The Chelsea Chronicle
Squad5 Apr 2027
Cole Palmer is carrying Chelsea
20 goals and a season average of 7.51. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match3 Apr 2027
Still nobody has beaten Chelsea
The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Robert Bailey: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Chelsea have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market5 Apr 2027
Chelsea turn down Ilves for Chizzy Ezenwata
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad5 Apr 2027
The step up is real for Jesse Derry
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Emanuel Emegha in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces5 Apr 2027
Chelsea supporters have found a favourite in Roméo Lavia
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Roméo Lavia has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Mateo Retegui makes it 200
200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Ninety minutes of Roméo Lavia at his very best
Marked 8.07. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Chelsea.
In brief
- Match Leeds United snatch it back from Chelsea
- The dugout Wesley Fofana gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Maxence Lacroix is still being punished for one mistake