Is the honeymoon already over?
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
The Athletic
4.9 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Matt Davies-Adams has got The Athletic's Chelsea experts Simon Johnson & Dominic Fifield in tow to reflect on an underwhelming 1-1 draw with Southampton - and the fallout of the subbing of second half substitute Callum Hudson-Odoi after just 31 minutes.
We take a closer look at the Champions League Round of 16 first leg tie against Atlético Madrid with the help of Alvaro Romeo - including what to expect from a certain Luis Suárez - then attention turns to Sunday's crunch Premier League tie with Manchester United.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | The Georgino out there to take them today |
| 0:14.3 | so the spot kit duty falls to Mason Mount |
| 0:17.1 | and he's taking it, one up and it's the first penalty scored by Mason Mount. And he's taking it. One up. |
| 0:22.1 | It's the first penalty scored by Mason Mount in his career. |
| 0:25.5 | The last one I took, I missed in the shootout against Tottenham. |
| 0:28.2 | So I was very confident in putting that right. |
| 0:30.5 | Wanted to step up and score. |
| 0:35.6 | This is Straight Out of Cobham, the Chelsea FC podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:40.2 | On this week's episode, stuttering at St. Mary's Titi and CHO's bromance proof short-lived. |
| 0:46.5 | I was not happy with his body language and I was not happy with his attitude against the ball. |
| 0:51.6 | When we had ball losses, I had the feeling that he's not ready and cannot give the energy that I wanted to have from him. So it was a hard decision today on him. Tomorrow is forgotten. There's the lowdown on Atlago Madrid. A preview of Sunday's game with Manchester United, your questions answered, and more available for free. Wherever you get your podcasts and add free on |
| 1:11.1 | the Athletic, this is straight out of copper. Hey, listener Matt Davis-Adams here to guide you through |
| 1:18.8 | another week in the life of Chelsea Football Club. I'm joined by two of the Athletics Chelsea |
| 1:23.2 | specialists. Lim Tumi's away this week week but Simon Johnson is here. Morning Simon. |
| 1:34.1 | Hello. And so to Dominic Fyfield. I don't. Good morning Matt. Let's get to Sadampton then. |
| 1:42.4 | So on Saturday Chelsea's five-match winning run came to an end on the South Coast as the Blues were held to a one-all-d by Southampton. Chelsea had 71% possession and more than twice the number of shots on gold and their opponents, but that familiar bluntness in attack meant Mason-Mount's penalty was the only goal, the Blues Mustard. Simon, you were covering this game for the athletic. Thoughts on the performance as a whole? |
| 2:01.0 | Twitter went into meltdown. I mean, it's not the end of the world, is it? One bad game? No, I understand some of the frustrations, though, because it's kind of more the same in terms of the way the team's performing overall, particularly in the final third. And it's almost like, for Thomasuchel, his, his patience snapped as well because he was |
| 2:20.0 | chuntering away at a very early stage of that game because it was the same old issues of, |
| 2:26.0 | yeah, being very neat and pretty in possession until they got to the penalty area. |
| 2:30.8 | And the amount of times that the careless final ball, cross, touch was evident |
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