Chelsea legend John Terry excludes Essien from his all-time Chelsea XI

Published on: 08 December 2015

Chelsea captain John Terry has excluded Michael Essien from his all-time XI.

The club legend included only four of the 2011 Champions League winning squad in his preferred Chelsea squad of all time.

Former goalkeeper Peter Czech as well as defender Ashley Cole, countryman Frank Lampard and Ivorian star Didier Drogba all made the list.

However, there was no place for Ghana’s Michael Essien as well as Manchester United midfielder Juan Mata as well as David Luiz.

"I've never done this before! I'm going to play 4-3-3. So we'll say, Cech, Ivanovic, Carvalho, Ash. I'm putting myself in! he told Daily Mail

"Now this is where it gets hard... Lamps... Didier (Drogba)... Robben, (Damien) Duffer was good, wasn't he? But it's got to be Hazard in that position. Then Makelele, plus Zola.

"It's got to be him, hasn't it? We'd be s*** at corners but we'd be all right otherwise!"

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