Cucurella v Everton

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Cucurella's debut in Chelsea's narrow victory

Published:6/08/2022 - 21:22h

Updated:6/08/2022 - 21:22h

Marc Cucurella has seen his first minutes as a Chelsea player. The left back was called up by Thomas Tuchel at minute 75 to replace a Kalidou Koulibaly who left the field injured

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In spite of some problems that has presented during the market of signings, Chelsea has taken out an important victory in the first date of the Premier League in front of the Everton. The londinenses imposed with a so much of Jorginho from the penalty spot in a party that also had the first apparition of Marc Cucurella with the team of Thomas Tuchel.

The ex canterano of the FC Barcelona jumped to the lawn of Goodison Park to the minute 75 in replacement of another of his big incorporations, Kalidou Koulibaly. The exit of the Senegalese by injury caused a rotation in the last line, since this exerts like central defender, whereas Cucurella occupies the left lane, position that took during the final stretch of the commitment.

The visitors no lucían very precise in his played of attack during the first minutes, except a played punctual of Raheem Sterling, whose so much did not go up to the marker. Figures like Kai Havertz or Mason Mount neither could annotate and even Tarkowski carried danger for the 'blues' in a played suffocated by Édouard Mendy. The only so much of the crash would arrive in the feet of Jorginho, the one who converted the penalti after the fault on Ben Chilwell.

The Everton-Chelsea, marked by the injuries

The injury of the ex player of the Napoli was not the only in the party; in fact, the worst part has carried it to him Ben Godfrey, the one who has suffered a horrifying entrance in one of his ankles, that caused the interruption of the party during seven minutes while the personnel of the medical services of the Everton attended him before withdrawing him definitively of the field; in his place ingresó Mason Holgate.

Between the players that abandoned the field with physical annoyances, appears the name of an ex culé: Yerry Mina. In the meantime, the possible reinforcement for the Barcelona saga, Marcos Alonso, did not see action in the meeting. The one who himself jumped to the lawn was César Azpilicueta after his refusal to leave to the City Condal and sign the agreement of renewal with the londinenses.

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