Chelsea vs. Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Champions League: Confirmed lineups

It's raining!  Hopefully it'll be raining goals, too.  Goals for the good guys, to be specific.

The U19s won 3-0 earlier in the day, Kasey Palmer at the double plus one from Tammy Abraham, goal machine.  That could be a nice scoreline to emulate for the first-team.

Mourinho's programme notes on poor Chelsea form:"When you give great players like this a real challenge, you can believe they will respond."

— Dan Levene (@danlevene) September 16, 2015

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Chelsea starting lineup (4-2-3-1):
Asmir Begovic | Baba Rahman, Gary Cahill (c), Kurt Zouma, Cesar Azpilicueta | Cesc Fabregas, Ruben Loftus-Cheek | Eden Hazard, Oscar, Willian | Loic Remy

Substitutes from: Jamal Blackman, John Terry, Branislav Ivanovic, Ramires, Nemanja Matic, Bertrand Traore, Diego Costa

Maccabi Tel-Aviv starting lineup (4-1-4-1):
Predrag Rajkovic | Omri Ben Harush, Eitan Tibi, Tal Ben Haim I, Yuval Shpungin | Gal Alberman | Avi Rikan, Nikola Mitrovic, Nosa Igiebor, Tal Ben Haim II | Eran Zahavi (c)

Substitutes from: Daniel Lifshitz, Carlos Garcia, Dor Micha, Gil Vermouth, Dor Peretz, Barak Yitzhaki, Dejan Radonjic

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Looks like our predicted lineup was 100% correct!  You're welcome, Jose.  Now let's win this thing!

UP THE BLUES!