Chelsea win 'ugly' - but is it a good sign heading into Pafos?

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Not quite sure how that happened but...

Matt Davies-Adams has got Sam Parkin and Simon Johnson for company to pass judgement on the beating of the Bees and a look ahead to Pafos.

We begin by touching upon the protests which gathered outside the ground before the game, before turning our attention to the events on the pitch - which saw the Blues somehow come away with a 2-0 win over Brentford.

Then - it's the David Luiz derby!! Only he might be injured... but hopefully not! It's surely a must win for Chelsea if they're to secure a spot in the top eight and guarantee automatic passage through to the knockout round.

Plus - why are the club interested in signing yet another young centre-back, this time in the form of Rennes 20-year-old Jeremy Jacquet.

We'll be back on Thursday to reflect on Wednesday night's encounter with Pafos AND to preview the visit to current Premier League crisis club Crystal Palace.

HOST: Matt Davies-Adams

WITH: Simon Johnson and Sam Parkin

PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC
0:03.3	It's Chelsea
0:06.5	Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, up, Blue's Best Bees, Champions League,
0:21.5	plotting a pathos to qualification,
0:23.4	and Millie Bright OBE, Gold Machine.
0:25.9	The highest rated show on the Athletic Podcast Network.
0:28.6	Now twice a week, thanks to its listeners.
0:30.2	This is straight out of Cobra.
0:35.6	And we're coming at you on a Monday morning.
0:37.4	After a win and a clean sheet in the Premier League, Crack, it might not have been the most convincing performance, but under the circumstances, we shall take it. We're going to discuss that. We'll look ahead to the Champions League. Plenty more beside as well. I've got the athletics Simon Johnson on board. How you doing, Simon? Wonderful. Great, I think.
0:54.5	Yeah. Nice. Glad to hear it. Sam Parkins with us to. All three of us were at the game on Saturday. How are you doing, Sam? Embarrassingly well. Matthew, Matthew. Wow. Okay. Well, I'm full of cold, but you two have really ppped me up there. So let's continue the good vibes as we go through. do a bit of admin first. As usual, you want to find us. We're on X. We're on blue sky at S.CGovcom. You can email us, SOC at theathletic.com. And if you want a subscriber to The Athletic, but you'd like to be, just go to Theathletic.com slash Chelsea Bod to sign up now. Leave us a nice review on your preferred podcast platform of choice if you'd
1:27.6	like to as well. You've seen the power of doing just that. If you are a regular, even though
1:32.5	we'd like to start with our premature adjudications. SFCPredicts.com is the place to go to keep
1:37.4	track of that. What you got for me this time out, Sam? Oh, I quite fancy
1:42.5	I'm racking up a score line on Wednesday, but I'm not
1:47.5	that Oph-Fay with Paphos, so I don't want to just disregard
1:50.2	them. So I'm going to stick with my set piece. That went horribly
1:54.1	wrong the other night, but I'm going to go for Chelsea to have
1:57.9	another penalty. Score another penalty. Can I have that, please?
2:01.6	Yeah, why not? Not going to distinguish who's going to take it, because I don't think Palmer will be on for the entirety, but I'll have a penalty to hit the back of the Pathos net. All right, I thought you were going to expand it to say Palmer will take it, and actually look pleased about it, but we'll talk more about that later on. Simon, what's yours today, please?
2:17.9	Well, I sort of try and have a couple, just in case one's come up. I don't know whether
2:23.2	we kind of touched upon it there. So take your pick, really. Cold Palmer won't start, is one of them.
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