Injury-hit Chelsea couldn’t catch the break it badly wants in a 0-0 draw at Bournemouth on Sunday and stayed within the backside half of the Premier League standings the place it completed final season.
Chelsea’s Conor Gallagher after the match(Action Images by way of Reuters)
Chelsea twice had pictures strike the body of Bournemouth’s aim and the 51st-minute free kick by Raheem Sterling bounced down from the bar onto the goal-line. Though defender Levi Colwill adopted as much as put the ball within the internet, he was dominated offside.
Nicolas Jackson’s shot within the thirteenth had struck the put up after exchanging passes with Ukraine winger Mykhailo Mudryk.
Chelsea wanted goalkeeper Robert Sanchez to protect the purpose with a save within the 79th from Dominic Solanke, the Bournemouth ahead who began his profession on the London membership.
One day after two Premier League video games had been determined with objectives deep into added time, Bournemouth and Chelsea couldn’t discover a aim within the eight minutes given them on the finish of the second half.
Time expired with Chelsea missing urgency in assault and was met with some boos from its followers.
Chelsea now has only one win in 5 league video games and is 14th within the league standings – a spot beneath Manchester United and one above Bournemouth which has but to win.
Injuries within the Chelsea squad – together with captain Reese James, midfielder Moises Caicedo and ahead Christopher Nkunku – meant regardless of the membership’s USD 1 billion spending spree up to now yr, coach Mauricio Pochettino crammed his substitutes bench with youngsters but to make their first-team debuts.
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