barnsley 2 - 1 Blackpool
Southend United 0 - 1 Barnsley
Liverpool 1 - 2 Barnsley

Chelsea 1 - 0 Queens Park Rangers
Wigan 1 - 2 Chelsea
Chelsea 3 - 1 Huddersfield Town

Barnsley currently occupy 16th place in Championship's table (36 games played, 10 wins, 13 draws, 13 defeats, 38 goals scored, 51 conceded).

 

[Lampard8]

I am hoping for a score like 4-1 us.....

 

[las7]

Anything but a convincing win would suprise me; but still the players shouldnt think that simply showing up will make Barnsley roll over.

 

[FootyFan365]

Their fans will be in La La Land when kick-off arrives. That's really cool for the city of Barnsley to be able to host a world power at home in a FA Cup quarter-final. Even though they'll get beat easily they'll still remember that day they got to host Chelsea in a FA Cup QF. Kudos to Barnsley for beating Liverpool too :howler: we better not take them too lightly

 

[football48]

0:1 on a goal from Maka

 

[Railroad]

I hope Ivanovic will get his debut at last. Skrtel also came from Russia and already has several league appearances to his name for Liverpool and Bane is still "not match fit"? It would sound as a nonsense to me...

 

[Railroad]

United are knocked out by Portsmouth.

 

[Alec_Cobas]

I hope to see Ivanovic too, but I think he is injured. United out, so, with all the respect, we have this Cup in our hands. We are clearly favourites right now.

 

[zoric]

Ivanovic picked up a injury during his fitness-training after arriving from Lokomotiv but he's fit and should be able to play tonight. I don't know if he's in the squad though, english clubs are really bad at annoucing their squads.

I've heard he's in the squad and that he'll feature, but let's see if that's true.

 

[Alec_Cobas]

No Ivanovic. Line-up: Carlo, Belletti, Carvalho, Terry, Bridge, Essien, Ballack, SWP, Joe, Malouda and Anelka. On bench: Hilario, TBH, Obi Wan, Kalou and Pizarro.

 

[Railroad]

I'm surprised Alex doesn't play.

 

[zoric]

Just like I thought, oh well..

Carvalho should've perhaps been rested, no?

 

[KHALID]

we should send in drogba lol he will have them shittin their pants...

 

[Railroad]

a) Over-rotated
b) Essien out of position
c) Cole-dependence
d) Lazy Anelka and Maoulda up-front
e) Careless defending

To sum it up - crappy half. We are lucky not to be behind.

 

[FootyFan365]

damn Barnsley isn't messing around. They're not all that bad :irritate: We need to get Anelka some openings so he can get going

 

[football48]

tight first half. Barny's are full throttle. Terry's indecisiveness almost cost us. JC almost bagged one. We are lacking creativity in their end. Odejayi is causing a few problems. Hopefully we can wear them out before they shock us.

 

[football48]

Come on guys, don't be too harsh on our lads and rather applaud Barny's effort. If we lose this they would deserve it. COYB!!!

 

[Railroad]

It should have been disallowed IMO.

 

[Abz]

Bollox.

 

[football48]

nice strike Terry, lol