Blue Armour

Wow. Estevao

Palmer missing the next game would be a sucker punch. He's smarter than most though. So hope he steers clear. Yellow card rule in this tourney is so odd. Why wait till the semis to reset the cards.

According to the news., James felt muscular discomfort when training. Hope this was more of a precaution than anything.

The problem is that he's been shoving their defenders even before that. He should've known he was on a tight rope.

Delap probably returning the favor to Jackson with that dumb move.

Idiotic move by Delap. He's been asking for it all game. Now he's ruled himself out of the next game for no reason. Ridiculous yellow card rule. But Delap should've known better.

Man, hope James is back soon Can't bear to watch Gusto screwing up like this much more

Estevao taking Cucurella for a little ride. Hope the two of them dont get too competitive

Also Delap doing a half decent job with hold up play, with balls being pinged to his feet. Not quite like Drogba or Giroud. But much better than any forward we've had recently.

Damn..NKunku should have done better. So much space and time.

This referee seems a lot better. Hasn't gone yellow card crazy like the previous refs

Far cry from his debut goal, lol.

Neto's cross deserved a finish.

Man I really hope this is a thing with Palmer moving forward. Coming alive when it matters in the tournament. Namely the knockout rounds

Palmer!!!

Well, the fans got what they wanted with Santos in midfield. At the expense of a James injury

And likely because Maresca and Veiga don't get along

I dislike the fact that we're seemingly putting all our eggs in the Wesley Fofana basket., for defence. Even when he's fit and in form, there are question marks about whether he can go onto become a world-beater like Carvalho. Then there's the bigger question mark about how his fitness will be after so many injuries. With Reece James, you know there's an intelligent, WC player in there. So whenever he comes back, you know he can deliver. Not sure I can say the same with Fofana. And what happens if he's out again? Badiashile again? Tosin?

Referee casually ignoring a blatant foul on KDH in the penalty area

Maresca subs scoring.lol

And thats game over. Good.

Finally seeing some game management from this Chelsea team. That's how you should close out the game

Going to miss if him if Chelsea make the next round

Now. Back to game management. This time against 10 men.

Getting back vibes of Raul Meirelies goal against Benefica in 2012