2023-12-30 14:50:00
This is why Chelsea are in the soft underbelly of the Premier League. The Blues, who have not had two victories in the Premier League since the beginning of October, started a series on the Luton lawn this Saturday (3-2) but showed how fragile they are. After leading by three goals until the 80th minute, Pochettino’s men completely faltered and almost saw the Hatters come back to score.
On a complicated pitch, where Liverpool were hung (1-1) and Newcastle beaten (1-0), the trip to Kenilton Road did not look like it would be a cakewalk. Yet he was, for a time. Chelsea thought she had made things easy for herself very quickly. Notably thanks to a first goal from Cole Palmer (12th), with a nice cross shot from the left, following a restart in the form of a late Christmas present from Issa Kaboré.
Then, Noni Madweke took charge on his right side. Well shifted, he opened up an angle in the corner of the penalty area to send a cannonball under the helpless Kaminiski bar (37th). Returning from the locker room, the pace having dropped and Chelsea having tripled the lead thanks to a cool-headed Cole Palmer, who had eliminated the goalkeeper then a defender (70th), it was difficult to see how Luton was even going to get away with it. the end of the game.
A quarter of an hour that almost changed everything
This was without counting on the entrants Thahit Chong and Ogbene who set fire to their respective sides. In a quarter of an hour, the Hatters hit the bar twice, scoring two goals through Ross Barkley (80th) and Elijah Adebayo (87th). Enough to awaken the particularly stifling atmosphere of Kenilton Road. Insufficient, barely, to get back into the score.
Finally, Chelsea won 3-2 in pain, instead of offering themselves a gentle followingnoon to head towards 2024. Two victories in a row in the league therefore, but no reason for satisfaction in this meeting, the Thiago Silva’s face twisted by frustration at the end of the match attested to this. Chelsea remain in the soft underbelly of the Premier League, while Luton stagnates in the red zone. Paradoxically, it was perhaps Luton who came out of this match with the biggest smile. In any case with the most beautiful teachings.
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