Chelsea 1-0 Leicester City: 4 talking points after Chelsea win over Leicester City in the second round of the Premier League tonight.
Chelsea and Leicester City met at the Stamford Bridge to play an illustrious game, but unfortunately, the only outcome of the game was a draw as the Foxes levelled the score with a late strike by Wilfred Ndidi.
Chelsea were looking sharp and it seemed that they will take three points today, and register first win for Frank Lampard for Chelsea as a manager and that too in front of the home ground.
However, destiny had different plans, as Chelsea lost two points, and seemed less of a threat in the second half of the game. Although, Chelsea’s defence was its saving grace. Kurt Zouma and Andreas Christensen were good and had a robust performance.
Mason Mount, on the other hand, had a great game and showed the reason behind Lampard’s never-ending trust for the youngster. Mount even scored the first goal of the game to give a lead to the Blues.
With this, Chelsea overall had a decent game, but it needs to learn how to end the games on a positive note. With this the Sportsrush discusses 4 talking points after Chelsea 1-1 Leicester City.
#1 Frank Lampard’s first-half show
This is the third consecutive match where Chelsea had the upper hand in the first half, and horrendous in the second half. All three times, Chelsea have failed to win the match, despite dominating the initial phase of the game.
Frank Lampard needs to address this concern and should solve it before Chelsea start losing enough points that the top-4 finish seems impossible for the Blues.
Chelsea were not able to absorb the pressure and were near to concede the second goal at several instances but luck favoured them and the game remained at 1-1, and the Blues could only register 1 point at home.
Many times, Chelsea looked vulnerable, and it looked as if they were scared of conceding goals, and it probably made the Blues nervous at times.
#2 Ndidi’s redemption
Wilfred Ndidi made a blunder in the first half of the game, after receiving a pass from Johnny Evans, he lost the ball to Mason Mount, who later scored to give Chelsea 1-0 lead.
Ndidi was devasted by his mistake as it was no less than a blunder. Later, Ndidi redeemed his mistake by scoring the equalizer to snatch a point away from Chelsea at the Stamford Bridge.
It was truly Ndidi wished to undo his mistake, and he was successful in it and his emotions displayed it.
#3 Oliver Giroud should have stayed longer
Oliver Giroud posed a constant threat to Leicester City throughout the match, and Chelsea could have done better if he had not gone at the 61st minute of the game.
With Tammy Abraham coming in, the Foxes looked calmer, and midfield was loose and advancing further, and kept making attacks to bring even more pressure to Chelsea.
For the Blues, there was nobody to hold the ball further, when Giroud went to the bench, and this certainly caused Chelsea 2 points.
#4 Leicester could have won if Maddison had remained calm
After scoring the equalizer, Leicester City came two or three times close to gain a lead in the scoreline but they failed to do it. The closest was when James Maddison dribbled past Chelsea’s defence to score the winner.
However, the English midfielder failed to win the game for his team, as nervousness on his face made him shot the ball beyond the goal-post, and the ball flew to the audience stand.
It was the perfect moment for Maddison to make his name, as he easily went past the Blues’ defence and Kepa Arrizabalaga was off-guard, and possibly could not have stopped the goal, but Maddison did not even see once before pushing the ball into the net.
This led to the English International missing the goal, and making Leicester City to be satisfied with only one goal and a point after the end of the 90 minutes.
