The Blues woke up to beat relegated Burnley (4-0) in the Premier League. Thanks in particular to a goal from its Swiss defender, Newcastle won ahead of Brighton (2-1).
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Christian Pulisic (left), Saúl Niguez (center) and Kai Havertz (right) at the party.
Struggling in the first period (0-0 at the break), the Blues managed a great start to the second act to easily dispose of Burnley. With 53 points, the Londoners consolidate their 3rd place with 6 units ahead of Manchester United, who travel to the leader, City, for the derby on Sunday. Burnley remain 18th and first in relegation, 2 points behind Leeds, 16th but who have a game in advance.
Unrecognizable during the first 45 minutes, Chelsea could even have been led after a failed fist exit from Edouard Mendy, but Dwight McNeil, yet ten meters from goal, missed the target (30th).
It was his right piston Reece James, holder for the first time in 2022 after an injury, who woke up his team with a solo number completed by a victorious hard shot (1-0, 47th). Kai Havertz, preferred in tip to Romelu Lukaku still relegated to the bench, then scored twice in three minutes (2-0, 52nd and 3-0, 55th), before Christian Pulisic drove the point home (4-0 , 69th).
Leicester garners
With a short but precious victory in front of Leeds (1-0), who played for the first time under the orders of the American Jesse Marsch, successor to Marcelo Bielsa on the bench, Leicester provided the essentials.
Without a very good Kasper Schmeichel who multiplied the decisive interventions in front of Daniel James from the first minute, Jack Harrisson (8th), Rodrigo (58th) and Raphinha (59th) the match could have tipped in favor of the Peacocks. But a magnificent one-two in the area between Harvey Barnes and Kelechi Iheanacho allowed the former to deceive Illan Meslier with a flat foot (1-0, 67th) and offer his team a second success this week after the match victory late to Burnley (2-0) on Tuesday.
Eriksen revealed Brentford
Starting in a match for the first time since his cardiac arrest at the Euros last June, Christian Eriksen and a hat-trick from Ivan Toney helped Brentford achieve a crucial success in the fight to maintain at the last, Norwich (3 -1).
The Bees, who remained in eight league games without a win, opened the scoring with a corner kick taken by the Dane, deflected by Kristoffer Ajer towards Ivan Toney who opened the scoring (1-0, 32nd). Toney then converted two penalties (2-0, 52nd, 3-0, 58th), before Teemu Pukki reduced the score at the very end of the match (3-1, 89th), without this preventing Brentford from taking 6 points ahead of the red zone.
In addition, Newcastle distanced itself a little more from the bottom of the table by winning against Brighton (2-1). The second goal was scored by Fabian Schär, author of an unstoppable header from an eccentric free kick.
Crystal Palace got the better of Wolverhampton away (2-0) and Aston Villa outclassed Southampton (4-0).