Chelsea

Ann-Katrin Berger saved two penalties as Chelsea took a major step to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, beating speedy Atletico Madrid 2-0 at Kingsmeadow Stadium tonight in the first leg – and that with 10 men for 70 minutes after Sophie Ingle’s 13th minute red card.

Chelsea failed to leapfrog West Ham into fourth place in the Premier League after a disappointing 0-0 draw against Manchester United at Stamford Bridge. The west Londoners failed to pierce a resolute United defence, and the Mancunians were happy with the point. The fact that they had a penalty shout turned down by referee Stuart Attwell, after a VAR intervention, could leave the visitors feeling a little short-changed.

Thomas Tuchel knows that his players have to show the work rate and aggression on Sunday against Manchester United, that they produced against Atletico Madrid on Tuesday – and, just as importantly, be wary of complacency.

Olivier Giroud scored a spectacular goal to put Chelsea in the driving seat as they beat Atletico Madrid 1-0 away in Bucharest, Romania in the first leg of the last 16 of the Champions League tonight. It was a game of few chances enlivened only by the France striker’s acrobatic overhead kick deep into the second half.

Mason Mount picked himself off the floor after Danny Ings had bundled him over in the Saints penalty area, and slotted home a fine spot kick to give the Blues a point against a poor Southampton side at St Marty’s. Chelsea remain unbeaten under Thomas Tuchel’s tutelage, but will be disappointed not to have secured all three points

Olivier Giroud is expected to lead the line for Chelsea when they face Southampton at St Mary’s tomorrow. The veteran hitman, 34, came off the bench to replace injured Tammy Abraham and scored the opening goal in Monday’s 2-0 home win over Newcastle. It propelled the west Londoners into fourth place in the Premier League – a position unthinkable while Frank Lampard was at the helm.

Chelsea manager Emma Hayes has won the January manager of the month, while her strike Fran Kirby gets the gong for January player of the month.

Chelsea cruised to an emphatic 5-0 victory away to Bristol City to enter the international break at the helm of the WSL – five points clear of second place Manchester City.

Emma Hayes has ruled herself out of managing the GB football team at this summer’s Olympics in Japan. The Chelsea Women’s manager has been in the running to take the post, which was thrown open by the sudden resignation of England women’s coach Phil Neville, who was going to double up as the boss of the GB side.

Pernille Harder showed why she’s the best in the business when she rammed home two fantastic strikes to end Arsenal’s outside chance of the WSL title as the Blues won 3-0 at Kingsmeadow tonight.

Chelsea crashed to a humbling defeat to lowly Brighton 2-1 at home to open up the WSL title race.

Chelsea Women are just 90 minutes away from grabbing another piece of silverware. The Blues thrashed West Ham United 6-0 in the semi-final of the League Cup at Kingsmeadow on Wednesday night and will face Bristol City – 1-0 victors over Leicester City – in the final at Watford’s Vicarage Road on March 14.

Holders Chelsea will contest this year’s Conti Cup final after an emphatic 6-0 drubbing of East Londoners West Ham at Kingsmeadow tonight with Denmark striker Pernille Harder helping herself to a hat-trick.

Chelsea cruised to an emphatic 4-0 win over Spurs at Kingsmeadow to stay top of the WSL – but had their north London rivals taken some of their early chances, the game could have ended slightly different.

Having sacked Blues legend Frank Lampard this week, German Thomas Tuchel was parachuted in by Chelsea and was immediately faced with the same problems that beset his illustrious predecessor – lots of possession but a lack of goals.

Chelsea huffed and puffed but couldn’t blow down the rigid Wolves house as the Blues head coach Thomas Tuchel’s reign at Stamford Bridge started with a disappointing 0-0 draw against Wolves.

Chelsea have sacked Frank Lampard – with owner Roman Abramovich describing the decision to part company with the Stamford Bridge legend as “a very difficult decision”.

Tammy Abraham scored a hat-trick as Chelsea overcame the dogged resistance of Championship outfit Luton Town 3-1 at Stamford Bridge this afternoon to book a 5th round FA cup tie against Barnsley.

Former Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko has emerged as a surprise candidate to replace head coach Frank Lampard, should he be sacked by the Blues.

Only one team went top of the Premier League tonight and it was not Chelsea who were well beaten 2-0 by Leicester City and the Blues sit uncomfortably in eight position.

Fran Kirby sliced open the Manchester United defence to score the winner in a pulsating 2-1 victory at Kingsmeadow and at the same time propelled the Blues to top of the WSL table.

The pressure resumes on Frank Lampard this weekend, when his Chelsea charges take on struggling Fulham at Craven Cottage on Saturday.