Chelsea proceed to pile strain on these round them within the race for the remaining Champions League locations after banking a 1-0 London derby win over Tottenham.
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Enzo Maresca, who reminded his gamers of the required requirements mandatory for the membership forward of tonight’s conflict, will be pleased with a Blues outfit that seemed the higher facet from begin to end in opposition to a massively underperforming Spurs facet.
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Chelsea so almost opened the scoring on their first foray ahead by means of Nicolas Jackson, laying bear the fixed defensive struggles Spurs have negotiated all season.
The Colombian was put into house with a direct ball from Trevoh Chaloba earlier than rounding Guglielmo Vicario. Micky van de Ven’s tracked again to clear, and his effort deflected off the Colombian striker and bounced clear after hanging the submit.
Spurs then seemed to strike early themselves a minute later with an incisive transfer of their very own with Son finally driving at objective earlier than Malo Gusto deflected his effort out for a nook.
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Early exchanges between the 2 capital sides provided the anticipated back-and-forth affair that many anticipated, with Gusto himself additionally coming near discovering an opener with a drive from outdoors the field, however the Frenchman may solely hit the facet netting.
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Vicario would deny Jadon Sancho with an enormous response save simply seconds earlier than the top of regular time when he tipped the winger’s close-range effort over the bar.
The previous Borussia Dortmund starlet discovered himself open within the field and on the top of a floated cross by Pedro Netro earlier than his positioned effort was well-saved as Chelsea seemed extra able to breaking the impasse.
And simply because the run of play urged, it was Chelsea that jumped into the lead lower than 5 minutes after the restart when Enzo Fernández was given a free header six yards from objective, changing Cole Palmer’s harmful ball into the realm.
Fernández’s beloved midfielder accomplice Moisés Caicedo almost made it two-nil six minutes later with a implausible long-range volley earlier than VAR dominated for offside in the course of the earlier free-kick.
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Spurs too then had been denied an equaliser by means of Pape Matar Sarr after he robbed Caicedo earlier than unleashing a drive to beat Robert Sánchez.
His strike was pulled again, nonetheless, after VAR judged the midfielder to have fouled Caicedo with a excessive boot within the build-up earlier than Craig Pawson brandished a yellow card.
Regardless of failing to discover a second to ease nerves on the Bridge, Maresca’s males would nonetheless declare all three factors on the night time, quickly climbing forward of Manchester Metropolis and Newcastle United within the course of.
Spurs stay in 14th after struggling their third loss throughout their final 4 fixtures and will fall as gradual as sixteenth relying on different outcomes this weekend.
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