“We’ve bought our Chelsea again,” sang the away finish at St Mary’s final night time as Chelsea wrapped up one other spectacular, goal-filled victory to the tune of 5-1 over Southampton. In reality, that ultimate rating flattered the house aspect: we might’ve scored ten; we ended with 5 whereas nonetheless underperforming our record-breaking 5.29 xG metric.
Chelsea now lead the Premier League in objectives scored and are second in goal-difference solely behind league-leaders Liverpool. We’re scoring on common over two objectives per recreation and conceding only a hair over one on the similar time. An wonderful recipe for fulfillment.
Enzo Maresca’s not one to get caught up within the emotion of all of it, however his grasp plan is producing the outcomes we count on.
“Our goal and why we work day by day [is] to maintain [the fans] blissful. Tonight was an excellent feeling and particularly the one which they’ll see Chelsea is again, that is the necessary factor.”
“We are centered on [the performances] for the reason that begin. I believe that the outcomes, for certain, helps lots; calms down a bit little bit of noise across the membership. It’s a superb feeling particularly to see the followers blissful as a result of after the final two years […] The feeling from them now’s good and it’s a good feeling additionally for us.”
“[And] it’s a superb feeling that every one [the players] may be concerned within the objectives. [And] I believe there are simply three or 4 groups which have conceded lower than us. So we’re very blissful.”
Of course it helped that Southampton performed a person down for over half the sport, however even earlier than that little bit of silliness from their captain, Jack Stephens, pulling Marc Cucurella’s hair and never getting away with it as a result of Mike Dean wasn’t the VAR, Chelsea had dominated and had been already up 3-1 by that time.
There’s restricted glory in beating up on the worst crew within the league, however as the primary couple of minutes served to remind us, each crew may be harmful within the Premier League.
“I’m very proud of the 5 we scored however I’m not blissful concerning the first 10 or quarter-hour after we struggled. The cause why we struggled is as a result of we ready the sport to press them man-to-man however within the first 15 or 20 minutes, we weren’t urgent them man-to-man. This is a crew that if you happen to don’t go man-to-man, then you definately battle to get well the ball.
“Then after that, we adjusted that and the sport was significantly better. But we might rating extra, however 5 objectives is sufficient.”
-Enzo Maresca; supply: Football.London
Let’s hope we saved some objectives for Spurs on Sunday!
