From Craven Cottage: A couple of goals in the final six minutes commissioned Fulham to a 2-1 defeat against Chelsea in front of a crowd of house dazed and deflated on Easter Sunday.
Alex Iwobi’s initial opening offered the hosts a well -deserved lead they had until Tyrique George’s snapshot in the 84th minute. Pedro Neto made sure that the Blues took the three points with them again on the Fulham road with a sumptuous one from the top of the box.
The victory increases the Chelsea in the first five places, making a nottingham forest out of the Champions league Places before traveling to Tottenham Hotspur on Monday night.
As the game was deployed
Fulham has worked under a complex of inferiority for decades when it is its neighbors in West London. While West London’s white half has never won a major trophy, his blue counterparts have raised all the platforms available this century.
Still, after Finishing a 45 -year wait To get a victory at Stamford Bridge on boxing day, there was a growing sense that Cottagers could complete their first double league on Chelsea. This made the defeat, in such a concussive circumstances, more bitter.
Andreas Pereira had the ball in the Chelsea network within the opening three minutes only to be denied by an off -play flag. After 20 minutes, there was no hunter at the opening of Alex Iwobi. Ryan Sessegnon saw a Reece James, stealing the Chelsea The captain of the ball and raised his opposite end for a crunchy finish in the lower corner.
Chelsea probably had its stronger XI and a fleet of substitutions that offered options on the pitch. Even Romeo Lavia, barely, had left the Club’s treatment room long enough to make the bench in Craven Cottage. FulhamOn the contrary, they were not without signing Club Emile Smith Rowe and the top scorer of this season of Open Play, Rodrigo Muniz.
Substitutions would swing an increasingly defined game by fatigue. Worn by immense physical effort during opening time, gradually, if unconsciously, approached his own goal. George exploded the level of blues with a turn of hips of the penalty box in what turned out to be an almost mirror image of Neto winner.
The Portuguese striker was put inside the Fulham box before the shot on the roof of the network collided. Bernd Leno had barely moved when the ball already whistled under its crossbar.
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Chelsea was the side of half the time to prepare, but it was Fulham for those who seemed to be decreasing in the closing stages. Raul Jimenez had assured that Muniz did not miss, and enjoyed each physical battle with the two central Chesea centers during the best part of an hour, but had stopped challenging Levi Colwill and Trevoh Chalobah on the final launches of the game, stealing his side of a single ball. When Jiménez was stuck, Fulham’s leadership had already evaporated.
A figure that did not look too much was Sasa Lukic. Fulham’s combative midfielder had snatched Cole Palmer completely out of the contest before being strangely withdrawn with 20 minutes to play. His replacement, Tom Cairney, did not win a single attack. It is little surprise that the two goals of the Chelsea came from the area on the edge of the box that Lukic had patrolled with this authority.
James has cut a frustrated figure until the end. It The team’s defeat In fifth place of the Polish flight, he did not raise exactly anyone’s spirits, but Chelsea’s pattern has been bewildered on a midfield paper unknown during this form in shape.
Without ever expressing any contempt for tactical change, James remained timely neutral. “I do not decide where I play,” the natural defender spoiled last month. “It’s the manager and the rest is to us.” Sunday’s derby was the first game of the club that saw James nominated as a right position since the first weekend of February. But in fact, it spent a lot of time in the midfield.
Instead of scamming the flank to offer Noni Madueke such a necessary support, James stood next to Moises Caicedo when the blues had the ball to form the base of a midfield field behind Palmer and Fernandez. After years past right, where the whole game is in front of you, James did not have the experience of constantly reviewing his wing mirror when Sessegnon was collected by the party’s goal.
James was constantly trapped between two papers and did not fulfill either. In a way, there was a slice of mercy to the ignominy of its replacement at half time.
After a week dedicated to fighting a riot, Maresca can take comfort from the return of his side to the first five places. Forest could return to that quintet linked to the Champions League with a Spurs victory on Monday, but the Blues are just a point in Manchester City and two behind Newcastle United with five remaining games.
However, Chelsea has been affected by an involved collision. The Maresca side is welcome to the elected champions Liverpool at Stamford Bridge, travel to the intimidating Newcastle House of St James Park before a comodine contest against Manchester United. The campaign concludes with what can be very good to be a direct shooting for the European rating at Nottingham Forest Ground.
