THE PORTUGUESE SAW THE RED RED AGAINST FULHAM
Debut to forget about Joao Félix with Chelsea
Joao Félix, one of Chelsea's most important additions for the second half of the season, had an unforgettable debut when he was sent off in the defeat against Fulham (2-1)
Chelsea does not attain to raise head in the Premier League. The 'blues' contested the derbi in front of the Fulham with the participation of Joao Félix from the start, one of his flameantes contractings during the market of winter. Although the Portuguese had a very stood out performance during the first-half, the true is that it threw everything by embroiders it when seeing the red card by a very hard entrance on the defender Kenny Tete.
The ones of Graham Potter remained with one less to the 12' minutes of the complement and could not avoid the traced back (2-1) of the venues, extending like this the abysmal series that keeps them tenth, to 19 points of the Arsenal and with an alone victory in the last nine commitments. The future does not paint well for a team that could remain out of all the international competitions in the 2023/24.
The technician do not doubt in ranging to the attacker luso after an alone training and the true is that it surrendered to a very high level, showing his quality and capacity like mediapunta by behind Kai Havertz. So alone a pair of minutes took in generating the first chance of the meeting, when it centred after a desborde by the band that would finish in a shot fallido of the 'crack' German.
The so many of the equality
Chelsea dominated the meeting but the Fulham knew that the weaknesses of the rival were in his capacity of repliegue in the contragolpes. Bobby Reid warned with a shot to the stick after an error in a pass of Trevoh Chabolah, what would be the prelude of the so much that opened the tin. To the 24' of the first-half, Lewis Hall lost the spherical and William received the pass from the left band that sent at the end of the network after a detour in a defender. The Brazilian did not celebrate it.
Although the 'blues' found down in the marker, the spark of Joao Félix did not turn off and continued showing why is the costliest signing in the history of the Benfica. It was leading and participated in several occasions of goal that went out of his own feet. The first was a finish diverted and afterwards the guardameta Bernd Leno contained two finish more before it occurred the moment that would mark the meeting.
During the first instants of the complement, Chelsea attained to equalise the actions with a surprising kickoff of fault of Mason Mount. The shot struck the crossbar and the rebound fell in the feet of the Senegalese Kalidou Koulibaly, the one who only had to push it to put to the londinenses in the marker.
Differential factor
In spite of the good feelings that left the Portuguese, everything finished derrumbándose when it did not control well a balloon in the centre of the field. The ex Athletic of Madrid ran in search to recover his loss and finished calculating badly his swept, hitting with a plantillazo to the side of the Fulham that translated in a red that conditioned his debut and also the possibility of the team to add three points to domicile.
An alone action changed the course of the meeting and also added to the enormous list of deficiencies that has Chelsea. The big quantity of lesionados and the defensive errors have cost him vital points, being the one of Kepa to the 73' minutes one more than the list. The Spanish calculated badly a centre to the area of Andreas Pereira that would finish hitting Carlos Vinicius to close the (2-1) definite of the Fulham. Campaign for the forget that it puts in cloth of trial the continuity of the technician.
