Tous les Articles écrits sur Chelsea sur WhoScored.com RSS

Match Report: Lacklustre Newcastle Fall to Title Favourites Chelsea

by
Match Report: Lacklustre Newcastle Fall to Title Favourites Chelsea Chelsea capitalised on Arsenal and Manchester City's dropped points on Saturday to move to the summit of the table, strengthening their title credentials in the process. On the back of the 1-0 victory in Manchester on Monday night, the Blues ensured they maintained their good run of form to dispatch...

Team Focus: Pragmatic Mourinho Proving Hard to Predict

by
Team Focus: Pragmatic Mourinho Proving Hard to Predict Not for the first time this season, or indeed his entire career, it was a little difficult to accept that José Mourinho actually believed what he was saying. The comment about the “little horse” already looks set to become one of his more memorable quotes, as he insisted the press...

Match Report: Resilient West Ham Frustrate Dominant Chelsea

by
Match Report: Resilient West Ham Frustrate Dominant Chelsea Chelsea were forced to make do with a point in a rain drenched London derby against West Ham United, despite turning out a performance that warranted all 3. The Blues dominated from the first minute to the last, but were unable to break down their east London counterparts as the hosts lost ground in...

Match Report: More Misery for Moyes as Eto'o Puts United to the Sword

by
Match Report: More Misery for Moyes as Eto'o Puts United to the Sword Chants of David Moyes, we want you to stay rang out at Stamford Bridge on Sunday afternoon, but while the visiting fans might have voiced unrelenting support for their team, it was the Chelsea fans that sang the under-pressure Manchester United manager's name the more vociferously. Opposing fans are...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

by
WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips Plenty of goals and away wins - that's the focus for this weekend's betting tips, though there is one team that goes against the grain and for good reason. Chelsea will look to maintain their formidable home record against the Premier League's big guns and assert their authority against an underwhel...

Player Focus: Can Hazard Rank Among the Greatest in the World?

by
Player Focus: Can Hazard Rank Among the Greatest in the World? With men behind the ball and visitors Chelsea struggling to carve out many clear cut opportunities, Steve Bruce may have been confident of another clean sheet at the KC Stadium as the sides approached the hour mark on Saturday. It took some tidy build up play for the Blues to finally break the deadl...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Best Bets

by
WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Best Bets It's a fixture list this weekend, with almost all of Europe's big clubs playing away from home. The result is many intriguing sets of odds with chances of success. Most interesting of all is the mother of all tests for Atlético Madrid against Barcelona.LIKELY BETSVillarreal vs Real Socieda...

Player Focus: Is Juan Mata a Mourinho Player?

by
Player Focus: Is Juan Mata a Mourinho Player? Juan Mata, it seems generally agreed, is not a Mourinho type of player. That is all but self-evident: why else, after all, would the player who was Chelsea’s player of the year in each of the last two seasons find himself so on the periphery? It’s true that he has made 11 Premier League ...

Match Report: Individual Quality Shines Through for Chelsea

by
Match Report: Individual Quality Shines Through for Chelsea Following Arsenal's win at Newcastle, this was a game that neither team could afford to lose. Both Chelsea and Liverpool harbour title aspirations after their starts to the campaign and with Manchester City and Everton both also securing victory over the weekend, 3 points was essential. While fans h...

Player Focus: Branislav Ivanovic - The Right Choice for Chelsea

by
Player Focus: Branislav Ivanovic - The Right Choice for Chelsea When Branislav Ivanovic first arrived at Chelsea, he spent a good deal of time on the outside looking in. The outside being a comfortable spot on the bench.Luckily, the Serb had Ukrainian Andriy Shevchenko for company; a friend, a translator, and someone who convinced him that if he was patient and ...