Chelsea admitted a new setback at Fulham Stadium (1-2), this Thursday in the late match of the seventh day of the English Premier League, and drowned a little more in its doubts. For the first time with the Blues, Portuguese striker Joao Felix was sent off just before the hour mark.
Will Chelsea get a third coach in the same season? In any case, the pressure would inevitably mount on Graham Potter, who succeeded To German Thomas Tuchel on September 9. Because on Thursday in Fulham, the English coach has already suffered his fifth defeat (1-2) in twelve matches in the English Premier League (for only three draws and four wins), to which he added twice in the National Cup, the FA Cup and the League. Cup, each time by Manchester City (0-4) and (0-2).
Willian (Fulham) scores against his former teamSuffice it to say that the Champions League last 16 against Borussia Dortmund (February 15 and March 7) will be very costly for the Blues, and for Potter, if they hold out until then. Knowing that before the first leg, his team must face Crystal Palace, Liverpool, West Ham and … Fulham.
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Meanwhile, in this late game against the Cougars, Chelsea suffered two great indignities: seeing Willian, who opened the scoring (Chalobah’s goal, 25), with only his second goal of the season, and above all his own. See his latest promotion Joao Felix, On loan from Atletico MadridHe was logically fired for his first appearance. And this is for a poorly controlled outright tackle on Tete (58th place). Thus, Coulibaly’s equation (47) from the left from a free kick from a mountain that was blocked backwards from the post remained narrative and in vain. Because Fulham was able to take advantage of its numerical superiority to score Carlos Vinicius with a header on a perfect cross from Pereira (73). Thus driving the blues into crisis…
