Live football Chelsea vs Tottenham Premier League 2020

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The reception to Tottenham on matchday 10 of the 2020/21 Premier League is Chelsea’s 1,000th game in the Roman Abramovich era (since July 2003). It can be said that this is Chelsea’s glorious era. The Russian billionaire has really raised the bar, making the Blues a force in England and Europe.

Thanks to Abra, Chelsea has captured five Premier League titles (2005, 2006, 2010, 2015, 2017) and culminated in the Champions League title (2012). In the last 999 games, the Blues won 608, drew 215 and lost 176 games, achieving a win rate of 60.9%, which is higher than the average win rate throughout the history of the Blues (44, 3 %).

This season, thanks to Abra’s huge financial potential (total assets over $ 13 billion), Chelsea became a brilliant candidate for the Premier League championship. More than $ 200 million was spent for coach Frank Lampard to strengthen his forces and the Blues of the team that only dared to reach the Top 4 last season, now possess all the qualities of a champion.

The more Chelsea play, the more progress “in phom” on all lines. The defense has been harshly criticized because Chelsea have to concede too many goals, but in the last 8 matches in all matches, Chelsea only conceded twice and kept 6 clean sheets, an unprecedented achievement under Frank Lampard’s reign.

The certainty of goalkeeper Edouard Mendy, the long experience of Thiago Silva, the remarkable progress of Kurt Zouma, the maturity of Reece James or the ability of Ben Chiwell to integrate too quickly helped coach Lampard after a long time. Long trials have finally found the best defense.

In the line of attack, Abraham, Werner, Ziyech, Mount form a magical quartet that is potentially dangerous. If Werner seized the best opportunity, the Blues’ number of goals is even more impressive.

Importantly, Chelsea have a depth of squad that belongs to the number one Premier League, giving Lampard plenty of options, especially in attack. Therefore, this former midfielder can freely rotate the force without worrying about the general decrease in force. This is a huge advantage for the Blues (at least physically) in a season where the current schedule is so dense.

But in a top-tier derby like this, of course, coach Frank Lampard has to throw the best cards. All of the names listed above are fully on the starting roster against Tottenham despite the majority of them arriving midweek (with the exception of Reece James and Hakim Ziyech) in a 2-1 win over Rennes. which led the Blues to the group stage of the Champions League soon.

On the other side of the front line, Tottenham is also in extremely high form with the leading position in the Premier League table (prior to round 10), and has the longest undefeated series of the tournament so far ( 8 matches). Like old Frank Lampard, José Mourinho has gradually made Spurs a brilliant candidate for champions. However, the Spurs have a very bad record on the Chelsea field: they only won the final kick 1/34 at Stamford Bridge in all competitions (they lost 22).

In terms of squad depth, Tottenham is also at the top of the Premier League today, although more or less still inferior to Chelsea (especially on the attacking front). But unlike his neighbor, in the middle of last week, José Mourinho rested most of the pillars (except Ndombele) in the 4-0 win over Ludogorets in the Europa League group stage.

Therefore, Aurier, Reguilon, Sissoko, Bergwijn, Hojbjerg and especially Harry Kane vs Son Heung Min fit completely in the derby with Chelsea. However, the Spurs suffered a major defeat on defense when Toby Alderweireld was absent due to injury and, unexpectedly, 1997 midfielder Joe Rodon was used in place of the familiar Davinson Sánchez, who was once Tottenham’s number one midfielder.

Rondon is a Spurs rookie this season after a £ 11 million deal from Swansea First Division. This is the first major game by a Welsh player for Spurs on the Premier League pitch.

Before the match, Frank Lampard used to “encourage” old maestro Mourinho to play a dedicated attack because everyone knows that the strong Portuguese army is the pragmatic style of defending a counterattack. However, Chelsea adopted the same caution as the Spurs despite having much of the ball.

Even Tottenham’s new guests have the dangerous first chance of the match. In the 9th minute, Spurs took a comfortable swing from right to left. The ball was passed smoothly and Kane finally created a precise touch for Bergwijn to cut his heart into the far corner, but the ball flew tight over the bar.

Chelsea responded quickly as Mason Mount pushed through the middle and then pushed Werner through the slot. Joe Rodon missed the ball, allowing the German forward to comfortably hit the far corner to defeat Hugo Lloris. However, not in time to “act” all the celebrations, Werner was disappointed when the referee reported the offside error.

At 15 minutes, Serge Aurier launched a sudden stretch from outside the 16m50 line, but “New Petr Cech” Mendy was still in time to save Chelsea. In general, the first half of the first half, Chelsea proved to be stuck in the attack plan and barely passed the ball back and forth in the middle of the field.

So overtime in possession doesn’t make any sense in this case. Every time there was an intention to threaten Tottenham’s goal, the army of green jerseys was immediately extinguished by the powerful midfield of the opponent.

In the 28th minute, after easily eliminating Sissoko, Mason Mount fired a left-footed shot but the ball missed. Soon after, Harry Kane took a free kick from a distance of about 100 feet and the ball went flying.

TEAM

CHELSEA (4-3-3):

Edouard Mendy; Reece James, Kurt Zouma, Thiago Silva, Ben Chilwell; Mateo Kovacic, N’Golo Kante, Mason Mount; Hakim Ziyech, Tammy Abraham, Timo Werner.

TOTTENHAM (4-2-3-1): Hugo Lloris; Serge Aurier, Joe Rodon, Eric Dier, Sergio Reguilon; Moussa Sissoko, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg; They are Heung-min, Tanguy Ndombele, Steven Bergwijn; Harry Kane.