Chelsea v Crystal Palace: Sublime stuff from The Blues

 Hello everybody

I hope you are well and having a good start to the week and Autumn. What a Super Sunday we had yesterday with Man Utd losing 6-1 at home to Spurs,sweet revenge for Jose Mourinho and EPL champions Liverpool losing 7-2 at Aston Villa. Who would have thought?

Anyway lets focus on the game against Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge where Chelsea were 4-0 winners with goals from Chilwell,Zouma and a brace from Jorginho albeit from the penalty spot. This was a comprehensive performance from the Blues who defended well wiith debuts for Edouard Mendy and Ben Chilwell. The Englishman showed why he's worth the £50 million and Thiago Silva was impressive as well.Overall a wonderul performance in the London derby. I believe Lampard has found a decent back 5 and with Ziyech to return, the attacking side will definitely not be lacking.

Lets see how this goes after the international break with the Champions League and the FA Cup to come in the New Year so each player is going to play an important role with lots of macthes between after the break and end of the year so expect changes to the line up from time to time. 

Personally I'm still gutted by the elimination at the hands of Spurs in the Carabao Cup on penalties last Tuesday but this will benefit the team in the long haul with less macthes on a already congested calendar. 

Thank you very much for reading my articles and have a good week ahead and enjoy the international friendlies and the UEFA Nations League. See you in 2 weeks.

Here are the highlights from Saturday's match

Enjoy!

PS As usual lets keep up on social media and discuss all things football 

Au revoir

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