Wayne Rooney says Gabriel should've been sent off:

🗣 "You don’t really see it at first sight but then when you see a replay and they slow it down.

Martinez has got the ball in his hands and Gabriel boots him in the head, he swings a leg and goes way over the top. He’s extremely lucky to stay on the pitch."

~ BBCMOTD

Two huge home games this week, and make no mistake they are tough! We have to bounce back immediately from yesterday.

▪︎ Leeds on Wednesday
▪︎ Hull on Saturday

Hopefully Moises Caicedo can return at least for the Hull game. #CFC

🚨 Chelsea have been ranked the most productive academy in England and Wales for the 4th consecutive year.

Training Ground Guru assesses which clubs are producing the highest number of players aged 23 and under who are progressing into the men's game.

(NizaarKinsella) #CFC

João Pedro was fouled 6 times vs @Arsenal_london, no player has been fouled more times in a single Premier League match this season. 🤕

#CFC

(WhoScored)

Morgan Rogers for Chelsea:

⚽️ vs Real Sociedad
⚽️ vs Fulham
➖ vs Luton
🅰️ vs Brighton
⚽️ vs Arsenal

Impact. 🫵

Early openers. 🕰️

🚨🔵 Premier League teams with the highest xG this season:

1️⃣ Brighton — 7.40 xG (8 goals)
2️⃣ @ManchesterUnited — 7.30 xG (7 goals)
3️⃣ Brentford — 6.80 xG (5 goals)
4️⃣ @Manchester_City — 6.60 xG (7 goals)
5️⃣ Chelsea — 5.80 xG (8 goals)

📊 Chelsea are over performing their xG #CFC

Carabao Cup action this Wednesday. 👊

🗣 Reece James: "We’ve had two wins from three in the league. It’s a small bump in the road but we’ll be back. We have to focus on ourselves and not let other teams distract us.

It’s gameweek three; we have 35 more to go. With time, patience and hard work we will be in and around it."

Emiliano Martinez has been nominated for the Ballon D’Or Men’s Goalkeeper of the Year. 💙🙌

Hannah Hampton has been nominated for the Goalkeeper of the Year 2026. 🏆

Well deserved, HH! 👏

Cole wins our August Goal of the Month award! 🥇

 🗣️ Xabi Alonso ahead of Chelsea’s match against Leeds United [H] in the Carabao Cup third round:

🏥 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬:

“No, not yet [on whether Moises Caicedo and Marco Palestra will be available].

“They are still not ready to go, and it’s not the moment to take an early risk. So we go game by game with them, but it’s too early.

“Levi Colwill is okay for tomorrow.”

Alonso also confirmed that summer arrivals Emmanuel Emegha and Jordan Henderson remain sidelined.

🤔 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝:

“We always assess everything. Where are we coming from, where are we going. We try to take all the games, all the cups very seriously and we will, where we are, have the best possible team.

“We need everyone involved. The more people you have involved in the team and the more people they feel that they are part of playing minutes, the better it is for the level of players, even for the ones that they play more.

“I think that it’s important that we use all of them, that they have this feeling. And so far, every day, the dynamic is very, very good.”

😤 𝐎𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐫:

“We want to compete because that’s the best way to win games. You need to adapt to compete and it comes in two ways. It comes in the football way and it comes in the spirit and mentality side and in everything we can get better.

“Leeds is going to be quite a rivalry game. Tomorrow we are expecting a very, very intense game, very tough, very many situations of duels, but we need to try to cope with that, find solutions and know that this is going to be an important game.”

(Via Chelsea FC & Bobby Vincent - Football London)

#CFC #ChelseaFC #CHELEE #LUFC #CarabaoCup

On this day, 2023: Graham Potter arrived at Chelsea.

🎮 31 games
✅ 12 wins
🤝 8 draws
❌ 11 defeats
⚽ 33 goals scored
🥅 31 goals conceded

He had a 39% win rate at Chelsea.

🗣️ “The boys gave everything.”

🚨 Manu Kone came very close to joining Chelsea before they pivoted to Lamine Camara.

(David_Ornstein) #CFC