Disaffection in the Chelsea camp??
Chelsea face Southampton next Sunday in their FA Cup semi-final at Wembley, but even if they were to go on and win the competition, it would be scant consolation in the eyes of Azpilicueta.
“The FA Cup is a massive trophy with a lot of history but it’s not enough for us,” the 28-year-old Spanish defender told BBC Match of the Day.
“We will try to win it but the cup will not save our season.”
Azpilicueta, whose first-half goal on Sunday was cancelled out by Javier Hernandez’s equaliser in the second half, added: "To get a draw at home in another London derby is really frustrating for all of us and all of the fans. We are not happy.
"What matters is the score at the end, I am frustrated today, we should be able to win this game.
“We controlled the game, we created enough chances to win but we struggled at the end and maybe they could have scored the winner. It’s becoming harder and harder every game it goes on.”
Not long to go now, I was talking to someone who bets a lot last night and he checked the odds.
Most bookies have Southampton as 10/3 to win the game, that’s quite low in my opinion.
Definitely a winnable game though.
I take it your TV hasn’t come back from the repair shop since the EFL Cup final then…
I shan’t be watching as I’ll be making my annual pilgrimage to the Farnham Beerex, bringing the average age down to 67…
2:1 to us.
You haven’t seen the attendees. I’ve been going for about 10 years. They have a jazz band with the same line up and the youngest must have been at least 65 even then - they play the same tunes every year only slower each time…
Just realised this is an early kick off. Drinks after?
A glimmer of hope…
The only (non FA Cup) games we’ve won this season have been when I have not watched.
I will now be in a taxi to the airport at exactly the moment we kick off, then doing the whole bag drop and security. The reason this could be good news is this is our 1st time on Low Cost FlyDubai so we have no frequent flier stuff - we are just cattle.
Equally, it is a different Terminal on the completely other side of Dubai’s main airport and we have never been there before so no idea if they even have WiFi out in the sticks.
Boarding at 14:30 your time as well so may not even be able to follow text updates
This may be a lucky day…
Had a dream last night that Bedarek opened the scoring for us then Chelsea scored two quick goals. Woke up before the final whistle so I can’t give you the score though.
Well do us a favour Phil and make sure you don’t find it on in one of the departure lounge bars!
We need all the help we can get.
They have wifi and a bar @dubai_phil
Have you never done the Visa run to Kish from Terminal 2?
You have missed out if not.
Any team news yet it’s less than an Hour to go?
Heres some
BREAKINGTeam news
Southampton v Chelsea (12:30 BST)
Southampton make one enforced change with defender Jack Stephens suspended after his red card against Arsenal last time out. Jan Bednarek comes in for his first Premier League start.
Chelsea make two changes - Antonio Rudiger and Victor Moses drop out, with Davide Zappacosta and Andreas Christiansen replacing them
We are under way and my old man has been telling me its pissing down where as the BBC say
A gorgeous sunny day on the south coast.
Who can believe that government led organisation?
To forstall any arguement I have put money on Saints to win so I fully accept startinhg the next match thread is a given.
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Yesssssss, I love you Tadic, always have