On Sunday afternoon, the Stamford-Sarajk Bridge earned Chelsea a narrow 1-0 victory at home in Leicester City.
The hosts held a clean list, earned their third victory and crossed over the ruling Manchester City champions in the top Four, but there was a hollow sense of their screen on the screen.
Leicester will not really use Chelsea to their level and remain six points during safety at the base Table.
How the game took place
The conditions were perfect on Stamford Bridge. The water spring sun jerked over the course, overturned the edge of the typical cold of March, but the current football game struggled to break out. Less than two minutes passed before the first crazy stop number occurred.
Luke Thomas managed to clumsily get stuck with Cole Palmer and escape without further punishment, but his teammate Victor Kristansen was not that happy, he obviously stumbled Jadon Sancho On the right side of the penalty area in the middle of the first half. Palmer, usually a picture of an unwavering calm from 12 meters, had a little effort that Mads Hermansen had passed in place.
Posted because of the profitability of their hosts – and especially vocal guest appearance – Leicester forced the ball to the bar within five minutes of the sentence. The attacker Patson Daka caused chaos in the background of Chelsea – the feeling of uneasy return goalkeeper Robert Sanchez was too fast enhanced by a wild diving next to Daka’s Cross, who pulled Tosin adarabioyo and at least. Levi Colwill just beat Jamie Vardy for a jump.
The match is late in the sterile form Chelsea Possession strictly in front of Leicester’s vaguely organized defense guard. He should have gripped Skidder sharply from Cucurella for an hour, sending a ball that broke between Wout Faes’ legs and in the lower corner to break the stack.
Chelsea, led by Palmer outside the variety, was crossed and blew without finding a second to place the nerves. Palmer eventually took off more than 15 minutes – his earliest replacement since September – to conclude another appearance.
Opposite the side lowered in 19th place and without a goal in more than 400 minutes of the Premier League football, Chelsea continued to see unconvincingly to see the victory.
After six games, eight weeks and 25 shots without a goal, Palmer was handed a penalty to end the longest drought in his career. In another unwanted turning point, more and more hoarse Playmaker saw him saved his video.
Palmer turned his first 12 criminal punishment, surpassing The Yaya Toure’s Premier League RecordBefore Mads Hermansen succeeded where there was more goalkeepers.
There were typical delays from Leicester’s arguing players, and even the referee brought into question Palmer’s position of the ball on the spot, adding more dead air to the frustrating stopping of the competition. Still, these stops did not disturb the Palmer’s routine – there is no proud.
Asked about his process, the 22-year-old shrugged, “I just put the ball down, stepped down and shot.” Maybe time for some vague illusion of preparation.
There was a damn passage of playing in the middle of the first half when three different, collective moaning penetrated Stamford Bridge in less than a few minutes, while the Chelsea player trio stopped his own chance of breakthrough. The special slowdown of Wesley Fofan was so strong that it was as if the invisible brake had been withdrawn. There was no doubt that Mareci’s fingerprints would be on the handle.
As Leicester fans learned as they won the promotion in Premier league Under the Italian coach last season, the primary subject of any Maresca team is patience. “If you attack quickly, you will give a quick attack,” explained Blues boss this season. “It’s not our idea, it’s not our football.”
Still, it was just the type of football that defined the rapid start of Chelsea campaign. Palmer has repeatedly nourished Nicolas Nicolas Nicolas cracking while the team is covered with wings with a fleet greater than his forces. Jackson’s constant absence He undoubtedly contributed to the voter pace, but Maresca is not secret for his desire for a measured game.
Pupil Pep Guardiola can claim that the Chelsea opener has arisen from the famous sequence of caressing of the ball (not in) the criminal box of Leicester. But to rely on the long-term accuracy of the Cucurella-Branič, whose last and only league goal outside the box was for Getafe four and a half years ago-not a very repeatable path to success.
In Nonelroooy’s voice there was a sense of wear when he was thinking about the “Long Week” Leicester had to prepare for a Sunday game. In addition to swallowing a desperately disappointing 2-0 defeat of West Ham, the Dutch boss, he used in those ten days late that he tried to tactic tweak.
For the first time since Van Nisklroooy’s appointment in November, Leicester rejected his famous 4-2-3-1 settings to implement three. Natural Left Bek Luke Thomas drew together with the return of Conor Coady and Wout Faes. Making only his third top start to the season, the 23-year-old almost gave a penalty in an introductory 100 seconds, and the remaining 90 minutes had a hurry around the middle of the terrain with a lot of blows, but not much purpose or precision.
Most importantly, no one, out of a new look and a susceptible midfielder, rushed to close Cucurella as he ran in the initial goal. Leicester’s waiting on top -notch clean sheet now lasts five months and counts.
The tea storm has nothing to update the Wesley Fofan injury in terms of unnecessary exacerbation. Maresca claimed For a French defender “could be out of season” with an injury to the lower leg he received in December, but Fofana completely (and unnecessarily) undermined his manager on social networks. Maresca was then Forced to clarify that his central back will be available in “12 to 16 weeks”.
Exactly 14 weeks of his last appearance, but crucial two months before the conclusion of the season, Fofana returned to the starting lineup against his former employers. Owning like a right back, which slipped on the field when the blues had a ball, Fofana looked very similar to a player who had shaken rust from long -term dismissal.
Despite the performance full of moments of indecisiveness, the fophane was treated with standing ovation when he was insidious, still intact, with 20 minutes of play.
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