Source: Team_Talk
Megson: Cup game will have no impact
Bolton play the Blues both home and away in a double-header over the next four days, starting with Wednesday's fourth-round cup tie at Stamford Bridge.[LNB]It may look like the ideal warm-up for the weekend's game at the Reebok Stadium, but Megson says neither he nor his opposite number Carlo Ancelotti would be viewing it like that.[LNB]"It won't make any difference at all - it is not part of that preparation and it will have absolutely no bearing on the game on Saturday," he said.[LNB]"I think if either team was using this as preparation, I think that would demean the Carling Cup a little bit.[LNB]"We want to go through, make no mistake about it, and I know Carlo will want to go through.[LNB]"Regardless of them wanting to win the Champions League, the Premier League and the FA Cup, they will want to win this one as well - maybe not with the same priority as the other three but they will want to win it, I can assure you."[LNB]Bolton go into the game on the back of a thrilling 3-2 victory on Sunday over Everton, who had suffered a 5-0 defeat to Benfica the match before.[LNB]Wanderers now face a Chelsea side who inflicted a 5-0 thrashing on their previous visitors Blackburn and Megson said: "We knew the Everton game would be entirely different for ourselves to how it was for Benfica because of the circumstances, and the same will apply to this game.[LNB]"They are well capable of beating anybody 5-0, they are fantastic side defensively and going forward, so it's a huge task for everybody that plays Chelsea, but I think they will alter the team a little bit from the one that played against Blackburn on Saturday night."[LNB]If Megson is to take heart from any previous results, it will surely be Bolton's 4-3 defeat at Stamford Bridge in the league last April when his team came back from 4-0 down with 20 minutes remaining to almost escape with a point.[LNB]Reflecting on that game, Megson said: "They made a couple of changes and we made a couple of changes and we got a bit of impetus from our first goal.[LNB]"It is amazing, even the best do it - when you get a bit shaky, it doesn't half take some arresting.[LNB]"We scored the first one, followed it up again with another and then in the end I think Chelsea were thankful to kick it off the line and hang on for the three points.[LNB]"We did all right, but only really for a 20 minute period, and we have to do it for the full 90."[LNB][LNB]
