Post Match report for the Chelsea game - Wednesday, 29th December 2021

PREMIER LEAGUE 21/22: Chelsea V Brighton - 29/12/21, P18.


* * * * * ALBION HALTS GOALLESS RUN UP FULHAM ROAD * * * * *


RESULT: 1-1 ~ Welbeck . (h-t 1-0) . . . . SHAPE: 5-4-1


VENUE: Stamford Bridge, London SW6 - ninth away match of eighteen fixtures to date . Wed 7:30pm.
PRE-MATCH: Xmas was over but New Year beckoned. Whether Brighton fans would enjoy open-air live Prem entertainment during forthcoming winter months was open to conjecture. Meanwhile devoted made hay and extended endless summer.
WEATHER: very mild evening . . . GATE: tba . . . KIT: all aqua.

GRAHAM POTTER held a conviction that by playing the best you learn and also about yourself to boot. Tonight would further be a test of how far he has come strategically and measure level of self belief.
GP made alterations during this busy festive schedule . Veltman, Bissouma & March returned to start.
INJURY: 5 Dunk, 11 Trossard . . SQUAD: 7 Connolly, 27 Locadia, 28 Roberts.


TEAM . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sanchez
. 2 Lamptey, 34 Veltman, 33 Burn, 3 Cucurella, 20 March
. . . 15 Moder, 8 Bissouma, 14 Lallana, 10 Mac Allister
. . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Maupay

SUBS: 12 Mwepu (66), 18 Welbeck (80), 17 Alzate (88)
BENCH: 23 Steele, 4 Webster, 24 Duffy, 13 Gross, 30 Richards, 58 Ferguson.


GOALS: 1-0 - 28 . hosts simple corner routine into their big striker is a mismatch with his little marker... VAR check, one nil.
1-1 - 91 . WELBECK heads a very late equaliser after good work on the left by March and Cucurella.


INCIDENTS: 7 hosts effort, 11 Lamptey miss, 16 hosts hit post, 17 Sanchez takes, 18 Cucurella dig, 19 Sanchez holds, 24 hosts injury, 26 Sanchez parries, 27 hosts sub, 32 away pressure, 36 Mac A effort, 37 Bissouma on target, 38 Lallana pop, 39 Lallana miss, 41 hosts yellow, 43 Lamptey over, 45+ Mac A pop,
46 hosts sub, 48 Moder over, 49 hosts off target, 52 Mac A f-k, 54 Bissouma dig, 56 Veltman blocks, 56 Maupay wide, 58 hosts yellow, 60 Maupay effort, 61 Lamptey miss, 64 hosts sub, 65 Lallana miss, 67 hosts sub & pressure, 74 Sanchez holds, 86 Veltman blocked, 87 Burn blocks, 88 hosts late pressure.

YELLOWS: 81 Bissouma.

CHANGES: 66 Mwepu for Lamptey . 80 Welbeck for Mac Allister . 88 Alzate for Moder.


FIRST HALF: giving away a soft goal at a basic set piece meant visitors were chasing the game without implementing the game-plan fundamental of preventing hosts scoring prior to the interval.
The away outfit toiled to convert live chances but old habits of failure to score were as a chronic addiction that requires very urgent treatment.
SECOND HALF: Ditto previous sentence as stated - past the three quarters mark approaching final phases.
More huffing & puffing ensued as subs appeared. Personnel & shape shifted, although to no avail with regard to goal-scoring opportunities in ninety minutes.
Hosts upped the ante at the death then travellers finally delivered in stoppage.


NUMBERS: poss 47%-53%, on target 5-6, off target 6-12, corners 10-8,
fouls 14-7, yellows 4-1, subs 3-3, shape 3421-3421 . . . . . gd-1 pt24 po10

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