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Hello again, listener.

It's me, Matt Davis-Adams, here with you today, joined by two of the Athletics Chelsea experts.

Simon Johnson is here.

Hello.

And so do Dominic by field.

Good morning, Matt.

All right, let's get to some Chelsea-related talking points from the international break thus far.

One thing that occurred to me watching England versus Andorra yesterday, Rees

James playing in central midfield in the second half of that game. Dom admittedly, any of the

three of us could probably have done the same in that particular match, but might have

made Thomas Tuchel have a little thing. He's brought Sowl in now, so I guess it's quite unlikely.

But if he didn't know, he knows now that Reese is capable of doing that.

Yeah, I'm sure he probably did know that, you know, at a push that that's a position that he could fill in.

And it was a strange one with England because I suppose the focus was largely drawn towards Tread Alexander Arnold in terms of the,

I don't know, getting the third right back into the starting 11,

Kieran Trippi having played at left back during the Euros.

And Alexander Arnold looked distinctly uncomfortable in midfield through that first half

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