Alejandro Balde names Noni Madueke in his top 3 hardest opponents faced, from when they faced each other in the youth days when Noni was at PSV 👀

🔗 Felix

Noni Madueke the defenders nightmare! 🔥

It’s Noni so the player is not good defensively.

Noni scores you’ll hear people say the goal isn’t nice.

This fan base smh 🤦🏿

Harry Winks casually admitting they scored because of Maresca ball.

Marc Cucurella:

"If you play for Chelsea, it’s because you have strong qualities. In all careers, you have better and worse moments. But it's about never stopping working and believing in yourself..."

"All of us dream of winning trophies. You have teams who stay with the same project for a long time so there are a few in front of us but our objective is to play in the UCL next season. It's very important for us."

“I’m really happy. My family is happy here. We are in a top club with good fans. Hopefully I can stay for a lot of time.”

[via Mail Sport]

3 points from 4/5th

3 points from 13

MUST WIN

Chelsea’s only three defeats in their last 23 Premier League matches have been against Arsenal, Manchester City and Liverpool [W13, D7].

[via BBC Sport]

#INGAME

Is Reece playing on the left??😳

🟨 vs. Palace
🟨 vs. Bournemouth
🟨 vs. West Ham
🟨 vs. Brighton
🟨 vs. Forest
🟨 vs. Newcastle

Wesley Fofana has now been booked in his last six Premier League games. 👀

Ladies and gentlemen we have come to play!!!
Nicholas Jackson🫡

Nicolas Jackson has now scored the same amount of Premier League goals for Chelsea as Fernando Torres (20).

He’s the 30th different player to score 20 goals in the competition for the Blues. 🤝

What is wrong with Sanchez
What sort of positioning is that

Chelsea losing one of their longest-serving talent spotters in Alf Blanford, who's retiring after 20+ years of recruiting for the academy. Responsible for scouting Tammy Abraham and Fikayo Tomori, nurturing Ruben Loftus-Cheek, among others. He'll be at Stamford Bridge today

Via Kieran Gill

#HALFTIME

If Maresca was seeking an overlapping fullback, Reece would offer even more threat going forward than Malo. I think there is plenty of risk trying so many things too early and changing too many things so many times in a short time.

Colwill could have still offered the blind spot long passes that I think he is trying to do with Reece.

This way you'd still have Cucu in and one of Reece or Malo on the other side.. and still have a compact mid with a renowned invert

But anyway, what do I know? Enzo knows better

Cole Palmer now joint-17th for Chelsea in their list of all-time PL scorers, tied with Pedro. He's first for goals/game, above Diego Costa.

In terms of appearances, Nicolas Jackson is the fifth-quickest player to reach 20 goals in the Premier League for Chelsea.

[via OptaJoe]

#INGAME

Living on the brink

#INGAME

Today, we've been on gear 1 throughout.

Maybe saving both the legs and tactics for the League game

Moises Caicedo vs Newcastle United:

94% Passing Accuracy
2 Chances Created
7 Interceptions
1 Clearance
4/7 Ground Duels Won
100% Aerial Duels Won

Another dominant display from Caicedo in the midfield! 🔥

🚨Chelsea will be fined by The FA once again for hitting 6+ yellow cards once again.

Chelsea have won 10 of their 14 Premier League games since the beginning of May [D2 L2]. Only Man City [35] have won more points in the competition in this period.

[via Opta Joe]

Sanchez attempted 25 long balls today. 6 were successful. Also only 20 of his 40 passes were successful.