Exciting Chelsea becoming a must-watch
If in doubt, watch Chelsea. For the second time in six days, Mauricio Pochettino’s blend of youth and experience staged a fabulous show and scored four times against a fellow member of the old Big Six. Their 4-4 against Manchester City was not so much a soap opera, more a box-set thriller squeezed into 105 minutes. When City took the lead through the two most boring words in the football lexicon – “Haaland pen” – it wasn’t hard to see Chelsea crumbling. But then they had gone a goal down at Spurs too. They showed tremendous mettle, and soon they were 2-1 up. City regained the lead, then lost it, then grabbed it again – only for Cole Palmer to save a point and join Raheem Sterling on the scoresheet. Pep Guardiola is happy to sell players to other big clubs, and they are happy to make him pay for it. Tim de Lisle
