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One the players who was involved in Chelsea 3-0 thrashing at the hands of Sheffield United the last time the two teams met at Bramall Lane in the league is Reece James who was not taking anything for granted when Chelsea faced Sheffield United on a cold Sunday evening in South Yorkshire. This time however, Chelsea returned back to London with the desired result and three points to move up to fifth in the premier league table. In the wake of Sunday's victory James spoke about the reaction from the team towards conceding an equaliser in the second half, about the influence of Timo Werner as well as Jorginho's penalty, which proved to be the second winning penalty in the space of four days.  His penalty run-up was that of his previous technique as supposed to the penalty taken against Tottenham, which having missed three penalties earlier this season was taken in a more different and conventional style.  On Jorginho's penalty James said  'He works really hard and practices...

 In his media press conference today ahead of Chelsea's trip to North London to face Tottenham tomorrow, Thomas Tuchel confirmed that two members of the squad would be be a doubt for the game. Tuchel spoke to the press via a videolink, as is custom during these times, and was asked lots of questions about coming up against Jose Mourinho and Tottenham.  He also addressed the recent horrific racist abuse suffered on social media by Reece James, offering his support to the young right back plus providing an update on injuries ahead of Thursday's game. Tuchel said 'we had two little issues on the pitch today.' Both Kurt Zouma and Kai Havertz went of the pitch today with little issues. A check is being carried out now, doing the images right now, so it's questionable whether both will be in the squad for tomorrow's game. Everyone else is available.  Tuchel stresses support for James after horrific racial abuse on social media Reece James has the full backing and supp...

Chelsea issued a statement condemning the racist online abuse suffered by full back Reece James Chelsea have urged social media companies to take more lenient action in order to stamp out racism on their platforms after full back Reece James became the latest victim to be subjected to foul racist abuse. James took to his Instagram profile on Friday evening to show the vile messages he had received , posting in response the message 'No room for RACISM'. Chelsea released a statement condemning the racist abuse suffered on social media by right back Reece James on Friday evening, In a written statement the Chelsea stated 'This club finds all forms of racism and discriminatory behaviour to be unacceptable and we condemn it.' 'In the wider society of sport we must create a social media environment where actions of hate and discrimination towards an individual are unacceptable online as it would be on the street.' 'We will continue to add our voice to the social m...