Chelsea and Nike have released their new away kit for the upcoming 2021/2022 season, a kit that reintroduces yellow in the west London club’s colours – but this time in a lighter shade than usual. It was a nod to the past as yellow has been a recurrent theme in Chelsea’s away kits over the…
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Watch: Armando Broja continues clinical run with goal under pressure
Armando Broja continued his incredible run of form in pre-season for Chelsea with another goal against Bournemouth last night. After a couple of training ground matches – a 6-1 win against Peterborough, and a 1-1 intra-squad encounter – Chelsea officially kicked off their pre-season campaign with a friendly at the Vitality Stadium. Despite going behind…
Watch: Callum Hudson-Odoi continues left-wing renaissance
Callum Hudson-Odoi has had an impressive pre-season so far. The young Englishman who was touted to become one of the best young players in the world has not lived up to expectations just yet, but that might soon be a thing of the past if he keeps up the rich vein of form that he…
Watch: Unai Simon applauds after Jorginho hop comes out on top
Unai Simon just couldn’t help but applaud as Jorginho scored a highly unconventional but mighty effective penalty to send Italy through to the finals of the European Championship. It was sheer arrogance and pure audacity from the Chelsea star as his devilish hop before the shot took the Bilbao stopper out of the equation before…
Watch: Jorginho outthinking Thorgan Hazard with neat drag-back skill
Thorgan Hazard found out why Jorginho is so difficult to play against as the Borussia Dortmund midfielder got sent to the shadow realm while trying to press the Chelsea stalwart. Italy reigned supreme in their 2020 European Championship quarter-final encounter against Belgium and secured progress to the semi-finals as goals from Nicolo Barella and Lorenzo…
Watch: Kai Havertz robbed of iconic wonder volley by Jordan Pickford
Germany crashed out of the 2020 European Championship on Tuesday after losing 2-0 to England at Wembley Stadium. Die Mannschaft were vastly anonymous and mostly unimaginative in their performance – with the exception of Kai Havertz who was their only beacon of light throughout the game. The 22-year old Havertz had arguably been the Germans’…
Video: Billy Gilmour shrugs off nerves with MOTM display against England
If Billy Gilmour had any nerves after being thrown in the deep end against England, he sure didn’t show them. The Chelsea lad was thrust into action at the biggest of stages as Scotland manager Steve Clarke put him on the team sheet to face their arch-rivals and the 20-year-old responded by winning the man…
Video: Antonio Rudiger caught chomping on Paul Pogba a la Suarez
Germany lacked incision throughout in their opening match of the 2020 European Championship against France last night, but footage from the game has shown that Antonio Rüdiger didn’t. The German central defender was caught on camera trying to bite Paul Pogba as France began their EURO 2020 campaign with a 1-0 win over Germany –…
Video: Olivier Giroud dispatches two poachers goals against Bulgaria
Olivier Giroud turned fox in the box twice after replacing an injured Karim Benzema in the first half as France won their final Euro 2020 warmup fixture with a 3-0 win against Bulgaria. With his clinical brace, the Chelsea striker now needs only 5 more goals to equal Thierry Henry’s goal record as the top…
Video: Kai Havertz forces own goal with clever dribble and shot against Latvia
It was a mini Kai Havertz show during the first half of Germany’s 7-1 thrashing of Latvia as the Chelsea star grabbed an assist and forced an own goal at the Esprit Arena. The 21-year-old continues to make the headlines after heroics during the Champions League final against Manchester City as he started the rout…
Video: N’Golo Kante thumps bullet header in France training
Scoring goals and that too bullet headers is not a trait one would normally associate while talking about N’Golo Kante. But that’s exactly what the Chelsea midfielder did during a training session with the French squad. Although, in a game of handball. The former Leicester City player brilliantly applied the finishing touches to a passing…
Video: Christian Pulisic nails extra-time penalty winner against Mexico
Christian Pulisic was cool, calm and collected as he struck his penalty hard into the right upper corner of Guillermo Ochoa’s net to score the game-winning goal in extra time for the U.S. Men’s National Team. It was another classic match between the two North American nations as the USA took down Mexico in an…
Video: Olivier Giroud lets loose uncompromising scissor-kick volley in training
Olivier Giroud continues to prove that he is one of the best strikers of the ball in the game as the Frenchman slammed a rambunctious scissor-kick volley while preparing for Chelsea’s Champions League final against Manchester City. Chelsea went on to win the final as Giroud remained an unused substitute in Porto but his contribution…
Video: Jorginho cutting down avenues for Manchester City players to pass
Jorginho’s footballing IQ was on display in abundance in the Champions League final as the Chelsea midfielder’s impressive movement cut down a large part of the pitch as an attacking option for Manchester City. The Italian was quick on his feet to detect which opponent he had to take care of as he marshalled the…
Video: Chelsea snuffing out Man City attacks by the skins of their teeth
As much as the post-match reactions have mostly been about Pep Guardiola overthinking his lineup for the final, a new video doing the rounds online shows that it was the defensive organization that won Chelsea the Champions League. Be it Azpilicueta intercepting a threatening De Bruyne cross, Rudiger’s last-ditch block on Foden or Ben Chilwell…
Video: Michael Ballack ignores lingerie-clad cabaret dancers to watch Chelsea live stream
Michael Ballack showed he has got his priorities in order as the former Chelsea player was caught on cam watching the Champions League final against Manchester City on his mobile as the whole restaurant club had their eyes on the scantily clad table-dancing ladies. An extremely good choice from the German in the end as…
Video: Antonio Rudiger deploys mammoth last-ditch block against Manchester City
Man City produced a move that had 1-0 written all over it as Kevin de Bruyne played through Phil Foden on goal after some good work from Gundogan and Sterling in the first half at the Estadio do Dragao. It was a massive moment in the game as it was the only time City had…