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Chelsea vs. Wolves, Premier League: Preview, team news, how to watch
Chelsea’s search for consistent excellence took another stumble this week as we managed just a draw away to Qarabag in the Champions League, but we have an excellent opportunity to get back on track this weekend, as Wolerhampton wander into town. Wolves remain the only winless team in the league, sitting bottom with just two […]
How should Chelsea line up against Wolves, again?
It’s back to Premier League action this weekend, with Chelsea hosting Wolverhampton Wanderers for a bit of Saturday Night Football under the lights at Stamford Bridge. We just played Wolves in the League Cup, putting four past them, so hopefully we can do that once again even if they’re now under interim management following the […]
Cole Palmer, Enzo Maresca nominated for FIFA’s The Best awards
End of year awards season continues with the announcements of the nominees for FIFA’s “The Best” awards, now in their tenth edition and still as awkwardly named as ever. Since Chelsea did find success in both the UEFA Conference League and, more notably, the very first edition of the revamped FIFA Club World Cup, we […]
Qarabag 2-2 Chelsea, Champions League: Retro ratings
Since I got distracted and forgot to include a player ratings form on our post-match reaction thread, here’s one now. So it’s not quite on-the-whistle as usual, but hopefully the 36 hours of reflection haven’t changed your ratings too much (since the whole point is to gauge the immediate reactions). Vote away!
The Daily Hilario: Friday
Hmm Clean sheets First
It ‘doesn’t look good’ for Roméo Lavia after latest injury
The best ability is availability, as they often say. Of course, they say a lot of things and just because they say it loud and they say it often, it doesn’t always make it true. But in this case, they are not completely wrong. Roméo Lavia’s time at Chelsea has been injury-hit, to say the […]
The Daily Hilario: Thursday
Hmm Lol Whoa
Qarabag 2-2 Chelsea, Champions League: Post-match reaction, ratings
Things began in somewhat inauspicious fashion, with Romeo Lavia picking up an(other) injury inside the first five minutes and having to make way for Moises Caicedo, whose day off was thus rudely interrupted. However, when Estevao opened the scoring not long after, with barely 15 minutes on the clock, at least it looked like the […]
Qarabag vs. Chelsea, Champions League: Game thread
Welcome to matchday four (of eight) in the league phase of the Champions League. Both teams come in with two wins from the first three games, though Chelsea should be favored in this matchup. Enzo Maresca was expected to rotate, and indeed, that’s what we’ve got — though it’s Robert Sánchez in goal and the […]
Chelsea fans’ preferred lineup against Qarabag: Rotation situation
I forgot to put Liam Delap on the voting form — his suspension was only the one game for domestic competitions — though it’s unclear how much he would’ve affected the outcome. He did collect a fair few write-in votes, but Marc Guiu dominated votes at the center forward easily. The rest of the lineup […]
The Daily Hilario: Wednesday
First Hmm Oh really?
Qarabag vs. Chelsea, Champions League: Preview, team news, how to watch
It’s a 5000-mile round trip, to go to Azerbaijan in search of our next three points in the Champions League, so we better make sure we do in fact return with all three. This Qarabag side, winners of two of their first three league phase matches, are not the Qarabag whom we beat 10-0 combined […]
How should Chelsea line up against Qarabag, away?
Last time Chelsea had to travel to play away in the farthest reaches of “Europe” (i.e. somewhere in the middle of Eurasia in Kazakhstan), we took not only the “B-team” but also a bunch of kids from the Academy, leaving most of the first-team back in London. But that was essentially a meaningless game in […]
The Daily Hilario: Tuesday
Second Hmm Official
Cole Palmer named in 2024-25 FIFPRO World XI
In a somewhat surprising development, Cole Palmer has been voted in to the FIFPRO World XI by his fellow professionals. It’s surprising a bit not because Palmer wasn’t and isn’t amazing, or deserving, but last season wasn’t even his best season for Chelsea! His first year, 2023-24 was better in just about every respect! But […]
The Daily Hilario: Monday
Sacked Hmm First
Spurs 0-1 Chelsea, Player Ratings: Moisés Caicedo the ‘top best’
1. MOISÉS CAICEDO (9.2) Not only is Moisés Caicedo excellent and impactful just about every time we play, he tends to save his very best performances for the biggest games. That’s a most wonderful habit among all the other wonderful habits he has. Keep this up, and he will be mentioned in the same breath […]
The Daily Hilario: Sunday
And then they drew Ooof Hmm
Enzo Maresca happy with Spurs win, delighted with clean sheet
When I was in London last time*, back in early April, I had the pleasure of watching Chelsea against Spurs at Stamford Bridge, sat next to some dude who kept singing “Tottenham get battered everywhere they go” pretty much the entire time. Chelsea would of course end up winning, but only just, thanks to an […]
Spurs 0-1 Chelsea, Premier League: Post-match reaction
Had Chelsea’s game against Wolves in the League Cup earlier this week ended right after the first half, the Blues fanbase would arrive at today’s match against Tottenham Hotspur at their turf in the Premier League with much more confidence. Our second half performance in that match managed to steal our thunder. Under former Brentford […]
Spurs vs. Chelsea, Premier League: Confirmed lineups; how to watch
Welcome to the big game. Normally, we’d be quite confident of beating Spurs, regardless of circumstance. This time however, that notion feels a bit (a lot?) more tenuous. Hopefully I’m proven wrong. Enzo Maresca has made a couple changes from last weekend, with Wesley Fofana and Malo Gusto coming in to the side — we’ll […]
Chelsea FCW 2-0 London City Lionesses, Women’s Super League: Post-match reaction
Even though Chelsea Women have come to today’s match at Stamford Bridge unbeaten, this record doesn’t mean they’re in their best moment. Outside of a few matches where they managed to overwhelm the opposition very early on, the Blues haven’t been as dominant as they were even in comparison to last season when this team […]
Chelsea FCW vs. London City Lionesses, Women’s Super League: Confirmed lineups; how to watch
An early start to Chelsea football today, with the Women’s team taking on the London City Lionesses at Stamford Bridge. It’s also the start of a new regional rivalry with the recently promoted side using the most of their several reinforcements over the summer to keep themselves in the top half of the Women’s Super […]
Chelsea fans’ preferred lineup against Spurs: Another chance for Marc Guiu
We had a slightly abbreviated voting period this time around, but the trend in the responses is pretty clear already. Seven of the eleven starters have collected over 80 per cent of the vote each, while three more were right around 70 per cent. The one position up for debate was the fourth attacking player, […]
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