SOC Extra: Chelsea 5-1 Ajax reaction
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
The Athletic
4.9 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Don't they know Chelsea are the ones who get the red cards?!
Producer Lucy's got reaction to the 5-1 rout of Ajax at a rainy Stamford Bridge with analysis from the press box provided by Blues reporter Simon Johnson and The Athletic's Senior Data Analyst Mark Carey.
10 changes but no problems for Enzo Maresca's side - who made a little bit of history by becoming the first team to have three teenagers score in a Champions League match.
Who stood out in the circumstances? How impressive were the youngsters? And how does this set them up for the visit of Sunderland on Saturday?
Matt Davies-Adams will be back on Monday to review that meeting with the Black Cats - and look ahead to the trip to Molineux to face Wolves in the League Cup!
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Hello, |
| 0:05.3 | Chelsea, |
| 0:06.4 | Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, |
| 0:10.8 | Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea. |
| 0:15.2 | Hello, welcome to straight out of Cobham, straight after the Champions League. |
| 0:19.2 | Every European match week, we're going to be doing a quick roundup of the game to bring you at least some reaction and fallout from the big UCL nights under the lights and in this case in the torrential rain. Producer Lucy here, hot off the back of tonight's pretty bonkers 5-1 win against Iax. They clearly didn't get the memo that it's Chelsea who are meant to get the red cards. |
| 0:38.2 | It's a victory that takes Enzo Moreska's side up to 11th in the league phase standing, |
| 0:42.5 | three games down, five more to play. |
| 0:45.7 | Simon Johnson was at the bridge for the Athletic and we'll get his thoughts on the action in just a moment. |
| 0:50.6 | Plus, tactics aficionado Mark Carey will also be with us to highlight some of his |
| 0:55.2 | key takeaways from the match. Let's bring you the story of the game first. And blimey, |
| 0:59.6 | there was quite a lot going on. |
| 1:01.6 | Iax are down to 10. Kenneth Taylor sent off. They've lost their captain. |
| 1:06.6 | Ball into the box comes through to a Favar that chance for Giu. His first goal of the season is a Champions League goal. |
| 1:13.6 | Chris Cicado urged to shoot, so he does, and he's deflected in on Shutelow for 2-0 Chelsea. |
| 1:20.6 | Here's Morrow. |
| 1:22.9 | And that's a penalty. |
| 1:25.3 | It's big horsed. |
| 1:27.0 | It's just about in- York and Sincinn. |
| 1:29.3 | He got something on it. |
| 1:30.3 | And Iax do have their first Champions League go and they're back in the game. |
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