I'm so proud of Daddy!
- Chelsea First Team
- 5th May 2019
He’s never started a match in the Premier League, but Chelsea’s exciting teenaged winger Callum Hudson-Odoi – seen above coming on as a sub against Kiev for Willian at the Bridge – has joined the England squad. National manager Gareth Southgate and his deputy, the former Chelsea assistant manager Steve Holland, have been watching Hudson-Odoi
READ MOREIt’s just mental, reckoned Morrie Sarri after Chelsea slipped to a 2-0 defeat up at Everton at the weekend – and few would disagree with him. “It’s probably a mental block, I think,” said the great soothsayer after the Blues had bossed a goalless first half, only to fall apart in a disappointing second half.
READ MOREWolves were always going to make it tough for Chelsea… certainly tougher than the pussycats of Dynamo Kiev. And so it proved. As low winter sun combined with ferocious gusts of wind at the Bridge on Sunday afternoon, it seemed as if the Midlanders were going to snaffle all three points, having absorbed all of
READ MOREThat’s him on the halfway line… Pedro. The one-man dynamo – no pun intended. Pedro ran Dynamo Kiev ragged on Thursday night, his nippy runs and jinks completely bamboozling the visitors. When the whistle blew for half-time, he could have had three, four or even five goals, such was his menace. Olivier Giroud was his
READ MOREChelsea’s maverick goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga atoned for his rebellious outburst during the League Cup final by turning in a dazzling man-of-the-match performance at Craven Cottage as the Blues scraped home 2-1 in a tight game. Kepa’s keeping started rather dodgily in the 18th minute after he fumbled a ball, failed to hold it, and it
READ MOREWhat a difference three days make. The defeat in the League Cup final to Manchester City was overshadowed by insurrection as goalie Kepa refused to obey Morrie Sarri’s order to leave the pitch. But Wednesday night’s 2-0 victory over arch-rivals Spurs proved that the Blues can, when required, play together as a unit. Much more
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