Settled Chelsea have shaken off the chaos and are on the right track under Enzo Maresca - they must now win back their place in the Champions League, writes IAN LADYMAN Blues drew 1-1 against Arsenal on Sunday in a competitive and intense encounter Chelsea sit joint third in the table with three other teams, including the Gunners LISTEN NOW: It's All Kicking Off! , available wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Monday and Thursday By IAN LADYMAN Published: 02:00 EST, 11 November 2024 | Updated: 02:00 EST, 11 November 2024 e-mail 5 shares View comments Things can change quickly in football, hence the sight of a chap who won the Champions League for Chelsea just three and half years ago being booed here at Stamford Bridge. Kai Havertz , who scored the winner against Manchester City in Porto in the 2021 final, has the temerity to play for Arsenal now.
Here at a rather rambunctious Stamford Bridge, Havertz left the field at full-time with a huge bandage covering a head wound. It was that kind of game. Competitive, intense, lacking long spells of quality and really rather rough and tough at times.
Havertz, though, may have recognised something familiar in Chelsea, something he once knew but that their supporters may have given up for lost during the short but eventful ownership period of Clearlake Capital. It's been chaotic for a while at the Bridge. A churn of managers and players has been hard to follow never mind understand.
But now, unexpected as it is, there is .