Maurizio Sarri has shown unending faith in the senior players at Chelsea, and tonight they let him down again. A front three of Pedro, Willian and Olivier Giroud contains two World Cup winners and a Brazil international with north of 50 caps. That should be enough to see off Slavia Prague. Giroud is less guilty, […]
Not long ago – in fact less than two weeks ago – Maurizio Sarri looked a dead man walking at Chelsea. Cardiff were winning 1-0, and his team were playing terribly, just as they had the preceding week against Everton as they lost 2-0. The fans had totally turned on their manager, and it looked […]
Danny Drinkwater was charged with drink driving this week after a crash on Monday night. Drink driving is never excusable, but when you’re a millionaire footballer, it’s even more despicable. So the midfielder had already used up a lot of the sympathy some people had for him. But further revelations made by Maurizio Sarri showed […]
Chelsea travel to Prague knowing that a good result can almost see them through to the next round. All we have to do is deal with another weak team as effectively as we’ve deal with all the other minnows so far in this competition and we’ll be walking into the semis. We finally got lucky […]
It’s about a year since Antoine Griezmann turned down Barcelona to stay at Atletico Madrid. He’s not had a bad season by any means, but nor has he been really exceptional. This piece in the Independent discusses how he’s gone from having the biggest clubs knocking at his door last season, to suddenly running out […]
Chelsea are in an incredibly busy run at the moment, and Maurizio Sarri’s favourites get little chance for a rest. While he’s happy to shift around the fringe players, Jorginho has to play in every important game possible for the Italian coach. That has meant little rest for the former Napoli man. Against Slavia Prague […]
Maurizio Sarri rotated his team for the game against Brighton, and started several of the young stars who the fans have been so desperate to see. They performed well, were given a second chance on Monday against West Ham, and performed well again. Now there’s no chance that Sarri will play them again, for a […]