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74 min: Estevao comes on for Quenda, and wastes little time in advancing down the right before ripping the side netting. \u201cThere\u2019s a slightly old fashioned feel to this match I think, in keeping with the earlier Kinks reference,\u201d writes Simon McMahon. \u201c\u2018I like my football on a Saturday, roast beef on Sunday, all right.\u2019 I might watch an episode of The Likely Lads later. Pint of mild, anyone?\u201d<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n 72 min: Fernandes is booked for the deliberate handball, Palmer for the barge. Palmer is extremely fortunate not to be sent off for his needlessly aggressive barge on the prone Fernandes. Hip on head. England internationals always seem to get away with a little bit more. He should have been sent off.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 70 min: Kudus from the right this time. Solanke thinks about a bicycle kick, but opts out. Chelsea<\/a> break down the right, Fernandes falling over and reaching out for the ball. Palmer comes back at him and, with Fernandes now on his knees, barges him back to the turf. That\u2019s a really poor reaction.<\/p>\n Cole Palmer clashes with Mateus Fernandes. Photograph: Isabel Infantes\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.01 EDT<\/p>\n 69 min: Porro crosses deep from the right. Tel was free at the far stick, but the delivery is all wrong. Goal kick.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 67 min: \u2026 and now Gallagher cops more abuse, for grabbing at Rogers and earning the first yellow card of the evening.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 66 min: Gallagher sends a pea-roller through to Penders, causing some mild amusement among his old fans in the stand.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 65 min: Chelsea<\/a> replace Hato with Palestra, while Spurs send on Porro and Solanke for Robertson and the ineffective Marmoush.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 64 min: Sky Sports are reporting that Maddison has a groin problem, rather than a recurrence of his knee issue. Small mercies.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 62 min: Van de Ven makes up for his role in the Chelsea<\/a> attack by powering a header clear.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 61 min: Fernandes\u2019s poor pass back to Van de Ven is snaffled by Neto, who combines with Palmer and shoots towards the bottom right. Kinsky saves. Corner to come.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 59 min: Rogers and Palmer threaten to combine down the left, but Fernandes comes across to disrupt, eventually shepherding the ball out for a goal kick. The visitors in control again \u2026 but still there\u2019s been no reward.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 57 min: \u2026 Kudus clears everyone in the box with a godawful delivery. Still, Spurs have taken up in the second half where they left off in the first, playing most of the football.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 56 min: Kudus probes down the right and wins a Spurs corner. From which \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 54 min: On the touchline, Roberto De Zerbi blows his cheeks out in frustration as his main creative source limps off. But the show must go on. Tel wins a corner down the left, from which nothing comes. Penders makes a meal of claiming it, but does so eventually.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 52 min: Maddison gets up and trudges off. Fingers crossed that\u2019s not his troublesome knee playing up again. Hopefully everyone is simply taking every precaution given his injury history. But the poor man is so deflated. Gallagher, formerly of this parish, comes on in his place, to a mixed reception.<\/p>\n James Maddison gets a hug from Morgan Rogers as he leaves the field. Photograph: Mike Hewitt\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.48 EDT<\/p>\n 50 min: Aw man, this is hard to watch: Maddison, who has had so many injury problems, goes down and doesn\u2019t get back up. A look of utter dejection on his face. He can\u2019t continue.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 48 min: Palmer advances down the right and goes over as he reaches the edge of the box. He wants a penalty, but there wasn\u2019t any contact with the chasing Fernandes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 47 min: Chelsea<\/a> have got a new sleeve sponsor tonight, by the way: Sokin. That seems a bit on the nose given the weather.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 46 min: Chelsea<\/a> are attacking the Shed end now. Spurs facing the Matthew Harding.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Spurs get the second half started. No changes. \u201cIs there any rational explanation for the fact that these two teams have spent literally billions between them and yet are unable or unwilling to play someone at centre forward?\u201d asks Stephen McCrossan, deploying rhetorical techniques I\u2019ll be bound. \u201cI mean I realise Joao Pedro is crocked but come on.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n There have already been three other Premier League<\/a> matches today. Reports: we got \u2018em.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Half-time postbag. \u201cAre Spurs capable of the final ball? I can\u2019t tell. And apparently Tel can\u2019t either\u2019 \u2013 Allan Castle<\/p>\n \u201cChelsea\u2019s set-piece coach seems to like a gimmick. I\u2019m hoping for a \u2018fake tying my bootlace\u2019 routine or a leapfrog multiple run-up ploy. But I quite like their tactic of defending corners with multiple players on the half-way line. Any team with shorter players who are bad at heading should copy it\u201d \u2013 Andrew Goudie<\/p>\n \u201cDe Zerbi and Alonso are both soaked to the bone. It\u2019s almost as if they\u2019re using a Carrick brolly. You know, the kind that protects others but not yourself\u201d \u2013 Peter Oh<\/p>\n Share<\/a>HALF TIME: Chelsea 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur<\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to know who\u2019ll be happier with that. Spurs have been the better side, but they\u2019ve not scored when on top. Chelsea<\/a> haven\u2019t been good, but the weight of history remains on their side.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 45 min: There will be no additional time. It\u2019s almost as though the referee has been dreaming of hot fluffy towels.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 43 min: Hato slips a free kick down the Chelsea<\/a> left for Neto, whose shot-cum-cross is snaffled easily enough by Kinsky. Both teams could do with the half-time whistle and a chance to reset.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 41 min: Henderson doesn\u2019t beat the first man, his old Liverpool mucker Robertson.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 40 min: Caicedo snaffles a loose Van de Van upfield pass and sends Chelsea<\/a> on the attack down the right, Rogers winning a corner. Henderson comes over to take \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 39 min: The xG so far: Chelsea<\/a> 0.15, Spurs 0.34. Goalless seems about right, then.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 37 min: Palmer releases Rogers into the box on the left. Kinsky parries the low drive. Again the flag pops up for offside. Spurs now threatening to concede, having spent so long in the ascendency without reward. A story as old as time.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 36 min: Kinsky\u2019s awful pass out is intercepted by Neto, who tees up Henderson on the edge of the box. Henderson aims for the bottom right. Kinsky redeems himself with a fine save, then kicks away Neto\u2019s attempt from a tight angle on the right. The flag pops up for offside.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 34 min: The Stamford Bridge faithful are muttering pensively. Their side have been broadly awful. \u201cThat Marmoush effort should put a cap on the weekly promising first thirty minutes from Tottenham,\u201d argues Sean Orlowicz. \u201cChelsea coast to a 2-0 win from here.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 32 min: Marmoush barges his way down the middle, having spun Lacroix with absurd ease. He slips in Tel, whose shot from an angle on the left is smothered by Penders. The flag goes up for offside anyway. Chelsea<\/a> are being given the runaround at present. SPurs need to score when they\u2019re so much on top.<\/p>\n Mathys Tel with a sight of goal. Photograph: Andrew Couldridge\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.09 EDT<\/p>\n 31 min: Tel drives at Acheampong yet again. Acheampong looks around anxiously for support that doesn\u2019t arrive. Tel reaches the box and finds Kudus on the underlap. Kudus squirts a shot from a tight angle straight into the hands of Penders.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 30 min: Spurs should be leading. Robertson barrels down the left like it\u2019s 2018 again. He one-twos with Tel, then cuts back for Marmoush, free on the penalty spot. Marmoush slams his shot straight at Penders, who should never be given the chance to make the save he makes. What a miss. What a run by Robertson, whose legs haven\u2019t gone quite yet!<\/p>\n