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Unlikely to happen because he's been carrying a calf injury through the final part of the season into the quarterfinals.

Jags - fantastic! (Bet he's glad he was not involved with the Arsenal debacle earlier today!)

I'm happier with this result, for the season's outlook, than the Blackburn game, though...

Vellios looks good - glad to see him get some playing time

I just hope we won't regret holding on to Jags against considerable pressure earlier if we aren't able to line up a replacement for Arteta...

To be fair, I was at the Manchester United/Union game and they were subbing players in-and-out quite a bit of the time. This year, we should be much improved, though. And dweagle6 - check your PMs - we couldn't get season tickets this year

So, here's where I call my past self an idiot Come on you Blues!

Morning folks! I'm going to make another prediction of a low scoring game (despite how poorly that worked last week) and guess 1-0 to us with Becks /not/ hitting the bar this time.

Always glad to see more of us yanks around here!

Things seem to be relatively stable across the back, but I don't really see any goals coming from us -- I'm expecting a disappointing 0-0 game, unless Hibbert scores

Arteta out. I wish this was surprising.

I'm feeling this one could be scrappy and not particularly great for either team - I don't think Birmingham will necessarily be that great away, and we should (must?) win it, which means 0-0 or the deciding goal coming down to an own goal (for either side).

Somewhat glad to see that Cahill will be rested -- we need him back to top form soon -- but Fellaini will be a big miss today re: Beckford--one would expect that players would arrive early enough to avoid this sort of thing!

Predicting 3-1: Adam to score for them, Saha, Beckford, Fellaini for us. Normally I would have agreed that they play well, but their last game against West Ham was a bit of a shambles.

I'm expecting 2-1, Arteta/Beckford with some kind of ridiculous own goal from anyone except Distin