Picture by @capitalfootball With five midweek Premier League games taking place in the capital this week, it has felt as though something is going on just about everywhere. And ahead of Wednesday's three games at Brentford, Fulham and Crystal Palace there was the little matter of the latest calamity at the London Stadium for West Ham United where distress signals are peppering the sky. You can read about that 2-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest for the ailing Irons and the impl

Blues v Cherries by @JTaylorSport Chelsea 2 Bournemouth 2 Chelsea’s final game of the calendar year saw some festivities in the shape of an entertaining draw at Stamford Bridge. Yet there will be little seasonal fun for embattled Enzo Maresca, who left the stadium feeling unwell at the climax. Naturally, the consequence of stalemate, disjointedly thrilling or not, will provide significantly more satisfaction for Bournemouth than it will for the Blues, who now have one win fro

T'was meant to be the season to be jolly :Picture by @YTJourno Premier League Chelsea (1) 1 Joao Pedro 37 Aston Villa (0) 2 Watkins 63, 84 Rampant. Dominant. Urgent. Chelsea played Villa off the park for nearly an hour, but ended up empty-handed. It was impossible to see how such a vibrant, physically imposing first-half display could bring no reward but the visitors somehow found the gears to get back into it and had Ollie Watkins up their sleeve. The England striker came of

By Alessandro Schiavone at Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund Signal Iduna Park Bundesliga MD 15 Borussia Dortmund 2-0 Borussia Moenchengladbach Goals: Brandt 10' , Beier 97' Former Chelsea starlet Carney Chukwuemeka's Borussia Dortmund bagged the last three points of the calendar year thanks to a 2-0 Bundesliga win over Borussia Moenchengladbach on Friday night. Introduced in the 71st minute to replace goalscorer Julian Brandt, the man who quit Stamford Bridge for Signal Iduna Park

Cardiff City (0) 1 v Chelsea (0) 3 Garnacho 57 Turnbull 75 Neto 82 Garnacho 93 By Kaz Mochlinski at the Cardiff City Stadium Football League Cup Quarter-Final Chelsea were taken to within eight minutes of a penalty shoot-out by a spirited Cardiff City side before being rescued from an immensely embarrassing result against League One opposition through fine finishes from second half substitutes. A double from Alejandro Garnacho and an equally crucial goal from Pedro Neto justi

Let the routine home win commence. The Bridge ahead of kick off : Picture by @YTJourno Premier League Chelsea (2) 2 Palmer 21, Gusto 45 Everton (0) 0 They didn't even have to play particularly well to get the job done - but victory over Everton at Stamford Bridge is always pretty much a given, give or take the odd draw. It is something of a minor miracle that this fixture draws any away fans. The Toffees had failed to win any of their previous 29 league visits to the Bridge a

When West meets North : Picture by @YTJourno Premier League Chelsea (0) 1 Chalobah 48 Caicedo s/o 38 Arsenal (0) 1 Merino 59 Chelsea's bid to close a six-point gap on league leaders Arsenal fell just short but they pushed the Gunners all the way, even with 10 men. They had to cope without Moises Caicedo after his 38th minute dismissal but still had enough about them to grab a lead and then showed defensive nous to make sure they denied the Gunners a win the visitors had threa

By Alessandro Schiavone in Strasbourg Ben Chilwell admitted that he's still not where he'd like to be as he eyes a place in Thomas Tuchel's World Cup squad with England. Chilwell, who sealed a permanent move to Ligue 1 in the summer, helped Strasbourg overcome ex-club Crystal Palace in the Conference League last night. He told Capital Football: "For me what's nice and what's good here is that I am getting consistent performances where I can keep on building the level. "The m

Another episode in a fixture with a great recent history : Picture by @YTJourno Champions League MD5 Chelsea (1) 3 Kounde og 27, Estevao 55, Delap 73 Barcelona (0) 0 So much history behind it. And the fixture with the sexy background once again delivered - as far as Chelsea fans were concerned, that is. It may not have carried quite the visceral joy of that famous 4-2 win in the Ronaldinho era or the '3-0 up in 19 minutes' tie at the Bridge - The Blues had no Messi to contend

Chelsea (0) 3 v Wolverhampton Wanderers (0) 0 Gusto 51 João Pedro 65 Neto 73 By Kaz Mochlinski at Stamford Bridge Premier League Matchweek 11 Malo Gusto scored the first goal of his career and Estêvão Willian increased his growing star status still further as Chelsea moved into second place in the Premier League with a 3-0 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers. Three goals in the second half eventually broke the stubborn resistance of the league’s bottom team, who came to Stamford