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Chelsea stun Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium in a London derby as they come back from a goal down to score 2 and turn the game around. It was a battle between two very young managers in Frank Lampard and Mikel Arteta and Lampard emerged victorious. Chelsea started the game with a 3-4-3 but eventually crumbled to Arsenal's high press and pace. Emerson's ball watching lead to an Arsenal goal pretty early in the first half as he failed to mark Arsenal talisman Aubameyang who opened the scoring with a brilliant header.                                                Frank Lampard was forced to make a change early on in the first half Emerson was subbed off to bring in Jorginho to switch to a 4-3-3. Lampard showed glimpses of improvement in his in game management with an early change which lead to Chelsea gaining momentum slowly. Jorginho's presence in the midfield brought composure and control to the otherwise chaotic and struggling Chelsea.                                

Chelsea continue their poor run at home as they suffered yet another blow at the Stamford Bridge on boxing day.Chelsea came into the game with high morale following their win against arch rivals Tottenham. On the other hand Southampton came into the match trying to fight their way out of the relegation zone.Chelsea started the game with a back 3 trying to replicate their performance against Spurs         The blues however looked the second best team throughout the game. Once again the blues struggled to produce goals and lacked creativity in the final third. The visitors were rock solid while defending and were very clinical going forward.The saints took the lead 30 minutes into the game courtesy of a fine finish from Obafemi poor defending from Tomori allowed  the Southampton forward to sprint away and cut the ball into his left foot and Zouma gave  him enough space to hammer one past Kepa.         Frank Lampard switched to a back 4 after the first half taking Zouma out for Maso

A struggling Chelsea prevailed against Tottenham in a heated London derby at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Frank Lampard faced his former manager Jose Mourinho for the first time in the Premier League and it was the apprentice who got the better of his  master in the London derby. Frank Lampard's flexibility to switch to the back 3 system proved to be decisive                                The 4 man midfield provided Chelsea with the width going forward and Chelsea got their reward early in the game after Willian took a short corner and linked up brilliantly with  Marcos Alonso to slot one past Gazzaniga to make it 1-0 for the visitors.Chelsea doubled their lead towards the end of the first half .A bizarre challenge from Gazzaniga on Alonso resulted in a Chelsea penalty, Willian stepped up to take the penalty and doubled the advantage.                                Tottenham's attackers saw very little of the Chelsea goal as Chelsea centre halves  showed bravery and were r

Chelsea suffered yet another blow as their premier league season continues to deteriorate. Chelsea were up against injury hit Bournemouth who managed to sail through the Stamford bridge with a clean sheet and all 3 points . Chelsea's lack of creativity in the final third led to Chelsea dropping  another 3 points . Both teams had their moments in the early stages of the game, Ryan Fraser's low effort was kept out by Kepa and Mason mount's close range shot was blocked by Ramsdale.                    Both teams had their moments in the game with Chelsea looking the more attacking side in the first half the second half was completely contrasting Pulisic and Willian showed signs of Fatigue and Mason Mount  had yet another night to forget and Odoi was nowhere near his best.                     Bournemouth's attacking approach in the second half fetched them a late winner as Chelsea struggled to clear a corner the ball fell back in for Gosling who was one on one with Kep

  A night that Chelsea young guns will never forget a nerve racking game that finally ended in a 2-1 victory for Chelsea. Chelsea,Ajax and Valencia  entered the Game week 6 with their champions league qualification fate in their own hands . It was a must win game for Chelsea to clinch a spot in the Champions league knock out stages . Frank Lampard insisted the team to show some character after their horrific performance against Everton.                          Chelsea dominated the early stages of the game and got their lead in the 19th minute after Christian Pulisic made another one of his blistering runs through the Lille defence and fed the ball to Willian the Brazilian showed glimpses of his old form with a brilliant cut back cross which was turned in by Abraham with a cheeky backheel finish. Chelsea dominated the match with Kante, Azpilicueta,Willian and Pulisic keeping  the Lille defenders busy throughout the first half by constantly making overlapping runs and putting the

Chelsea suffered their 5th defeat of the league at Goodison Park on Saturday . Duncan Ferguson former club legend return to the club as the interim manager after Marco Silva was sacked by the toffee's. The atmosphere in the Goodinson Park was electric and the energy with which the team played reflected the same.High pressing to put Chelsea defence under pressure and to mark Chelsea midfielder's allowing them no free space to dribble past was clearly the plan and it  worked out seemingly well for the home team.                     Richarlison got the Toffees off to a flying start scoring a stunning header merely 5 minutes into the game and there was no looking back ever since for Everton .Chelsea were clearly the second best in the fixture with Everton constantly pressing and riding high on confidence after scoring in the initial stages of the game.                    They did get their reward as Christensen and Zouma duo had another outing to forget. Christensen tang

                             Just the news all the Chelsea fans have been waiting for, Court of Arbitration Sports (CAS) has decided to overturn the ban imposed on Chelsea. Chelsea were initially banned by Fifa for 4 transfer windows for breaching article 19 and 18 of their regulations which concerns the transfer registrations and status of the minors.The ban was subsequently reduced to 2 transfer windows by Fifa  but Chelsea opted to appeal to the Court of Arbitration Sports to reduce the ban to one transfer window             After the final hearing held in November the club and the fans were eagerly waiting for the decision which finally went Chelsea's way the (CAS) decided to reduce the ban to one transfer window which the club has already served during summer 2019.            The CAS stated "The following sanctions have now been imposed by the CAS: Chelsea is banned from registering any new players, either nationally or internationally for one entire registratio

Frank Lampard's Chelsea got back to winning ways as they beat Aston Villa in a 2-1 win at Stamford Bridge. It was an emotional day for all the Chelsea fans as former captain John Terry returned to Stamford Bridge as Aston Villa's assistant manager.Chelsea had a major boost as Tammy Abraham returned back to the playing Xi after missing out on the weekend clash against West Ham.                        Chelsea dominated the early stages of the game with dynamic runs from Christian Pulisic and Mason Mount proving  to be vital in the early stages of the game.However Visitors did miss a couple of chances and were unable to convert from the wide crosses coming in via Willian and Reece James. Aston Villa unable to track down the crosses eventually paid the price as Chelsea took the lead after Tammy Abraham nodded home a delightful cross from Reece James.                         The visitors did get their equaliser just before half time as Trezeguet  bundled an excellent cross fro

Chelsea suffered a shock 1-0 defeat  to a struggling West Ham United side in a London Derby at Stamford Bridge. Frank Lampard decided to make 5 changes to his side that drew against Valencia. Giroud made his first premier league start in over 3 months as Tammy was left out on bench due to an injury  . Chelsea started off well with Christian Pulisic and  Mason Mount making impressive runs through the West ham defence soon the intensity dropped which gave West Ham an opportunity to get in behind Chelsea defence the visitors almost took the lead early on in the game but Kepa pulled off an exceptional save to deny Antonio                                                               However visitors did take the lead later on in the game after a momentary lapse of concentration for Reece James allowed Cresswell to cut back and slide the ball far right corner past Kepa.The Visitors almost doubled their lead after a goal from Antonio was denied by the VAR. Chelsea gave it their all and