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The team sheets have been handed to the match officials, and the names scrawled upon them were these:
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Chelsea: Petrovic, Gilchrist, Chalobah, Badiashile, Cucurella, Caicedo, Gallagher, Madueke, Palmer, Mudryk, Jackson. Subs: Bettinelli, Casadei, Deivid Washington, Tauriainen, Castledine, Acheampong, George, Dyer, Sturge.
Tottenham Hotspur: Vicario, Porro, Romero, van de Ven, Emerson, Bissouma, Sarr, Johnson, Kulusevski, Son, Richarlison. Subs: Skipp, Hojbjerg, Dragusin, Maddison, Gil Salvatierra, Lo Celso, Bentancur, Austin, Moore.
Referee: Robert Jones (Merseyside).
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Your Chelsea side tonight! 🫡@ParimatchUK | #CFC | #CheTot pic.twitter.com/EdC9vKEVSz
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) May 2, 2024
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Team news is in! 🤍 pic.twitter.com/GyabI5dTTQ
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) May 2, 2024
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Hello world! Tottenham away at Chelsea is it? All Spurs fans will know what that means: no chance of victory. To describe their record at Stamford Bridge as a heaving stream of effluent would be to massively overstate how good it is: in the last 38 visits they have lost 24 times, drawn 13 times, and won just a solitary, pitiful once. That was in April 2018, when Dele Alli scored twice in a 3-1 victory – the only people involved in that game who could be involved tonight are Son Heung-min and Mauricio Pochettino, Spurs manager then and in the Chelsea dugout now.
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In the build-up to this game I have particularly enjoyed PA Media’s headline on their story detailing Pochettino’s pre-match thoughts:
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‘REALLY GOOD’ CHELSEA FANS GIVE MAURICIO POCHETTINO TREATS WHILE WALKING HIS DOG
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What’s really special here is the idea that the fans are not giving treats to Pochettino’s dog, they’re popping them into the grateful maw of the Argentinian himself. I’m picturing a series of exchanges in which strangers approach him to say something along the lines of: “Yeah I know we just lost the FA Cup semi-final and then let Arsenal put five past us, but I have discerned some kind of underlying quality behind these superficially hapless displays – have a fun-size Twix.”
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And it is even more delicious because the article that follows mentions neither treats nor a dog. “When I am on the street the people are really good and appreciate,” Pochettino said. “They give us the credit [for] working in a project and a process that is so difficult.”
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Spurs are seven points behind fourth-placed Aston Villa and their Champions League place, with two games in hand, but with Liverpool (a) and Manchester City (h) still to play after tonight, defeat here would make the prospect of winning seven more points look unlikely. Chelsea are five points behind seventh-placed Newcastle and six away from Manchester United in sixth, with a game in hand on both, and victory here would fuel their own European ambitions – and earn Pochettino a few more tasty goodies.
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The teams!
The team sheets have been handed to the match officials, and the names scrawled upon them were these:
Chelsea: Petrovic, Gilchrist, Chalobah, Badiashile, Cucurella, Caicedo, Gallagher, Madueke, Palmer, Mudryk, Jackson. Subs: Bettinelli, Casadei, Deivid Washington, Tauriainen, Castledine, Acheampong, George, Dyer, Sturge.
Tottenham Hotspur: Vicario, Porro, Romero, van de Ven, Emerson, Bissouma, Sarr, Johnson, Kulusevski, Son, Richarlison. Subs: Skipp, Hojbjerg, Dragusin, Maddison, Gil Salvatierra, Lo Celso, Bentancur, Austin, Moore.
Referee: Robert Jones (Merseyside).
Your Chelsea side tonight! 🫡@ParimatchUK | #CFC | #CheTot pic.twitter.com/EdC9vKEVSz
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) May 2, 2024
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Team news is in! 🤍 pic.twitter.com/GyabI5dTTQ
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) May 2, 2024
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Well the managers seem to get on…
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) May 2, 2024
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Preamble
Hello world! Tottenham away at Chelsea is it? All Spurs fans will know what that means: no chance of victory. To describe their record at Stamford Bridge as a heaving stream of effluent would be to massively overstate how good it is: in the last 38 visits they have lost 24 times, drawn 13 times, and won just a solitary, pitiful once. That was in April 2018, when Dele Alli scored twice in a 3-1 victory – the only people involved in that game who could be involved tonight are Son Heung-min and Mauricio Pochettino, Spurs manager then and in the Chelsea dugout now.
In the build-up to this game I have particularly enjoyed PA Media’s headline on their story detailing Pochettino’s pre-match thoughts:
‘REALLY GOOD’ CHELSEA FANS GIVE MAURICIO POCHETTINO TREATS WHILE WALKING HIS DOG
What’s really special here is the idea that the fans are not giving treats to Pochettino’s dog, they’re popping them into the grateful maw of the Argentinian himself. I’m picturing a series of exchanges in which strangers approach him to say something along the lines of: “Yeah I know we just lost the FA Cup semi-final and then let Arsenal put five past us, but I have discerned some kind of underlying quality behind these superficially hapless displays – have a fun-size Twix.”
And it is even more delicious because the article that follows mentions neither treats nor a dog. “When I am on the street the people are really good and appreciate,” Pochettino said. “They give us the credit [for] working in a project and a process that is so difficult.”
Spurs are seven points behind fourth-placed Aston Villa and their Champions League place, with two games in hand, but with Liverpool (a) and Manchester City (h) still to play after tonight, defeat here would make the prospect of winning seven more points look unlikely. Chelsea are five points behind seventh-placed Newcastle and six away from Manchester United in sixth, with a game in hand on both, and victory here would fuel their own European ambitions – and earn Pochettino a few more tasty goodies.