Chapter 1: What immediate reactions were there after the Chelsea vs Newcastle match?
We can get reactions straight away from Stamford Bridge. Gary Cahill back into the team today and what a happy ending for him. Gary, congratulations. It must have been rather nice being back out there, wasn't it?
Yeah, thank you very much.
Chapter 2: How did Gary Cahill feel about his return to the team?
Yeah, definitely. Great to be back on the pitch and ultimately, you know, great to get the result and not just the result but the way it went about, the performance today was fantastic and it was enjoyable to be a part of.
What did your team get right? How did you make it look so easy today?
We didn't get everything right, because obviously we conceded late on, but we got most things right today. I think the appetite was there, the hunger to work hard, not just the attacking players we've got when they're in full throw. They're fantastic to watch, so we got that bit right, but also the defensive and the nitty-gritty side of it. We chased back, we harassed, we won the ball back.
Numerous times we won the ball back very quickly after we lost it, so that was pleasing. But obviously the Flair players were on fire today and they played really, really well.
And it's 10 unbeaten in the league now, Gary. Have you seen the confidence of your teammates growing week by week?
We have, yeah, but we did speak before the game and although we were unbeaten, we realised that we've got a lot of draws amongst them results, so we wanted to start turning them draws into wins and today we did that convincingly, so I'm sure the manager will be pleased and certainly us players are.
Big games keep on coming. PSG in the Champions League on Tuesday, Gary. Tell us, what do you think a good end to the season looks like for Chelsea now?
Obviously, we want to go as far as we possibly can in the Cup and the Champions League, realising, like you just said, this is a very important week for the football club. We got off to a great start today, and obviously we've got the away leg and the FA Cup, which we all know is going to be very tough.
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Chapter 3: What strategies did Chelsea implement to secure their victory?
Two massive games, arguably the biggest games of the season for us coming up now. We'll go into it with confidence from today, but we know how important it's going to be.
Well done, Gary. Good to see you back on the team, and thanks for speaking to us.
Thank you very much. See you later.
All the best to you. And some big stories elsewhere today in the Barclays Premier League news. On those now with Sarah Jane.
Thanks very much, David. Well, it was a big day for the bottom clubs in the Premier League this Saturday. Six of the bottom seven were in action. The fight back is on for Sunderland as a win against Manchester United leaves them a point from safety.
Norwich, they threw away another vital lead and points against West Ham, but Newcastle's heavy defeat means they are out of the drop zone and Newcastle back in. Six games coming your way in match choice at 10 o'clock tonight. Take your pick via the red button, as usual. On the front screen, it's bad news for Bournemouth, Stoke and their losing streak.
I sensed, as I said, that there was a real focus to our work, intensity to our work, and we went to beat tonight.
The Premier League, that's what it is sometimes. Small margins. We're on a tricky run. We need to really stick together now and fight our way out of this form. The Premier League is always tough for clubs like West Brom. There's about 12 clubs in the Premiership who will be looking over their shoulders non-stop until they get the 40 points. We're no different to the other 12.
A great win, great attitude of the players and another clean sheet. It's fantastic. It's disappointing. I think certainly based on how we played in the game and the opportunities we had, I think we should have seen the game out and managed to get the three points.
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Chapter 4: How has Chelsea's confidence evolved during their unbeaten run?
Now Scott Parker, the former Chelsea and Newcastle midfield player, will give us his thoughts next on what we've seen tonight at Stamford Bridge. A five-star performance, five goals from Chelsea, their highest league position for four months. Chelsea's biggest win of the season in the league and off to a lightning start as well. Costa, the first to strike. Then Pedro to make it 2-0.
And they were 3-0 up. when Costa picked out Willian inside 20 minutes. That's how it stood at half-time, and it just got worse for Newcastle. Cesc Fabregas spotting Pedro. And Bertrand Traore off the bench to score his first Premier League goal. A late reply from Newcastle, but far too little too late.
5-1 it finished, seven on target for Chelsea, the highest they've recorded this season to Newcastle's three, one of which resulted in that Andros Townsend goal.
Newcastle did see plenty of the ball, 45% possession today and 13 touches in the opposition area, but that's not really where they found problems at Stamford Bridge this afternoon, and by virtue of goal difference, they dropped back into the bottom three. Did that scoreline, Scott, flatter Chelsea today? No, I don't think he did.
And I think we'll speak about Newcastle and how poor they were for the first 20 minutes and practically for the whole game at times, to be fair. But I don't think there's any denying that Chelsea were right at it today. And I thought they were well worthy of the result, to be honest with you. The way they performed and the way they played was very good. Back to their old selves then, if you like.
I think so, yeah.
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Chapter 5: What are Chelsea's goals for the remainder of the season?
I think they had that edge. I thought Fabregas was first class. Pedro come on and started the game and had a real impact. Yeah, I just thought they had that real edge about them, to be fair. They looked good. What was good about the first goal then? I think it's a couple of things. It's the brilliance of Willian. I watch Willian. He's obviously been brilliant this year.
But what I've noticed about him, whenever he faces you up, he just stands you still and jinx and he's gone. And then from then on, he's obviously looking for Costa's run. Costa's run, again, brilliant. We spoke about, obviously, Taylor tripping up a little bit, but the finish is top, top class. It's a striker's instinct on how to get that ball in the net.
A striker who's back on his game, would you say? Definitely, definitely. I thought Costa led by example today. I thought he was very good, to be fair. And it's a really lovely finish. It's quite hard to describe how difficult it is, because he manages... Just keep your eye on that foot as he hooks it around.
It looks like he's almost hitting it back into someone else's path, but he knows exactly what he's doing there. It's almost like a scoop finish. And it was sensational. It really was a fantastic finish. But Scott's right, William... Without doubt, has been Chelsea's player of the year. You know, even in the difficult times when one or two players went missing, he never.
Always involved in assists, goals, got stuck in for his team. I think he's had a brilliant season, he really has. Can we put the second down to good Chelsea play then as well? Well, I think Scott highlighted it at half-time. Basics in the game. Can you mark people? Eden Hazard, there's Tioti, there's Ahrens. One of you can push on and mark him. There's no way, as that ball gets cleared, really,
Hazard should win this ball. He does. And then after that, I think these are really simple mistakes. Ahrens has... He has two things he could do, really. He could maybe play it back to his goalie and go safe, because there's no-one at the pitch.
He decides to play a really poor ball into Daryl Janmaat, but even then, Scott, I'm going to just take that back and almost give it like a 50-50 point of view. You can see that now. There's your two players. There's Janmaat and there's Pedro. Your last man, Scott, you've got to do something, haven't you? You have. I'm tempted to just give him the benefit of the doubt.
In that position there, I think he's petrified of fouling him and seeing red. At 1-0, I think it's a gamble. In saying that, he turns his back a little bit. Could he do a little bit better? Could he anticipate a bit more? I think the initial problem comes from Aaron's pass and it puts him on the back foot. But I will say, again with Chelsea, fantastic finish.
Because what I really like that Pedro does... He doesn't get the keeper time to set himself. You can see the keeper's in probably a poor position. He's too far to his right, but Pedro doesn't give him a chance to get back in the right position. Fantastic finish from his point of view as well. Quick look at the third goal then from Willian, who, as you said, has been a constant threat, Scott.
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Chapter 6: Did Newcastle's performance reflect their current struggles in the league?
What do you think of this, Scott, as a midfield player yourself? Aye, sir. It's everything what Fabregas is about, really. You give this quality to someone of Fabregas ilk, and that's what happens, to be fair. And like you said, Stephen Taylor there, we're talking millimetres. That's how perfect that ball is, really. It was a fantastic pass.
We talk a lot, certainly this year, about what Cesc can't do. He doesn't close it well enough, he doesn't get around the pitch. But that, that's fantastic. That's worth the entrance fee, that sort of pass. And that's what I want to go and see when I watch football. That was a beautiful pass. And there was two or three, four others as well from Cesc Fabregas. 5-0, wrapping things up.
And a nice goal for Traore, who could be playing a little bit more football than perhaps he expected, Scott. Yeah, no, definitely. Obviously, comes into the game and does really well. At this point, Newcastle have gone three at the back, five at the back, so whenever you're playing against a three, the options are out wide, really.
That's going to be your out ball, because the full-backs are the ones that normally get on. So they get it out wide. These areas here, Scott. And obviously it's a lovely little bit of play out wide. And his run, again, his desire to go and get in the box and score a goal, 1-2 with your full-back and a great cross coming in. Really good. Very good goal. Very, very good goal.
Great for him as well, to score your first goal. It's a beautiful moment. It was only a football moment to you, Scott, and to me. You can see his face, his celebration. Loftus-Cheek got on the pitch as well. And this is something that I feel Goods-Hilling has the luxury of doing now, almost at the end of the season, to introduce these players. I think it's what Chelsea fans want.
I think it's what Roman Abramovich wants as well. A nice moment for him, but did Diego Costa, the senior figure of the attack, did he really carry the attack to Newcastle today? Ten and eight now for him. Well, he looked like he'd had about 16 fillet steaks before the game. He was hungry. He was chasing everything, Scott, wasn't he? Despite the broken nose.
And, I mean, we spoke about Newcastle and how sloppy they were at times, and they were sloppy. But every single time that ball was given away, this man was there. He set the tempo, really. And in this day and age, your centre forward setting a tempo just drives everyone on. He's the first man up the pitch for you in terms of leading it, and he'd done that, and led by example, really.
You just watch all the clips. He's always around it. He's always there. So why wasn't he doing this under Jose Mourinho? In effect, this change has come since Mourinho left. I'd love to give you a good answer. The truth is, I don't know. I wasn't in that dressing room. I'm not sure, but there was Cesc Fabregas, people like Diego Costa.
It didn't look to me that the marriage was working under Mourinho, and then, hence, that's why he ended up getting sacked. Because I look at his work rate, his effort, the positions he's getting himself into, that's what Diego Costa was doing last year. They're talking maybe he might go back to Spain. I still feel he's such an important part for this team and the way they play.
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Chapter 7: What were the key factors leading to Newcastle's defeat?
Just put it up the pitch. Put it in the space. You've got Mitrovic up there. No, why not kick it back to... He's not a left-back. I don't care. It doesn't matter. He's still playing left-back, so do the right thing. Kick it up the pitch. Again, this is Jonjo Shelby. Passes it back to his centre-back. It's really sloppy. You're asking for trouble.
And like Scott said a minute ago, these are good players you're playing against. This is... When you've got this man sniffing around, don't mess around. Don't give them a chance to get the ball back. Do things quickly, but it's just so sloppy, they lose the ball, there goes Costa again, it's a short back pass, straight away you're under pressure. This is another example.
If you didn't know better, you'd be thinking, sometimes in football you do reserves against the first team and the reserves have got the ump and they're not happy with their play and that was Jonjo Shelby. And this is all in 20 minutes. minute, Scott, isn't it? And these are all lifts for Chelsea. This is going to drive Chelsea on doing the same.
You've got to give yourself a platform and Newcastle never give theirself a platform today in terms of, you know, you're going to have to spin them around. You're going to have to turn around a bit and get up the pitch because for every time you're giving it away, it's making them more confident and they're coming on to you much more.
So I just felt at times they were very naive, Newcastle, in terms of the way they played. They wanted to keep playing, keep playing. And, you know, there comes a time in a game when you've got to realise it's maybe not working. When you're away from home, Scott, I think sometimes we get caught between two stones. Everyone wants to play.
When things are going, well, yes, you can play it into midfield... That's what I talked about before the game today, getting that balance right between defence and attack.
Absolutely.
You know, that one there with Aaron, straight away, you get a sniff, you think, great, they're going to keep playing the Bournemouth half, because every mistake that we highlighted there, I think apart from the last one, we're all at mistakes in Newcastle's own half. But if all of a sudden you start turning around, then you earn the right to play.
But that's what Newcastle didn't do today, and that's why I was so disappointed, and it was a horror 20 minutes from his team, Steve McLaren. And it cost Newcastle. Here is Steve McLaren with Geoff Shreves. Steve, you flagged it up before the game. First 20 minutes, vital. What you got? Was that just totally rank bad and unacceptable?
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