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There were inflatable bananas, how 1989, bouncing around in City’s lower tier. There were empty seats in both ends but many more in the City end. At 5.15pm, the game began. We probably started the strongest with Gallagher breaking past his last man, Kyle Walker, a couple of times and...
Time after time we played a long diagonal over to Victor Moses, who seemed to be United’s forgotten man, he was in so much space. Once or twice, he played the ball in, but far too often there was the trademark extra touch, or – even more frustrating – the desire to beat the s...
Chelsea: 15 Jan v Man City (A) Liverpool: 16 Jan v Brentford (H) Match officials Referee:Anthony Taylor.Assistants:Gary Beswick, Adam Nunn.Fourth official:Martin Atkinson.VAR: Paul Tierney.Assistant VAR:Constantine Hatzidakis. Show All
De Jong had nailed it. Thomas Tuchel, the Chelsea boss, must have been relieved the Dutchman sent the message on social media rather than as a text to the City dugout. Ben Chilwell had made an early dash down the left and Kante burst forward, the furthest Chelsea man upfield. Although ...
‘Our biggest test is to play different competitions, three hard games in a week. You saw how difficult it was for us two years ago and last year for Manchester United and Newcastle. It is what Arsenal and Manchester City can do.
The ball was played simply to Morgan Rogers –“there’s always a spare man that side” – who adeptly struck low into the corner of our net. Neither team had played well, yet Chelsea went into the break 0-2 down. This was always going to be a tough game. And here we were, ...
PD, Parky and myself headed straight in to town on the District Line, but instead of joining up with one of many Chelsea pre-game rendezvous in various hostelries throughout the city, we had other plans. We alighted at Embankment, slap dash in the middle of the nation’s capital. ...