The miserable form of Chelsea continues on Saturday while they were dropped from the FA Cup at the expense of Brighton & Hove Albion.
Bart Verbruggen’s first goal was about as good as for Chelsea, which was quickly returned by Georginio Rutter’s header. Kaoru Mitoma added a beautiful second at the start of the second half, giving Seagulls a victory that rarely looked at.
How the game went
Cole Palmer forced Verbruggen to switch to five minutes, but ended up scoring the corner that followed. A nice movement of passage saw Palmer given a wide space on the left to shoot in a low cross, and its efforts clearly took Verbruggen out of noise while Brighton’s cork was groping the ball in its own net.
Brighton should only be seven minutes to attach things. Joel Veltman’s cross was explained at home by the chief of Rutter, who left Robert Sanchez without any chance.
The tensions have started to increase, with the fans of Brighton who happily humble the former Seagulls Robert Sanchez, Marc Cucurella and Moises Caicedo, and who spread on the ground as a seriousness of the difficult plasters were punished with mild yellow cards.
Brighton took the lead in the 57th minute thanks to Mitoma. The faithful winger incredibly well done to control a high pass and switch to the goal of Sanchez, and his half-volleyball lobed has escaped the line line, although the Blues were frustrated by a potential handball that was missed in the accumulation of accumulation.
Chelsea had not managed to create anything to note in the best of cases, but as the pressure increased, the blues continued to look without any idea. A handful of Verbruggen net packaging were all treated by Brighton, who deserved the winners while the referee put Chelsea out of their misery.
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With Nicolas Jackson and Marc Guiu both sidelined, Enzo Maresca turned to Christopher Nkunku to direct the line, and he quickly became clear how an impact that would have on the usual style of Chelsea.
Nkunku fell deep to try to get involved in accumulation. Although this was sometimes beneficial and undeniably led to excellent races behind Brighton’s defense in the first half, there were too many times when Chelsea seemed to lack a central presence in front of the goal.
At the other end, Rutter showed Chelsea what they lacked. The Frenchman, a target of January reported for the Blues, scored a beautiful head and implemented a starting objective of Mitoma in what was a delicious individual performance.
For the past few weeks now, Chelsea fans have been questioning Enzo Maresca’s approach to games. The famous tactical configuration that he promised to bring was only half installed anyway, but there was more and more views of something positive on the field as season has progress.
In attack, Chelsea was steeped. Palmer’s fourth minute strike was the only effort of the Blues on Target while his team was trying to pass Brighton in the submission. Slow, the lateral pass after slow, the side pass did nothing but fans of rile up. Things were not much better at the back, Chelsea’s configuration does not offer real security.
Maresca must soon find a solution. His Leicester City team endured a similar slowdown last season at a very similar moment, and the Italian ruled the ship sufficiently to seal the title of champion. There will be no domestic silverware this season for Chelsea, whose hope of lifting a trophy is now in the league of the conference.
After sending seven against Nottingham Forest the last time, Verbruggen needed a calm start for the procedures here to restore his confidence. Unfortunately, he obtained the complete opposite.
The Dutchman followed an intelligent tip on his bar with a disastrous attempt to pick up the Palmer cross, misinterpreting the trajectory of the ball as he overthrew her at the back of his own net to offer Chelsea an early advantage.
Fortunately for Verbruggen, it was almost the full extent of his involvement here. allowing him to find his composure while Brighton was walking until victory.
