Hugo Lloris - a World Cup winner - set the tone on six minutes with two pieces of goalkeeping that would not have been out of place down the road in Hackney Marshes on a Sunday afternoon.
In that instance, the fan was stabilised and taken to hospital, with the game restarted after a delay of 20 minutes.
All of this, of course, is reliant on Premier League matches going ahead as planned, which is proving extremely difficult to predict as games across the country continue to be postponed amid Covid-19 outbreaks.
Thomas Tuchel believes Callum Hudson-Odoi's decision to turn down a call-up to the England U21 squad is a boost for Chelsea, but has warned the winger he may face consequences over his choice.
Alves is also a financially sound addition for a club that has racked up some eye-watering debts and is finding it difficult to generate funds for big-money transfers.
Origi scored another important goal on Sunday, having also scored a crucial goal to beat Everton in stoppage time in the 2018-19 season
West Ham still retain hopes of finishing in the top four and they will be the visitors to Stamford Bridge on Sunday April 24, live on Sky Sports (kick-off 2pm), and that all-London affair is followed by the Merseyside derby as Liverpool host Everton at 4.30pm as part of a Super Sunday double-header.
As a result, the Catalan club has been forced to start cutting their cloth in the transfer market, including sanctioning the previously unthinkable departure of Lionel Messi to Paris Saint Germain in the summer.
The 35-year-old has signed a three-and-a-half year contract to succeed Paul Cook at the League One club.
The intersection of psychology with tactics and technical ability remains bizarrely under-appreciated. Players are considered to be robots, by and large, while the way we talk about form - from purple patches to dry spells – only ever seems to reference goals and results in a team context.
Injuries to key players including strikers Jack Marriott have depleted their squad, while Jonson Clarke-Harris has scored 11 league goals compared to the 31 that won him last season's League One golden boot.
He made a tremendous effort to get fit for the (Belarus) game and he takes credit for that. Wales take on the world's top-ranked side already guaranteed a World Cup play-off spot in March through their Nations League results.
There is a lot of competition in those areas, with the No 10s, but I think if he gets his chance on the pitch he will show what he can do.
Whenever a new manager is appointed, one of their first pieces of business is to assess the qualities and deficiencies of those they have inherited and put a plan in place that allows said squad to become their own.
West Ham remain the team to catch but the Gunners are now just one point behind their London rivals with two games in hand.
As far as I know the South Americans are on the same page, so good luck with a World Cup like that. I think it will never happen as it is so much against the basic principles of football.
Ella Toone and Katie Zelem have made their England debuts this year, with Mary Earps and Alessia Russo also included in recent squads.
The fact it was the Leith side's first game in almost a month after a Covid outbreak and the international break just heightened the difficulty, and signs of rustiness were clear from the off as Paul Hanlon and Joe Newell were booked inside three minutes.
“We already have a level and we want to set much better standards than we already have. That's how we want to recruit.
Senegal 2-0 Cape Verde - Match report and highlightsHow the teams lined up | Match statsSky Sports to show all AFCON 2021 gamesAFCON fixtures and results | TablesHowever, as Mane celebrated with his team-mates, he collapsed to the ground and then left the field shortly afterwards, complaining of a headache and was taken to hospital.
Our team with a lot of technical players, with a lot offensively behaving and thinking players, for them it is difficult to stay compact for a longer period of time, for the whole game, he said.
We have given it time to look calmly back on. He apologised and is back in the squad for today's training, Tuchel said on Tuesday.
I think it would be better with one game absolutely, but obviously what I say is not too important, he said after making 10 changes for the quarter-final, with three academy players in his starting line-up and five on the bench.
As former Italy international Antonio Cassano once said on Bobo TV, None of his Juve coaches have ever considered him essential, so I wonder if he is really a champion. He doesn't make the difference.
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Barton pointed out that, after the handshake, he had a friendly chat with a Barnsley player about his time playing for the French team Marseille and also the referee, before he headed for the tunnel.
Aston Villa 1-3 Chelsea - Match report and highlightsHow the teams lined up | Match statsThey looked a completely different proposition with him up front and when they can get their best players on the pitch - N'Golo Kante, Lukaku - Chelsea look a much better side.
Saturday at the Euros: Wales in rude healthSky Sports' Euro 2020 podcastWales, though, will be practical and control the controllable.
Having been fit and available for well over a year now, this is the time for Oxlade-Chamberlain to really stand up and be counted, wherever Klopp plugs him in.
How to follow Follow Southampton vs Leicester in our dedicated live match blog. Only Newcastle have faced more shots than Leicester (207) this season.
Penn said: I said to the lads in the changing room after we beat Leamington that we have to believe history can be made one day, so let's hope it could be Saturday.
Gerrard will need to get that part right in order to keep moving in the right direction and keep the Villa fans happy but that is just the next challenge for him, and boy does he love a challenge.
Goal Diggers FC has provided that for Paula, and helped build her confidence at her other football home - the Hamlet.
I've still got visions of Zee being in goal and leaning on the goalpost, waiting for something to happen!
Hinchcliffe: If you're the third coach in a season it clearly can't be all your fault, but I don't think Joey was deliberately trying to [deflect all the blame].
Both sets of supporters were doing their vociferous best to rally their respective troops but there was still no breakthrough heading towards the three-quarter stage of the game.
The fixture was due to start at 14:00 GMT but despite attempts to clear the pitch the game was called off at 13:10.
Sky Bet League Two Forest Green maintained their six-point lead at the top of League Two after a 4-1 victory at Harrogate.
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Stats don't mean anything but when you've got 27 shots you know the boys have given it a good go. We didn't create big chances but we created pressure.
South Korea forward Hwang Ui-jo scored a hat-trick as they thrashed Honduras 6-0, while New Zealand went through after their goalless draw with Romania.
With both sides facing lower league opposition in the FA Cup this weekend, and so both sides almost guaranteed to rest, rotate, and otherwise Besmirch A Once Great Competition, next week's second leg poses an interesting selection problem. Spurs could, in theory, send out a well-rested first team and attempt to smash the tie back into shape. Chelsea could easily do likewise and try to kill the thing off. A teamsheet is never just a list of names. Sometimes it's The Narrative scrawled on the back of an envelope. Other times, it's a short essay on the meaning of the League Cup. We wait in anticipation for Tuchel and Conte to turn in their homework.
As a sporting director at Brentford I had the chance to implement things at a club and look at the whole structure, which helped play a big part in creating the environment in which people were coming to work in every day.
I can't wait to get started and hopefully I'll see you all very soon. Before signing for Brentford, Eriksen had been training in southern Switzerland and stepped up his preparations for a return last week by training with his former side Ajax.
I don't know what else I can do in that situation, I was clearly first to the ball and I cleared the ball.
Our ambitions are to sign the best players we can to try to improve West Ham. I want to make us better, I don't want it to be mediocre if I can help it.
Barker: When you are looking at people to go on and be officials, are you talking to them about what that exposure might mean for their mental health as well?
