Match report & 4 talking points from Blues capitulation

Chelsea was lucky enough to escape the south coast with a 3-0 defeat against Brighton & Hove Albion on Friday evening.

Kaoru opened the gate for the hosts in a spectacular way before a bracket from Yankuba Minth sealed all three points on both sides of the interval, but Brighton could easily have turned the knife even deeper into this softly centered Chelsea side.

Enzo Marescas Out-of-Sorts visitors have not removed the English opposition from Stamford Bridge for more than two months and only won two of her last nine Premier League games at every event location.

How the game unfolds

In view of the proximity of the previous meeting between the two sides, Maresca, Fabian Hurzeler, tried to dismantle with a redesign front. Chelsea could not use the early confusion that briefly clouded the seagulls, which quickly settled into a 5-4-1 formation from the ball to neutralize their visitors.

Similar to the Cup tie last week, the competition on Friday has been involved in a pattern of each page to turn it alternately to try to play out the high press used by the other.

Brighton’s Bart broke this sequence of Prim, which existed shortly before half an hour with a swiveled punt striker. Kaoru had Trevoh Chalobah chased with anoma, but still managed to pick the ball from icy night air with astonishing grace. The Japan national player needed two more products to sit down from the edge of the box into the lower corner into the lower corner.

The technical complexity of Mitoma Magiemonom was written over the faces of his teammates, which had come into an intoxicating mix of shock and awe. Danny Welbeck did not just describe it as a “WoW moment”.

Enzo Fernandez had the ball in the back of Brighton’s network before the interval, but was quickly punished on Joel Veltman because of an obvious thrust. The seagulls celebrated again within seconds.

Carlos Baleba plunged for a relaxed release and a harmful interaction between Welbeck and Georginio Rutter steered the ball into the stride of Minth in the penalty area. Marc Cucurella left a clever touch in a knotted heap before the forward bored Brighton in a 2-0 lead.

Chelsea’s former Brighton left-back was brought by the same opponent in the second half by another Spinzykl. After the visitors had given away another cheap turnover, Minth played a two with Welbeck around a completely undecided Jadon Sancho and Cucurella before scored and drilled in his second goal of the evening around the wildly -haired full -back.

Take a look at our Player reviews from Brighton 3-0 Chelsea here.

“Today, modern football is the way Bournemouth, Newcastle, Brighton and Liverpool play,” said Manchester City Manager Pep Guardiola last month. The seagulls have led to the risk of their multifaceted approach to a Chelsea team led by Guardiola’s former assistant Maresca.

In view of the strict man-to-man-to-man’s market system from Chelsea, Breiben chose a long with coal with Chalobah, which he emphasized.

This shouldn’t have been a big surprise for Chelsea. Guardiola has thrown his own short structure to injure the blues with long balls of the city less than three weeks ago. As a Guardiola, summarized after this 3: 1 [long ball to] Revolving [Haaland]Because if you win this ball, it’s a chance. “

“If you don’t have real nine, you have to use a different kind of nine [and] You have to change the way you play. We will find a solution, “said Maresca this week after it was confirmed that Nicolas Jackson failed until April.

At least half of this statement was true. Chelsea changed her way of playing; Christopher Nkunku spent a large part of the first half to drift to the right wing, while Cole Palmer and even Enzo Fernandez alternately cut through the middle. Unfortunately it was not a successful solution.

After Maresca had not forced to a single rescue, he opened his plans during the half -time interval and sent Nkunku into an orthodox role. That didn’t work either.

Familiarity creates contempt. Brighton did not familiarize Chelsea unhappily about this six -day double transition, but the constant personnel flow – be it players, managers or technical directors – transformed this special device into modern rivalry from the south coast to West London.

Three members of the Friday start Xi spent all the time in Brighton before she came to Chelsea – a decision for which the home amount never tired of criticizing them. Moises Caicedo probably had the most impressive performance of a Chelsea player and nevertheless left the field to a choir of “What a waste of money”.

Levi Colwill and Marc Cucurella did not cover themselves in fame, with both goals from Minth set their holographic attempts to defend the left flank. Robert Sanchez, Chelsea’s downgraded goalkeeper, who spent a decade in Brighton’s books, must have been grateful to hide on the bench under a snood that covered everything apart from his eyes.

On the way to the game on Friday, there was a lot about that Palmer has not been granted a single advantage of the Premier League since December 4. During this time Chelseas Talisman created 32 chances, most of all players in the five best five leagues in Europe per year Opta. On the south coast this week, Palmer has no sight to miss for his teammates.

It is the first time that the short -lived playmaker has drawn a creative spaces in a league game since April 2024 – and that night against Everton he happened to score four goals.

Palmer is still the most creative player in the division this season and is hardly the only Chelsea striker who has not performed at Amex. While Noni Madueke should be around the last third without much consequence with a targetless scope and Pedro Neto roll around the third with quite a consequence, Palmer will be cooking from cooking but lifting it to Chelsea’s entire attack threat.

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