It has great offensive potential after having been made this summer with footballers such as Kai havertz Y Timo Werner, but Chelsea continues to have a large deficit when it comes to the defensive parcel. This fact became latent this Saturday when, with Kepa Arrizabalaga on the bench and Willy gentleman as headline, the set directed by Frank Lampard drew (3-3) against West Bromwich Albion signing a two-sided performance. The bad, that of the first part, which ended with 3-0 against. And the good one, that of the second, when he was able to achieve three goals to save a point that, although insufficient, is considered good given how the events happened.
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Collectively it has a lot to improve, but it was individual errors that weighed down this time Chelsea. Not five minutes of play had elapsed when Marcos Alonso was wrong to dispute an aerial ball facilitating an attack of the WBA that culminated in a goal Robinson with a cross shot out of reach gentleman.
With the 1-0, he had to react to Chelsea, and although he did, it was without success. In the 12 ' Abraham sent out his shot to center Reece james when the goal was already called. And in the 15 ' Timo Werner a shot hit the crossbar that was also close to 1-1.
Forgave the Chelsea, and in this football, whoever forgives ends up paying it. That is exactly what happened, and twice, before not only half-time but even half an hour into the game. In 25 'it was Thiago Silvwho made the mess facilitating the advance of Robinson to the goal of gentleman to beat this one and sign the 2-0. And just three minutes later Bartley, at the exit of a corner very badly defended by the Chelsea, made it 3-0.
After the restart, and having entered Hudson-Odoi instead of Kovacic searching Lampard having more bite in attack, the ‘blue’ box improved. Thus came 3-1 at 55 'thanks to a whiplash from Mason Mount from outside the area. Also the 3-2 of the aforementioned Hudson-Odoi after partnering with Havertz. And already in the addition, how much it seemed that the reaction was going to be insufficient, Abraham he pushed a ball into the net that ended up being another point for the ‘blue’ box. Havertz he helped himself by the hand during the play, but both the referee and the VAR considered that it was not enough to cancel the goal.
It could have been much worse and in the end he did not return home empty, but he has a lot of work ahead of him Lampard to make this team a top four in the Premier League to earn the right to contest the next Champions.