Chelsea was fourth on Monday evening at the Premier League table with a highly competitive 2-2 win against West Ham United.
The former Chelsea manager Graham Potter searched for Revenge when he returned to Stamford Bridge and his West Ham team was in a command position during the half-time break after Jarrod Bowen’s clinical strike offered them.
But Fortune preferred the blues after the break when Pedro Neto equalized before Aaron Wan-Bissaka’s own goal Chelsea presented a decisive victory in persecution of the Champions League qualification.
How the game unfolds
On the day of the transmission period in the background, both sides turned their attention to the campaign on the field on Stamford Bridge. The enemy supporters of West Ham were in a good voice for their trip through the capital, but were almost silent in the 15th minute when Noni Madueke left a shot on the post.
Chelsea had won only one of her previous seven Premier League games and had an impact on the team in the opening phase. They could not test Areola and struggled to struggle their things when Enzo Fernandez rolled a rare opportunity on the half -hour brand.
The blues were punished just three minutes before the half -time pipe for their uninspiring start when Bowen, who appeared for the first time after an injury, benefited on Levi Colwill’s short back pass. West Ham’s returning Talisman raced onto the loose ball and ruthlessly shot a low ride beyond Filip Jorgensen.
Admittedly, the lethargic hosts seemed to be almost a quick compensation in the dying embers of the first half and a moment of the magic of Cole Palmer. One centimeter of free kick drove into the upper corner before an extraordinary rescue from Areola failed under the crossbar.
The domestic believers became more and more frustrated with Chelsea’s lack of invention, but smiled for 25 minutes when the host compensated. Neto shot up close to the level after a scramble in the area was not unnoticed, since West Ham was of the opinion that they should have received a free kick under construction. A lengthy VAR check for offside could not save the iron.
The re-spoiled Stamford Bridge believers were on their feet just ten minutes later when Chelsea completed their comeback. The Talisman Palmer was the heart of his second evening goal, and his cross took a huge distraction of Wan-Bissaka before pushed himself into the back corner.
The spirits were not surprisingly increased after Chelsea took the lead and the home team in the final phase exercised the continuous pressure on the West Ham goal. Areola was forced to rescue an impressive reflex rescue before whistling Palmer’s strike from the edge of the penalty area past his post.
The Hammers occasionally expanded their muscles on the counterattack in the dying embers, and Chelsea needed an inspired challenge in the last exception of Tosin Adarabioo in the interruption to capture three important points.
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Well, it was not particularly nice for Chelsea on the Stamford Bridge, but they will hardly be interested in after an enormous victory. After the Blues Newcastle United and Manchester City hit the weekend, victory knew that they would skip their top 4 enemies.
While the hosts were a way from their best and a shadow of the team that we used to see in the season, everything was about the result on Monday evening. They needed more than a small fortune to get in the way, but the persistence paid off against a reconcilable and spirited West Ham side.
After the year for victories, this fought for victories – only in all competitions – and his players will sleep well and know that they have fully exploited the slips of their rivals.
The victory on Monday could prove decisively in May.
Although Chelsea scored 22 shots on the Stamford Bridge and scored twice, Chelsea only forced Chelsea three times in parades. Despite their territorial dominance, they have fake an XG balance of only 1.37 – just a little more than West Hams 1.16.
During the majority of the evening, they looked alarmingly toothless. Nicolas Jackson fed from scrap in the second half before his early exit, while Madueke and Jadon Sancho were suppressed in wide areas. Even Palmer was the best under his electrifying.
Neto has injected an urgently needed energy from the bank, but the questions are again asked about Chelsea’s inability to blind in the last third despite its elite options. Maresca’s side was too slow and worked for a long time and needed a lucky piece to save her from a sticky situation.
West Ham has been lucky with injuries to her striker line in the past few months, with Lucas Paqueta adding his name to an injury list, which has already contained first and second choice strikers Mikhail Antonio and Niclas Fullkrug. No wonder that the hammers absolutely wanted to recruit Evan Ferguson from Brighton & Hove Albion loan.
The good news for Potter, however, was that he greeted Bowen for the first time since his appointment after a quick recovery from a broken foot in his starting line -up. The English international led the border nine instead of an Orthodox number – although Danny Ings was on the bench – and was remarkably sharp on his comeback.
For Chelsea’s Center, the tireless Bowen turned out to be a constant threat that tried to cope with its intensity and pressure. An impressive finish helped West Ham before the break before the break and took the ball in his crotch before he slapped a Spinpoint strike into the back corner.
He ended the game almost twice as high as the touches in another player’s opposition penalty on the field, creating two chances and reducing an expected templates of 0.38 – only lower.