Chelsea v Tottenham: Premier League – live

Key events3m agoGOAL! Chelsea 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Penders og 77)50m agoHALF TIME: Chelsea 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur3h agoThe teams3h agoPreambleScott MurraySat 24 Oct 2026 14.07 EDTFirst published on Sat 24 Oct 2026 11.15 EDTShareKey events3m agoGOAL! Chelsea 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Penders og 77)50m agoHALF TIME: Chelsea 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur3h agoThe teams3h agoPreamble52s ago14.07 EDT79 min: Neto is booked for dragging back an in-flight Porro.

2m ago14.06 EDT78 min: That’s an absolute nightmare for the full debutant Penders, who is livid at his own mistake. He was under pressure from Van Hecke … but not that much pressure. A total howler, and Spurs have the lead their overall play this evening deserves! Can they hold on for only their second Premier League win here in 36 years?

3m ago14.05 EDTGOAL! Chelsea 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Penders og 77)The corner’s swung in from the left by Fernandes. Penders comes off his line to punch … but under pressure from Van Hecke, slice-punches backwards and into his own net!

4m ago14.03 EDT76 min: Fernandes shoots; the shot’s deflected wide left for a corner. And from the set piece …

5m ago14.03 EDT75 min: De Zerbi has been booked, by the way, presumably for having his say over the reluctance of the referee to send Palmer off for a fairly brazen aggressive act.

6m ago14.01 EDT74 min: Estevao comes on for Quenda, and wastes little time in advancing down the right before ripping the side netting. “There’s a slightly old fashioned feel to this match I think, in keeping with the earlier Kinks reference,” writes Simon McMahon. “‘I like my football on a Saturday, roast beef on Sunday, all right.’ I might watch an episode of The Likely Lads later. Pint of mild, anyone?”

7m ago14.00 EDT72 min: Fernandes is booked for the deliberate handball, Palmer for the barge. Palmer is extremely fortunate not to be sent off for his needlessly aggressive barge on the prone Fernandes. Hip on head. England internationals always seem to get away with a little bit more. He should have been sent off.

9m ago13.59 EDT70 min: Kudus from the right this time. Solanke thinks about a bicycle kick, but opts out. Chelsea break down the right, Fernandes falling over and reaching out for the ball. Palmer comes back at him and, with Fernandes now on his knees, barges him back to the turf. That’s a really poor reaction.

Updated at 14.01 EDT12m ago13.56 EDT69 min: Porro crosses deep from the right. Tel was free at the far stick, but the delivery is all wrong. Goal kick.

14m ago13.54 EDT67 min: … and now Gallagher cops more abuse, for grabbing at Rogers and earning the first yellow card of the evening.

14m ago13.53 EDT66 min: Gallagher sends a pea-roller through to Penders, causing some mild amusement among his old fans in the stand.

15m ago13.53 EDT65 min: Chelsea replace Hato with Palestra, while Spurs send on Porro and Solanke for Robertson and the ineffective Marmoush.

17m ago13.51 EDT64 min: Sky Sports are reporting that Maddison has a groin problem, rather than a recurrence of his knee issue. Small mercies.

18m ago13.50 EDT62 min: Van de Ven makes up for his role in the Chelsea attack by powering a header clear.

18m ago13.49 EDT61 min: Fernandes’s poor pass back to Van de Ven is snaffled by Neto, who combines with Palmer and shoots towards the bottom right. Kinsky saves. Corner to come.

21m ago13.47 EDT59 min: Rogers and Palmer threaten to combine down the left, but Fernandes comes across to disrupt, eventually shepherding the ball out for a goal kick. The visitors in control again … but still there’s been no reward.

23m ago13.44 EDT57 min: … Kudus clears everyone in the box with a godawful delivery. Still, Spurs have taken up in the second half where they left off in the first, playing most of the football.

24m ago13.43 EDT56 min: Kudus probes down the right and wins a Spurs corner. From which …

25m ago13.42 EDT54 min: On the touchline, Roberto De Zerbi blows his cheeks out in frustration as his main creative source limps off. But the show must go on. Tel wins a corner down the left, from which nothing comes. Penders makes a meal of claiming it, but does so eventually.

28m ago13.40 EDT52 min: Maddison gets up and trudges off. Fingers crossed that’s not his troublesome knee playing up again. Hopefully everyone is simply taking every precaution given his injury history. But the poor man is so deflated. Gallagher, formerly of this parish, comes on in his place, to a mixed reception.

Updated at 13.48 EDT30m ago13.37 EDT50 min: Aw man, this is hard to watch: Maddison, who has had so many injury problems, goes down and doesn’t get back up. A look of utter dejection on his face. He can’t continue.

31m ago13.36 EDT48 min: Palmer advances down the right and goes over as he reaches the edge of the box. He wants a penalty, but there wasn’t any contact with the chasing Fernandes.

32m ago13.35 EDT47 min: Chelsea have got a new sleeve sponsor tonight, by the way: Sokin. That seems a bit on the nose given the weather.

34m ago13.33 EDT46 min: Chelsea are attacking the Shed end now. Spurs facing the Matthew Harding.

35m ago13.32 EDTSpurs get the second half started. No changes. “Is there any rational explanation for the fact that these two teams have spent literally billions between them and yet are unable or unwilling to play someone at centre forward?” asks Stephen McCrossan, deploying rhetorical techniques I’ll be bound. “I mean I realise Joao Pedro is crocked but come on.”

44m ago13.23 EDTThere have already been three other Premier League matches today. Reports: we got ‘em.

46m ago13.21 EDTHalf-time postbag. “Are Spurs capable of the final ball? I can’t tell. And apparently Tel can’t either’ – Allan Castle

“Chelsea’s set-piece coach seems to like a gimmick. I’m hoping for a ‘fake tying my bootlace’ routine or a leapfrog multiple run-up ploy. But I quite like their tactic of defending corners with multiple players on the half-way line. Any team with shorter players who are bad at heading should copy it” – Andrew Goudie

“De Zerbi and Alonso are both soaked to the bone. It’s almost as if they’re using a Carrick brolly. You know, the kind that protects others but not yourself” – Peter Oh

50m ago13.17 EDTHALF TIME: Chelsea 0-0 Tottenham HotspurIt’s hard to know who’ll be happier with that. Spurs have been the better side, but they’ve not scored when on top. Chelsea haven’t been good, but the weight of history remains on their side.

51m ago13.16 EDT45 min: There will be no additional time. It’s almost as though the referee has been dreaming of hot fluffy towels.

53m ago13.15 EDT43 min: Hato slips a free kick down the Chelsea left for Neto, whose shot-cum-cross is snaffled easily enough by Kinsky. Both teams could do with the half-time whistle and a chance to reset.

55m ago13.12 EDT41 min: Henderson doesn’t beat the first man, his old Liverpool mucker Robertson.

1h ago13.11 EDT40 min: Caicedo snaffles a loose Van de Van upfield pass and sends Chelsea on the attack down the right, Rogers winning a corner. Henderson comes over to take …

1h ago13.10 EDT39 min: The xG so far: Chelsea 0.15, Spurs 0.34. Goalless seems about right, then.

1h ago13.08 EDT37 min: Palmer releases Rogers into the box on the left. Kinsky parries the low drive. Again the flag pops up for offside. Spurs now threatening to concede, having spent so long in the ascendency without reward. A story as old as time.

1h ago13.07 EDT36 min: Kinsky’s awful pass out is intercepted by Neto, who tees up Henderson on the edge of the box. Henderson aims for the bottom right. Kinsky redeems himself with a fine save, then kicks away Neto’s attempt from a tight angle on the right. The flag pops up for offside.

1h ago13.05 EDT34 min: The Stamford Bridge faithful are muttering pensively. Their side have been broadly awful. “That Marmoush effort should put a cap on the weekly promising first thirty minutes from Tottenham,” argues Sean Orlowicz. “Chelsea coast to a 2-0 win from here.”

1h ago13.04 EDT32 min: Marmoush barges his way down the middle, having spun Lacroix with absurd ease. He slips in Tel, whose shot from an angle on the left is smothered by Penders. The flag goes up for offside anyway. Chelsea are being given the runaround at present. SPurs need to score when they’re so much on top.

Updated at 13.09 EDT1h ago13.02 EDT31 min: Tel drives at Acheampong yet again. Acheampong looks around anxiously for support that doesn’t arrive. Tel reaches the box and finds Kudus on the underlap. Kudus squirts a shot from a tight angle straight into the hands of Penders.

1h ago13.01 EDT30 min: Spurs should be leading. Robertson barrels down the left like it’s 2018 again. He one-twos with Tel, then cuts back for Marmoush, free on the penalty spot. Marmoush slams his shot straight at Penders, who should never be given the chance to make the save he makes. What a miss. What a run by Robertson, whose legs haven’t gone quite yet!

1h ago12.59 EDT28 min: Robertson sends a speculative ball down the inside-left channel. Penders comes out of his box to clear, and does so, but not in a particularly convincing style, nearly slapping the ball into the path of Marmoush.