Chelsea won as they should have when Leicester is in the strait as disastrous as that under Ruud Van Nistelrooy, although you suspect the debates that followed in local Boozers in western London were less concentrated on the shot of Marc Cucurella and more on the Miss de Cole Palmer.
For the first time in his career, Palmer failed to mark a penalty. He had already sent the 15 people taken for the club and the country before, but not this time. Here, Mads Hermansen has made the safeguard, like the man we all know as “cold” suddenly looked like, well, closer to room temperature.
The next Palmer goal in the Premier League will take him to the 10th row of the rankings of all Chelsea time in the competition. It is a hell of a success where he only made 61 appearances. But after that, he has no goal since January 14, and no help since December 1. It’s a crisis, and Enzo Maresca even replaced it here after 73 minutes.
Nevertheless, Chelsea obtained the victory they needed, Cucurella sending a diagonal journey beyond Hermansen to lift them in the fourth row of the table. They could not afford to look into one or the other of their last two clashes against Southampton or Leicester – and they did not do it – but then are Arsenal and Tottenham. If they want football in the Champions League, they will have to show grain in these matches, and they can only hope that Palmer will rediscover his brilliance in them.
By entering this, we could have found more rebound in a concrete slab than that shown by Leicester since Van Nistelrooy succeeded Steve Cooper on December 1.
They were on their longest race without scoring since 2017, had lost 11 of their last 12 championship games, and Van Nistelrooy even had three points less in name than Cooper, despite the management of more matches than his predecessor. To summarize all of this in one word: Yikes.
Chelsea went to fourth place in the Premier League after his 1-0 victory against Leicester City at Stamford Bridge Sunday
The Chelsea star, Cole Palmer, saw her perfect penalty record ended while Mads Hermansen saved his shot in the 22nd minute
Marc Cucurella gave Chelsea’s head with a thunderbolt of 20 yards in the 60th minute
For the first time under Van Nistelrooy, Leicester turned to a back of the back designed to frustrate Chelsea, similar to the way Copenhagen did in the league of the conference on Thursday. They finally won this 2-1 match, but were made to “suffer” in managerial language.
Chelsea wanted a penalty after less than 90 seconds when Sancho fed Palmer, who said he was disturbed on the back by Luke Thomas. Referee Tim Robinson did not award anything because he was invaded by protesting players in blue.
When Vitor Kristanssen stamped on the foot of Sancho inside the box after 20 minutes, however, there was no remoteness of Robinson this time. An obvious penalty, it gave Palmer a glorious chance of putting an end to his lens drought, although he was forced to wait a long time for a few reasons. This included Robinson telling him to reposition the ball after the complaints of Hermansen, which you suspect tried to put pressure on the 22 -year -old lessee.
Once the time has happened, Palmer struck his penalty powerfully and low to the left of Hermansen, but the Leicester goalkeeper produced an impressive backup. After having previously marked the 15 spot kicks he had taken for the club and the country, this 16 was not so sweet.
Leicester almost shoves salt in Chelsea’s injuries in the 26th minute when Jasmen Justin crossed the right. Robert Sanchez – Surprisingly in the aim of Chelsea, despite the second choice for Filip Jorgensen – threw out his box of six yards in order to hit Clear.
Sanchez completely missed it while the ball bounced on an unconscious Adarabioyo Tosin and on the transverse bar. Levi Colwill managed to head towards the rebound before Jamie Vardy to keep him aimlessly.
There were a few anses while the whistle at halftime was blown away, and in the 52nd minute, Sanchez was necessary to prevent Vardy from scoring at a tight angle.
Chelsea wanted another penalty when Neto danced by Justin, but the replays confirmed that he had touched the ball. It was after 60 minutes that the blocking was broken while Cucurella picked up the possession of 25 yards to the goal and led to a strike in the area beyond Hermansen.
Captain of Chelsea, Reece James, was out of the team against Leicester due to Ilness
While the Chelsea players celebrated the opening of Cucurella, Maresca called the supporters to show his support. “Hey, come on,” he shouted to those near the press.
Chelsea went in search of another, and there was a moment after 70 minutes when Palmer could have put pressure on Hermansen at 50 meters. When he is confident and in good shape, you suspect that he would have gone the daring in front of the manager of Watching England Thomas Tuchel. Instead, he brought the ball forward and the Leicester defenders produced their umpteenth block of the day.
In the 73rd minute, we saw something unusual – the view of the Palmer number being held on the table of the fourth official while it was replaced by Tyrique George.
Again in the 80th minute, Chelsea wanted a penalty after Conor Coady handball prevented Sancho from testing Hermansen. Robinson was not moved, but Maresca’s men wanted to win despite everything.
