🗣️ Alejandro Garnacho ahead of Atalanta [A] in the UEFA Champions League:

🫂 𝐎𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐳𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚:

“He explained to me everything and now working together, I think we are doing well.

“We are going to improve with time, it’s just three months together, and he trusts me and that is the most important thing, to have confidence, and I’m going to improve.

“The most important thing is confidence. He speaks with me every week and I think we are going to be better, me as a player and the team all together, with time. We started the season just three months ago so it’s building confidence between the manager and the players.

“I am just trying to improve every season. I am going to get more mature during the years and the only way to do it is working every day.”

🤝 𝐎𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦:

“I think we showed people that we can compete for everything. We showed that a few weeks ago against @Barcelonaen and against @Arsenal_london with 10 men.

“But the important thing is the consistency. For example, in some of the games where people expect us to win more, that is where we have lost or didn’t win. So I think we showed people we are a strong team and we can compete for this competition, but we have to be more consistent.

“It’s going to take time, but I think we are going to improve during the season. We just started a few months ago and we want to improve like this.”

(Via ChelseaFC)

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Tonight's line-up. 🎁

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Let's go Blues!

👩 0-0 ⚪️ [1] #CFC | #UCL

A huge goal for Joao! 👏

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Atalanta 0-1 Chelsea.

Your thoughts on our first half performance. 👇

This Josh Acheampong performance 👀

SUB: Wesley Fofana replaces Trevoh Chalobah at half-time.

Atalanta 0-1 #Chelsea: Back underway for the second half at Stadio di Bergamo.

Scamacca equalises.

👩 1-1 ⚪️ [55] #CFC | #UCL

SUBS: Malo Gusto and Alejandro Garnacho replace Enzo Fernandez and Pedro Neto for #Chelsea.

SUB: Tosin Adarabioyo replaces Wesley Fofana, who was kicked in the eye and is struggling to open it.

Atalanta take the lead. De Ketelaere.

👩 2-1 ⚪️ #CFC | #UCL

It ends in defeat.

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🗣️ Enzo Maresca on Chelsea’s 2-1 defeat against Atalanta [A] in the UEFA Champions League:

🤝 “After the goal we conceded we lost a little bit the control of the game.

“The first half we scored the goal, we conceded some chances. The second half we had two good chances to score the second one, and then they scored.

“After it went 1-1 we lost a little bit the control of the game and they got the second one. I think both goals we conceded we could have avoided quite easily.

“I don’t think we suffered too much until we conceded the goal. That changed the whole dynamic of the game. After the second goal we had an opportunity to score and level the game, but this is a particular moment for us and we just need to win the next game.”

😬 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐱𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝟑𝟐 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲-𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝:

“Probably with two wins and 16 points you can be in the top eight, but I’m not sure about that. Now the focus has to be the game at home and then the next one.

“For sure, if we want to try to finish in the top eight we need to win both. Otherwise we will have to play in the play-off to go through to the next round.”

🤞 𝐎𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚’𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐲:

“Wes has a problem with his eye. In this moment, it’s quite bad and he is struggling to see a little bit, but hopefully he can be available for Saturday.”

🤔 𝐎𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐞‌𝐯𝐚‌𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲:

“The idea, the change of Tosin, is because Wes went in to change him. So that was a bit of a force, for sure.

“With one more change, probably there was more chance for Estevao to go inside or for Andrey [Santos] to go inside. But then with that change, it changed a little bit the plan of the game.”

😤 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩:

“Now the game is finished. Now the focus has to be on Saturday’s game because now we need to win games as soon as possible.”

(Via ChelseaFC)

Chelsea are hopeful that Liam Delap will be out for no longer than four weeks after scans confirmed that the striker had not suffered a fracture or dislocation to his shoulder in the Blues’ draw with Bournemouth.

[Matt Law - The Telegraph]

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Safe hands Sanchez 💙

Chelsea shot stopper Robert Sanchez is your PFA Premier League Fans’ Player of the Month for November 🏆

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🚨UCL Table after 6 matches.

• As it stands Chelsea would face either Monaco or Leverkusen in the play-off round.

• If Chelsea were to progress to the R16 we would currently face either PSG or Man City.

So much to play for…