Hull City Preview: Four Points Clear at the Top is the Aim
Last Season at KCC
By Since66
February 2 2010
Chelsea welcome back Didier Drogba tonight at the KCC stadium from his duties with the Ivory Coast in the African Cup of Nations. It is a welcome return, but we cannot say that we have missed him. Five games, five wins and plenty of goals. The last coming from the head of beleagured skipper John Terry last Saturday evening.
A win tonight will put us four points clear of ManUre at the top of the table and EIGHT points clear of Goonerville from Corporate City setting us up to completely knock them out of the title race this coming Sunday at Stamford Bridge.
Last season at the KCC it was damm flaming freezing as Chelsea strolled to an easy 3-0 victory. Tonight it is expected to be raining and not snowing as it was when the game was called off a few weeks ago. A similar scoreline which Chelsea are extremely capable of will go down really well.
The suits at Hull must be choking in their canapes for lost revenue due to the fact the game was to be televised LIVE. Tonight only highlights are available.
The Boss 'Anco' has said the Didier will start alongside Anelka. "It will be a similar team to against Burnley, Didier will play from the beginning, and also Deco and Carvalho had recovery time against Burnley and will play from the start.
"Ashley Cole we don't know, we will take a decision tomorrow [today] because he had a problem on his ankle and we have to wait for tomorrow [today].
It was Didier who scored the last gasp winner at The Bridge in 'Anco's' first game in charge and 'Anco' recalls his first matchday. He said, "It was the first game, now we have played a lot of games in England and I have a good experience. I knew very well the top four but small teams I did not know, now I have that experience. Every game is difficult here, around the game there is a very good atmosphere and when you play away it is more difficult to win."
Hull are definitely without Jimmy Bullard who is still recovering from injury and Daniel Cousin who went out on loan.
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Will be a tough game.
Quiet handy that Bullard is out - this is his kind of match (didn´t he miss the last one as well?).
"It is born out of hypocrisy and fundamental insecurity. There have been two kids on the block for the past 12 years. Suddenly, there is a third and that one is threatening to be more successful than the others and they don’t like it." P Kenyon.
Cech
Ivanovic
Carvalho
Terry (c)
Zhirkov
Ballack
Deco
Lampard
Malouda
Drogba
Anelka
subs: Turnbull, Ferreira, Alex, A Cole, J Cole, Kalou, Sturridge
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Myhill
McShane
Gardener
Mouyokolo
Dawson
Fagan
Boateng
Cairney
Hunt
Altidore
Vennegoor of Hesselink
subs: Duke, Zayatte, Kilbane, Barmby, Geovanni, Mendy, Zaki
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"It is born out of hypocrisy and fundamental insecurity. There have been two kids on the block for the past 12 years. Suddenly, there is a third and that one is threatening to be more successful than the others and they don’t like it." P Kenyon.