chelsea played and won 3-1 as a visitor last Saturday’s match at the King Power Stadium.
Leicester city He faced the match with the intention of overtaking his league score after losing the last game against Southampton by a score of 1-0 and with a series of three consecutive defeats in the competition. Regarding the visiting team, chelsea came from beating 1-0 at home to Leeds United in the last match played.
Thanks to this result, the “Blues” team is tenth, while Leicester he is fifteenth at the end of the match.
The match started in an unbeatable way for the eleven of the “Blues”, which opened the light with a goal of Benjamin Chilwell in the 11th minute, but later the home team leveled the score, making it 1-1 thanks to a goal from Patson Daka at 39 minutes. The visiting team took the lead with a goal from Kai Havertz just before the final whistle, more precisely at minute 45, ending the first half with a score of 2-1.
After the break came the goal of chelseawho put more ground between the two thanks to a goal from Matthew Kovacic in the 78th minute, thus ending the match with the score of 3-1.
The coaches of both teams decided to use all available changes. In Leicester they entered Boubakary Soumare, Harvey Barnes, Head, Jamie Vardy there Jonny Evans replace Nampalys-Mendy, Patson Daka, Daniel Amartey, Kelechi Iheanacho there James Madisonwhile chelsea gave access to Conor Gallagher, Christian Pulisic, Trevoh Chalobah, Carney Chukwuemeka there Benoit Badiashile For Felix Joao, Benjamin Chilwell, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Mykhailo Mudryk there Wesley Fofana.
During the 90 minutes of the match, a total of five cards were seen. Leicester had to face the penalty of Wout Faes there Ricardo Pereira with a yellow card and expulsion from Wout Faes (2 yellow) with a red card, while the visitors suffered the penalty of Wesley Fofana there Marc Cucurella.
With 37 points, the team of Graham Potter was in tenth place in the table, while the team led by Brendan Rodgers he was in fifteenth position with 24 points at the end of the game.
the day after Leicester city will play against Brentford at home and chelsea will play his match against Everton in his stronghold.