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It’s a London Derby between two teams that badly need a win when Chelsea FC visit Fulham on Saturday. The Blues come in 10 points behind top of the table Manchester United, and to be quite frank, Mr. Lampard doesn’t seem to be managing a title contending team this season.
In fact, Frank Lampard really needs to get his side moving in the right direction, and fast, because in order to reach the top four, they have a handful of teams to surpass.
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It’s January, and that means it’s time to talk transfer rumors, and in this edition, we cover Chelsea FC. We start with surplus to requirements central defender Fikayo Tomori, and where he might end up. According to transfer expert and Italian journalist Fabrizio Romano, the “here we go” guy, AC Milan are interested.
This narrative is of course far from reaching “here we go” status, but Tomori is reportedly open for a permanent switch to the Serie A side.
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Manchester United and Liverpool, two English giants and bitter arch-rivals, will meet in six days time for a Premier League fixture that will determine the top of the table. Then they’ll meet again about a week later in the FA Cup 4th round.
The fourth and fifth round draws for the world’s oldest domestic cup competition came out a few hours ago, and no doubt United vs. Liverpool is the headliner. Here below is the entire list- and note that the proverbial big six of the Premier League were drawn as to avoid each other in the fifth round.
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The FA Cup is a monstrously sized tournament these days. The big boys don’t even show up until the third round. With Chelsea set to host minnows Morecambe on Sunday, it looks almost certain that the Blues will extend the club’s unbeaten in round three run to its 23rd season.
Of course, Chelsea manager Frank Lampard will rotate his squad here, as one should when you’re in the top flight, and your opponent originates from the fourth tier.
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Chelsea commence their FA Cup campaign, with a third round tie against Morecambe, a club currently residing in League Two, which is the fourth tier of the FA system. A victory here, which is pretty much certain, would extend an impressive streak: the Blues have reached every fourth round of this competition since 1999.
Last season they went to the final, where they fell to cross-town rival Arsenal. Let’s take a look at the team news for this one.
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Just what is going on at Chelsea FC this season? A fourth place finishing team last season, Stamford Bridge obliterated everyone on the planet in the summer transfer window, but all that added spending has only yielded worse results, not better, thus far.
Getting dominated by Manchester City yesterday, 3-1, dropped the Blues to eighth in the table. Makaing matters worse, all but one of the teams above them have at least one game in hand on Chelsea, and two sides actually have two less matches played.
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Manchester City produced a dominant display of football that ensured a 3-1 win over Chelsea on Sunday. The quality of the performance left City boss Pep Guardiola feeling like he had witnessed his record-shattering team from a couple of seasons ago, per Daily Mail.
City started on the front foot and they never gave Chelsea any breathing room. They went into halftime with a three-goal lead thanks to Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden and Kevin De Bruyne. The hosts got a small consolation goal in second half injury time, but it was far too little and way too late.
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It took five months into the 20/21 season, but better late than never. For the first time, ever, Christian Pulisic, Hakim Ziyech and Timo Werner will be in the same starting lineup together. Chelsea FC supporters, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Holidays etc.
Will Werner break out of his scoring drought now? Will we see, against Manchester City, the vaunted attack that we heard so much, back in the summer, about being inevitable?
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Sky Sports, working in conjunction with the EA Sports FIFA video game franchise, hooked up with Chelsea star Christian Pulisic in their latest episode of Fan Q&A. Tomorrow brings the headliner Premier League fixture of New Year’s weekend, when Chelsea host Manchester City.
Pulisic is expected to start once again for the Blues in that one. However, this video, embedded below, is all about light-hearted off-the-pitch topics.
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Manchester City travel to London on Sunday to take on Chelsea FC as they look to potentially continue their climb up the Premier League table. What kind of changes, from the last match, can we expect to see from Pep Guardiola in this match?
City are getting close to their best and the wins are starting to come now. If they are able to get the three points at Stamford Bridge, it will be a huge morale boost to the Manchester side’s quest to make a run for another Premier League title.
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Blues boss Frank Lampard needs to find a better way to try and get more out of his team. Roman Abramovich and Marina Granovskaia improved Chelsea football club to the tune of 220 million GBP this summer, and yet here we are- they’re in a worse position in the table right now from where they finished last season.
“Arsenal was probably in my opinion the worst performance of the season, because of our first half, not the second,” said Lampard.
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There had been some doubt as to whether or not Sunday’s massive Premier League fixture, Manchester City at Chelsea FC, would actually go on as planned.
That’s due to a COVID-19 outbreak at Man City, which sees five players unavailable for this one. Thus far, only two of the quintent have been identified: defender Kyle Walker and centre forward Gabriel Jesus.
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