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- Spurs’ Champions League qualification hopes dealt a blow
- Trevoh Chalobah and Nicolas Jackson scored in each half for Chelsea
- Is the north London derby the best Premier League clash? Listen to the It’s all starting! podcast
Tottenham’s Champions League hopes suffered a blow as they lost 2-0 in the Premier League to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
Ange Postecoglou’s team was seven points behind fourth-placed Aston Villa and now has only one game less.
Goals from Trevoh Chalobah and Nicolas Jackson saw Mauricio Pochettino emerge victorious against his former club to improve his team’s chances of qualifying for Europe.
This was far from Spurs at their fluid, swashbuckling best, and they rarely put serious pressure on a Chelsea backline that had already recorded the club’s worst league defensive record in over 30 years.
Mail Sport’s Kieran Gill takes a look at some of the things you may have missed.
Chelsea fans unveil giant banner to show their thanks to Conor Gallagher
Tribute to the faithful art of Stamford Bridge
As Mail Sport reveals, Chelsea fans took advantage of this match to send a message to the club’s officials with a gigantic banner dedicated to Conor Gallagher, who only has one year left on his contract.
Funded purely by fans, they don’t want to see it sold this summer, least of all to Tottenham. The ‘Chelsea from birth’ exhibition covered two levels of the Shed End.
postpartum sadness
The magnitude of Chelsea’s injury crisis is so notable that they were unable to name a single “senior” outfielder as a replacement.
The Tottenham bench played 664 games in the Premier League between them.
Chelsea’s bench had played 16 Premier League games, with 31-year-old goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli doing a lot of work there.
A night to remember, eight years later
This match coincided with the eighth anniversary of the Battle of the Bridge and Mail Sport columnist Mark Clattenburg, who refereed that naughty night without VAR, maintains that it was the most difficult match he has ever had to referee.
He said: “There would have been few complaints if I had been shown four red cards, but I could equally have been accused of ruining a great game.” No matter what I did, I don’t think I could have won.”
The Chelsea manager did not make much calls to the Chelsea bench that night
Tempers flared in the infamous clash between the London rivals at Stamford Bridge in 2016.
Tottenham also have teenagers!
One of those who made his debut on the Tottenham bench was Mikey Moore, a 16-year-old English winger for whom the club is very excited.
Loan monitoring
Ian Maatsen, on loan from Chelsea, starred for Borussia Dortmund this week in the 1-0 Champions League semi-final first leg win over Paris Saint-Germain.
With a £35million release clause in the left-back’s contract, Maatsen’s father Edward says they want to make this a permanent move.
Ian Maatsen, on loan from Chelsea, enjoys a prodigious loan at Borussia Dortmund
Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino and his own Rhodesian Ridgeback named Sansa
Marked similarities
It’s not often you share a photo of your dog with Mauricio Pochettino, but it happened after we found out we have dogs named after the Stark sisters from Game of Thrones.
Su: Sansa. Mine: Arya.