Chelsea FC 2-2 Tottenham: 5 things we learned

By Yves Binda | May 3, 2016

Chelsea players celebrates after Chelsea's Belgian midfielder Eden Hazard scored their second goal during the English Premier League football match between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge in London on May 2, 2016. / AFP / GLYN KIRK / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 75 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. / (Photo credit should read GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty Images) /

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Chelsea’s Belgian midfielder Eden Hazard (R) celebrates scoring the 2-2 equalising goal during the English Premier League football match between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge in London on May 2, 2016. / AFP / GLYN KIRK / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or ‘live’ services. Online in-match use limited to 75 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. / (Photo credit should read GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty Images) /

It’s often said that if you want to climb a high fence that you should start by throwing your hat on the other side of it. The concept of this idiom, of course, rests upon on rather dodgy logic that assumes that you care enough about that silly fedora to hoist yourself over to get it back.

When Cesc Fabregas and Eden Hazard went public with their desire to stop Harry Kane and his pack of ‘hunting lions’ in their pursuit of fairytale Leicester City (thereby assuring the Foxes’ the Premier League title) I honestly thought the pair of them were having a laugh. But now it’s obvious that they had thrown over something of great value to them, and were determined to get it back.

Here are 5 things we learned from Chelsea’s 2-2 thriller against Tottenham.

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Chelsea FC and Tottenham Hotspur went to battle in an absolute thriller on Monday evening. Here are five things we learned from the highly-charged affair.