Yeh but i believe it was 6 with covid as of last night, with another round of testing this morning? Unless its 6 including todays results, but then why not request a postponing last night instead
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Feels pretty grotesquely unfair making some teams play with half a dozen major players missing while letting other teams have the postponement to recover.
It’ll be cancelled before this afternoon that’s for sure…
I get the feeling they might still cancel it. Leicester got their game postponed after initially having the idea rejected.
Time for Saul to shine.
Too early for a Christmas miracle?
Too early for a Christmas miracle?
How on earth can this be allowed to go ahead. Seems like a purely £££ driven decision. And doesn’t seem consistent with other teams having there games delayed.
They really should postpone the game. Is there some kind of threshold that needs to be hit before they will? I haven't read anything on that so genuinely curious, because it seems random as feck which is just bonkers.
14 players available and the game goes ahead is what the Premier League said, and beyond that on a case by case basis.
I'm guessing but I think Chelsea's request was denied because of short notice, given other teams have had games called off with fewer.
Liverpool and City have probably hit the COVID-19 jackpot, basically ensuring that one of the these two teams definitely wins the Premier League.
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James is there.
Twitter rumours say that nobody has Jorginho, Alonso or Havertz getting off the bus.
Another asterisk though
Kinda fishy isn't it...
As long as the same rules for all I agree with the league.
OK, cheers.
Not sure what to make of it myself. Seems unfair on the face of it, but I suppose the show must go on I guess. But as you say, teams have had fewer cases and had their games called off. Still seems random. My inclination is to say have a two week break and try and bring this thing under some kind of control
Kante and Chalobah in midfield for the superspreaders.
This chelsea line up does not look like a depleted squad at all. Why did they want to postpone?
My thoughts exactly.
Chelsea the poor dears. Look at that threadbare matchday squad. That bloke was right, this really is grotesque
It’s depleted with Lukaku, Werner, Christensen, Jorginho, Chilwell, Loftus-Cheek and Havertz all out. At least 3 players in the squad are not fit enough to be near a squad but either starting or on the bench. However asking for postponement is cheeky as not all players are affected by Covid.
Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel asked about getting today's game postponed: "We thought we had a strong case regarding the security and health of players, we have seven positive cases, we were made to be in the bus and travel together for three hours, were in meeting together, in dinner and lunch and the situation does not feel like it will stop if we keep on doing this. We applied to not play and put the situation under control and it was rejected. It is very hard to understand it, we are very concerned about the health of the players. We end up with players who play coming from injuries and we take the risk.
"I am worried from a medical point of view, we have had four days of consecutive positive tests. How will it stop if we are in a bus together and in meetings together if we pretend it is not happening?
"We are disappointed, we are a bit angry."
"I am worried from a medical point of view, we have had four days of consecutive positive tests. How will it stop if we are in a bus together and in meetings together if we pretend it is not happening?
"We are disappointed, we are a bit angry."
Making excuses before the game has started. Tommy Tushy is cracking up.
6 man bench , two of them GK. Quite grim.
One of them Saul as well.
So he got a call finally.
Shut up Chelsea you moaning cnuts
Few Chelsea journalists moaning about "unfair" treatment by PL, digging Jose quotes from 2014.
Come on City, can you just drop some points already? You scored 7 so now miss all these sitters today please. We're going to drop points against Spurs for sure, we've not been playing great despite winning.
I actually agree with Klopp on this, which I don't remember ever typing before. They should just crack on and play all games they safely can. If you have a two week break players will still keep catching Covid for the forseeable, so not sure it will help that much.
There's going to be horrific backlogs building otherwise and zero scope to extend the season, with the world cup next winter.
Dias gives City the lead.
Newcastle 
That defending
Like a glitch goal in Fifa, impressively shite.
What the fecking hell was that?
I remember when Eddie Howe was discussed on here as a potential United manager.
When you give a CB the sort of room you are asking for trouble.
That goalkeeper is hungover. 2 mistakes in 5 mins.
That defending fecking hell. U10s would have done better.
Dubravka should lose the no.1 over that.
fecking hell. U10s would have done better.Dubravka should lose the no.1 over that.
We won't win the league, but I'd take Newcastle and Burnley going down as consolation.
That's shit defending at sunday league level.