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Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
The Athletic
4.9 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Not a good Thursday night by all accounts...
Liam Twomey and Matt Davies-Adams mull over the frustrating 1-1 draw with Everton - with the help of a Simon Johnson match report - and question why Thomas Tuchel's side simply can't convert their chances and see out games.
It was also an evening to forget for the women's side - knocked out of the Champions League in emphatic style after a 4-0 defeat by Wolfsburg. Flo Lloyd-Hughes gives her verdict on the loss - and the struggles Emma Hayes' side have faced in the last couple of weeks.
With upcoming fixtures up in their air due to ongoing Covid-19 issues throughout football - the Athletic's Wolves reporter Tim Spiers looks ahead to Sunday's match which will *hopefully* go ahead.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | It's straight out of Cobham, a show about Chelsea from The Athletic. |
| 0:14.6 | On this episode, frustration as the blues get stuck on Toffies, |
| 0:18.6 | Chelsea women crash out of the Champions League, |
| 0:21.8 | and I call the leader of the pack to talk walls. Available for free, wherever you get your podcasts, |
| 0:26.0 | and ad free on The Athletic. This is straight out of Covem. |
| 0:33.3 | Hey listener, I hope you safe and well. It's me, Matt, joined by The Athletics. Liam, too, me morning, Liam. |
| 0:38.9 | Hello. |
| 0:40.6 | Later, we'll be joined by the Athletics Wall's correspondent Tim Spears and here from Flo Lloyd Hughes on the women's team's shocking night. |
| 0:47.6 | First, though, we're recording hours after Chelsea versus Everton at Stanford Bridge, and we'll discuss that game next. |
| 0:58.5 | Need to make work. I'm trying to get Michael Keene or somebody like that on the end of it. And they've got their equalizer. |
| 1:00.5 | This young Granthwaite, isn't it, who's got there and got a toe to it. |
| 1:05.0 | What a story that is. |
| 1:07.0 | Give away another lead and if we see the effort that we bring in in a match like this, the effort that we need to score one goal and the effort the opponent needs to score and equalizes. |
| 1:20.5 | It's hard to swallow. |
| 1:24.1 | Chelsea won, Everton won the Blues, held by a seriously depleted Everton's side, |
| 1:28.5 | meaning they're now four points behind leaders, Manchester City, and three behind second-placed Liverpool. |
| 1:34.3 | Before we get to the game, it was revealed on Thursday that four Chelsea players had tested positive for COVID, |
| 1:39.4 | they being Ben Chilwell, Romolulu, Lukaku, Kalam Hudson-Huddin-Doy, and Timo Verna with Kai Haberts also ill, but not confirmed as having returned a positive test as we record. |
| 1:50.4 | Liam, I spoke to Thomas Tuchel after the game and he was keen not to use this as an excuse. |
| 1:55.0 | He said they'd known for long enough for it not to be. |
| 1:58.1 | Do you think in an ideal world they would have liked this game to have been called off? Possibly, but life goes on, doesn't it? Just because you've only got three people available doesn't mean that you don't record a Chelsea podcast recapping the game. You have to go with what you've got. And if Simon decides that he's so demoralized by his evening at Stanford Bridge that he |
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