The Chelsea Chronicle
Match24 Oct 2037
The run at home goes on for Chelsea
26 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match24 Oct 2037
Kendry Páez leads the rout of Liverpool
3‑0, and Kendry Páez took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Chelsea tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad26 Oct 2037
Filip Jörgensen keeps Chelsea in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings26 Oct 2037
Kendry Páez scores twice — 9.13
Two goals and a mark of 9.13 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings26 Oct 2037
Wesley Fofana shuts the door
Defensive actions: 30, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings26 Oct 2037
A defender's afternoon for Moisés Caicedo
Defensive actions: 28. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad26 Oct 2037
Enzo Fernández 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.
Market26 Oct 2037
Steven Harris is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Chelsea is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Oct 2037
Wesley Fofana falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Player ratings Nothing got past Stefan Bajčetić
- Match Chelsea settle it inside twenty minutes
- Squad Chelsea count the cost of losing Richard Phillips