We believe that tonight he got the answer to the question of whose team Chelsea really is and how long he can live without Palmer at this point. Konkrento couldn’t do anything tonight. Although he was alive until the beginning of the second half, in the middle of the first half with a bit of luck he also hit the post – the ball after a cross Nicholas Jackson refused from Gabriela and hit the outer part of the goal frame – in 90 and a half minutes, Chelsea failed to truly prevent the best defense of the English championship without the player who participated in scoring almost half of the Blues’ goals in the Premier League. He even struggled to keep the ball in the opponent’s half for a long time, so much so that the fans of the home team at the finish, when the visiting footballers connected a dozen passes, sarcastically shouted ‘ole’.
Far from it Palmer’s absence the only reason for tonight’s defeat – the most convincing ever by Arsenal – because Poketino he couldn’t count on either Rhys James, Little Gusta, Ben Chilwell, Leviathan Colville, Christopher Enkunku.. But most of them were not on the field even in the October clash between the two teams. Cole Palmer yes, pride scored a goal and chelsea had a two goal advantage until the 77th minute. In the end he had to settle for a point, although the point is that he was at least competitive. Tonight, a completely different picture, a game of adults and children.
The double shooters had the most fun in that game Ben White and Kai Havertza tandem that hit the net on four occasions in the beginning of the second half in a space of only 18 minutes Đorđe Petrovićalthough the question is how the match would have continued and whether Arsenal would have celebrated with this ease if the rival had not started in the early stages of the match – the fourth minute was played Leandro Trosar. The Belgian, who was brought in in the middle of the previous season to offer more options to Mikel Arteta in the championship race with Manchester City, became one of the more reliable players of the Spanish expert at the end of the current season, so in the previous two matches he got a chance before the once ‘untouchable’ Gabriela Martinelli.
Fully deserved since in the first match of the quarter-finals of the Champions League against Bayern, after coming off the bench, he scored the equalizer, against Brighton also as a reserve, and only three days ago he announced the victory over Wolverhampton with another goal. Chelsea weak, only managed to test once David Rajawith the fact that he missed the best chance Nicholas Jackson at the end of the hour when he shot wide from the edge of the box. At that time it was already 3:0… If it’s any consolation, they could have gone even worse, because Declan Rice hit the post in the 83rd minute, a Petrovic – recorded a total of five saves – compensation was saved by zicer reserves Gabriel Martinelli…
After 34 games played in the championship, Arsenal has 77 points, three more than Liverpool and four more than Manchester City, with the current champion having two games less. Chelsea is ninth with 47.
PREMIER LEAGUE – BACK MATCHES OF THE 29TH ROUND
Tuesday
Arsenal – Chelsea 5:0 (1:0)
/Trossar 4, White 52, 70, Havertz 57, 65/
Wednesday
8.45pm: (2.85) Wolverhampton (3.50) Bournemouth (2.60)
21.00: (2.80) Crystal Palace (3.45) Newcastle (2.45)
21.00: (8.00) Everton (4.80) Liverpool (1.45)
21.00: (1.32) Manchester United (6.00) Sheffield United (9.50)
Thursday
21.00: (7.25) Brighton (4.60) Manchester City (1.43)
***quotas are subject to change
