Manchester City Steals Premier League Reins from Chelsea in Thrilling London Derby

Chelsea hands the reins of the Premier League to Manchester City. So impressive since the start of the season, Ange Postecoglu’s Tottenham ended up sinking at home, in a completely crazy London derby against the Blues (1-4). Reduced to ten, then nine, the Spurs, who had opened the scoring by Dejan Kulusevski, ended up giving in with goals from Cole Palmer and a hat-trick from Nicolas Jackson. A success which will, on the other hand, do a lot of good to Axel Disasi and his family.

Mauricio Pochettino couldn’t have dreamed of a better return to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. In this enclosure where he has been celebrated so many times, the former PSG coach once again raised his arms, but this time to the great dismay of the Lilywhites fans, who saw theirs lose for the first time this season at end of an incredible scenario and with, despite everything, a lot of heart and merit.

Building on the momentum of their last weeks and this series of 4 consecutive victories, Heung-Min Son’s partners quickly took the advantage thanks to a deflected shot from Kulusevski (1-0, 6th). Then the evening entered the 4th dimension, and the most important actor of this meeting finally became the only one who was not on the pitch during this 11th day, since John Brooks, referee assigned to VAR this Monday, never ceased to be sought after.

21 minutes of cumulative added time

After calling Michael Oliver to refuse the equalizer from Raheem Sterling (23rd), it was again he who finally led the match referee to exclude Cristian Romero (33rd), whose dangerous gesture on Enzo Fernandez caused the penalty from the restart, transformed by Palmer (1-2, 35th). Added to this, Ange Postecoglu also had to deal with injuries to Van de Ven and Maddison, both of whom came out before the break.

Already in a bad position, Spurs found themselves on a tightrope after Destiny Udogie’s unnecessary tackle on Sterling, which prompted Mr. Oliver to issue a second yellow card against him (55th). Double numerically inferior, the locals relied on an immense Guglielmo Vicario in the Spurs goals to resist (60th, 68th), before giving in on yet another against the Blues, transformed by Jackson (1-2, 75th) .

Finally, the Senegalese scored his first hat-trick under his new colors (90th+4, 90th+7), while Chelsea found a way to suffer. Eric Dier thus thought of equalizing (78th), before being cooled by the VAR, while Son, on a counter from the final change, came up against David Sanchez (90th + 4). Tottenham falls to second place, while Chelsea are 10th.

2023-11-06 22:25:00
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