The Chelsea on Thursday promoted its champions’ league classification hopes with a Premier League victory over the London rivals Tottenham Hotspur in Stamford Bridge.
The second half of the head of Enzo Fernández was decisive at the end, with a goal for each subsequent detached after two long VAR checks that caused more than 100 minutes to play.
As the game was deployed
It had not even passed a full minute when Chelsea hit the post at the first view of the goal. A long ball at the top pulled out the Spurs out of the game, but while Nicolas Jackson was unable to take the ball in his way, an attempt that recovered Micky Van’s attempt from Ven was undone from the Chelsea leader and, fortunately or unfortunately, to the carpentry.
In a quick start for the Blues, many home fans at Stamford Bridge thought that Malo Gusto driving towards the lateral network had fallen inside the post. A combination of Destiny Udogie and Guglielmo Vicario then prevented Enzo Fernandez from converting the Baixa Cross of Cole Palmer.
At half an hour and with the Chelsea continuing to dominate the possibilities, Jackson shot Target after chasing a point hooked forward and overcoming Van Ven.
The Spurs had hardly bothered Chelsea’s goal until the end of the first half when the son Heck-Min defeated Malo Gusto with a step and fired a low cross in the center Robert Sanchez stopped, not exactly security. But the visitors could not take advantage of the loose ball.
At the end of the first 45 years, Jadon Sancho stayed in space in the Far Post, but his curling shot towards the upper corner was experienced by Vicario.
The Spurs goalkeeper made a good, but comfortable, to save palm in the second half, but when Chelsea recycled the ball, there was no new one in Palmer. Her cross perfectly flown was known to Fernández, who had ghost in the box among the defenders.
Moises Caicedo was put into a powerful volley a few moments later, just to see her fell by a marginal outside the accumulation part: the VAR review took four minutes to reach a conclusion, and the technology outside outside the band that arrives at the end of this month cannot arrive here soon enough.
Chelsea’s international equator was soon at the center of another key moment when the Spurs thought they had equalized the place. Caicedo was stripped by Pape Sarr, who proceeded to hit home from a distance, but the side of his house was rightly incensed and the replacements showed a clear lack of Sarr to win the ball. A VAR check discarded the target and also saved Sánchez’s blush, Onlu recently restored to the team after being abandoned, which was beaten too easily.
But, after being embarrassed at that time, Sánchez was redeemed in the last minute of the 90’s with a huge savings to prevent the son from crawling at the end. After the lower cross of Brennan Johnson, Espanyol threw themselves into the goal to get the nearby range shot.
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With eight games to play, Chelsea has shifted Manchester City, Victoriosa on Leicester City 24 hours beforeto the Premier League Four.
The top five are likely to have a place in the champion league next season due to strong English club performances in Europe. But Newcastle United is also in the mix and still has a game in the hand against Crystal Palace yet to play, so every point is not vital.
Only two points separate the Chelsea in fourth, with Newcastle in sixth place. Aston Villa is still only two more points in the seventh place, which makes it very competitive.
The Chelsea has not competed in the Champions League since 2022/23 and returning to the elite stage of Europe is enormous not only for prestige, but also finances.
For the first time in a season of the Premier League, Spurs has lost 16 of its first 30 games, more than half. After a 15th defeat last month, Ange Postecoglou the “unacceptable” tagBut his team has now overcome this to make it its league loss in a season since 2003/04.
This time, Spurs lost 19 times and ended the 14th, the worst of two accounts in a 38 -game campaign. There is still time to combine or even sink below.
This game was also a Unwanted Club memory for Ange PostecoglouBecoming the first chief of Spurs to lose each of its first four encounters with Chelsea.
In the accumulation of this game, Enzo Maresca suggested it Jadon Sancho’s production this season has not been good enough and that the Winger, who is still a regular headline, You need to “shoot more”.
It was generally involved in the attacking game of Chelsea and forced an excellent savings by Guglielmo Vicario at the closing stages of the first half. But it was his only effort in a performance that lasted only 68 minutes and did not have much in the form of a final ball.
Sancho’s future beyond this season is still uncertain. Your Manchester United loan includes the obligation to buy, but Chelsea may leave this by paying a penalty fee of £ 5 million. Even if the Blues take the old England in permanently, they are proposed to sell it anyway, and the rumor has Sancho. Ideally would like to join -Borussia Dortmund for a third spell there.
Nicolas Jackson was back in the Chelsea program for the first time in two months after recovering from a string injury. It is undoubtedly an impulse, considering that the Blues did not have a striker in his absence, but he spent eight Premier League games without being injured and that the drought spread to this departure.
It could have been very different, as a Ricochet avoided him from an attempt at attempt to Spurs, he reached the post in the first minute, while seeking to be beaten from the two opposing central centers, at least in the first half, with the maximum.
But Jackson is stuck to nine goals from the campaign league and will not help its cause, as Chelsea is very much in the market for a new “new number” this summer.
There was only one goal in the final line, but in fact Chelsea’s performance would have justified a larger margin of victory.
Tottenham’s equalization was against the play play, and the important late savings of Robert Sanchez, the visitors never seemed to score.
Against his former club, Dominic Solanke was famous for service. Its 21 touches of the ball were the few of any field player to complete the full game and only one was in the Chelsea box.
It was not a classic of all time and was certainly reduced to the battle of the bridge with a burning temperament in 2016, but there was still an element of Derby Spice that ensured that the game had an advantage.
Cristian Romero and Trevoh Chalobah were reserved at the stoppage of the first half and a few other hard challenges and other possible Flash points threatened to boil at various times.
Pape Sarr and Moises Caicedo had a little verbal exchange and a verbal exchange only before the equalizer of the previous one was ruled out for a lack of the second.
In a world where world -class professional football can reach the vanilla, it was refreshing to see the grana and the existing character in it.
