2026/2027 season

Premier League

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Chelsea
Head coach: Xabi Alonso · Non affiché par les sources consultées ; Sky Sports ne publie pas de schéma pour Chelsea. Deux structures différentes relevées sur les feuilles de match officielles : cinq défenseurs alignés à Fulham le 24/08 (Acheampong, Lacroix, Colwill, Gusto, James), quatre contre Brighton le 30/08 (Fofana, Lacroix, Colwill, Gusto).
Rank
4th
Pts
13
P
7
Form
🟡 Average

The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings
9/10
Attack
3/10
Defence
5/10
Form
4/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:High

4th with 13 pts from 7 matches: 4 wins, 1 draw, 2 defeats.

17 goals scored, 13 conceded.

Jorrel Hato made a great impression on the victory of Chelsea at Everton on Saturday afternoon. The Dutch defender received good reviews in the English media. Jorrel Hato gets a lot of praise for role at Chelsea-victory The Sun described the former Ajacied as a .unsung heroine and spoke of one of his most underestimated achievements [...] Continue reading..

Soccernews · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Chelsea goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez says he will be back "in a few weeks" after breaking his jaw in a collision with Jarrad Branthwaite.

BBC Sport · 18 Oct 2026

The goalkeeper of Chelsea broke the silence after the operation to the jaw following a violent game clash in the race against Everton

Tuttosport · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

A day after the clash with an opponent, Chelsea goalkeeper Martínez reports from the hospital. The operation went well, writes the Argentinian. A serious head injury was not confirmed.

Welt Sport · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches
Wvs Everton FC (A) · 2-0
Wvs AFC Bournemouth (H) · 5-1
Lvs Brentford FC (A) · 0-3
Dvs Hull City AFC (H) · 2-2
Lvs Arsenal FC (A) · 1-2
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17 scored / 13 conceded over 7 matches played
Rest: 1 day since the last match · 2 matches played in the last 15 days
Home form
2W - 1D - 0L
Away form
2W - 0D - 2L
Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match
2.0
Goals conceded per match
1.6
At home
7 scored · 3 conceded in 2 matches
Away
3 scored · 5 conceded in 3 matches
Over 2.5 goals
4 of 5
Both teams score
3 of 5
Clean sheets
1 of 5
Failed to score
1 of 5
Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Chelsea play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity
Preferred system
Non affiché par les sources consultées ; Sky Sports ne publie pas de schéma pour Chelsea. Deux structures différentes relevées sur les feuilles de match officielles : cinq défenseurs alignés à Fulham le 24/08 (Acheampong, Lacroix, Colwill, Gusto, James), quatre contre Brighton le 30/08 (Fofana, Lacroix, Colwill, Gusto).
Philosophy
Playing style still under construction: Xabi Alonso, who arrived in May 2026 on a four-year contract, himself described the start of his tenure as a ‘process’ and ‘day one’ after the win at Fulham, declining to comment on individual errors.
Attacking strengths
The most productive attack of the trio in this group over the first two matchdays: 7 goals in 2 matches (3-2 at Fulham, 4-3 against Brighton), with six different scorers (João Pedro, Morgan Rogers, Cole Palmer x2, Roméo Lavia, Pedro Neto); Palmer forced the first goal at Fulham after just 31 seconds.
Defensive solidity
Acknowledged weak point: 5 goals conceded in 2 matchdays, no clean sheet. Robert Sánchez was directly involved in both Fulham goals (a lapse at the near post then a ball spilled into the path of Gonçalo Garcia), and Chelsea let Brighton come back from 3-0 to 4-3 on 30/08. The club responded by signing Emiliano Martínez on 30/08.
Pressing
Not reliably documented by the sources consulted: no pressing data (PPDA, height of ball recoveries) published for Chelsea over these two matchdays. The only tactical clue available: against Brighton, Chelsea recorded 25.6% possession, their lowest total ever recorded in the Premier League, which reflects a very low block once the lead was secured.
Transitions
Formidable efficiency in offensive transition against Brighton: 4 goals scored with only 146 completed passes, the club's lowest total since 2003-04; in defensive transition, on the other hand, the team conceded three goals after leading 3-0.
StrengthPerfect start (2 wins out of 2, 3rd in the table), immediate attacking output from Palmer, João Pedro and Morgan Rogers, significant squad depth (Estêvão, Gittens, Quenda, Welbeck), and no European competition this season — an argument put forward by Gary Neville, who predicts Chelsea will finish 2nd ahead of Manchester City because the club ‘only plays 45 matches’.
WeaknessDefensive fragility and management of the closing stages of matches (5 goals conceded, a 3-0 lead squandered against Brighton), persistent uncertainty in the goalkeeping position after Sánchez's errors, and instability in the centre-back pairing/the system from one matchday to the next.

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood
Squad confidence
Maximum in points terms, more fragile in terms of the football. Three wins in three competitive matches at the start of Xabi Alonso's tenure, including a 4-3 snatched against Brighton, have created immediate momentum. The head coach nonetheless refuses to get carried away, judging the first half-hour at Stamford Bridge brilliant but criticising his team for sitting too deep afterwards, and he explicitly talks of a process. The dressing room relies on very clear attacking reference points, with a João Pedro his head coach describes as terrific since pre-season, and on the presence of an Emiliano Martínez whose influence goes beyond his saves. The trip to the Emirates comes at the right moment to measure how solid all that is.
Coach / players / board relationship
No friction between Xabi Alonso and the board has been reported, and the window in fact tends to show the opposite. Sky Sports describe a deliberate turn towards players who can perform in the Premier League straight away, among them Jordan Henderson and Emiliano Martínez, which is exactly the type of profile a newly arrived head coach asks for to guide a very young squad. The club also chose to sell Enzo Fernández for £125m even as his replacement, Lamine Camara, slipped away in the final hours of the window, which reflects an institutional decision more than a sporting one. Sky Sports mark that window 9 out of 10.
Mood with the supporters
The mood has calmed considerably since the start of the season. The stands had booed Enzo Fernández on Alonso's debut at Craven Cottage, and Sky Sports recall that the sale of the Argentine midfielder left opinion divided. The perfect start on the pitch, with seven goals in two matchdays, quickly papered over that debate. Deadline night, by contrast, was experienced as a moment of tension, with both the BBC and Sky Sports documenting the club's anger after Monaco pulled out of the Camara deal. No organised protest is reported by the sources consulted.
Pressure on the head coach
Low: Xabi Alonso has started perfectly and got the additions he wanted, including Morgan Rogers and Emiliano Martínez.
Club objectives
The club has not published a numerical objective, but the way the summer was built leaves little doubt about the ambition. Chelsea spent £342.4m and took in £409.7m, which makes them, according to Sky Sports' value analysis, the most efficient club of the English market with an index of £37.7m. External markers point the same way, with Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville both placing Chelsea in the top four, Neville going as far as second. The club are not in the Champions League this season, which lightens the schedule and makes the league the priority. First real test on 6 September at the Emirates.
Recent internal tensions
The Enzo Fernández affair is closed, but it leaves an operational scar. Sky Sports report that Chelsea honoured their midfielder's move to Manchester City for £125m even though Folarin Balogun's withdrawal had led Monaco to cancel the sale of Lamine Camara, leaving the club without the planned replacement. Both clubs came out of that night unhappy, and the BBC and Sky Sports alike documented the acrimony between London and the principality. Internally, no new tension is reported, Xabi Alonso having kept a strictly footballing public line throughout the saga.
Absences
SuspendedWesley Fofana — Sent off for a second booking, he serves a one-match ban and returns on 6 September.
InjuredMoisés Caicedo — Absent, with no return date given.
InjuredBenoît Badiashile — Unavailable, with no return date given.
InjuredJordan Henderson — Wrist injury, return estimated around 12 September.
InjuredMarco Palestra — Unavailable, return estimated around 12 September.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Chelsea — Tottenham Hotspur

At homeSaturday 24 October at 18:30Matchday 8
In 6 days. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says

No preview found for this fixture. The press mostly covers the big games, and usually the day before.

Prediction
EstimateChelsea — Tottenham Hotspur
59 %
1 · Chelsea
20 %
X · draw
21 %
2 · Tottenham Hotspur
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 7 matches played by Chelsea, 6 matches by Tottenham Hotspur. Confidence: medium
The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures
  1. League average. 189 goals scored over 130 team-matches played (20 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 1.45 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
  2. Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
    TeamGoalsRawKept
    Chelsea — attack17 in 7 matches1.671.36
    Chelsea — defence13 in 7 matches1.281.15
    Tottenham Hotspur — attack3 in 6 matches0.340.67
    Tottenham Hotspur — defence9 in 6 matches1.031.02
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.54 for Chelsea and 0.50 for Tottenham Hotspur. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
  3. Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 1.42 goal scored on average by the host against 1.42 by the visitor, over the 52 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.00; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.44, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.00. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
  4. Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
    Chelsea at home: 2.33 pts/match versus 1.86 overall over 3 matches → ×1.070
    Tottenham Hotspur away: 0.67 pts/match versus 0.50 overall over 3 matches → ×1.091
  5. Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
    λChelsea = 1.45 × 1.36 × 1.02 × 1.00 × 1.070 = 2.15
    λTottenham Hotspur = 1.45 × 0.67 × 1.15 × 1.091 = 1.22
  6. Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 58.6%, draw 20.4%, away win 21.0% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 2-1 (only 9.7%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).
Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.
  • It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
  • The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
  • γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
  • The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
  • No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.
What other sources say
No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.
This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Goalkeepers
  • Robert Sánchez (1)
  • Emiliano Martínez (26)
  • Mike Penders (39)
  • Teddy Sharman-Lowe (28)
  • Gabriel Slonina (44)
Defenders
  • Wesley Fofana (3)
  • Valentín Barco (4)
  • Maxence Lacroix (5)
  • Levi Colwill (6)
  • Reece James (24)
  • Malo Gusto (27)
  • Aaron Anselmino (30)
  • Josh Acheampong (34)
  • Tosin Adarabioyo (38)
Midfielders
  • Pedro Neto (7)
  • Enzo Fernández (8)
  • Cole Palmer (10)
  • Jorrel Hato (21)
  • Moisés Caicedo (25)
  • J. Chavarría (29)
  • Roméo Lavia (45)
Forwards
  • João Pedro (9)
  • Jamie Gittens (11)
  • Morgan Rogers (17)
  • Danny Welbeck (18)
  • Geovany Quenda (23)
  • Estêvão (41)
This team's current captain could not be confirmed with certainty at the last check — no armband is shown above until the information is reliable.
Squad last verified on 31 Aug 2026 — source: NON-EXHAUSTIVE LIST. Compiled from the official Sky Sports team sheets for the first two matchdays (Fulham-Chelsea on 24/08, sheet 559453, and Chelsea-Brighton on 30/08, sheet 559456), supplemented by worldfootball.net's 2026/2027 squad list for Sharman-Lowe, Slonina, Anselmino and Adarabioyo. No official club squad page could be opened (chelseafc.com returns 404/unrendered content, premierleague.com returns 401, transfermarkt.com is blocked). Captain inferred from the armband: Reece James wore the (c) at Fulham, Levi Colwill wore it against Brighton with James absent from the eleven — no textual confirmation of the official captaincy was found..

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026
Chelsea v Tottenham: Women’s Super League – live
Source: The Guardian — Football
rss18 Oct 2026
Martinez breaks jaw in Chelsea win at Everton
Source: BBC Sport
rss18 Oct 2026
Chelsea should miss goalie Martínez a few weeks with jaw fracture
Source: Voetbal International
rss18 Oct 2026
Chelsea keeper Emi Martinez sends emotional message from hospital bed after surgery
Source: Mirror Football
rss17 Oct 2026
Chelsea receive Emi Martinez health update after sickening collision vs Everton
Source: Mirror Football
rss17 Oct 2026
Neto scores twice as Chelsea win at Everton
Source: BBC Sport
Result3 Sep 2026
The table as it stood before matchday 3 puts Chelsea fourth on six points from six, with the league's best attack level with Brighton on seven goals, but also five goals conceded, more than any other side in the top half.
Source: Sky Sports
Club3 Sep 2026
Matchday 3 sends Chelsea to the Emirates Stadium on Sunday 6 September at 16:30, to reigning champions Arsenal, in a clash between two of the only unbeaten sides on six points along with Manchester City and Hull.
Source: Football Web Pages
Institutional3 Sep 2026
Sky Sports have reconstructed the chain of events on deadline night: convinced that Folarin Balogun would join Everton, Monaco had agreed to sell Lamine Camara to Chelsea to replace Enzo Fernández, who left for Manchester City for £125m. The forward's withdrawal, unhappy that Everton were also exploring a move for Joshua Zirkzee, brought the whole chain down and left Chelsea without their midfield replacement.
Source: Sky Sports
Institutional3 Sep 2026
The window figures published by Sky Sports place Chelsea among the most active clubs on the continent: £342.4m spent against £409.7m taken in sales, a surplus of £67.3m, in a summer when the Premier League broke its record with £3.49bn invested against £3.19bn in 2025.
Source: Sky Sports
Transfers3 Sep 2026
Sky Sports' value analysis makes Chelsea the most efficient club of the English summer market, with an overall index of £37.7m, being both the third-best buyers, with Valentín Barco for example bought for £34m against an estimated value of £46m, and the third-best sellers, the £50m sale of Liam Delap exceeding his estimated value by £17.8m.
Source: Sky Sports
Suspension3 Sep 2026
Wesley Fofana is suspended for one match after his sending-off for two bookings and will be available again for the trip to Arsenal.
Source: SportsGambler
Institutional2 Sep 2026
Sky Sports give Chelsea 9 out of 10 for their window, highlighting a strategic turn towards players already seasoned in the Premier League, such as Jordan Henderson and Emiliano Martínez, to complement the very young core, and noting that the Enzo Fernández situation was resolved despite divided opinion in the stands.
Source: Sky Sports
Transfers1 Sep 2026
Enzo Fernández was sold to Manchester City for £125m before bonuses, a fee that equals the Premier League transfer record, after a saga lasting several months.
Source: Sports Illustrated
Head coach30 Aug 2026
Xabi Alonso gave a nuanced reading of the 4-3 against Brighton: the first half-hour was brilliant, we could have scored more than three goals, but after that we sat too deep. He set the win in a longer perspective by talking of a process and of victories that build confidence.
Source: VAVEL
Result30 Aug 2026
Chelsea beat Brighton 4-3 at Stamford Bridge on 30 August, with goals from Romeo Lavia, Pedro Neto, João Pedro and Cole Palmer, and remain unbeaten since the start of the season.
Source: Al Jazeera
News last verified on 18 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.
Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.