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English Premier League, 14th round
The London derby between Chelsea and West Ham has ended without warning or sent off for the first time in 15 games. Then, in November 2013, the match also ended with a score of 3: 0 in favor of the “aristocrats”. The prefix “without” is still suitable for Andrei Yarmolenko, because it was without him that West Ham lost devastatingly today, but those numbers on the scoreboard, as they say, “are not in business.”
Right at the start of the fight, Blues left back Ben Chilwell was injured and unsuccessfully sprained his ankle in a collision with Jerrod Bowen. The footballer continued the game, but was replaced in the 10th minute. Three minutes earlier, Declan Rice scored the first goal of the game, but the midfielder’s almost half-meter offside prevented the referee from signaling the center of the field. But immediately after Emerson’s appearance on the field, the hosts “legally” opened an account. The (anti) hero of the first minutes Bowen lost in a corner Thiago Silva, and the Brazilian finished off his rival’s goal with a header after a serve from Mount.
In the 16th minute Tammy Abraham scored, but her goal was disallowed as the ball left the field a moment earlier. The first half of the first half was completely behind Lampard’s charges. They controlled the game from A to Z. Even possession of the round was on their side with a huge advantage: 81% against 19%. However, in the 26th minute, the Hammers took the lead in the match. So they created the first dangerous moment: Aaron Cresswell took a pass down the left wing, pushed his way through and fired at the far post, but missed the goal a little. But last season, his goal was decisive in the meeting of these teams at Stamford Bridge. In five minutes, Bowen was able to restore parity in the game by scoring a goal. The fact is that before the actual attack, the Englishman broke the rules in the attack. Third ball voided in a duel.
Towards the end of the first half, Timo Werner had a chance to score, but the German from a lethal position during a strong counterattack hit the opposing goalkeeper. In this match, the forward did not score again and continued his goalless streak to seven bouts in all competitions, his longest failure record since September 2016.
7 – Timo Werner has failed to score in each of his last seven starts for Chelsea in all competitions, his longest streak of starts without a goal in club competition since September 2016, between stints in Stuttgart and RB Leipzig (9). Searching. pic.twitter.com/XK4LEPrVnL
– OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) December 21, 2020
The second half was physically difficult for both teams. Chelsea and West Ham were looking for the keys to their opponent’s goal, but they did not create danger until the 78th minute. Then Tammy Abraham burst into the game, completing the double in 100 seconds. First, the Englishman closed the pass of Timo Werner, and then the first focused on finishing and hit the already empty goal of the Polish Lukasz Fabianski. In nine minutes, Timo Werner could have made the indecent score, but he hit the crossbar.
West Ham have already given up after the third goal, although at 1-0 they had every chance to regain parity and a good result in this match. “But it didn’t work” – the actual words of the classic now. Chelsea rise to fifth place in the Premier League after this victory, and Hammer’s players will celebrate Christmas by closing out the first half of the English league standings.
Chelsea – West Ham 3: 0
Goals: Thiago Silva 10, Tammy Abraham 78, 80
Chelsea: Mandy – Aspilicueta, Zuma, Silva, Chillwell (Emerson 10) – Georgino (Kovacic 66), Kante, Mount – Werner, Abraham, Pulisic (Haverts 84).
West Ham: Fabianski – Zoufal, Balbuena, Ogbonna, Cresswell – Noble, Rice, Souchek – Bowen (Fredericks), Allé, Fornals (Benrahma 67).
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