By Stamford Bridge-Marc Cucurella’s strike in the second half, Chelsea scored a narrow 1-0 victory in Leicester City on Sunday afternoon.
The hosts held a clean sheet, achieved a third win in a row and moved into the top 4 over the reigning champion Manchester City, but their faulty display had a hollow feeling.
Leicester is not encouraged exactly by dragging Chelsea to its level and staying six points of security at the foot of the Premier League table.
How the game unfolds
The conditions in Stamford Bridge were perfect. An aqueous spring sun that sprayed across the field storms the edge of the typical cold of March, but a flowing football game tried to break out. Less than two minutes had passed before there was the first of a crazy number of intermediate stops.
Luke Thomas made it awkward to get involved Cole Palmer without further punishment, but his teammate Victor Kristansen was not so happy and clearly stumbled Jadon Sancho on the right side of the penalty area in the middle of the first half. Palmer, usually a picture of infallible serenity from 12 meters, had his low efforts by Mads Hermansen past the position.
From the refusal of her hosts – and a particularly loud end – forced the ball to the bar within five minutes after the penalty. Patson Daka’s forward thrust chaos in the Chelsea backline – a feeling of the uncomfortable goalkeeper Robert Sanchez was too quickly strengthened by going wildly past Dakas Kreis canoned. Levi Colwill just defeated Jamie Vardy as a rebound.
The match was late in a pattern made of sterile Chelsea possession in front of Leicester’s vague organized defensive. At the hour it took a crispy skidder from Cucurella and let the ball bubble between the legs of the Wout Faes and the lower corner to break the dead end.
Chelsea, led by an out-of-sorts Palmer, swiveled and swiveled without finding a nerve-wracking second place. Ultimately, Palmer remained with more than 15 minutes – his earliest substitution since September – to complete a different stubborn performance.
On a team that collapsed in 19th place and without gate in more than 400 minutes of the Premier League football, he still conspired so as not to see the victory.
After six games, eight weeks and 25 shots without a goal, Palmer received a punishment to end the longest drought of his career. In another undesirable milestone, the increasingly curved playmaker saw his spot -kick saved.
Palmer had converted his first 12 top penalties and exceeded Yaya Toures Premier League record before Mads Hermansen was successful, where ten other goalkeepers had failed.
There were the typical delays of Leicester’s dispute players, and even the referee questioned Palmer’s positioning of the ball on site and added more dead air to a frustrating start start competition. However, these stops did not disturb Palmer’s routine – he none.
When he was asked about his trial, the 22-year-old shrugged: “I simply put the ball on the spot, step back and shoot.” Maybe it’s time for a vague appearance of the preparation.
In the middle of the first half there was a damn game passage when three different, collective groaned in less than a few minutes from the Stamford Bridge when a trio from Chelsea players set their own chance of an outlier. Wesley Fofana’s delay in particular was as powerful as if an invisible handbrake had been pulled. There was no doubt that Maresca’s fingerprints would have been under control.
The primary object of a Maresca team is patient how Leicester fans learned when he won the Premier League under the Italian coach last season. “If you attack quickly, you will admit a quick attack,” said the Blues boss this season. “It is not our idea, it’s not our football.”
However, this was exactly the kind of football that defined the quick start of Chelsea in the campaign. Palmer repeatedly fed Nicolas Jackson’s striker when a troop that was littered with brisk foot wings, the best of his strengths. Jackson’s persistent absence undoubtedly contributed to the numerous pace, but Maresca has made no secret about his desire for measured construction game.
The Pep Guardiola student could argue that Chelsea’s opener comes from a familiar episode of the stroke of the ball (and not in) Leicester’s criminal box. But to leave the long-term accuracy of Cucurella-a defender, the last and only league gate from outside the plate for Getafe for Gestafe four and a half years ago-was not a reproducible way to success.
There was a feeling of tiredness in Van Nistelroy’s voice when he thinks about the “Long Week” that Leicester had to prepare for the game on Sunday. Apart from the fact that the Dutch boss had twisted these ten days with the 2-0 defeat against West Ham with a 2-0 defeat against West Ham, he tried a tactical tup.
For the first time since Van Nistelroy’s appointment in November, Leicester set up her confidante 4-2-3-1 setup to put back a back three. The natural left -back Luke Thomas was drawn in addition to a returning Conor Coady and Wout Faes. The 23-year-old started only at his third season start of the season and recorded almost a penalty in the first 100 seconds.
It is crucial that nobody was expelled from the newly looking backline and the underbetten midfield to close Cucurella when he rattled in the opening goal. Leicester Waiting for a clean sleee sheet is now five months and counts.
A storm in a teacup has nothing in relation to Wesley Fofana’s injuries in relation to unnecessary deterioration. Maresca claimed that the French defender “could not be in the season” with a thigh injury he had suffered in December, but Fofana went to social media in order to fully (and unnecessarily) undermined his manager. Maresca then had to make it clear that his central defender would be available again in “12 to 16 weeks”.
Exactly 14 weeks since his last appearance, but decisively two months before the end of the season Fofana was again in the starting line -up against his former employers. Fofana sat down as a right -back who stuck the Infield when the blues had the ball, and looked very much like a player who replaced the rust from a long release.
Despite a performance with moments of indecisiveness, Fofana was spoiled with standing ovation when he was still intact at 20 minutes to play.
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