It seems that even when luck is on Chelsea’s side at the moment, the results just have not been going their way. Such was the case on Sunday at Stamford Bridge as the Blues could only muster a 3-3 draw with Aston Villa in a thrilling encounter. Conjuring up memories of the 4-4 draw on [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea’s recent woes came no closer to ending following a humiliating 3-1 defeat against Arsenal last night. Goals from Alex Song, Cesc Fabregas and Theo Walcott in the space of eight minutes before and after the interval were enough to inflict a sixth league game without a victory for the champions. Branislav Ivanovic replied immediately [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea fly to Marseille safe in the knowledge that this potential banana skin is in fact a dead rubber, with the London outfit safely qualified in first place in Group F. Their French counterparts sealed their spot in the last sixteen of the Champions League with an impressive 3-0 win in Moscow against Spartak. The [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea’s miserable November came to an end yesterday after a turgid 1-1 draw with Newcastle United at a snowy St James’ Park. Andy Carroll’s early tap-in after some particularly self-destructive Chelsea defending was cancelled out by a deflected Salomon Kalou shot just before the interval. Despite having the whole second half to find a winner [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea’s first opportunity to right Sunday’s wrongs comes at St Andrews tomorrow afternoon in the derby of the Blues. It has been a tough week since the drubbing at the hands of Sunderland but the first step in the recuperation process would be taken with a victory at Birmingham in a rare 3pm Saturday game. [...]
Continue reading …Liverpool struck gold yesterday with a comfortable 2-0 victory against a lacklustre Chelsea side. A devastating Fernando Torres brace before the interval proved the difference between the two sides and meant that our lead at the summit has been cut to two points. Chelsea started the game without the influential Frank Lampard, Michael Essien and [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea head north to face Blackburn Rovers on Saturday afternoon at Ewood Park. Our previous four away games have seen us face teams we couldn’t beat on their own patch last season and Saturday’s game is no different. In March we laboured to a 1-1 draw which at the time signaled the end of the [...]
Continue reading …The champions of England and France meet at Stamford Bridge tomorrow in matchday 2 of the Champions League. Didier Deschamps brings his Marseille side to the ground where he plied his trade during the 1999/2000 season, most notable from a Chelsea perspective for a memorable first campaign in the Champions League, a campaign of which [...]
Continue reading …A night of high drama and changing emotions at Stamford Bridge last night eventually ended with the Blues going out of the Carling Cup.
Continue reading …A trip to the far east awaits Chelsea tomorrow afternoon, although for the player’s sakes let’s hope they have an easier journey than that which the 3,000 travelling Blues will have to undertake. With both the District and Hammersmith and City lines closed, Chelsea fans are being forced to improve their knowledge of the key [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea hit their opponents for six for the second successive week as they trounced a demoralised Wigan side by the same scoreline with which West Brom had been dispatched the previous Saturday.
Continue reading …Chelsea slumped to their third consecutive pre-season friendly defeat yesterday, going down by two goals to one in Hamburg’s Imtech Arena. The damage was done in the final twenty minutes as the Blues threw away their goal advantage.
Continue reading …Michael Essien’s first appearance in a Chelsea shirt in 2010 ended well after the Ghanaian midfielder scored the only goal against Crystal Palace in the Blues first pre-season friendly of the campaign. It was a youthful squad which travelled to Selhurst Park on Saturday with a number of first-team players either injured or yet to [...]
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