CHELSEA FC️️

Free kick in a dangerous position for Chelsea.

Broja how on earth! 😂

Armando Broja coming on. Raheem Sterling replaced.

First save, Petrovic from a free kick.

Enzo time. Mudryk replaced.

And it's two! 😎 🔵 2-0 ⚔️ [61'] #CFC | #CheShu

🔵 Teams are out at Stamford Bridge. #CheShu

Lining up in Blue! 🔵

🚨 BREAKING: Enzo Fernandez does NOT start for Chelsea today. (Nath Gissing)

Nkunku joined the pre-match pitch walk-on.

Frank Leboeuf: "Chelsea is not playing in the Champions League. Chelsea is 12th in the league. Which top strikers would like to come to play for Chelsea right now? None."

Thiago Silva: "People are looking at my age a lot, but I’d prefer it if people would refer to it as experience, rather than 'oldest player this, oldest player that'. But, in general, I feel very privileged and my main focus is on performing well." [via Chelsea FC]

Chelsea have won five of their past seven Premier League games against Sheffield United, drawing one and losing the other. Chelsea have won 58.2% of headed challenges to date, the highest in the league. Sheffield United haven't kept a clean sheet in 29 league trips to Stamford Bridge since a goalless draw in October 1922. Chelsea are vying to win successive Premier League home fixtures for the first time since a run of three from August to October last year. Sheffield United are the only team in the Premier League without an away league victory this season, taking one point from seven matches. 🔗 BBC Sport

Today, we host Sheffield United at the Bridge! 👊 #CFC | #CheShu

There has been no advanced new contract offer for Conor Gallagher, and if the right offer comes in, Chelsea will be open to selling even though they respect him. Chelsea's January plan is to keep the squad size the same or even smaller, so they won't bring in a crazy volume of names, even with injuries. Mauricio Pochettino and the recruitment team appreciate that Chelsea are going to have to sell one or two players in order to balance the books and keep the squad size down, because they're also going to recruit. 🔗 Ben Jacobs - CBS Sports

Mauricio Pochettino on Reece James: "No, no [surgery has not been ruled out]. Monday we will know. Monday we will know more about how we will proceed, about whether it is necessary or not." On injured players: "You ask me about Nkunku, it is like a new signing because we didn’t use except for pre-season. Romeo Lavia will be fit in maybe one week or 10 days. These are two players who still haven’t made their debuts." "Chilly and Fofana, who maybe needs more time, but we need two, three or four more players not making their debuts with us or are key players for us..." "We are in a project and we have signed players and have a new squad but a list of injured since the beginning and it was massive." "My decision to sign here was because I trust [the owners]. And now because we don’t get the results that we wanted, it’s [not] that I do not trust. I am going to keep trusting because the club is showing me that they trust in my job." "People need to know when you want to build in the way we want to build, it's always circumstances. With young players you need some time and luck. But that's the problem when a young team receives too many hits..." "We have a lot of injury issues and it's like building a house and some of the stuff are not there but we need to keep believing. The roof? Not there yet. We have good people building the house, good architects." "We have the best company, architects, very creative and good - already proven. But when you want to build something you need solid foundations which sometimes are affected because of the nature of the circumstances." "You dig the hole and there is water, it is not because of the company. An unexpected situation which delays the possibility to move quicker than you expected. Unfortunately we received too many hits against us." [via Scott Trotter, Jacob Steinberg & Mail Sport]

Got matchday on our minds. 🔵🧠

Injury Updates | Chelsea FC BREAKING : Following initial assessments, Marc Cucurella is now due to meet foot and ankle specialists with next steps to be decided in the coming days.

Kendry Paez will train with the first team next week and could be in the stands to watch Chelsea vs Newcastle. - Matt Law

Faces of focus. 👤