Chelsea’s $228m gun suffers ‘nightmare’ debut; star left in agony: EPL Wrap
Mauricio Pochettino urged Chelsea to “believe in the process” after Michail Antonio’s superb strike and Enzo Fernandez’s penalty miss condemned the Blues to a 3-1 loss against West Ham.
But the turning point came when Fernandez’s penalty was saved by Alphonse Areola just before the break. “We create many chances and should have won the game with our first half. It was the frustration when we miss the penalty. We were playing well and we didn’t get the reward.Dating back to last season, Chelsea have won just five times in 31 league matches, while their only victory in their last 14 top-flight games came at Bournemouth in May.
But Areola plunged to his right to make a superb save from Fernandez’s tentative spot-kick, denying the Argentine midfielder his first goal for Chelsea.Antonio had just five touches in the first half but the West Ham striker made the most of a rare involvement in the 53rd minute. “Caicedo has had a nightmare since coming on. It’s a poor, lazy challenge,” Jamie Carragher said on Sky Sports of the incident.
Tipped to improve on last season’s strong finish, Villa were hammered 5-1 on Tyneside in a shockingly bad start to their Premier League campaign. “We needed to react like we did. We did a lot of things good but there are some moments we can do better.” As if that wasn’t bad enough, Dyche also had to contend with the sight of Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Alex Iwobi both coming off injured.“I won’t make any excuses. Really soft goals changed the feel of the stadium and the feel of our performance,” Dyche said.
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