Easy Saturday in Nottingham!

A 3-0 Blues victory sealed the fate for Ange Postecoglou as he was sacked minutes after the match ended. It was a goalless 1st half as Enzo Maresca made several changes to the starting XI with players coming back from International duty. No Enzo Fernandez & Moises Caicedo as Andrey Santos & Romeo Lavia started. But early in the 2nd half, Josh Acheampong scored his 1st goal ever in a blue shirt as a senior player with a towering header off a Pedro Neto cross. That kickstarted the run as three minutes later the boys won a free kick just outside of the box and Neto smashes in the 2nd from a wonderful set piece between him and Reece James making it 2-0. There were a few hairy moments by Forest to get back into the match, but Forest could not get shot on target to challenge Robert Sanchez. In the dying minutes, Reece puts one in the back of the net off a deflected corner kick for the 3rd before the match ended.

The lads have seem to have found the scoring form as they’ve put up 8 goals this week, including 5 midweek in a Champions League victory over Ajax. Up next, Sunderland pays a visit to Stamford Bridge and have impressed early on with a strong defensive record putting them 7th in the table and level on points with the lads, but lets find our current scoring form breaks through against our opponents this weekend.

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Another goalfest in the works?

An exhilarating 4-4 draw was how it ended the last time The Blues faced Ajax at Stamford Bridge almost six years ago back in November 2019 in a Champions League group match. Two own goals, two penalties, and a red card all just a glimpse of how this match went. Also, who can forget Kepa taking a ball right in the face off the far post that went in the back of the net from a Hakim Ziyech kick?

Let’s see if there’s more fireworks in store midweek as the lads look to improve after an impressive return back from International duty.

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Still buzzing two weeks later…

A stunning last minute winner by Estevao helped the Blues defeat the league champions, Liverpool, 2-1 in an end to end affair. The marquee matchup lived up to expectations as Enzo Maresca had multiple changes to his lineup has he dealt with injuries and suspensions with a new centreback pair of Benoit Badiashille and Josh Acheampong both started against the Reds. Reece James captained and led the team off to a fast start after the 14th minute, Moises Caicedo was given all the time and space in the world from 30 yards out and thumped a world class goal that put Blue up in the 1st half. Liverpool responded in the 2nd half after making substitutions, to level it up and then the crazy finish in stoppage time. Enzo Maresca made a sprint to the corner, and celebrated with the lads which ended with him receiving a red card and exiting for the showers before the whistle.

Back from break, we head up to the Midlands to face Nottingham Forest where the Blues finished the 2024-25 season only a few months removed. Levi Colwill scored the winning goal then, securing our ticket back into the Champions League. It’s early, but the October stretch of matches could help separate the current table as the top half are all within 6 points of each other. A run of victories can lift the boys into contention as the season moves forward!

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A September to forget!

Red should not be the color, but it changed the outcome once again in last week’s Premier League match vs Brentford. Up 1-0 and comfortably in control, a crucial error was made by Andrey Santos as his back pass fell short and was intercepted by Diego Gomez helped the pressing Kaoru Mitoma. Trevor Chalobah stepped in to challenge and fouled Gomez, but VAR intervened to review and upgraded the foul to a red card. Deemed as a denying an obvious goal scoring opportunity. Fortunes changed there once again, down a man and changes were made to bring on defensive help. The Blues held on and still in control, but once Brighton made changes to bring on the attack, a flurry of goals in the last 15 minutes, two by Danny Welbeck sealed their defeat at home 1-3.

Chalobah will be missed as he serves a one match ban vs Liverpool adding to the challenge of who the starting centrebacks will be as they face an uphill battle against the league leaders and current Champions this weekend. What will Enzo Marseca do to keep the boys in the battle and avoid tumbling down the table so early on?

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Here comes Jose Mourinho!

The Special One returns to Stamford Bridge as he is now manager of the Portuguese club, SL Benfica in the 2nd match of the Champions League. Mourinho was recently sacked at Fenerbache for not qualifying in the play in game against none other than Benfica and as fortunes have it, was appointed to the team that knock him out of the competition, initially. The Blues have their own woes as September has been a torrid month with only one victory across all comps (1W-1D-3L). Can the Blues end on a winning note for September? We’ll find out this week!

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Got to weather through the storm!

It was a rough week, to say the least, but no time to rest and recover. Another match day is upon us this Saturday as the squad faces Brighton at Stamford Bridge in a pivotal Premier League match to stay close to the league leaders. Lots of familiar faces will go up against their former club: Marc Cucurella, Moises Caicedo, Joao Pedro & Robert Sanchez. Facundo Buonanotte unavailable as Premier League rules do not allow a player to face their parent club. Lots of questions going into this matchup for Enzo Maresca and team as they rotate players to keep rested and ready from a long season ending in a Club World Cup trophy. The new season has brought on new challenges that will need to be worked out, quick!

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A week to forget!

It couldn’t have gone any worse this past week going winless. We will have to leave that behind and move forward. It is still early in the season, and nothing is won in September! There can’t be a better way to reset than to start up the League Cup campaign vs Lincoln City of the 3rd round. Expect wholesale changes against this League One opponent. The Imps are 3rd in the League One table and are good form having only lost once so far this campaign, winning their last two matches. Let see the boys come out strong and forget what happened in the last two matches!

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Challenging week after the break!

The hangover for the players coming back from international break strikes again as the boys hit two consecutive winless matches: a draw at Brentford in Premier League action, and a defeat in Munich, their 1st match of the Champions League campaign.

Enzo Marseca has his hands full, dealing with injuries, new player additions, and a slew of matches (7 in 22 days) upcoming in between international breaks. That’s one match in a little over 3 days in this window. It doesn’t get any easier as the lads travel to Manchester to face a United team that is in disarray with their manager, Ruber Amorim, but leaving Old Trafford with three points has never been easy. 2013 being the last time the Blues took all three points at Old Trafford. Let’s see if our fortunes turnaround this weekend!

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Back in the Champions League!

It’s been two full league campaigns with no appearances into the top flight of European competition, but finally it feels great to be facing the best in Europe once again. The format has also changed since last our appearance in this competition as there are no more group matches in round robin play. A total of 36 teams with each team playing eight matches (four at home & four away) all against different opponents, and determined in one single league table. Once all 8 matches have been played, the top 8 will automatically qualify for the knockout phase, the bottom 8 are also eliminated leaving the remaining 16 to play in a 2 leg home & away tie to see who qualifies into the knockout stages.

The road to European glory begins in Munich up against a familiar rival, Bayern Munich who we’ve had to faced in the finals in 2012, successfully winning our 1st Champions League in dramatic fashion outlasting them on penalty kicks. Now they’ve got a completely different squad but with some familiar faces from the Premier League: Harry Kane, Michael Olise, and of course, Nicolas Jackson. This should be a fascinating match with many headlines as who knows how these two managers: Enzo Maresca & Vincent Kompany, who all came from Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City as assistant coach & player captain, respectively, will setup.

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The real season begins here!

We made it through the 1st 3 matches of the season with a less than ideal preseason training, but have fought our way to 2nd in the table early on with 7 points. It has come with some costs as we have a list of injuries to players who played through the extended season during the summer. Two key starting players will miss extended playing time: Levi Colwill & Liam Delap, meanwhile Cole Palmer has missed two of the first three matches to start the season already, while awaiting word if he will be available to play for this upcoming match away vs Brentford.

Fortunately, the squad is deep and there is cover for all positions this season, but we can’t afford to lose any more players to injury without suffering the consequences. Players have stepped up and produced: Joao Pedro is still scoring goals and producing results in only his 5th competitive match with the club. Estevao has impressed filling the void with Palmer’s injury. And there are more reinforcements with the likes of Alejandro Garnacho & Facundo Buonanotte joining in on transfer day deals. It should be a fascinating West London derby at the Gtech Community Stadium. Let’s keep building that momentum to play through the adversity!

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Breakout match for Estevao!

With Cole Palmer scratched from the starting XI right before kickoff, Estevao filled in and proved that he is ready for the Premier League! The lads in another London Derby, got off to a slow start against West Ham United who gave it their all for the 1st ten minutes pressing the Blues down 0-1 from a world class goal from Lucas Paqueta. Estevao will learn that you can’t lose possession in a vital part of the pitch and not get punished for it.

Then it all turned around, by the 15th minute the boys got going off a corner kick, with Joao Pedro scoring his 1st league goal for the team and to get the Blues 1st of the season with a nice assist from Marc Cucurella. Next, the boys stepped it up winning possession in West Ham’s defensive half and Joao Pedro with a cross right to Pedro Neto’s left foot who slotted in by the keeper and then by the 35th minute Enzo Fernandez scored his 1st of the season from jaw dropping run from Estevao from 30 yards out to the end line, dropping it off right in front of net for Fernandez to tap in making it 3-1. With that turnaround the West Ham support headed for the exits even before halftime! Two more goals in the 2nd half off corner kicks and the boys never looked back with an empathic 5-1 win at the London Stadium!

Can the lads build on this start and keep the goals coming? We shall see with the 3rd London Derby of the season before the 1st international break at home against West London rivals, Fulham.

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A frustrating London Derby to start the season.

It all ended in a goalless draw at home vs Crystal Palace where the Blues dominated possession for much of the match, but could not unlock the final third in the box and find that break through goal. A similar theme to Enzo Maresca’s team carrying over from last season where opponents setup deep to takeaway all attacking chances to frustrate the lads into making a mistake. It nearly cost them early on when Eberechi Eze scored off a free kick thirteen minutes into the first half, but VAR ruled against the goal as a Marc Guehi was deemed to have cleared the wall illegally to create the goal scoring chance. Both teams ended up defending really well in the 2nd half and scoring chances were very limited. Andrey Santos & Trevor Chalobah has two of the best chances during the match, but both skied their shots way over the bar.

The boys will have to forget this match quick as they return to action in 5 days as they head into another derby away against West Ham United. It been a tricky fixture the last few visits to the London Stadium and this one shouldn’t be any different.

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Let’s get back to action!

The 2025-26 Premier League begins this weekend and there is plenty of hope to build on after winning two trophies in the previous campaign: UEFA Conference League & FIFA Club World Cup. It was a wild finish to the domestic league as it took a hard fought victory in the final match of the season away at Nottingham Forest to lock out a Champions League spot.

It a fresh new start under Enzo Maresca’s second season with a few new players who are looking to impress the gaffer. Preseason was a blur with only two matches to get the squad back up and running. Up first will be a home matchup against London rivals, Crystal Palace who had themselves a successful season winning the FA cup and defeating Liverpool last week in penalties to win the Community Shield. It’ll be a test of will with a short Summer Break and shortened preseason training, but the lads are already looking in mid season form and looking to take the challenge to all the contenders!

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Off to a good start!

The 1st preseason match for the boys and it was quite impressive. Not even 5 days from returning from the abbreviated Summer break, the Blues won comfortable 2-nil at home vs Bayer Levekusen. Estevao scored his 1st goal for the club - albeit preseason from a rebound off the crossbar. Joao Pedro sealed it late with this 3rd goal already for the club in a month’s time. The lads looked really sharp and controlled much of the match. Few things to sort out defensively but you hardly saw any clear mistakes and that something that has been a focus to improve on for this coming season.

Up next, it’s the 2nd and final preseason match at home against AC Milan. A homecoming of sorts for several ex players: Christian Pulisic, FIkayo Tomori, & Ruben Loftus Cheek. The season is just one week away and the manager & players are in full training to be prepared for the home opener vs Crystal Palace.

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Wow! And just like that, summer break is over…

The World Champions are back at Cobham and in preseason training. It will be an abbreviated preseason after a long Club World Cup tournament, but the focus will be to get ramp up fitness and be ready for the 2025-26 Premier League season. The first match will be at home vs Bayer Leverkusen. Incoming players have been integrated into Enzo Marseca’s tactics with Jamie Gittens, Jorrel Hato, and Estevao who have yet to feature. Expect a lot of rotation and youth academy players receiving minutes as Maresca evaluates the squad for the upcoming season. Looking forward to it!

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It’s been a long & hot summer with an extended the 2024-25 campaign, but it has proved meaningful as Enzo Marseca has gotten the boys into the Finals of the Club World Cup! The biggest challenge yet to come as the Blues face the current European Champions, Paris St. Germain. PSG has been in incredible form as they have steamrolled through the opponents in the Club World Cup including a 4-0 defeat of Real Madrid. The lads haven’t been too bad themselves as they drew the favorable side of the bracket drawing only one UEFA opponent until the final.

This should be an interesting test for the lads, win or lose, but a win would be a great benchmark to end this season’s campaign on a high note.

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It’s the Conference League Finals in Wroclaw Poland where the Blues have thoroughly dominated this tournament all season long. The finals opponent might be the trickiest in Real Betis who has a squad of ex-Premier League players with the likes of Antony, Giovanni Lo Celso, Hector Bellerin, Pablo Fornals, & Adrian.

Our one hope for a trophy to end the 2024-25 campaign comes down to this. Let’s go and take it!!!

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Everything to play for this Sunday!

It’s the final match of the 2024-25 Premier League season. The champion has been determined the & runners up are almost set, but the final 3 spots to qualify for the Champions League are still up for grabs between 5 teams and a number of potential scenarios could shuffle the final standings around in the last week of the campaign. The lads can only focus with the upcoming away match at Nottingham Forest. Keeping it simple, a win seals an automatic bid to the Champions League, any other result puts their fate in the hands of the others vying for the final spots. It’s going down to the final whistle in the final minutes of another dramatic EPL season finale.

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Devastating defeat!

The high hopes of battling for a top 5 spot in the Champions League took a huge blow last Sunday all in a span of two minutes. As Newcastle stormed the Blues early on to take a 1-nil lead mugging the ball off of Romeo Lavia and converting it to a Sandro Tonali goal. The lead wasn’t insurmountable, but Nicolas Jackson compounded matters by forearming defender Sven Botman in the 36th minute, leaving the squad short a man the rest of the match. Not only that, Jackson is automatically suspended the next three matches, essentially ending his Premier League season and leaving the squad without a centre forward for the next two crucial matches. The lads fought back dominating Newcastle in the 2nd half but to no avail as they could not find a way to goal. Bruno Guimaraes sealed it in dramatic fashion with a shot deflecting off Malo Gusto and over Robert Sanchez’s outstretched arms ending it 2-0 in favor of Newcastle essentially putting 2nd & 3rd place out of reach in the league table for the lads.

The final two matches are still controlled by their own destiny: win out and you qualify for Europe. Anything less, you leave it in the hands of your competitors with another chance to overtake, First up, the final home match of the season against Manchester United. It’s been an awful campaign for the Red Devils but they have a shot to qualify for the Champions League via the Europa League final. They may have their eyes focused on that match on the bigger prize, but still need to finish out the league campaign, and nothing is ever easy. The last time marked an unbelievable Cole Palmer winner at home vs United coming back to win 4-3. Will it be another memorable match, we’ll find out!

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Emphatic victory against the Scousers!

Liverpool had their guard of honor as the soon to be crowned 2024-25 Premier League champions at Stamford Bridge, and that was their highlight of the match as It turned out to be a forgetful one. The Blues took hold of the match early on with a Enzo Fernandez goal three minutes in, and never looked back defeating the Reds 3-1. Moises Caicedo dominated Liverpool’s midfield three and they rotated out significantly as their season winds down. Cole Palmer sealing the match with a penalty kick, his 1st goal since January.

Still all to play for with the next challenge heading up to St. James Park to face Newcastle United tied in the table at 63 points each. Points have been difficult to get at St. James Park, but this weekend couldn’t be a better time to draw out a result. Three matches to go and we’ll need to cheer on the lads to get all maximum points possible!

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One step left to go to the Finals!

With a 4-1 lead from the 1st leg, the lads are one home match away to advancing in the UEFA Conference League Finals. It was standout victory in Stockholm, Sweden against Djurgårdens in the 1st leg. Two goals from Nicolas Jackson and a pair of goals each by Noni Madueke & Jadon Sancho firmly put the Blues in control of this tie even a goal conceded late to the Swedish club. Let see out the match at The Bridge and book our trip to Poland!!!

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Still plenty to fight for!

The 2024-25 Premier League champions have been mathematically determined. Liverpool FC with an emphatic victory last weekend, made sure there wasn’t any chance of somebody catching them for the rest of the season. There will be a Guard of Honor for the upcoming match at The Bridge to welcome to soon to be Champions of England, but let’s not give up hope. We can crash that celebration as we did to their derby rivals, Everton FC, defeating them 1-0. It was the must win that the lads needed to stay in contention. Four league matches left in the season and it’ll be a fight to the finish!

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Down to the last four teams!

The lads have advanced to the semifinals in the UEFA Conference League and will now face Djurgårdens in Stockholm, Sweden in the 1st leg. It will also be 1st time both clubs are going head to head in any competition. May is here, and this competition will be Enzo Maresca’s last shot for any trophy, he will look to field his strongest possible lineup as he tries to improve his chances to advance for European qualification as the season’s campaign winds down.

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Escape with three points!

December at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was the last time the Blues have won a Premier League away match this season. It’s been a struggle since, with a sputtering attacking. In what seems like another defeat incoming at the hands of Fulham, down 0-1, the lads strung together something they haven’t been able to do away from home since that victory at Spurs: score more than one goal in a league match. Two late goals by Tyrique George in the 83rd and Pedro Neto in the 93rd, helped secure hope that the lads are still fighting it out for the final 5 spots available to qualify for Europe. It wouldn’t have ended their hopes, but it would have been a much more difficult challenge winning matches in the upcoming May fixtures.

Up next, the squad will look to close out the month of April strong at home vs Everton. The last home match vs the Toffees, it was a four goal fest from Cole Palmer. He’ll need to get back his form 1st, as he has been in a goal scoring drought since the start of the year. No better time to find his scoring boots. We’ll need this win to keep up with the table!

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Can’t beat the Tractor Boys…

The lads fought back to draw against 18th place Ipswich Town at home 2-2 , but it felt like a defeat as, once again, mistakes led to a early 0-2 hole in the 1st half. Enzo Marseca went for a full attacking setup to take the match to the visitors, but the lack of creativity once they arrive in the 18 yard box has been the running theme of this campaign. Teams know to play a tight defense and take away all angles in front of goal to force them backwards. Eventually, a mistake leads to a transition opportunity which leads to an opponent goal, and that was how Ipswich capitalized on both goals. Halftime adjustments made the difference as a wonderful goal by Jadon Sancho help level the match after spending the majority of the 2nd half with possession but unable to get that final go ahead goal for victory. Maresca has had a torrid time going head to head against Kieran McKenna - he has yet to win in any competitive match vs McKenna (0W- 1L- 3D).

No rest on hand as the final 6 matches of the season will come fast and furious, and this doesn’t even include Conference League play as that will at minimum two, possibly three more matches. Next up is a visit down the road to West London neighbors Fulham FC. This will prove to be a tricky match as Fulham given fits to top opponents in the league this campaign including a 2-1 victory at Stamford Bridge back in December. If there is any hope to stay in contention for the Champions League, this as is close to a must win as it can get!

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It’s a 3-nil advantage as the lads head into 2nd leg of the quarterfinals in the UEFA Conference League at Stamford Bridge. The 1st leg at Warsaw, they faced a fierce home crowd that absolutely shook the whole stadium, As how it’s gone all season, it was a struggle in the 1st half to unlock the 1st goal, but tactical changes made by Enzo Maresca taking off Cole Palmer & subbing on Noni Madueke broke the deadlock in the 2nd half with 2 goals. They’ll try to close out this match and advance on to the semifinals to try and lock a guaranteed spot in Europe.

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Scoreless away again!

Well, the boys haven’t scored an away goal in Premier League play since February and the last match vs Brentford at the Gtech ended in a 0-0 draw extending that drought until at least to Easter Sunday. But before looking ahead, they have a home match this weekend against 18th place Ipswich Town.

Last time both clubs faced each other, the Blues lost in stunning fashion 0-2 at Portman Road in what seems like the start of their attacking woes since. Enzo Maresca has tried to get the lads firing up once again, but there hasn’t been any consistency since before the winter break. With six matches left in the 2024-25 campaign, every match result will determine their Champions League fate. The lads will look to even the up the season head to head match up!

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The lads travel to Warsaw, Poland as they head into 1st leg of the quarterfinals in the UEFA Conference League to face Legia Warsaw. As with many of the clubs in this competition, it their 1st time both are going head to head in any competition.

Enzo Marseca will have a full squad at available to call up for the match along with several academy players who have made the trip. It’s been a struggle to generate goals away from Stamford Bridge. Let’s see what the gaffer has drawn up to get the squad firing for this one.

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Tottenham always get battered! Everywhere they go.

It was a tight affair as the lads return from the international break into an intense London derby vs Spurs at Stamford Bridge. Both sides played a much more physical & defensive match than the goal scoring fest earlier this season. This match stayed goalless until the 2nd half when a Cole Palmer cross into the box was headed in by Enzo Fernandez to give the Blue a 1-0 lead in the 50th minute. Then a Moises Caicedo shot from just inside the penalty area put the lads up 2-0, but VAR strikes again after a long review and deemed Levi Colwill was offsides by the tightest of margins to keep the score at one. Spurs didn’t attempt any shots in the 1st half, but picked up the pace to chase the match. They appeared to have level it up one all in the 69th minute, but VAR once again confirms a foul on Pape Sarr that wipes the game tying goal off that could’ve tied it up. The win keeps up ahead of the rest for 4th (with 3 teams on 15 wins this season) as it will remain a tight race right to the end.

Up next, it’s another derby this time with West London rivals, Brentford FC, who the squad defeated back in December 2-1 that had put in within striking distance of league leaders Liverpool. Feels like so long ago now as Maresca is still trying to find his team’s goal scoring form once again as they struggle their way out of this scoring slump. 7 matches left in the Premier League season, and the pressure is on. Let’s find out if the lads are able to fend off the competition.

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It’s been a long two & a half weeks!

But the final stretch of a very long Premier League begins with a London Derby at home vs Spurs. The last match was a 7 goal thriller away at Spurs back in December. Enzo Maresca had the lads all in form and playing at the top of their game right before the Christmas run of matches, but then it has slowly drifted sideways and we are all left thinking where this season could still end up? It’s probably too far out from any Premier League title hopes, but all is not lost, as all matches have their part to determine where the club may be placed by season’s end: possibly back in the Champions League or the Europa League (with two shots at it, being the favorite to win it all in the Conference League).

It was a well needed break as many of the squad players have had time to recover from their injuries and are in close contention to be back in the starting XI. We shall see who Maresca will turn to this Thursday!

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