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Chelsea: Chalobah (24′), Jackson (72′)

Chelsea continuously received unsatisfactory results against teams in the Top 4, Man City (0-1), Arsenal (0-5) and most recently Aston Villa (2-2), making the battle more competitive. The competition for a ticket to the Europa League is increasingly fragile. Chelsea players entered the round 26 make-up match with Tottenham with great determination. Coach Mauricio Pochettino still kept the same lineup as the draw with Aston Villa last weekend.

For Tottenham, coach Ange Postecoglou caused a surprise in arranging the lineup by placing conductor James Maddison on the bench and using Richarlison as wing striker, Brennan Johnson, Pape Matar Sarr and Yves Bissouma. was also thrown onto the field from the start. Despite having a quite strong squad and the determination to win to chase Aston Villa’s 4th place, Tottenham entered the game quite slowly.

Right in the 5th minute of the match, midfielder Micky van de Ven had to work very hard to save Tottenham on the goal line, when striker Nicolas Jackson on Chelsea’s side had a quick escape and finished past the goalkeeper. into Guglielmo Vicario. In the 23rd minute, Noni Madueke almost got the opening goal after a tricky dribble and a technical curl from outside the penalty area, but the ball went a bit high compared to the Spurs goal.

Chelsea had a gentle victory thanks to fixed situationsChelsea had a gentle victory thanks to fixed situations

However, Chelsea fans did not have to be disappointed for too long, because just 1 minute later they were celebrating their home team’s goal. Captain Conor Gallagher took an accurate free kick so that midfielder Trevoh Chalobah turned on his head and drove the ball straight into the top corner, causing goalkeeper Vicario to fly out of range but could not save the home team. After Chelsea’s goal, the match became more interesting, as Spurs began to accelerate. However, there were not too many finishing situations made when the two teams’ defenses were better organized.

Entering the second half, Chelsea ceded the game to Tottenham, but the away team’s moves only stopped at a dangerous level. From the moment Maddison and Rodrigo Bentancur were sent onto the field in the 63rd minute, the away team played more coherently and created sharp attacks that put Djordje Petrovic’s goal in danger. However, while Spurs were still struggling to find a goal, they were hit with an injury.

In the 72nd minute, Cole Palmer had a classy free kick from nearly 20 meters away and the ball found the Tottenham crossbar, but Jackson was there just in time to hit Vicario’s net to score Chelsea’s second goal. For more than 20 minutes, Tottenham continuously attacked and finished, but their impatience prevented them from finding a way into Petrovic’s goal and accepted their second consecutive defeat in the following London derbies. loss to Arsenal last weekend.

With this result, Chelsea opened the door to the Top 6, rising to 8th on the rankings with 51 points, 3 points behind MU’s 6th place. Meanwhile, Spurs shot themselves in the foot in the battle for the Top 4 with Aston Villa, still stuck in 5th place with 60 points, 7 points behind the 4th place team. Although there is still 1 game left to play. kick, but Tottenham will have to face Man City, so it is clear that coach Postecoglou and his team’s ambition to win tickets to the Champions League is almost gone.

Squad

Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Petrovic, Cucurella, Badiashile, Chalobah, Gilchrist (Acheampong 85′), Gallagher, Caicedo, Mudryk (Casadei 75′), Palmer, Madueke, Jackson (Taurianinen 90′)
Tottenham (4-2-3-1): Vicario, Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Royal (Lo Celso 86′), Bissouma (Hojbjerg 63′), Sarr (Maddison 73′), Johnson (Gil 78′), Kulusevski, Son, Richarlison (Bentancur 63′)

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