20 h. ago Barcelona show gulf in quality again as stunned Chelsea hope for miracle | Sophie Downey

It was not how the script was meant to go for the Blues in their quest for an elusive Champions League trophyAs the final whistle blew at the Estadi Johan Cruyff, the frustration on the faces of the Chelsea players shone through. Lucy Bronze chucked her headband on to the floor in anger; Erin Cuthbert shared frustrated words with the referee; the rest meanwhile just stood on the pitch looking stunned with the cacophony of noise from jubilant Barcelona fans rubbing salt in the freshest of wounds.This was not how the script was meant to go. Defeat at the hands of Barcelona – with such a gulf in quality on the field – was meant to be a thing of years gone by; a distant memory buried in the history books of that painful final of 2021. For Chelsea have been building a squad with the clear intention of lifting the coveted Champions League trophy themselves. Big money has been spent on coveted assets – the acquisition of Mayra Ramírez and N...

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25 h. ago Chelsea player ratings vs Fulham: Pedro Neto screamer secures late derby win as Maresca's substitutes shine

A pair of late Chelsea goals denied Fulham a first-ever league double over Chelsea

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30 h. ago Confirmed Manchester United squad members vs Wolves as Ruben Amorim handed injury boost

Man Utd play Wolves in the Premier League today and the players have arrived at Old Trafford for the game.

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30 h. ago Confirmed Manchester United squad vs Wolves as Ruben Amorim handed injury boost

Man Utd play Wolves in the Premier League today and the players have arrived at Old Trafford for the game.

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32 h. ago Chelsea have met agent of Fulham player ahead of West London derby as Blues consider shock signing

Chelsea have met agent of Fulham player ahead of West London derby as Blues consider shock signing  The Chelsea Chronicle

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66 h. ago Slot denies Liverpool dropped Darwin Núñez due to row at training ground

Striker left out of squad for win against West HamCoach confirms Núñez will be back for visit to LeicesterArne Slot has denied Darwin Núñez was dropped from Liverpool’s win against West Ham because of a training-ground row with a member of his coaching staff.The Liverpool head coach said on Sunday that Núñez was absent from the 2-1 victory at Anfield having felt unwell during training the day before, although the striker sat behind the substitutes throughout the game. Speculation has been rife that the Uruguay international, whom Slot criticised for his work rate against Wolves and Aston Villa in February, was left out for disciplinary reasons. Continue reading...

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69 h. ago It’s complicated: Awkward marriage of Maresca and Chelsea provides great drama | Barney Ronay

Enzo Maresca loves controlled buildup play from the back. Chelsea fans tend to like forceful, direct football. Conflict of some kind always seemed inevitableThere was a new story this week about a team of a hundred scientists who have spent nine years analysing a single cubic millimetre of mouse brain. The one hundred scientists have finally published their results. And those results are basically: “Whoah, have you seen this stuff?”What they found inside the cubic millimetre of mouse brain was an eternity of wiring, just miles and miles of tiny wire to be untangled, pictured in the accompanying article clumped into a single mass, like a pan of mouse brain vermicelli left overnight in the sink. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood breaks her silence on feud rumours with co

The Sex Education star, 31, plays Chelsea in the third series of The White Lotus who ends up in a relationship with Walton's character Rick.

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3 d. ago Chelsea player ratings vs Legia Warsaw: Cole Palmer goes missing as Filip Jorgensen guilty again

Filip Jorgensen again struggled to lay claim to the number one shirt

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3 d. ago Stephen Bunting 'starstruck' as darts ace bumps into Liverpool legend in hotel

Darts star Stephen Bunting was left starstruck in his Rotterdam hotel when he bumped into Liverpool legend Jerzy Dudek in the lobby before the latest Premier League leg

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4 d. ago Manchester United confirmed squad members for crunch Europa League tie vs Lyon

Man United face Lyon in the second leg of their Europa League quarter-final at Old Trafford this evening.

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4 d. ago Liverpool legend looks unrecognisable as he links up with 'starstruck' darts star Stephen Bunting in Rotterdam

Nearly two decades after that famous night in Istanbul, the 52-year-old devotion to his former club is plain to see as he donned a LFC branded baseball cap.

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4 d. ago Why it was ‘always Liverpool’ for Virgil van Dijk – and a no

The captain has signed a new two-year deal and has given himself the chance to add to his Liverpool legend

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4 d. ago ‘Right direction’: Enzo Maresca defends Chelsea’s style before Legia Warsaw test

‘The fans have to trust the team and trust the club’Chelsea lead Conference League quarter-final tie 3-0Enzo Maresca believes Chelsea are going in the “right direction”, with the manager defending his style of play and asking fans to “trust the team”.Chelsea face Legia Warsaw at home in the Conference League quarter-final second leg on Thursday, with a passage to the semi-finals all but sealed after a 3-0 win last week. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Enzo Maresca responds to Chelsea boos and sends warning to players

Blues boss launches defence of his style of play after Stamford Bridge jeers

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5 d. ago Jamie Carragher's brutal Man Utd dig after embarrassing Champions League error

Manchester United are not playing in the Champions League this season, but even so they have caught the ire of Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher during the second legs of this year's quarter-finals

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6 d. ago Mystery of White Lotus 'feud' as Aimee Lou Wood breaks down in tears after 'mean' skit

Aimee Lou Wood, who played the much-loved Chelsea in The White Lotus, has shared her distress over a cruel Saturday Night Live sketch. It comes after fans have speculated fallouts within the cast

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6 d. ago Thierry Henry singles out Liverpool's most important player after contract updates

Thierry Henry has given his thoughts on who Liverpool's most important player is, with the Arsenal legend picking captain Virgil van Dijk over star forward Mohamed Salah

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7 d. ago Liverpool legend admits his new club signed him with no intention of playing him

Pepe Reina is still playing at the top level aged 42 after joining Serie A side Como last summer but the ex-Liverpool man has revealed he was brought in to provide experience in the dressing room

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8 d. ago Chelsea player ratings vs Ipswich: Robert Sanchez poor against as Cole Palmer struggles continue

Blues were sloppy at both ends of the pitch on another frustrating afternoon against Ipswich

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