Crunch time for Liverpool and Chelsea
Chelsea’s clash with Liverpool was always going to be a crunch encounter in the Premier League title race but a difficult week has raised the stakes.
Chelsea’s clash with Liverpool was always going to be a crunch encounter in the Premier League title race but a difficult week has raised the stakes.
Manchester United and Chelsea both got off to slender but winning starts on Tuesday in their opening Champions League matches.
Chelsea have been fined and hit with a ban on registering players until January 2011 by Fifa as punishment for their role in a contractual dispute.
Tottenham and Chelsea stayed neck and neck at the top of the English Premier League with away victories on Sunday.
Guus Hiddink seemed to stroll through what could have been his toughest challenge as manager when he lifted his team from its Champions League exit.
Chelsea’s players will disagree and Arsene Wenger might take some persuading, but Barcelona against Manchester is a Champions League dream final.
Chelsea awoke on Thursday to the stark realisation that they are out of the Champions League.
Barcelona face their biggest challenge yet when they face Guus Hiddink’s rejuvenated Chelsea on Tuesday.
Liverpool has nothing to lose at Chelsea on Tuesday and a few reasons to believe it can score at least three goals to overturn a 3-1 deficit.
Goals from African pair Didier Drogba and Michael Essien earned Chelsea a 2-2 draw over Juventus in the Champions League on Tuesday.
Chelsea narrowed Manchester United’s lead in the Premier League to four points on Tuesday with a 1-0 victory at Portsmouth.
Chelsea’s decision to sack Luiz Felipe Scolari as their manager could cost the Premier League side up to £15-million in compensation.
Chelsea sacked Brazilian coach Luiz Felipe Scolari on Monday after just seven months in charge of the Premier League club.
Defeat for Liverpool by Chelsea at home on Sunday would leave them contemplating another season as also-rans in the title race.
Manchester United moved top of the Premier League for the first time this season on Saturday after a 1-0 win over Bolton Wanderers.
Chelsea came from behind to beat Southend United 4-1 in an entertaining FA Cup third-round replay on Wednesday.
Luiz Felipe Scolari admits Chelsea have to prove their title credentials with a win in Sunday’s Premier League showdown against Manchester United.
Nottingham Forest stunned one of the world’s wealthiest clubs by knocking Manchester City out of the FA Cup with a 3-0 third round win.
The third round of the FA Cup is a time in the knockout competition renowned for shocks and giantkilling exploits.
Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari left Goodison Park seething on Monday and refused to talk to the media after captain John Terry was sent off.
Nicolas Anelka scored his 14th goal of the season on Sunday to save Chelsea from an embarrassing home defeat to West Ham and earned a 1-1 draw.
Chelsea missed the chance to reclaim top spot in the Premier League when they were held to a 1-1 home draw by West Ham United on Sunday.
Didier Drogba became Chelsea’s top scorer in the Champions League with his 19th goal that sealed a 2-1 win over CFR Cluj.
The final three spots in the second round of the Champions League will be filled after this week, with Chelsea among those still trying to qualify.
The carrot of qualifying for the last 16 of Europe’s premier club competition is dangling in front of some of the big teams in the Champions League.
The top four failed to muster a goal on Saturday as Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United drew 0-0 while Arsenal went down 3-0 at Manchester City.
Chelsea suffered another dose of penalty shoot-out misery they were dumped out of the League Cup by Championship club Burnley on Wednesday.
Nicolas Anelka’s two goals kept Chelsea at the top of the Premier League in a 2-0 victory on Sunday, and Darren Bent’s double lifted Tottenham.
Liverpool suffered their first defeat of the season on Saturday when Roman Pavlyuchenko scored in injury time to give Tottenham Hotspur a 2-1 win.
Barcelona put one foot in the Champions League last 16 with a 5-0 away drubbing of Basel on Wednesday, while Chelsea beat Roma 1-0.
Salomon Kalou scored twice and set up another Saturday in Chelsea’s 5-0 romp at Middlesbrough to maintain the Blues’ high-scoring title charge.
Manchester United are looking to Wayne Rooney as they seek to close the gap on Premier League pacesetters Chelsea and Liverpool this weekend.