For the first time in the Premier League era Chelsea travel to a different country to play a league fixture, heading west to south Wales to take on Swansea City.
Saturday teatime brings a trip to the DW Stadium for Andre Villas-Boas’s resurgent Chelsea. The Blues are searching for a fourth consecutive league victory and if this was to be achieved it would be the first time they had managed such a run in the league all season. Wigan Athletic come into the game on [...]
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Chelsea got back to winning ways on Saturday afternoon with a comfortable 3-0 win against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.
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The east of Belgium provides the unlikely setting for Chelsea’s first steps to redemption following two consecutive derby defeats. Since the comfortable 5-0 demolition of Genk two weeks ago the Blues have lost 1-0 at QPR and 5-3 at home to Arsenal in the Premier League and anything other than a win on Tuesday night [...]
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Chelsea picked up their fourth consecutive home victory this campaign with an impressive 3-1 win against Everton at Stamford Bridge yesterday. It had been nearly six years since the Blues had beaten Everton in SW6 and the relief was palpable following Ramires’s game-sealing third goal in the 61st minute. With Manchester United dropping points at [...]
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Chelsea’s Carling Cup campaign begins tonight with a home tie against near neighbours Fulham. Both sides played opposition from Manchester on Sunday with mixed results; Chelsea lost 3-1 at United while earlier in the day Fulham earned a very credible 2-2 against City. How many players that featured in those two games play again tonight [...]
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Florent Malouda struck seven minutes from time to get Chelsea’s season up and running with a more than welcome three points on Saturday evening. Having trailed from as early as the fourth minute the Blues struggled to overcome a resilient West Bromwich Albion side but second half goals from the French duo of Nicolas Anelka [...]
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Chelsea’s final pre-season game of 2011 proved a resounding success with a comfortable 3-1 win at Ibrox against the current champions of Scotland, Rangers. A first-half brace from Daniel Sturridge, cancelling out an early Nikica Jelavic strike, and a Florent Malouda header in the second period secured the win, Chelsea’s sixth in a row in [...]
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Chelsea’s slim title hopes appear to have all but ended following Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Stoke, a result which, coupled with Manchester United’s 4-2 success at West Ham, means the current Champions are now eleven points behind with only eight games to play. Yet in spite of the disappointment of dropping two points this was [...]
Continue reading …So another weekend passes without a Premier League game for Chelsea, our fourth in a row. Chelsea supporters’ favourite cooperation, Sky, ruined the chance for a weekend in Blackpool by moving our first league fixture at Bloomfield Road since 1976 to Monday night. At least Blues fans going to the game do so in the [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea’s wonderful run in the FA Cup came to an end against Everton following a penalty shoot-out defeat. The Blues last lost in the competition in March 2008 so Saturday’s result was certainly a shock to the system, and it was a first exit on home soil in the competition since 2003. The game itself [...]
Continue reading …A trio of consecutive away games for the Champions begins at the Reebok Stadium tonight at a time that couldn’t be more ideal for Chelsea’s travelling support. A failure to win would mark three months without an away win for the Blues, but with two of their rivals for Champions League sport dropping points at [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea’s recent love affair with the FA Cup continued at Stamford Bridge this afternoon with a 7-0 mauling of Ipswich Town. This was the FA Cup holders’ thirteenth consecutive win in the competition and the seven goals meant twenty four have been scored in the past seven cup matches. The win sets up a 4th [...]
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