Chelsea came from two goals behind to win the derby against Tottenham.
Marc Cucurella had to change his shoes after Tottenham’s 2–0 goal. PDO
Sometimes football matches are decided by great individual performances.
Sometimes the team whose head coach has found a suitable tactic to knock down the opponent emerges as the winner.
For a moment it seemed that the local game between Tottenham and Chelsea had been decided by the wrong choice of shoes.
Both of Spurs’ goals came immediately after Chelsea’s Spanish defender Marc Cucurella slipped on the grass.
The team that also won the European Championship in the summer lost its balance in the fifth minute. At the same time Tottenham Brennan Johnson caught the ball in front of Cucurella, who was lying clumsily on the grass.
Johnson immediately realized that the opposition had a man out of the game, so he made a brisk move towards the Chelsea end. The feed to the center reached Dominic Solankewho completed the opening goal.
Confusingly, the same man slipped again in the 11th minute, leaving Tottenham with the ball For Dejan Kulusevski. The Swede carried it to the launch sector and fired the home team into a 2–0 lead.
After that, Cucurella immediately ran to the side of the field to change the button to the most suitable one.
Chelsea won
Chelsea woke up to the fight when all the players were wearing shoes suitable for the grass field. Jadon Sancho halved Spurs’ lead already in the opening period and after the break Cole Palmer completed the equalizer from a tough one.
The chase was completed in the 73rd minute, when Enzo Fernandez hit the bouncing loose ball perfectly and put it past the keeper by Fraser Foster past.
Chelsea’s Enzo Fernández (left) fanned the 2-3 hit that turned the match. PDO
2–4 were recorded again for Palmer, who enjoyed the second point of the evening when he scored in the net. In the end, it turned out to be the winning goal of the match, because Heung-min Son completed the final numbers 3-4 in the last seconds of extra time.
Tottenham are in relegation. It is the seventh league loss of the season after 15 games played. Chelsea, on the other hand, is becoming Liverpool’s worst threat in the championship fight.