The return of Portugal’s Joao Félix and the presence of Argentina’s Enzo Fernández as the pivot of the midfield is still not enough to beat Chelsea, who suffered a gray draw at home in the London derby against West Ham, who are fighting to get away from the relegation zone of the English league.
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Joao reigns, but still does not reign. For the Ukrainian Mykhailo Mudryk (100 million euros) or even Enzo Fernández himself (121 million), the Portuguese is the boss of this new Chelsea – the one who has five winter reinforcements in his eleven not older than 22 years for whom he has paid more than 250 million euros , but it lacks continuity to be decisive.
With freedom to move all over the pitch and an interventionism he didn’t have at Atlético, the entire play of Graham Potter’s team is structured around the Portuguese, who gave a first-half recital; He scored a goal -after a great pass from Enzo Fernández-, another was disallowed, he threw free kicks, corner kicks…
Joao had time to make up for his sour debut in the Premiership – sent off 58 minutes against Fulham – but Chelsea maintain imbalances that still prevent them from capturing the huge talent they are amassing on the pitch. Mudryk often only looks ahead – and suffers cucurella in defense – and Enzo’s weight as a pivot is still occasional.
West Ham, weighed down by standings, were startled by their rival’s outburst and by the injury of Brazil’s Lucas Paquetá on the 15th minute, but they reacted before the half hour mark and leveled the score thanks to the opportunism of Emerson Palmieri – former of Chelsea– and he came out alive thanks to some good interventions from Lukas Fabianski from shots by Noni Madueke and Joao Félix himself.
Then David Moyes, who is one win away from Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger as the only coaches with at least 250 Premier League wins, found a way to beat the Portuguese and the Chelsea he lost control of the game in a second half in which only the VAR, which canceled a Soucek goal in the 82nd minute for offside from Declan Rice in the previous shot, saved him from a significant setback, to save a point that led to him wandering around the center of the table.
Source: El heraldo
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