Welbeck makes it three.

🔵 1-3 🟡 [90+100] #CFC | #CHEBHA

FT.

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𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒:

✍️ by franstanic

STARTING XI:

Sanchez - 6: None of the goals were on him.

James - 7: Nice cross for the goal and played well defensively.

Hato - 6: Looked solid, although played a few risky passes.

Chalobah - 4: Tried to clean up the mess and got a red. The red card was not entirely his fault.

Cucurella - 7: Didn’t put a foot wrong.

Fernandez - 7: Looked much better than in previous games. Scored a nice header.

Caicedo - 7: Decent performance, great pass to break the line initially for the goal and intercepted a few balls and was strong in duels.

Santos - 3.5: Hard to understand why he didn’t pass the ball to Sanchez earlier. Mostly his fault for the Chalobah’s red card.

Neto - 5: Worked hard defensively but didn’t offer anything in the attack today.

Estevao - 6: Had a few shiny moments but could have been less selfish at times.

J.Pedro - 6: Struggled to make an impact in the box. Held the ball very well.

SUBSTITUTES:

Acheampong - N/A: Not an easy game to be thrown into midway through, particularly when being ill all week. Looked off the pace, but he will learn from it.

Gusto - 3: Poor from the bench. Slowed down the promising attacks and let Minteh get past him too easily.

Badiashile - N/A

Lavia - N/A

Thoughts? 🔵⬇️

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🗣️ Enzo Maresca on Chelsea’s 3-1 defeat to Brighton & Hove Albion [H] in the Premier League:

🤝 “It’s a tough one as we were in control of the game, we scored one and could’ve scored more.

“We didn’t concede anything and in terms of the data, we had so many shots in the first half and had 70 per cent possession. Everything was fine. Then, because of our mistake with the red card, the plan completely changed. So, for me, we played two games: the one in the first half and then, unfortunately, another after the red card.”

📉 𝐎𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐨𝐩-𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

“Against any team in the Premier League, you can’t continue to give away presents, because at this moment we are giving presents with red cards.

“You cannot continue to make mistakes because they are big, game-changing mistakes; the red card against Manchester United and the red card today.“

💯 𝐎𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬:

“We need to learn and we need to learn quickly. In terms of injuries, if you just watch the first half today you don’t think about the injured players because in the first half we were in control and dominated the game.

“I would like to tell you something different, but the reality of the two games is that with two red cards, everything changed.”

(Via ChelseaFC)

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Trust the process & Get behind the manager.

Happy birthday, Willy! 🇦🇷

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Enzo Maresca retains the full faith of the Chelsea board and its sporting directors.

There is no sense of panic over their mini-slump with injuries and red cards seen as biggest factor in recent results.

(Source: Matt_Law_DT)

Have a good birthday, Andriy Shevchenko! 🔵🤩

Our first #UCL home match of the season is up next.

🗣️ Enzo Maresca ahead of Benfica [H] in the UEFA Champions League:

🏥 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬:

“Unfortunately we have many players out injured.

“This afternoon we are going to assess [Moises] Caicedo, Joao Pedro and Andrey Santos. Unfortunately for us they all have small problems. We are going to see if they are available for tomorrow.

“For sure in this moment we have injuries, but we have a squad to try to replace the injuries we have.”

🦅 𝐎𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚:

“For sure it will be a completely different game compared to the Club World Cup game.

“It’s a bit more difficult to prepare for this game because they have only played three or four games with Jose [Mourinho]. All the games I started watching were with the former manager, but I watched three or four games with Jose and some games when he was at Man United or Spurs or Roma.

“From Benfica you can expect the way they’re playing now, 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1, but you can also expect they can play with a back five.

“I expect two or three different things, and we have a plan for each one.”

(Via ChelseaFC)

Moises Caicedo and Joao Pedro are both involved in Chelsea training this afternoon.

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🗣️ Pedro Neto ahead of Benfica [H] in the UEFA Champions League:

💪 𝐎𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐝:

“The vibe around the club is really positive.

“The feeling of everyone is that a lot of the points we lost were because we made our own mistakes.

“In the last game [against Brighton], you could see that we were controlling most of the game, and we’re not blaming anyone, but everyone knows our own mistakes have been taking points from us.

“We know the quality that we have and the control we have been having of the games.

“It is something that has to come from us as a team. We have to go into the game even more focused. In the Premier League and the Champions League, you cannot rest for one second, because you can concede in one second if you give away presents. So it is something we have to learn.

“We are on the pitch, we have to take the blame as well. We have to do much better and as a team we need to focus on ourselves and learn from our mistakes for the next game.

“So the feeling is really positive, the players are really positive. Tomorrow we have an opportunity to show what we can do one more time and we go with everything to win the game.”

🤔 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐚 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧:

“It did take a while, as normal for every team when you have a new manager to be solid on the performance and the ideas that the manager has.

“But I think as we showed last year, we brought a lot of his ideas and we were really fast because we were second for a long time, then we had a bad moment like everyone does.

To be honest, I want to do better. As a team, we want to do much better as well. It comes from our own mistakes and that is what we have to improve.

“Last season we showed what we can do, we showed at the Club World Cup what we can do, and that is what we are going to do this season, we will show what we can do and we will do great stuff.”

(Via ChelseaFC)

Enjoy your day, Olivier! 💙🇫🇷

Our 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 lineup for tonight’s match against Benfica [H] in the UEFA Champions League.

✍️ by vikramjajuha

𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬:

— Andrey Santos didn’t train on Monday after suffering a knock against Brighton.

— Joao Pedro and Moises Caicedo will both undergo late fitness tests.

— Wesley Fofana is out after suffering concussion in Chelsea’s win at Lincoln City.

— Tosin Adarabioyo has a calf problem and he will not be available until after the October international break.

— Cole Palmer is set to be out until at least the October international break as he tries to recover from his ongoing groin issue.

— Levi Colwill is out with a long-term injury.

— Liam Delap is expected to be out until at least November with a hamstring injury.

— Dario Essugo is expected to be out until at least January with a thigh injury.

Feel free to leave your thoughts. 🔵⬇️

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UEFA Youth League report: Chelsea 5-2 Benfica

Chelsea Under-19s delivered a dominant performance at Cobham, making it back-to-back UEFA Youth League wins. 👏

🔵 Chelsea’s lineup (4-3-3):

Freddy Bernal; Genesis Antwi, Harrison Murray-Campbell, Olutayo Subuloye, Landon Emenalo; Ollie Harrison, Harrison McMahon, Mahdi Nicoll-Jazuli (Ryan Kavuma-McQueen 71); Leo Cardoso (Mathis Eboue 85), Shumaira Mheuka (C), Jesse Derry (Kobe Barbour 79)

Unused substitutes: Hudson Sands, Lewi Richards, Dante Waite, Calvin Diakite, Sol Gordon, Chizaram Ezenwata

🤝 G/A from:

mheuka ⚽️ [penalty, 23’]
derry 🅰️ [won penalty]
mheuka ⚽️ [penalty, 55’]
mheuka ⚽️ [64’]
jazuli 🅰️
kavuma mcqueen ⚽️ [78’]
mheuka 🅰️
barbour ⚽️ [84’]
leocardoso 🅰️

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Come on Chelsea! 🔵

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