Chelsea roared again from two targets all the way down to beat Tottenham 4-3 on Sunday, transferring simply 4 factors behind Premier League leaders Liverpool after Arsenal had been held by Fulham. The Gunners and Chelsea each began the day seven factors adrift of Arne Slot’s facet, whose recreation this weekend was postponed on account of stormy climate. Arsenal had been pressured to accept a 1-1 draw however Enzo Maresca’s Chelsea, kicking off later Sunday, mounted a surprising comeback on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Dominic Solanke and Dejan Kulusevski put Spurs two targets up inside 11 minutes however Jadon Sancho shortly pulled one again with a positive strike and the second half belonged to the guests.
Cole Palmer equalised from the penalty spot within the 61st minute and Enzo Fernandez put Chelsea forward 12 minutes later.
Palmer’s ice-cool “Panenka” spot-kick gave the guests a two-goal cushion earlier than Son Heung-min added a late third for Spurs.
Second-placed Chelsea now have 31 factors after 15 video games, two factors forward of London rivals Arsenal. Liverpool, with a recreation in hand, are on 35 factors.
“The plan or the thought is to not let the gamers decelerate,” Maresca informed Sky Sports. “They can’t drop as a result of they know one other participant is ready to come back in.”
But the Italian, in his first season at Stamford Bridge, performed down his group’s title possibilities.
“Arsenal, (Manchester) City and Liverpool most likely do not slide like (Chelsea defender Marc) Cucurella did. To be critical, we aren’t prepared, we’re removed from these groups however we give attention to day-by-day and making an attempt to enhance the group.”
The defeat is a disastrous end result for under-pressure Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou, whose facet hammered champions Manchester City 4-0 simply two weeks in the past.
“It is a sore one, a painful one,” mentioned the Australian, whose group are actually eleventh within the Premier League desk after their seventh defeat.
Arsenal held
Earlier, Bukayo Saka had a late winner dominated out for offside by a VAR evaluate because the Gunners’ four-match profitable streak was halted in west London.
Raul Jimenez fired Fulham into an early lead earlier than William Saliba levelled after one more Arsenal purpose from a nook.
“We are very disillusioned to not win the sport — total we completely dominated the sport from begin to finish,” Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta informed the BBC.
“We did all of the issues that we needed to do through the recreation and sadly we concede one purpose in a single shot. The means the group performed, the way in which the group needed to win, it was unbelievable.”
Arsenal had been nonetheless with out influential defensive pair Gabriel Magalhaes and Riccardo Calafiori by means of harm and Fulham uncovered a makeshift left facet of the Gunners’ backline to take the lead.
Kenny Tete’s ball in behind was pounced on by Jimenez, who drove ahead and fired brilliantly throughout David Raya into the far nook on 11 minutes.
Arsenal underlined their menace from set-pieces after they scored twice from corners to beat Manchester United 2-0 in midweek.
Yet for all their preparations, Fulham had been nonetheless powerless to stop the nook kings from putting once more.
Saliba stabbed dwelling Kai Havertz’s header from shut vary for Arsenal’s twenty third purpose from corners for the reason that starting of final season.
Another nook ought to have led to the winner however Thomas Partey nodded vast when unmarked from one other pinpoint Declan Rice supply.
Saka did head in on the again put up as stoppage time approached, however Gabriel Martinelli had strayed offside earlier than supplying the cross.
Ruud van Nistelrooy’s Leicester struck twice late on to disclaim Brighton in a 2-2 draw on the King Power.
Tariq Lamptey opened the scoring in spectacular vogue with a looping effort into the highest nook from outdoors the field and Yankuba Minteh seemed to have sealed the three factors for the Seagulls.
But Jamie Vardy began the comeback on 86 minutes earlier than teeing up Bobby De Cordova-Reid to grab some extent in stoppage time.
Bournemouth additionally scored twice within the dying minutes to disclaim struggling Ipswich a primary dwelling win within the high flight for 22 years in a 2-1 win at Portman Road.
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