Brentford, with an exceptional performance from Christian Eriksen, disarmed Chelsea and inflicted their first home defeat since October, the heaviest of the season (1-4), thus lighting the alarms of the ‘Blues’ four days after receiving Real Madrid.
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Chelsea
mendy; Azpilicueta, Silva, Rüdiger, Alonso (James, 55′); Mount, Loftus-Cheek, Kante (Lukaku, 65′); Ziyech, Havertz, Werner (Kovacic, 65′).
Brentford
Stripe; Roerslev, Ajer, Jansson, Pinnock, Henry (Canos, 88′); Eriksen, Norgaard, Janelt (Jensen, 82′); Mbeumo (Wissa, 85′), Toney.
goals
1-0 M. 48 Rudiger. 1-1 M. 50 Janelt. 1-2 M. 54 Eriksen. 1-3 M. 60 Janelt. 1-4 M. 87 Wissa.
Incidents
Matchday 31. Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea suffered its first defeat since Roman Abramovich announced the sale of the club and in the worst possible way. Until this Saturday, he had won all six games in that time. And it was not just any defeatwas one of the worst since Thomas Tuchel came to the bench.
Nothing foreshadowed it. Everything indicated that the streak would continue when Antonio Rudiger unblocked the duel at Stamford Bridge, which had gone 0-0 at halftime, with a great goal from 35 meters. A shot out of nowhere that hit a post and went into David Raya’s goal. A real goal.
The Spanish international goalkeeper had saved in the first part a shot by Hakim Ziyech directly to a square, but he couldn’t do anything against Rudiger’s whiplash.The joy lasted for Thomas Tuchel’s team for a minute. What it took to lose a ball in midfield and Brentford put together a lethal offensive transition. Bryan Mbeumo set the ball up for Vitaly Janelt to put into a top corner. Great goal in response and draw.
It was his turn to rearm Chelsea, but another blow fell. Four minutes after the 1-1 draw, against Brentford, a horizontal pass from Mbeumo and Christian Eriksen defined before Edouard Mendy. First goal for the Dane in club competition since his return to football.
The ‘Bees’ fans exploded with joy, unaware that the third blow would fall six minutes later. Another lightning-fast transition, through pass from Ivan Toney and Janelt, in front of Mendy, scored the third. Chelsea were painted coarse and Kai Havertz was annulled 2-3 by hand in a lateral foul.
Nor was the German fine in a one-on-one that he missed against Raya 20 minutes from the end. In the twilight of the game, with Chelsea surrenderedYoane Wissa took advantage of a dead ball inside the area to make the final 1-4.