A flick of Fernandez and Chelsea resumes his place at the top of the Champions League sprint

Fourth place. Chelsea continues his Champions Lead Champions Lead, taking back the place in front of everyone in the plotoncino with the victory over Tottenham who fights for the last two placings in Europe that counts more. The 1-0 on the Spurs signed at the beginning of the second half by Enzo Fernandez is absolutely deserved for the Maresca team, for a long mistress of the field: it is the third victory in the last four premier games for the blues, who put themselves back behind Manchester City and Newcastle. Tottenham, for a long time kept afloat by the parades of vicar, continues to run over: third defeat in the last four games, with the postecoglou team outside the race to the cups clinging only to the hope of the Europa League to save a season that seems increasingly disastrous.

the keys

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Many good news, by Maresca. The first is Fernandez’s excellent condition, more and more in the heart of this team: before the game the technician had underlined how the Argentine, also scored with his national team, better understood the game and had discovered the secret to being in the right place at the right time, just what he did in the decisive goal. The second is Cole Palmer, who returned available after an injury like Nico Jackson and Noni Madueke: the Chelsea star finds the way that before the stop he seemed to have lost, signing his first assist from December 1st and returning to being involved in a goal for the first time after 10 games. Around the two of them there is the good general test of the blues, masters of the field, fast in restarts, capable of building the greatest dangers. It is the way in which Tottenham can no longer play, not only at Stamford Bridge: the number of unavailable has returned from a piece to an acceptable level, yet Postecoglou can no longer make his playing his sparkling and ultra offensive way on which his football belief is founded. Once the parades of vicar has been removed, at the Spurs at Stamford Bridge the stars were missing, from Son that at 89 ‘he missed the equal in sliding to Maddra, brain with no more ideas, to the center forward Solanke absolutely unexpectedly. If Tottenham is this, saving the season by winning the Europa League (the quarters with the Eintracht could cost the place in Postecoglou, if not exceeded) resembles so much at an impossible mission.

the game

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Chelsea takes a pole after not even a minute in a carambola Van de Ven-Jackson, then checks the game but when he arrives in front of the opposing area he always makes a mistake (when it does not happen, as in the 43 ‘, vicar puts a piece). And the same does Tottenham. It starts from 0-0 and without changes, but immediately changes the result, with Fernandez who at 50 ‘does 1-0 Chelsea escaping to Udogie in the center of the area. The blues celebrate the doubling shortly after with Caicedo, but the VAR erases it as in the 69th minute, always after very long revision, cancels what would have been the tie of Tottenham with Sarr. The blues continue to attack but do not mark, the Spurs caresses the idea of ​​peer with Son in 89 ‘but Sanchez performs a miracle. And the result no longer changes, despite 14 ‘of recovery, returning to Chelsea the role of tread in the crowded sprint for Europe and Spurs another bad defeat this season full of disappointments.