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Chelsea look set to reinforce the defense this January transfer window, but of course in classic Clearlake style, we’re going to do it with promising potential rather than proven experience. Marc Guéhi for £20m? Don’t be silly. Here’s some random under-21 from France instead! That’s no slight on said random under-21 from France of course. […]
It took a minute for the game to kick into life, though it weren’t Chelsea who were doing the kicking with the visitors looking the more energized and certainly the more dangerous on their forays forward. But Chelsea were living a charmed life in front of our own goal, with Brentford wasting at least two […]
Welcome to Liam Rosenior’s third match in charge, his first (ever) in the Premier League. Can we get him that inaugural win? Brentford certainly won’t make it easy, and they’re in excellent form. The good news is that Cole Palmer and Reece James were both passed fit and they both start, as does Alejandro Garnacho […]
Match blackouts are unfortunately not unprecedented with Chelsea Women. It’s still a weird happenstance given how in modern football you can easily find ways to watch live quasi-professional matches in leagues and countries severely under the radar of the average sports watcher. To our luck Chelsea have always been on top of the game when […]
Here we are for a third consecutive year, facing Crystal Palace in a Women’s FA Cup match. Is it about to become a tradition? As long as it means Chelsea Women taking them out of the running, as we did the last two times we met in the competition, we’d be fine with that. Chelsea […]
Gone Leaving Hmm
For Liam Rosenior’s third match in charge, we take on fellow West London outfit Brentford, who are actually the best team in West London at the moment. They come into the weekend sitting a lofty fifth in the table — they’ve never finished higher than ninth in the top tier in their history — having […]
Chelsea were a bit understrength against Arsenal midweek, and unfortunately the situation may not have improved too much as we welcome the best team in West London to West London’s finest setting. Cole Palmer, Reece James, and Malo Gusto all missed the League Cup semifinal because of fitness concerns, while Liam Delap and Jamie Gittens […]
It’s the third consecutive season Chelsea Women face Crystal Palace in the Women’s FA Cup. The difference this time is we’re facing them in our first match of the competition. Lose this and you’re out. Simple as. Meaning even though we’re facing a team that just got relegated from the Women’s Super League, we don’t […]
Hmm Involved Rejected
1. ALEJANDRO GARNACHO (8.3, sub) Garnacho’s best performances seem to be off the bench, which isn’t a bad thing. But it would be cool if he could make similar impact when starting. But hey, better than nothing at all, and his brace gives us a bit of hope of pulling off an upset in the […]
Chelsea are apparently ready to do something for Liam Rosenior that we weren’t willing to do for his predecessor, and try to sign a new defender before the end of the January transfer window! The club refused to acquiesce to Enzo Maresca’s demand for a new signing at the position in the summer, and evidently […]
Facundo Buonanotte’s time at Chelsea is over after six months, eight appearances, one goal, and many questions about why he was even here. The 21-year-old attacking midfielder arrived on loan from Brighton & Hove Albion in the closing stages of the summer transfer window, evidently surplus to requirements there and, as it unsurprisingly turned out, […]
Most Hmm Soon
In many respects, Chelsea should’ve lost last night’s game by more than just one goal. The gulf in class, for a lack of a better term, between a team that’s averaged less than a point in our last nine league games, and a team threatening to run away with the Premier League title, was often […]
Chelsea started the game well enough, but Arsenal struck first, and quickly, scoring from a corner with barely five minutes on the clock. Arsenal scoring from a set piece? Inconceivable. That said, the goal had as much to do with weak defending on our part than anything special from the Gunners: Robert Sanchez flapped horribly, […]
Welcome to the first leg of the Carabao Cup semifinal! The Liam Rosenior era got off to a good start midweek; now can we start league-leading Arsenal’s inevitable annual collapse? The new head coach’s favorite word has been “intensity”, so let’s have at ‘em! Looks like Liam Delap has been a late scratch (Shim Mheuka’s […]
It’s fair to say that neither Liam Delap nor young Estêvão Willian have been first-choice players this season, in part due to injuries, but Delap seems to be finding his feet finally and we all want to see Estêvão play more, so it’s perhaps not surprising that the WAGNH Community have chosen both of them […]
Negotiations Difference Hmm
Liam Rosenior became the first new Chelsea head coach in a decade, since Antonio Conte, to win his first competitive match in charge, as we beat second division Charlton Athletic, 5-1 in the FA Cup last weekendTos. A remarkable statistic, that, strength of opposition aside, accomplishing something that Maurizio Sarri, Frank Lampard, Thomas Tuchel, Graham […]
In his pre-match press conference, Liam Rosenior was not able to categorically confirm or deny whether Cole Palmer, Reece James, or Malo Gusto would be fit for this game, but considering that they only missed the weekend’s FA Cup match because of precautionary, load-management concerns, it’s probably safe to assume that they will be available […]
Liam Rosenior has made it pretty clear that he intends to be not just a(nother) head coach at Chelsea, but a winning head coach at Chelsea, and ahead of one of the biggest games of the season, he’s re-emphasized that notion. Make no mistake about it! “I’d love to be here for six years or […]
Chelsea made light work of Charlton Athletic in the third round of the FA Cup — certainly in the second half — and thus were in the hat for the fourth draw that was conducted earlier tonight. And wouldn’t you know it, the mischievous football gods gifted us a matchup with some extra narrative delights, […]
Third Stoke City Oof
1. JORREL HATO (7.7) It’s been a rough first few months in Chelsea blue for young Jorrel Hato, but this could be the turning point for him. It’s safe to say that this game was his best for us yet, and not just because he scored the goal that broke the dam. And what a […]