This Weekend's Fixtures & Chelsea v Wolves (18/19/20 Jan)

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Saturday, 18th January 2025
Newcastle United v Bournemouth, 12:30 https://i.imgur.com/tM2pRxb.png
Brentford v Liverpool, 15:00
Leicester City v Fulham, 15:00
West Ham United v Crystal Palace, 15:00
Arsenal v Aston Villa, 17:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Sunday, 19th January 2025
Everton v Tottenham Hotspur, 14:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg
Manchester United v Brighton & Hove Albion, 14:00
Nottingham Forest v Southampton, 14:00
Ipswich Town v Manchester City, 16:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Monday, 20th January 2025
Chelsea v Wolverhampton Wanderers, 20:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Newcastle: Dubravka, Livramento, Botman, Burn, Hall, Guimaraes, Tonali, Joelinton, Murphy, Isak, Gordon.
Subs: Vlachodimos, Trippier, Schar, Osula, Almiron, Kelly, Willock, Longstaff, Miley.

Bournemouth: Kepa, Cook, Zabarnyi, Huijsen, Kerkez, Christie, Adams, Brooks, Kluivert, Semenyo, Ouattara.
Subs: Travers, McKenna, Jebbison, Silcott-Duberry, Adu-Adjei, Akinmboni, Winterburn, Kinsey, Rees-Dottin.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Hopefully wins for Brentford, Everton, Ipswich, Brighton and Wolves

Hopefully a draw between Bournemouth and Newcastle

I would hope for a win for Southampton but we all know that’s not happening

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Newcastle 0-1 Bournemouth, Kluivert!

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Bournemouth take the lead at St James Park. Kluivert

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Iraola is a great coach I think.

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1-1 Guimaraes.

Think Kepa should do better.

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Newcastle 1-2 Bournemouth, Kluivert again!

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1-2 HT. Great half.

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Joelinton is an absolute scrote.

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3-1 now Outarra

Newcastle got a lot of work on to save this game.

[HCZ_Reborn]

No it’s still 2-1

Goal got scrubbed by VAR

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Disallowed goal for Bournemouth.

Newcastle so lucky there.

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Brentford: Flekken, Van den Berg, Norgaard, Yarmoliuk, Collins, Lewis-Potter, Roerslev, Janelt, Damsgaard, Mbeumo, Wissa.
Subs: Valdimarsson, Henry, Schade, Jense, Carvalho, Mee, Konak, Maghoma, Ji-Soo.

Liverpool: Alisson, Van Dijk, Konate, Tsimikas, Alexander-Arnold, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Gravenberch, Gakpo, Salah, Diaz.
Subs: Kelleher, Endo, Nunez, Chiesa, Jones, Elliott, Robertson, Quansah, Bradley.

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:lol: the goal got disallowed because the ball had gone over the line

And should have been brought back for a Bournemouth corner

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Brentford: Flekken, Van den Berg, Norgaard, Yarmoliuk, Collins, Lewis-Potter, Roerslev, Janelt, Damsgaard, Mbeumo, Wissa.
Subs: Valdimarsson, Henry, Schade, Jense, Carvalho, Mee, Konak, Maghoma, Ji-Soo.

Liverpool: Alisson, Van Dijk, Konate, Tsimikas, Alexander-Arnold, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Gravenberch, Gakpo, Salah, Diaz.
Subs: Kelleher, Endo, Nunez, Chiesa, Jones, Elliott, Robertson, Quansah, Bradley.

No Jota to bail them out today

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Leicester: Stolarczyk, Justin, Vestergaard, Faes, Kristiansen, Winks, Soumare, El Khannouss, Mavididi, Ayew, Vardy.
Subs: Iversen, Coady, Okoli, Thomas, Skipp, De Cordova-Reid, McAteer, Buonanotte, Daka.

Fulham: Leno, Castagne, Andersen, Bassey, Robinson, Berge, Lukic, Wilson, Smith Rowe, Iwobi, Jimenez.
Subs: Benda, Diop, Sessegnon, Reed, Cairney, King, Pereira, Traore, Muniz.

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No Jota to bail them out today

Perennial sick note.

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West Ham: Fabianski, Wan-Bissaka, Mavropanos, Kilman, Emerson, Cresswell, Alvarez, Rodriguez, Kudus, Soucek, Paqueta.
Subs: Areola, Soler, Coufal, Guilherme, Ings, Irving, Casey, Scarles, Orford.

Crystal Palace: Henderson, Richards, Lacroix, Guehi, Munoz, Hughes, Kamada, Mitchell, Sarr, Eze, Mateta.
Subs: Turner, Nketiah, Schlupp, Clyne, Doucoure, Riad, Rodney, Devenny, Kporha.

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Dubravka just saves it.

Come on Bournemouth.

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Joelinton should strike first time.

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I don't think Outtara touched Guimaraes there?

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How come the best support in the land are leaving early?

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Seven added minutes. :wacko:

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Newcastle 1-3 Bournemouth, Kluivert hat-trick!!

Holy shit what a strike!

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Scores his second hatter of the season

That first one was a hatter of pels though

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Cleared off the line to deny Gordon!

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Newcastle 1-4 Bournemouth, Kirkez!!!

Fuck me.

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Newcastle 1-4 Bournemouth, FT!

Iraola. :bow:

They were brilliant.

Barcodes. :haha:

Title challenge lasted four days.

[Marc Overmars]

If Bournemouth can get this result surely we can in the second leg? :unsure:

[Mac76]

Didn't see that coming, wow

[Mac76]

If Bournemouth can get this result surely we can in the second leg? :unsure:

If we buy Kluivert ;)

[Letters]

If Bournemouth can get this result surely we can in the second leg? :unsure:

If we can take our chances



:haha:

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So according to you guys above me , we definitely won't be getting a result :shrug:

[Letters]

So according to you guys above me , we definitely won't be getting a result :shrug:

Never say never but I wouldn’t say I’m confident

[Niall_Quinn]

I think people don't realise just how poor PL teams are, from top to bottom, and just how ordinary PL players are despite their ludicrous salaries. Any team from the 80s or 90s would annihilate this league. So it all becomes quite random, increasingly so as the quality of the lazy, overpaid, eternally injured players increases. Toss a coin, go look at the Asian gambling markets, figure out who is reffing and who is rigging VAR, there probably still is a way to predict a result.

All I know is Villa are abject shite and this should be an easy win for any team that gets the elementary tactics right and has 11 players on the pitch that give a damn about the shirt. Is that us? Well you never know, there have been times when we approximated that in the past.

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Spuds in 15th. :lol:

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All the 3pm games in the Premier League 0-0 at HT.

[HCZ_Reborn]

If Bournemouth can get this result surely we can in the second leg? :unsure:

:haha: :haha: :haha:

Bournemouth have a team full of young(ish) and quick attacking players, they were able to press Newcastle off the ball when they tried to play out. They a) wouldn’t try to play out against us b) would only need one long ball to get a runner to dissect our midfield and then they are straight at our back four.

In some ways you can see why we try to benefit from set pieces, we simply don’t have the players for aggressive quick football

[Mac76]

Any team from the 80s or 90s would annihilate this league..

Most players from that era would be able to make League 1 at best, admittedly partly on fitness levels alone but also tactical awareness and for the most part skill too

Villa are not 'abject shite' either, we'd take Watkins, Rogers and Duran any day of the week

[Mac76]

All the 3pm games in the Premier League 0-0 at HT.

Super Saturday :bow:

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Most players from that era would be able to make League 1 at best, admittedly partly on fitness levels alone but also tactical awareness and for the most part skill too

Villa are not 'abject shite' either, we'd take Watkins, Rogers and Duran any day of the week

Perhaps, although in fairness that says more about our attackers than it does about them

[Niall_Quinn]

Most players from that era would be able to make League 1 at best, admittedly partly on fitness levels alone but also tactical awareness and for the most part skill too

Villa are not 'abject shite' either, we'd take Watkins, Rogers and Duran any day of the week

Tactical awareness? You are buying into that? And yet all the "tactical awareness" gurus keep on gushing about our corner takers being able to deliver a ball into the box? Don't fool yourself, the standard in this league is low, very very low.

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West Ham 0-1 Crystal Palace, Mateta.

Leicester 0-1 Fulham, Smith Rowe. Enjoys scoring there.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Tactical awareness? You are buying into that? And yet all the "tactical awareness" gurus keep on gushing about our corner takers being able to deliver a ball into the box? Don't fool yourself, the standard in this league is low, very very low.

Compared to what and when?


I don’t know about tactics but in terms of fitness and athleticism it’s unprecedented. Technically hard to say because the game is more about athleticism than it is technique. But equally you do have a habbit of crying for the moon with everything. To the point where you’re a borderline neophobe

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Luis Diaz diving. :lol:

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Leicester 0-2 Fulham, Traore.

That's how bad Leicester are.

Seven defeats in a row.

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Mavropanos sent off.

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Leicester 0-2 Fulham, Traore.

That's how bad Leicester are.

Seven defeats in a row.

A club that's facing a relegation battle and still goes after a manager with zero experience....I am sorry but they deserve to go straight down.

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This game is primed for a Brentford smash and grab.

Camped out on their 18 yard box and not taken chances.

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Pelanty to Palace.

[HCZ_Reborn]

A club that's facing a relegation battle and still goes after a manager with zero experience....I am sorry but they deserve to go straight down.

I’m not sure what the manager has got to do with it

Don’t get me wrong I think Leicester were harsh in sacking Cooper even though he looks like an extra from the Goonies.

When you have a side like Leicester you have the choice of going full Everton (and even then that guarantees nothing) or go for it like Burnley did under Kompany. It’s more than likely that the three promoted clubs will go straight back down, because you can’t polish a turd. And unfortunately I can see this being the case for some time to come. I think Kieran McKenna has done an excellent job with Ipswich but you can’t match the buying power of established premier league clubs.

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0-2 Mateta just gets it in.

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0-1 Liverpool, Nunez/

[Mac76]

Damn

[Marc Overmars]

That’s a sickener.

Means we might win now though. Probably.

[Marc Overmars]

0-2 Nunez again :blink:

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0-2 Nunez again.

[dazthegooner]

Not seen the Skysports team thus excited since the tests came back negative.

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All away wins so far. :unsure:

[Mac76]

0-2 Nunez again :blink:

Frank out :angry:

[HCZ_Reborn]

That’s a sickener.

Means we might win now though. Probably.

Nope, it means that at minimum the gap will go back to six points (which will become nine points when Liverpool play Everton). The idea that we are in a title race is farcical, we haven’t been in a title race since failing to win at Fulham. We are in a race for top four, and with the injuries we have it’s a race we are set to lose

[Marc Overmars]

Nope, it means that at minimum the gap will go back to six points (which will become nine points when Liverpool play Everton). The idea that we are in a title race is farcical, we haven’t been in a title race since failing to win at Fulham. We are in a race for top four, and with the injuries we have it’s a
race we are set to lose

I’m all for the small crumbs of comfort.

[HCZ_Reborn]

The only crumb of comfort I would have felt is if Brainless the second had come over to London to sack Captain Black

I don’t believe all these injuries are coincidence, he beasts the players after complaining about a thin squad. Fucking brains on him

[Niall_Quinn]

They let Nunez score. That's fucking embarrassing.

[Niall_Quinn]

Nope, it means that at minimum the gap will go back to six points (which will become nine points when Liverpool play Everton). The idea that we are in a title race is farcical, we haven’t been in a title race since failing to win at Fulham. We are in a race for top four, and with the injuries we have it’s a race we are set to lose

The idea Liverpool are in the title race is farcical and that will be demonstrated at the sharp end of the season. Their defence is non-existent and they rely 100% on Salah. If he avoids injury for the remainder they'll be a challenge, but only because we and the gypos are so inconsistent. If he gets injured then they will easily be overhauled. Don't forget the points we had robbed from us, add those back in and we're level on points with these world-beaters, despite our mediocre season.

[HCZ_Reborn]

The idea Liverpool are in the title race is farcical and that will be demonstrated at the sharp end of the season. Their defence is non-existent and they rely 100% on Salah. If he avoids injury for the remainder they'll be a challenge, but only because we and the gypos are so inconsistent. If he gets injured then they will easily be overhauled. Don't forget the points we had robbed from us, add those back in and we're level on points with these world-beaters, despite our mediocre season.

Those points aren’t going to get added back though

I think Liverpool will be the weakest champions in near on a decade but you can’t win a title without a striker

[Niall_Quinn]

Those points aren’t going to get added back though

I think Liverpool will be the weakest champions in near on a decade but you can’t win a title without a striker

Which is why I think it all comes down to Salah's fitness. Liverpool can't win it either, without him. And I don't count out the gypos yet. They could easily just start winning every game in a row.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Manchester United: Onana, De Ligt, Maguire, Yoro, Mazraoui, Ugarte, Mainoo, Dalot, Fernandes, Amad, Zirkzee.
Subs: Bayindir, Martinez, Hojlund, Collyer, Casemiro, Eriksen, Malacia, Garnacho, Antony.

Brighton: Verbruggen, Veltman, Van Hecke, Dunk, Estupinan, Baleba, Minteh, Ayari, Mitoma, Joao Pedro, Welbeck.
Subs: Steele, Webster, Enciso, Lamptey, March, Adingra, Rutter, Gomez, McConville.

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Nottingham Forest: Sels, Murillo, Williams, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Wood, Hudson-Odoi, Dominguez, Elanga, Milenkovic, Aina
Subs: Miguel, Morato, Awoniyi, Ward-Prowse, Moreno, Silva, Yates, Sosa, Boly

Southampton: Ramsdale, Walker-Peters, Downes, Harwood-Bellis, Aribo, Armstrong, Bree, Sugawara, Fernandes, Archer, Bednarek
Subs: McCarthy, Manning, Smallbone, Wood, Sulemana, Fraser, Ugochukwu, Onuachu, Bella-Kotchap

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Everton: Pickford, O'Brien, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Gueye, Mangala, Lindstrom, Doucoure, Ndiaye, Calvert-Lewin.
Subs: Virginia, Begovic, Patterson, Keane, Harrison, Beto, Young, Armstrong, Sherif.

Tottenham: Kinsky, Porro, Dragusin, Gray, Davies, Spence, Bergvall, Sarr, Maddison, Kulusevski, Son.
Subs: Austin, Regulion, Richarlison, Yang, Lankshear, Moore, Ajayi, Olusesi, Hardy.

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Man Utd 0-1 Brighton, Minteh!

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Everton 1-0 Spuds, Calvert-Lewin!

Turned them inside out!

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Forest 1-0 Southampton, Anderson.

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What a chance for Son.

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Man Utd 1-1 Brighton, Bruno Fernandes pelanty.

Horrible control from Calvert-Lewin just then.

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Kinsky saves on to the post!

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Everton 2-0 Spuds, Ndiaye!

Smoked them.

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Forest 2-0 Southampton, Hudson-Odoi.

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Forest 3-0 Southampton, Wood.

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Peter Reid looks like he just called for a hit.

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Everton 3-0 Spuds, Gray OG!

:haha:

[Letters]

Everton 3-0 Spuds, Gray OG!

:haha:

:haha:

Spurs: Cheering up Gooners since 1913

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3-0 HT. Wow.

Ange has to be gone.

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Tottenham fans will be in comfortable and familiar territory later, begging for a Man City win.

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Man Utd 1-2 Brighton, Mitoma!

:haha:

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Forest 4-1 Southampton, Bednarek and then Milenkovic.

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Remains 3-1 to Forest.

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The goal for Forest been disallowed so it’s 3-1

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Calvert-Lewin turns and misses.

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Man Utd 1-3 Brighton, Rutter!

:haha:

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Everton 3-1 Tottenham, Kulusevski.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Every game is currently 3-1

[HCZ_Reborn]

Southampton make it 3-2 at the City ground

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Forest 3-2 Southampton.

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3-2 Richarlison. :lol:

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Man Utd 1-3 Brighton, FT!

:haha:

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Everton 3-2 Spuds, FT!

:haha:

[Mac76]

Everton 3-2 Spuds, FT!

:haha:

That and the Man U result is something to cheer us all up :lol:

[HCZ_Reborn]

At this point with spurs and united it’s a bit like someone beating an injured dog with a chain. The dog would incessantly bark and bite people but it’s just a pathetic sight

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-1 Man City, Foden.

[Letters]

At this point with spurs and united it’s a bit like someone beating an injured dog with a chain. The dog would incessantly bark and bite people but it’s just a pathetic sight

Counterpoint: it’s fucking hilarious

:haha:

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0-2 Kovacic.

[Letters]

0-2 Kovacic.

Mmm. I wasn’t really expecting much of a favour from Ipswich

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0-3 Foden again.

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0-4 Doku.

Ed Sheeran. :lol:

[Mac76]

Counterpoint: it’s fucking hilarious

:haha:

:good:

[Mac76]

Shedloads of goals today

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0-5 Haaland.

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0-6 McAtee. :wacko:

[Letters]

Man Utd 1-3 Brighton, FT!

:haha:
Us losing to that shower :lol:
:doh:

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Technical draws. :bow:

Chelsea v Wolves tonight.

Come on Wolves.

[Mac76]

Palmer's playing after all so that will make it tricky for Wolves, he's a real flat track bully, probably get a hatter

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Chelsea 1-0 Wolves, Tosin.

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Chelsea 1-1 Wolves, Doherty!

Sanchez. :haha:

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2-1 Chelsea, Cucurella.

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3-1 Madueke, horrible defending from Wolves.