From Stamford Bridge-La Second half of Marc Cucurella won Chelsea a narrow victory by 1-0 at his home in Leicester City on Sunday afternoon.
The hosts kept a clean sheet, won a third consecutive victory, and moved over the Manchester City’s reigning champions in the first four places, but there was an empty feeling on their screen.
Leicester will not see exactly encouraged by dragging Chelsea to its level and will remain six points on foot safety Premier League Table.
As the game was deployed
The conditions were perfect at the Stamford bridge. A single spring salty that was through the pitch bewildered the edge of the typical cold, but a fluid football game struggled to explode. Less than two minutes had passed before the first number of stops.
Luke Thomas managed to wrap with Cole Palmer and escaped without punishment but his teammate Victor Kristansen wasn’t as lucky, of course Jadon Sancho On the right side of the penalty surface in the middle of the first half. Palmer, usually an image of unmatched composition from 12 meters, had a low effort ahead of the publication of Mads Hermansen.
BOOK FOR THE PROFESSION OF YOUR HERTS AND A PARTICULAR DISTANCE END – Leicester forced the ball to the bar in five minutes after the penalty. Patson Daka’s roller coat led to Chaos on the bottom line of the Chelsea: the feeling of twisting the goalkeeper returned Robert Sanchez was too fast to amplify with the Daka cross vault, which changed the Tosin Adarabiayo and the bar. Levi Colwill only beat Jamie Vardy on the rebound.
The party settled late in a sterile pattern Chelsea Strictly possession in the face of the vaguely organized defensive background of Leicester. It took a crunching hand from Cucurella to the time mark, sending the ball that was mixed between the legs of Wout and the lower corner, to break the deadline.
The Chelsea, directed by a palmer outside the strong, was ruined and frightened without finding a second nervous one. Palmer was finally raised with more than 15 minutes, his first replacement since September, to conclude another disadvantaged performance.
Chelsea still conspired against 19th place and without a goal in more than 400 minutes of Premier League football, Chelsea still conspired to see the victory in a rarely convincing way.
After six games, eight weeks and 25 goals without a goal, Palmer received a penalty to end the longest drought in his career. In another unwanted milestone, the game player is increasingly ruined saved his point.
Palmer had turned his first 12 flight penalties, overcoming The Record of the Premier League of Yaya ToureBefore Mads Hermansen succeeded where other goalkeepers had failed.
There were the typical delays of Leicester’s Bickering players and even the referee questioned the positioning of the Palmer ball to the site, adding a more dead air to a frustrating contest. However, these stops did not alter the routine of Palmer, but not proudly.
When he previously asked about his process, the 22 -year -old spoiled, “I only put the ball in the place, he stepped back and shoot.” Maybe it’s time for a strike similar to preparation.
There was a damn play passage in the middle of the first half, when three different and collective moans left the Stamford bridge in less than a couple of minutes, while a trio of Chelsea players stopped their own chance of breaking. Wesley fofana’s slowdown, in particular, was so forceful that it was as if an invisible hand brake had been removed. There was no doubt that the fingerprints of Maresca would have been on the handle.
When Leicester fans learned while winning promotion to Premier League Under the Italian coach last season, the main object of any team of Maresca is patience. “If you quickly attack, you will grant a quick attack,” said Blues’s head this season. “It’s not our idea, it’s not our football.”
However, this was exactly the type of football that defined the quick start of Chelsea in the campaign. Palmer repeatedly fed Nicolas Jackson’s striker as a fleet fleet that he took advantage of his strengths. The continued absence of Jackson He has undoubtedly contributed to the marked pace, but Maresca has not made a secret about his measured play.
Pep Guardiola’s disciple may argue that Chelsea’s opening came from a family sequence of hitting the ball around (rather than) from Leicester’s penalty box. But relying on the long -range accuracy of Cucurella, a defender who the last and only goal in the league outside the box was for Getafe four and a half years ago, it is not exactly a reproducible route to success.
There was a feeling of tiredness in Van Nistelrooy’s voice when he reflected on the “long week” Leicester had to prepare for Sunday’s game. Apart from being guided by the defeat 2-0 desperately disappointed in West Ham for the last time, the Dutch head used those ten days to try to late a tactical retouching.
For the first time since Van Nistelrooy’s appointment in November, Leicester left his family-owned family 4-2-3-1 to deploy a three. Luke Thomas, a left natural, was written next to a Conor Coady and Wout Fae. Starting only his third first flight of the season, the 23 -year -old was almost a penalty during the 100 seconds of the inauguration, and spent the remaining 90 minutes, loading quickly in the middle of the field with a lot of punches, but not much purpose or precision.
No one, from the bottom line and the poorly equipped midfielder, rushed to close Cucurella while sounding at the initial goal. Leicester hopes that a clean flight sheet of first place will be at the age of five months and counts.
A storm in a cup has nothing on Wesley Fofana injuries in terms of unnecessary aggravation. Demanded marsh That the French defender “could be out of the season” with a rope injury he suffered in December, but Fofana brought on social media to completely undermine (and unnecessarily) his manager. Marsque was then obliged to clarify that your center-back would be available again in “12 to 16 weeks”.
Exactly 14 weeks since its last appearance, but crucially two months before the conclusion of the season, Fofana returned to the initial list against its former businessmen. Aligning like a behind the right that was ready when the Blues had the ball, Fofana looked very like a player shaking the yolk from a long dismissal.
Despite a performance with moments of indecision, Fofana was attended to a permanent ovation when he was subjected, still intact, with 20 minutes to play.
Check the classifications of Chelsea 1-0 players at Leicester at the Premier League.
