{"id":5966,"date":"2026-09-24T17:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=5966"},"modified":"2026-09-24T17:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:43:11","slug":"jamie-vardy-names-the-chelsea-player-who-was-harder-to-play-against-than-ngolo-kante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=5966","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Vardy names the Chelsea player who was harder to play against than N’golo Kante"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Premier League winner Jamie Vardy had a number of fierce battles in his 23 matches against Chelsea, and didn\u2019t hesitate to name the player who was toughest to play against.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vardy would only end up scoring four goals against Chelsea, and wouldn\u2019t find the net in any meetings after 2018 as the Blues started to dominate that rivalry.<\/p>\n

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Chelsea started to turn the tide when they signed N\u2019golo Kante, who Vardy frequently speaks highly of following their time playing together for the 2015\/16 Leicester City side which won the league.<\/p>\n

However, he didn\u2019t name the Frenchman as his toughest opponent when facing against Chelsea, instead selecting former Blues striker Diego Costa as the hardest player he faced at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n

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He told \u2018Jamie Vardy\u2019s Having a Party\u2019: \u201cCosta. Yeah, it was that game I spoke about, I tracked back a bit, slid in, got the ball and got him. Turned to the ref and said \u2018I got the ball,\u2019 and he\u2019s gone steaming in, squaring up and I\u2019m barking at him, barking at him like a dog. He just didn\u2019t move, I was like \u2018happy days\u2019 took a yellow and off I popped.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou speak to all speak to all the players that that were with especially that year like Wes Morgan always said he was he was like hard, but he was constantly winding him up moaning but again it\u2019s just I think that\u2019s his way of trying to get everything across just to take an advantage if he can get someone to react.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vardy is a big fan of the current Chelsea attack, saying already that he would love to play alongside Cole Palmer and Morgan Rogers due to the amount of chances they create for the striker.<\/p>\n

It is perhaps even more impressive looking back on Costa\u2019s tenure at Stamford Bridge when you take into account the relationship he had with manager Antonio Conte at the time. Costa refuses to say anything positive about Conte when looking back at his time at Chelsea, after he was forced out of the club after just a few seasons in West London.<\/p>\n

The Spain international would face Leicester on six occasions, scoring twice and never ending up on the losing side despite Chelsea\u2019s inconsistent form.<\/p>\n

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