PREMIER LEAGUE : CHELSEA VS TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR – 03/04/2025 (PHOTO – FERNANDEZ CELEBRATES)

IT WAS MUCH-OF-A-MUCHNESS IN PASSES AND POSSESSION BETWEEN CHELSEA AND TOTTENHAM IN THEIR MATCH AT STAMFORD BRIDGE LAST NIGHT! WITH CHELSEA MAKING 437 PASSES, WITH AN 85% PASS ACCURACY (AND 50% POSSESSION), AND TOTTENHAM, 438 PASSES, WITH AN 88% PASS ACCURACY (AND ALSO 50% POSSESSION.) CHELSEA’S PLAYERS ‘PLAYED WITH GUSTO’, HAVING 11 SHOTS, WITH 5 ON TARGET, AND IT WAS, INDEED, ONE OF GUSTO’S POWERFUL SHOTS, WHICH JUST WENT WIDE, WHICH ADDED TO THEIR FRUSTRATIONS IN THE FIRST-HALF. AND CAICEDO’S GOAL (WHICH WAS RULED OUT FOR BEING MARGINALLY OFFSIDE) WAS A SIGHT TO BEHOLD, AND WAS DEFINITELY ONE TO BE PROUD OF! (OFFSIDE OR NOT!) BUT IT WAS THE SHEER DELIGHT OF WATCHING CUCURELLA PASS TO PALMER, AND HIS LONG PASS OVER TO FERNANDEZ WHICH ENDED UP RIGHT ON THE END OF HIS BOOT, WHICH WILL SURELY BE THE STAR MOMENT OF THE EVENING. IT WAS CLASS! AND ALLOWED FERNANDEZ TO CHIP THE BALL INTO THE BACK-OF-THE-NET WITH THE GREATEST OF EASE! IT WAS A VERY FEISTY MATCH, WITH 5 YELLOW-CARDS-A-PIECE, AND MUCH PHYSICALITY THROUGHOUT BETWEEN THESE TWO OLD RIVALS, WITH TOTTENHAM TENACIOUSLY EYEING AN EQUALISER.

INDEED, TOTTENHAM’S SARR (WHOM THE TRAVELLING FANS HAD NOT BEEN HAPPY ABOUT BEING SUBBED FOR BERGVALL) POWERED IN WHAT LOOKED TO BE A SUPERB EQUALISER, (ON FIRST SIGHT), BUT ON REFLECTION (BY VAR) INCLUDED SOME “CLEAR AND OBVIOUS ARGEY-BARGEY” BY SARR ON CAICEDO, INVOLVING SARR’S STUDS!

SO IT WAS AN EVENTFUL, DRAMATIC AND THOROUGHLY ENTERTAINING MATCH, WITH THE SKILLS INVOLVED FROM BOTH SIDES (WHETHER THEY AMOUNTED TO GOALS OR NOT), DEFINITELY REMAINING IN ONE’S PSYCHE. SUCH IS THE NATURE OF THIS BEAUTIFUL GAME! THE MATCH CULMINATED IN A 1 – 0 TO CHELSEA, WHO NOW PROGRESS INTO THE TOP FOUR OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE!

PREMIER LEAGUE : CHELSEA VS TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR – 03/04/2025

WORDS BY AMANDA WATERS