{"id":12669,"date":"2023-12-04T03:18:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T00:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/12669\/chelsea-3-2-brighton-hove\/"},"modified":"2023-12-04T03:18:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T00:18:02","slug":"chelsea-3-2-brighton-hove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=12669","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea 3-2 Brighton & Hove Albion (3 Dec, 2023) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea 3-2 Brighton & Hove Albion (3 Dec, 2023) Game Analysis\u060c<\/p>\n

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Enzo Fernandez and Levi Colwill's first Premier League goals at Chelsea earned the 10-man home side a 3-2 victory over Brighton & Hove Albion on Sunday at rain-soaked Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n

Chelsea played the entire second half with one player down after captain Conor Gallagher received two yellow cards, but World Cup winner Fernandez of Argentina kept them in front with a goal in each half. -time.<\/p>\n

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Fernandez, who had only scored in the League Cup, headed home a superb kick from defender Benoit Badiashile in the 17th minute.<\/p>\n

Colwill, on loan at Brighton last season, doubled the lead four minutes later thanks to a headed pass from Nicolas Jackson. It was the former Chelsea youth player's first senior goal for his side, but he chose not to celebrate in front of the traveling supporters.<\/p>\n

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Enzo Fernandez's goals were his first since scoring against AFC Wimbledon in the Carabao Cup in August.<\/figcaption>
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Chelsea looked in control, but Brighton pulled back two minutes from half-time thanks to a curling shot from Facundo Buonanotte, before the home side had captain Gallagher sent off by Craig Pawson just before half-time for a second yellow card after a sliding tackle on the former Chelsea. his teammate Billy Gilmour.<\/p>\n

Brighton pressed Chelsea in numbers early in the second half, but substitute James Milner was unable to keep up with Mykhailo Mudryk on the counter and brought him down. After a six-minute delay for a VAR check, Fernandez scored his second from the penalty spot in the 65th minute.<\/p>\n

Brighton's Jo\u00e3o Pedro made sure of a nervy final minute of added time by scoring with a deflected header in the 92nd minute.<\/p>\n

They peppered Chelsea's goal during the hectic final 10 minutes of injury time and Chelsea had Robert S\u00e1nchez to thank for keeping the score under control.<\/p>\n

Pascal Gross had three good chances saved by the Spanish goalkeeper in normal time and he also saved a shot from Jo\u00e3o Pedro in the 99th minute.<\/p>\n

A final twist in the tail sent Pawson to the VAR monitor for a second time after pointing out a penalty for a Colwill handball as Chelsea desperately defended with every player behind the ball.<\/p>\n

Replays showed the Chelsea man<\/a> was hit in the face rather than the arm by the ball and the decision was overturned.<\/p>\n

The result lifted Mauricio Pochettino's Chelsea to 10th in the table, three points behind eighth-placed Brighton.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chelsea 3-2 Brighton & Hove Albion (3 Dec, 2023) Game Analysis\u060c Enzo Fernandez and Levi Colwill's first Premier League goals at Chelsea earned the 10-man home side a 3-2 victory over Brighton & Hove Albion on Sunday at rain-soaked Stamford Bridge. Chelsea played the entire second half with one player down after captain Conor Gallagher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6926,727,5330,2687,5539,246,6925],"class_list":["post-12669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-albion","tag-analysis","tag-brighton","tag-chelsea","tag-dec","tag-game","tag-hove"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12670,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12669\/revisions\/12670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}