Chelsea claimed its first win underneath interim supervisor Frank Lampard with a 3-1 victory at Bournemouth within the Premier League on Saturday to snap a nine-match winless run in all competitions.
Late objectives from Benoit Badiashile and Joao Felix helped Chelsea transfer as much as eleventh with 42 factors whereas Bournemouth slipped to 14th, three factors behind the London facet having performed a recreation extra.
It was a welcome win for Lampard who had misplaced his first 5 video games in cost throughout his second stint whereas it was additionally Chelsea’s first win since early March.
“It feels great, we just wanted to put in a performance today. We haven’t been good enough recently so this was an important game for us. I think we performed well and deserved the win,” Conor Gallagher instructed Premier League Productions.
“Hopefully we can move forward and take confidence from it. It felt much better, everyone seemed more confident and we controlled the game. It was a good team performance and we just need to carry it on now.”
Bournemouth had two alternatives to take the lead within the first 5 minutes however the Chelsea defence stood agency earlier than midfielder Conor Gallagher scored with a well-timed header to present the customer the lead.
But Chelsea was pegged again when Bournemouth performed a pleasant sequence of one-touch passes for Ryan Christie to arrange Matias Vina, who curled his shot from the sting of the field previous Kepa Arrizabalaga and into the highest nook.
With Chelsea dominating early within the second half, Bournemouth’s Dominic Solanke went down within the field after a problem from Thiago Silva however they have been denied a penalty after VAR dominated the Brazilian received the ball first.
The determination to not award a penalty appeared to galvanise the house facet who compelled Kepa right into a save moments later from one other flowing transfer whereas an unmarked Dango Ouattara noticed his header from a nook go over the bar.
But within the 82nd minute, Chelsea capitalised on Bournemouth’s weak point on set-pieces this season when Hakim Ziyech delivered the ball from a free kick to the far put up the place Badiashile beat Neto to attain his first purpose for the membership.
That gave Chelsea a carry and it shortly made it 3-1 to seal the three factors when Raheem Sterling went on a driving run into the field earlier than poking the ball to fellow substitute Felix who completed with ease.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com