Basement membership Southampton surprised Chelsea on Saturday to earn a treasured three factors at Stamford Bridge, piling extra stress on residence coach Graham Potter.
A trademark James Ward-Prowse free kick earned Saints a scrappy 1-0 Premier League win to maintain themselves alive within the relegation combat. The victory additionally ended their three-match dropping streak for the guests.
Aim-shy Chelsea suffered their eighth defeat of the season to lengthen their winless streak to 4 now – three attracts and a loss.
Chelsea captain César Azpilicueta introduced down Stuart Armstrong simply outdoors the world within the forty fifth minute and Ward-Prowse curled a free kick over the wall into the right-hand aspect of the online with goalkeeper Kepa left sprawling.
Azpilicueta wanted almost 10 minutes of therapy on the pitch within the second half after he obtained a kick to the pinnacle in a goalmouth conflict. Physios from each golf equipment rushed to his help and the Spaniard was finally carried off on a stretcher.
Chelsea, who’ve scored solely 4 targets in 10 video games in all competitions for the reason that begin of the yr, seemed livelier within the second half when Raheem Sterling and Kai Havertz got here on and so they stored the Southampton defence underneath stress.
However regardless of spending almost 300 million kilos ($361.05 million) within the January switch window, the Blues nonetheless couldn’t rating towards the south-coast staff led by caretaker coach Ruben Selles after Nathan Jones was sacked every week in the past.
Chelsea are languishing in tenth place on 31 factors from 23 video games and are 10 factors adrift of the highest 4. Southampton have 18 factors and are three factors outdoors the security zone.
(With inputs from Reuters)
A trademark James Ward-Prowse free kick earned Saints a scrappy 1-0 Premier League win to maintain themselves alive within the relegation combat. The victory additionally ended their three-match dropping streak for the guests.
Aim-shy Chelsea suffered their eighth defeat of the season to lengthen their winless streak to 4 now – three attracts and a loss.
Chelsea captain César Azpilicueta introduced down Stuart Armstrong simply outdoors the world within the forty fifth minute and Ward-Prowse curled a free kick over the wall into the right-hand aspect of the online with goalkeeper Kepa left sprawling.
Azpilicueta wanted almost 10 minutes of therapy on the pitch within the second half after he obtained a kick to the pinnacle in a goalmouth conflict. Physios from each golf equipment rushed to his help and the Spaniard was finally carried off on a stretcher.
Chelsea, who’ve scored solely 4 targets in 10 video games in all competitions for the reason that begin of the yr, seemed livelier within the second half when Raheem Sterling and Kai Havertz got here on and so they stored the Southampton defence underneath stress.
However regardless of spending almost 300 million kilos ($361.05 million) within the January switch window, the Blues nonetheless couldn’t rating towards the south-coast staff led by caretaker coach Ruben Selles after Nathan Jones was sacked every week in the past.
Chelsea are languishing in tenth place on 31 factors from 23 video games and are 10 factors adrift of the highest 4. Southampton have 18 factors and are three factors outdoors the security zone.
(With inputs from Reuters)
