Chelsea 2-0 Tottenham LIVE RESULT: Chalobah and Jackson dent Spurs’ top four chase as Blues win thrilling derby

That’s all from Chelsea

Tottenham’s top-four hopes were dealt a massive blow after a heartbreaking 2-0 loss to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

The Blues, on the other hand, saw a major boost to their European hopes as they target seventh place and Europa Conference League qualification.

Trevoh Chalobah and Nicolas Jackson scored the West Londoners’ goals following a stunning improvement in recent performances under Mauricio Pochettino.

That’s all from us here at SunSport, have a great evening!

Pochettino on star players

Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino explained his philosophy when picking his strongest team.

Today was an easy selection for us [because of injuries] but we showed it’s not about ‘name’ football it’s about being competitive, to behave like a team.

Even if you have big players, big names, if they don’t play like today, trying to help the team in a defensive situation or when we have the ball to believe in every single offensive action we can score, then it’s impossible because the Premier League is so competitive.

Mauricio Pochettino

‘Pochettino has to stay’

Jamie Redknapp insists Chelsea need to hold onto manager Mauricio Pochettino after the last few weeks’ drastic improvement.

I look at it and think when you’re trying to build a young team – in the summer they’re going to need to bring in some experienced heads to help them because they’re going to lose Thiago Silva – you need continuity on the bench.

The last thing they need to be doing right now is changing the manager. For a number of reasons.

One, there aren’t many candidates out there. I’ve always been a big fan of him, especially with young players. I like what I saw there [in his interview]. I saw anger in him.

There have been times this year when he’s been a little bit passive, trying to be everyone’s friend. He wasn’t like that as a player and he wasn’t like that in his Tottenham days. I think they’d be crazy to get rid of him

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Ange Postecoglou addresses defeat

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou made no excuses after a poor performance against Chelsea.

We lacked a real sort of conviction and positive mindset in our football. We didn’t really have any fluency, any sort of aggression with and without the ball.

It’s a bit unlike us because if nothing else we’ve always been competitive, especially in the first half it was missing today.

It wasn’t a great night and it’s fair to say we didn’t play anywhere near the sort of football and didn’t have the mindset that I expect us to have.

That’s on me and I’ve got to take responsibility for that ultimately as I’m the one who is putting them out there and preparing them for it.

We were so far off it and I’ve got to look at myself and see how I’m preparing my team for it.

Ange Postecoglou

Postecoglou on Maddison

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou explained he left James Maddison out of his starting line-up because he felt he needed “some legs” against Chelsea’s pace.

I thought we needed to freshen up the team.

I thought we needed some legs today as they’ve obviously got a real mobile and quick front three and four and I just felt we needed some legs in the midfield.

With Biss [Yves Bissouma] and Pape [Matar Sarr] coming in, and Deki [Dejan Kulusevski], I thought it would help us. Fair to say it didn’t work though.

Ange Postecoglou

Pochettino on his future

Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino insists he doesn’t know if he will continue in the hotseat next season after a turbulent campaign.

But Pochettino insists he is very proud of his young team and the way they reacted to such a difficult start to the campaign.

It’s difficult to see every single week that I’m under scrutiny and judgement. But it’s not my decision to be here or not to be here.

What can I say? If we want the history of Chelsea, it’s a lot of work to do. We will see if we have time to be in this way.

My feeling that I’m so, so proud that all these guys, all the squad we have, 25-27 players. We want the best for them and until the last day we’re going to try to help them.

Mauricio PochettinoSky Sports

Trevoh Chalobah shines

Chelsea ace Trevoh Chalobah stood out against Tottenham at Stamford Bridbge.

Chalobah was rock solid in defence next to centre-back partner Benoit Badiashile.

The 24-year-old also impressed as he moved forward to midfield.

And the England Under-21’s stunning performance was rewarded with a goal.

Updated Premier League table

Tottenham’s top-four hopes have been dealt a massive blow after their 2-0 loss to Chelsea.

Spurs are still fifth and seven points away from fourth-placed Aston Villa.

The North Londoners still have a game in hand but will also have to face title challengers Liverpool and Manchester City after already losing to Arsenal and the Blues.

The West Londoners, on the other hand, are eighth with only two points separating them from seventh place and Europa Conference League qualification.

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Chelsea vs Tottenham stats

Tottenham dominated 62 per cent of possession but couldn’t produce anything significant.

Spurs registered 19 shots but only three of them were on target.

Chelsea, on the other hand, produced 16 shots but only five them were on target.

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FT: Chelsea 2-0 Tottenham

Chelsea dealt a massive blow to Tottenham’s top-four hopes at Stamford Bridge.

The Blues opened the scoring on 24 minutes when Conor Gallagher’s pinpoint cross from a free-kick down the right found Trevoh Chalobah on the far post who beat Spurs goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario with a stunning header.

The visitors struggled to produce anything significant throughout the match and paid for it in the 72nd minute.

That was when Blues’ star man Cole Palmer delivered a thunderous free-kick that rattled Vicario’s crossbar before Nicolas Jackson picked up the rebound and scored a header of his own.

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Substitution

Chelsea boss Pochettino brings on another youngster for his debut as Tauriainen replaces Jackson.

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Chance

Another wide effort from Tottenham, this time it’s Maddison shot that unlike Bentancur it’s way too powerful.

The ball goes way over the crossbar and all the way to the nosebleed seats.

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Chance

Another shot by Spurs ace Bentancur but just like his first shot it lacks power.

If anything, this one was even weaker…

Tottenham fans are leaving the ground.

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Six minutes of added time to go.

Maddison tries a curling shot that just misses the target but gets a corner-kick after a slight deflection.

Nothing comes off the set-piece.

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Chance

Tottenham sub Bentancut tries a long-range shot but it lacks power and goes straight to Petrovic who picks it up with ease.

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Substitution

Tottenham boss Postecoglou makes another change as Lo Celso comes on for Emerson.

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Substitution

Uh-oh, Gilchrist can’t continue and is replaced by 17-year-old fellow academy graduate Acheampong who is making his senior debut.

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Chelsea youngster Gilchrist is down and receiving attention from the physios.

That is the last thing Pochettino wishes to see amid his growing injury crisis.

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Tottenham boss Postecoglou looks very frustrated down the touchline.

It’s an absolute party at the other end with the home crowd loving every minute of this.

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Just 10 more minutes to go and Tottenham are practically out of ideas.

Spurs have been unable to do something significant throughout the game, a really good performance by Chelsea’s defence and midfield.

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Substitution

Tottenham boss Postecoglou brings on Gil who replaces Johnson.

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Ouch!

Tottenham ace Romero is down after coming together with Casadei for a header.

The two aces clash heads and the Spurs defender gets it worse.

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Substitution

Chelsea boss Pochettino makes his first change as highly-rated youngster Casadei comes on for Mudryk.

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Absolutely stunning by Chelsea!

Palmer takes ona free-kick and delivers a fabulous shot that rattles Vicario’s crossbar.

Jackson follows it up and gets the header to score in front of open goal!