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  • How to grind out a result

    How to grind out a result0

    Sometimes you win handsomely, sometimes you have to grind out a result. Chelsea’s 1-0 win against Newcastle at the Bridge fell firmly into the second category. With Frank Lampard and ‘Stephen Roger Bruce’, as the teamsheet rather formally referred to the Magpies’ manager, urging their sides on from the dugout after a goalless first half,

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  • Mateo is an injury doubt

    Mateo is an injury doubt0

    Midfielder Mateo Kovacic is a doubt for Chelsea this weekend as the Blues restart their league campaign by hosting Newcastle. Seeing the Croatian limp off in a draw with Wales would ordinarily depress manager Frank Lampard… but now it merely means a dip into his seemingly bottomless barrel of fresh talent. Calum Hudson-Odoi – pictured

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  • Saints alive! Another win!

    Saints alive! Another win!0

    Chelsea are starting to enjoy themselves, with Sunday’s 4-1 away win down in sunny Southampton underlining just how imprecise a science it is to predict how a season will pan out. Back in August, after the Blues suffered a heavy opening-weekend 4-0 defeat to Man U, pundits were cheerfully predicting that United would do well

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  • At last, a win & clean sheet

    At last, a win & clean sheet0

    A first home win in the league felt good to Blues manager Frank Lampard… but just as good was that clean sheet. Whether Chelsea have found their ideal back line after Saturday afternoon’s 2-0 victory over Brighton remains debatable, but the relief was there for all to see as the defence left the pitch with

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  • 7-1, now bring on Utd

    7-1, now bring on Utd0

    Every single player was changed for Chelsea’s League Cup clash with Grimsby Town on Wednesday night, and Mariners manager Michael Jolley must have been scratching his head about some of the names that appeared on the Blues’ side of the teamsheet (shown below). But the even-younger youngsters – the second tier of hopefuls now coming

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  • Hazard’s strange cameo role

    Hazard’s strange cameo role0

    It looked like we’d stepped back in time at the start of Chelsea’s hard-fought, and ultimately frustrating, clash with Liverpool on Sunday September 22 at the Bridge when the wrong giant banner was wheeled out to be manhandled across the Matthew Harding lower tier ahead of kick-off. It saluted Eden Hazard – the player whose

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