Is Burnley must-win if Chelsea want to achieve a top-five finish?
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Coming to a Dubai nightclub near you soon...
Matt Davies-Adams has got Liam Twomey and Cerys Jones with him for a closer look at the Premier League clash with (surely?) Championship-bound Burnley at Stamford Bridge.
Why is Cole Palmer so good at taking penalties? What makes Andrey Santos such an important cog in Liam Rosenior's system? And how have Chelsea given up the most xG in the Premier League from defensive set-pieces this season!? And how important is this game to cement their position as a top-five side given they've already dropped points against Sunderland and Leeds at home...
Plus - can Chelsea Women progress in the FA Cup? They host frequent foes Manchester United in the fifth round of Sunday - we preview that game.
And most importantly - which Chelsea player would you most like to go on holiday with? That's the kind of content you come for!
We'll be back on Monday to run the rule over Saturday's visit of Burnley - and discuss whether CFCW have booked their place in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup!
HOST: Matt Davies-Adams
WITH: Cerys Jones and Liam Twomey
PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic F.C. |
| 0:03.3 | It's straight out of Cobham, a show about Chelsea FC from the Athletic. |
| 0:18.7 | Coming up, building up to Burnley, the first of a double |
| 0:21.1 | header against Man United, and a top tier, top 10. Twice a week, every week, this is straight out |
| 0:27.3 | a common. And we're back with you to build up to the weekend's action feels weird, doesn't it, |
| 0:34.8 | that there's not been a mid-week game in the world of Chelsea FC. I've got two of the athletics, Chelsea experts alongside me today. Liam Toomey's back with us. How you doing, Liam? Yeah, I'm good. I just wanted to flag from the outset that we will, by athletic policy, be contractually obliged to mention Wre Rexham once per episode until the tie. |
| 0:55.7 | Yeah, yeah, that will come later. |
| 0:57.5 | Don't worry about that. |
| 0:58.3 | Kerris Jones is back with us too. |
| 0:59.5 | How are you doing, Kerris? |
| 1:00.7 | I'm good and very excited to mention Rexon constantly |
| 1:03.7 | for the next several weeks. |
| 1:05.7 | It's a fairy tale. |
| 1:07.6 | You might have seen, listener, |
| 1:09.5 | the clips of various Chelsea players around the world, |
| 1:12.8 | or specifically in Dubai, this week, certainly for the first part of it, having some well-deserved |
| 1:18.3 | downtime. Producer Lucy wants to know which Chelsea player would you most like to go on holiday |
| 1:24.4 | with Liam? What are you thinking? My first instinct was Kendri Pice. |
| 1:30.7 | Then I thought, I'm slightly worried I wouldn't be able to keep up at this stage. |
| 1:34.3 | Why did you pick him? Why was that your first instinct? No comment. Okay. |
| 1:40.2 | The preamble here for me is that Dubai would not be my first choice for any kind of break. |
| 1:48.6 | But if I were to go there, I'd say at this stage of my life, I don't know why I keep saying that. |
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