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Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
The Athletic
4.9 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Off to the Emirates we go...
Sam Parkin and Liam Twomey join Matt Davies-Adams to look ahead to the Blues' trip to Arsenal as they try to end a run of three straight defeats to Mikel Arteta's side - with Romelu Lukaku leading the charge?
There's a round-up of the latest transfer news - with Tammy Abraham's departure to Roma confirmed, Michy Batshuayi out on yet another loan - plus a focus on some of the fringe players Chelsea just can't seem to shift...
We answer your questions - and embarrass Liam and Sam after some *very* glaring omissions in our latest quiz...
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Straight out of Cobham, the preview show on today's pod. |
| 0:14.3 | We're looking ahead to Chelsea's trip to North London |
| 0:16.4 | to take on Arsenal this coming weekend. |
| 0:18.6 | We'll also talk transfers and make a case for the defence. |
| 0:22.9 | Available for free. Wherever you get your podcasts and add free on the Athletic. This is straight out of Cobham. |
| 0:33.6 | Welcome along then to our twice weekly Chelsea chat. I'm Matt Davis Adams, joined today by the Athletics Chelsea correspondent Liam Toomey. |
| 0:41.6 | Kunday Update. Hello. |
| 0:44.8 | I've had about 100 of those tweaks alone, so I can't imagine what it's like for you. Also with us, former blue Sam Parking. Hi Sam. |
| 0:51.3 | Morning, Matt. Just a reminder, by the way, listener, that if you use the code |
| 0:55.6 | Chelsea Pod, you can get 33% off an athletic subscription. Many thanks to those of you who are |
| 1:01.1 | already subscribers and have put in your questions via real time. We'll get to some of those later in |
| 1:06.2 | the show. Theathletic.com slash Chelsea Pod, the place to go to sign up, use the code Chelsea Pod and you'll get 33% off a |
| 1:12.5 | subscription. Right, let's get straight to it. First port of call, the Emirates Stadium. |
| 1:18.9 | Arsenal versus Chelsea on Sunday, then contrasting fortunes for the two teams last weekend as they |
| 1:24.4 | both began their Premier League campaigns with derbies. The similarities ended |
| 1:28.4 | there though. Arsenal, well beaten by Brentford whilst Chelsea eased past Palace. Liam, I guess |
| 1:33.8 | the key question here is will Romululukaku be in from the start? He says that he's ready to play. |
| 1:39.4 | Do you think that Tuchel will give him a run out straight away? Well, I think we won't know for certain until we actually see the team because I wouldn't |
| 1:48.6 | put it past Tuchel to maybe be a bit cautious with him physically. |
| 1:52.9 | But if he insists he's ready and he actually is ready, I think he will play and I think he |
| 1:58.2 | will start as long as there's no physical barrier to it |
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