The Chelsea (4th) settled in qualifying positions for the Champions League after beating a direct rival, the Everton (5th) in game of Matchday 27 of the Premier League. James Rodríguez and Yerry Mine didn’t play.
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With this win, the ‘Blues’ score 50 points, four more than Everton, which has one game less, and five more than Tottenham and West Ham, which will close the date next Monday with the reception of Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds (11th).
It is the eleventh consecutive game without a defeat for Chelsea, that is to say since the arrival of the German coach on the bench Thomas Tuchel, and the ninth without conceding a goal.
True to the image of a disciplined team and in control of the game Chelsea has given since coaching Tuchel, the locals were never overtaken by an Everton who came out after three consecutive victories.
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The ‘Blues’ dominated the game looking for some clear scoring opportunities and could have increased the number of goals scored as international goalkeeper Jordan Pickford It wouldn’t have been so successful to stop the shots from Marcos Alonso (41) or Timo Werner (80 and 85).
The one who did stand out was German Kai Havertz, who finally started to justify what Chelsea paid last summer (boreal) by taking part in the first goal, although the one who threw the ball into the net of his own goal was the defensive one. Am Godfrey (21), and caused the penalty that transformed Jorginho in the final 2-0 (65).
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