Chelsea regain the winning streak in the English Premier League

Chelsea restored the winning streak in the English Premier League, by defeating its guest, Bournemouth, 2-0, in the seventeenth stage.

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German Kai Havertz relieved the pressure on his coach, Graham Potter, by leading Chelsea to a first victory in the last six stages, and came at the expense of its guest, Bournemouth, 2-0, in the seventeenth stage of the English Football League.

Chelsea entered the first meeting after stopping for the Qatar World Cup against the background of five consecutive stages, without winning, including its fall in the last three matches at the hands of Brighton “1-4” and its leading neighbor Arsenal “zero-1 at home” and Newcastle “zero-1”. In addition to losing 2-0 to Manchester City in the third round of the League Cup.

These results put the new coach Potter in an unenviable position, but it seems that the downtime benefited the team and succeeded in achieving its first victory since defeating Aston Villa 2-0 on October 16, and the seventh for the season, raising its tally to 24 points in eighth place, with a goal difference behind Brighton.

On the other hand, Bournemouth suffered its eighth defeat of the season, so its balance froze at 16 points after a match that it actually lost half an hour before its start, by falling behind in the 16th minute through Havertz, who pounced on a cross from Raheem Sterling and converted it into the net, before he attended the ball for the second goal that he scored. Mason Mount, with a shot from the outskirts of District 24.

Chelsea’s joy was not complete, as he lost the efforts of his full back, Reece James, at the beginning of the second half to injury, and he had just returned to the team after he had been away from him since October 11 due to a knee injury he suffered against Milan, Italy, in the Champions League, which prevented him from participating with the national team. England in the World Cup in Qatar, who was bid farewell to the “Three Lions” in the quarter-finals by France.

Despite his awakening at the end of the match and threatening the goal of Spanish goalkeeper Kepa Arisabalaga on several occasions, Bournemouth was unable to reach the net and return to the atmosphere of the match, so that the first half goal would be decisive in giving Chelsea revenge on its guest who dropped the London club in his recent visit to Stamford Bridge in December 2019 “1-0”.