Chelsea thread

Great to see Azpi on the right and Alonso on the left.

What a goal from Costa!

Great game, how good was Chalobah's assist!

I have missed those mental David Luiz free kicks too.

Moses playing really well.  Nice to see Costa and Hazard dedicating their goals to Willian, hope he's back soon.

Farkin yes!!!

Saw the line up and thought, not sure about Cahill and Pedro - so glad to be proven wrong by both of them!

Was nervous about this game and would have been happy with a draw, but 4-0 over Utd!

Looking forward to the league cup match v West Ham London

How many games is that now that Costa has not been booked :) I was very happy with Kante's goal as icing on the cake, too

Wow! Back on top where we belong :) Wouldn't have seen that after the Gooners tore us a new one! Three at the back, who would have thought that would work but testing time ahead....

Oh, there you are? "You only come out when you're winning!" Just noting the dates of the posts and what's happening. 

We're playing really well, but I'm still not convinced we'll win the league this season.

Will be happy with a top 4 finish.

Spurs will be a good test tomorrow

Spuds up 1-0 as I type.

I thought the commentator's curse was upon us when he announced it's been 20 years since Spurs won at The Bridge and Eriksen scored an absolute cracker of a goal. But the boys turned it around :)

Well pleased with the final result and City around the corner which will be another cracker!

Wow.

Just watched the Citeh game delayed. 3-1 win and scored all 4 goals :p

Love the way this team is playing.  We certainly had a bit of luck go our way, Aguero and KDB scuffing it.  Luiz very nearly gave the ref a reason to send him off.

Great seeing Willian get on the scoresheet, and that Fabregas pass to Costa!

What can I say?? Costa you little beauty :)

I would like to wish all the teams below Chelsea, and their supporters too,  A very Merry Christmas :)

Costas transfer could be in doubt http://metro.co.uk/2016/12/23/diego-simeone-reveals-the-problem-chelsea-gave-atletico-madrid-in-diego-costa-transfer-talks-6342671/ 

Bloody Hell, Ron! Hate to say it but Spurs wanted it more than we wanted the 14th win. Buggerit :(

How's that 14 in a row going for you?

About as well as the top 4 is going for you I assume.

WTF was up with the arguing between your two players? Mind you, if only Kosta and co showed such passion.....and goalscoring form.

NATHAN AKE is heading back to Chelsea

Jamie Styles / Published 31st December 2016

Musonda, 20, has returned to Chelsea after struggling for regular game time on loan at Real Betis.

The attacker started just one game in eight appearances during his time with the Spanish outfit.

And Luiz is clearly delighted to have Musonda back in west London, posting a photo of the pair on his official Instagram account along with the caption: "Little boy with a big talent ! God bless u bro @iam_musondajr".

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Andreas Christensen - The Danish centre-back has thrived in the Bundesliga with Borussia Monchengladbach and has regularly played in a back three in his time there

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Antonio Conte has already hinted that Musonda could be part of his first-team plans, although he didn't rule out another temporary switch for the Belgium Under-21 international or fellow youngster Kenedy.

When quizzed over his January options, the Italian said: "At the moment Kenedy and Musonda are back because they didn’t play a lot.

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Charly Musonda is back

Anyone watching/recording the Peterborough game? Kick should be 4am...Epsn 2 has it 'live' at 8.55am

So confused... It's 3pm local time in UK so that means 4am right? So ESPN/sky have it wrong?

ESPN have it on live at 1am Qld time which is 4am yours.

They are also showing the Spurs and Liverpool games on their other channel.

Alright so the planner will be out...The Liverpool game is on before @ 7am on the planner

Yes, it's been a mixed bag to say the least. Sunday morning games were scheduled incorrectly as well.

Do hope you got to see JT's 67 minutes though. 

Planning permission has been granted for Stanford Bridge redevelopment

http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2017/01/...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-38...

Rumour - John Terry to Bournemouth - any substance to this??

He wants to finish his career at Chelsea

Sh*t going down with Costa...

http://www.espnfc.com.au/chelsea/story/3037919/die...

"Diego Costa has been dropped for Chelsea's Premier League clash with Leicester City after a row with Antonio Conte and a lucrative transfer offer from the Chinese Super League, sources have confirmed to ESPN FC.

Chelsea head to the King Power Stadium on Saturday hoping to preserve their five-point lead at the top of the Premier League but Costa, the division's top scorer with 14 goals in 19 appearances this season, has not travelled with the rest of the squad.

He has instead trained alone at Cobham for the past three days after becoming embroiled in a heated argument with a fitness coach over an injury, after which Conte got involved and decided to punish his striker after siding with his staff in the dispute.

In the background there is also the ominous presence of significant interest in Costa from China, with a report in the Telegraph claiming that one club has informed the Spain international they are willing to offer him £30 million-a-year after taxes to leave Stamford Bridge in January."

Hard to see that going down after such high spirits @ the Peterborough game. Content and Costa laughing together etc, it's possible he has an injury anyway and didn't travel because of that?!

I doubt this news 

Costa insta

Hope this causes it to all fall apart at Chelsea. Would love to see a full on dressing room revolt.

Dressing room revolt when you're top of the league?!?! Dream on :)

It's the Chinese offering 30 million pounds after tax that's caused the "injury" -lol- but I've not read what they would offer Chelsea for him 

The real question is: could we consistently win without him 

Well, we managed to brush aside a poor Leicester, thank goodness :) Good team effort and I expect Costa back fully recovered from his "back injury" next week! lol

And whilst not everybody loves Chelsea, (almost) everybody loves Conte, and passion for the game!

I really like Conte, he's been great for the league. 

The recent incoming managers at big clubs, for the most part, are managers that play good football and have respect for the other managers - I'm thinking Conte, Klopp, Guardiola. It's refreshing to see. 

3-0 baby and with no costa

TBH, Guardiola is boring cod. Great manager but boring. 

Guardiola is bang average. Being found out big time in the Prem.

Of cause he is. A few CL, a few La Liga and Bundesliga titles, FA coach of the year plus ---------------

Piss easy with the best player of all time in your squad. Even Roma bottle job Enrique managed to do it.

Yea right.  I could name a few that have not or could not.