What do Rosenior's tactics against Arsenal say about *this* Chelsea?
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
The Athletic
4.9 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
That elusive goal...
Matt Davies-Adams has got The Athletic's Luke Bosher and Liam Twomey with him after the Blues were knocked out of the League Cup by Arsenal.
Beaten 4-2 on aggregate, 1-0 on the night by a last-gasp Kai Havertz (of course) goal - we take a closer look at yet another tactical set-up, the glaring absence of Reece James - and what the team needs to do to get the best out of Liam Delap.
It's back to Premier League matters on Saturday - with bottom of the table Wolves the assignment. We've got eyes on that game as the Blues look to consolidate their place in the hunt for a top five finish.
Plus - a whistlestop round up of the sparse deadline day dealings - and can Chelsea Women bounce back from the hammering at Man City when they travel to Tottenham? Oh - and can you name the 10 most expensive signings of all-time!?
We'll be back on Monday to run the rule over the trip to Molineux - and look ahead to the midweek visit of Leeds to Stamford Bridge!
HOST: Matt Davies-Adams
WITH: Luke Bosher and Liam Twomey
PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC. |
| 0:03.2 | The Athletic FC. |
| 0:03.2 | It's Traceoutic, Chelsea, Chelsea, Runneth out. |
| 0:15.0 | It's Trayouticobham, a show about Chelsea FC from The Athletic. |
| 0:18.9 | Coming up, Chelsea's Cup of Carabour runneth out. We'll try and find some talking points from a drab affair, then switch our attention to wolves, the basement dwelling football team, not the wild carnivorous mammal, which is the largest member of the dog family. And we'll round up the rest of the blues news as the transfer window passes without incident. The highest rated show on the Athletic Podcast Network twice a week every week. |
| 0:40.9 | This is straight out of common. |
| 0:45.5 | And this is our second show of the week, |
| 0:48.0 | maybe not quite as upbeat as we would have liked it to be, |
| 0:50.7 | given events of Tuesday night, but plenty to talk about. |
| 0:53.9 | As always, it's me, |
| 0:54.9 | Matt Davis, Adam, and I'm joined by two of the athletics. Very best. Luke Bosh is with us. How you doing, Luke? Very well, thanks, Matt. How are you? Yeah, I'm not too bad. Thank you. And fresh from a soggy Emirates Stadium, we've got Liam to me as well. You're okay, Liam? Yeah, I'm good, just about recovered from Kai Havats' latest knife to the heart. |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah, I mean, how does that feel for you when you see Kai Havats score? Is there still a little bit of you that thinks I told you? I told you this guy was good or is it just paying? Well, as I referenced in my match piece, there was a slight echo of his Champions League final goal in the way that he scored, |
| 1:28.8 | which probably made the fact that he then jogged away pointing at the Arsenal badge on his chest |
| 1:34.5 | even more of a red rag to a ball for Chelsea fans. |
| 1:39.6 | And, you know, I think it's unfortunate and maybe a little bit silly that he's been recast as a |
| 1:46.5 | as a snake, given that he did score. |
| 1:50.0 | Chelsea only won two Champions League finals and he scored the winning goal in one of them. |
| 1:54.1 | But having said that, he can't really have any complaints because not only has he shown |
| 1:59.7 | a remarkable lack of care for how |
| 2:02.1 | he's viewed at Chelsea. He's also gone out of his way to antagonise, I think, on several |
| 2:07.2 | occasions. I think that's kind of fair enough, though, to be honest. The initial reaction to him |
| 2:12.4 | leaving, I think among Chelsea fans and I'm kind of generalising was pretty positive for oh look how much money |
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