04.12. 13:30
Goals: 40. Manuel Lanzini (pen.), 56. Jarrod Bowen, 87. Arthur Masuaku – 28. Thiago Silva, 44. Mason Mount
In the end, Chelsea failed to close the match in an attractive London derby and claim their second league defeat this year, due to which they will most likely lose first place in the table. The Blues had a very good game when they led twice, but in the end they leave without a point. After a series of three setbacks, David Moyes’ charges finally won again and withdrew their opponent’s lead to 6 points.
Although the guests held the ball more often at the beginning of the match, the danger was mainly in front of Mendy’s goal. And a bit unconventionally Brazilian stopper Thiago Silva had his fingers in it. After his first broken pass, Bowen got to the end inside the lime, but his sharp blow aimed a good two meters outside. After his second inaccuracy, Tomáš Souček pushed to the header again, but he didn’t hit the goal either. On the other hand, Ziyech could end the long leg after James’s spotted center, but his shots lacked more force. After twenty-five minutes of play, Havertz got to the header again, but he didn’t scare Fabianski either.
However, two minutes later came the first change in the score. After the corner kick, Silva’s stopper came out and Fabianski could only push his head into the bar, from which, unfortunately, the ball bounced into the net. Loftus-Cheek could have increased the lead five minutes later, but his spotted shot from the edge of the lime only aimed in the middle of the goal, where the attentive Fabianski stood. After a one-match pause, a healed Jorginho joined Chelsea’s backup line, but, as a week ago, he did not forgive a big mistake. Five minutes before the end of the first half, he didn’t look around and pointed a small house at his goalkeeper, even though Bowen was near Mendy. Although the Senegalese goalkeeper got to the ball before the offensive player of West Ham, he could not clear the ball to safety and as a “bonus” he still tripped Bowen. The midfielder Lanzini did not despise the offered chance in the form of a penalty kick and tied it 1: 1. Even before the half-whistle, the guests took the lead again – Declan Rice lost the ball in the middle of the pitch, Chelsea’s quick break pulled Hakim Ziyech, who found a free Mason Mount with a dragged center, whose great volley ended right at Fabianski’s goal post.
During the half-time break, Tuchel had to withdraw the wounded Havertz, for whom he sent a healed striker Lukak into battle. But it didn’t help Chelsea, on the contrary, she seemed to fall out of the role. In the transition phase, the balls began to lose, the offensive players suddenly did not attack with such intensity and the penalty did not take long. After a fight between Antonia and Silva, the ball got to the corner of the lime to Coufal, who pushed it into the free Bowen, who with a sharp blow from the lime line stabbed Christensen between his legs and sent the ball uncompromisingly into the net – this time Mendy’s goalkeeper stretched in vain.
Chelsea woke the box and squeezed her London rival hard. However, she could not get into the unloaded tutovka via the opponent’s defensive wall. The danger came from Mason Mount’s footballer, who relaxed nicely inside the penalty area, but with his shot hit only the places where Fabianski moved. Lukaku did not succeed either, and his ending on a small lime was blocked by the attentive trackers of West Ham.
Fifteen minutes before the end, the scorer of the second goal, Bowen, had the greatest opportunity in the second half. He found himself completely alone on the back bar after Antonia’s ground floor, but did not reach the ball well in the slide, so he did not push the ball into the goal. When it looked like the match was going to be a draw, Masuaku took a great piece. He probably missed the ball when he tried to move through the center, so that the ball went exactly to the closer vingle of Mendy’s goal. The surprised Senegalese goalkeeper reached the ball, kicked it out and thus prevented the first outdoor defeat of Chelsea in this league season, but he could not.
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