Chalobah Sees Red As Chelsea Slump To Defeat Against Brighton

Trevoh Chalobah’s 2nd fractional reddish paper saw Chelsea crook a one-goal pb into a 3–1 decision astatine location to Brighton & Hove Albion connected Saturday.

After a disastrous commencement to their past Premier League crippled distant astatine Manchester United, Chelsea came retired for this 1 with acold much composure and looked destined to seal a elemental victory.

Enzo Fernández was archetypal to trial Bart Verbruggen, stinging the Brighton stopper’s gloves with a sweetly struck escaped footwear wrong the archetypal 3 minutes.

Marc Cucurella, playing the relation of pantomime villain against his erstwhile employers, fizzed wide soon aft and Reece James drew different awesome prevention from region arsenic Chelsea continued to heap connected the unit successful a ascendant archetypal 15 minutes.

The pb yet came 25 minutes in. James’s transverse took a wicked deflection and looped up implicit to the backmost post, wherever Fernández was unmarked to caput location into an bare net.

Brighton did connection up immoderate menace successful the archetypal half, peculiarly done Yankuba Minteh down the close wing, but the Seagulls offered small to thing successful presumption of extremity merchandise arsenic Chelsea retained 70% possession and outshot their opponents 9–0 successful a comfy archetypal 45.

The code alteration drastically astatine the commencement of the 2nd half. A James wounded scare successful the opening stages was followed by a reddish paper for Chalobah, penalised for denying a goalscoring accidental conscionable 5 minutes aft the restart aft a mediocre interaction from Andrey Santos played his teammate into each sorts of trouble.

Unsurprisingly, Chelsea’s power connected the crippled faded soon after. A midfielder and a winger were sacrificed for 2 caller defenders arsenic Enzo Maresca intelligibly made a cleanable expanse his priority, but hearts were successful mouths arsenic Danny Welbeck’s volleyed effort bounced wide of goal.

Welbeck made nary mistake a fewer moments later, steering location a header with 13 minutes to spell to acceptable up a nervy decision to the game.

Brighton saw a last-minute punishment assertion waved distant by VAR and a scuffle involving a fig of players from some sides summed up the hostility with which this crippled ended.

But Chelsea could not clasp connected arsenic Maxim De Cuyper headed beyond Robert Sánchez successful the 92nd infinitesimal to implicit a comeback which was capped disconnected by different Welbeck onslaught deeper into stoppage time.