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Chelsea Talby strikes a dramatic stoppage-time winner Sunderland speechless chelsea With a 2–1 win at Stamford Bridge.
The 20-year-old Morocco international burst into the box without a mark to sweep home after Brian Brobby got the ball on his own in front of two defenders, causing a confused scene among the away supporters in the Shed End.
The game was a fierce contest, but if Chelsea have ambitions to move on from last season’s fourth-place finish, this is the kind of battle they will have to learn how to approach.
Sunderland were their equal for a long time, and few teams since then can Enzo Maresca Coming here and looking so comfortable on the ball, so ready and able to attack Chelsea.
they fell behind Alejandro Garnacho Before the game had a chance to settle, a quick breakaway down the left was finished by the £40m summer signing for his first Blues goal.
Maresca had said he was not ready to jump on the long throw-in bandwagon, but Sunderland showed they had an understanding of the top-flight’s latest attacking trend to equalize through top-scorer Wilson Isidore, who was creating chaos inside the box after Nordy Mukiele’s launch.
Chelsea’s first-half game plan was simple but not necessarily effective – drawing the ball wide to Sunderland and then turning the play over at the far post, although their opponents were sufficiently on the road not to allow gaps to appear easily.
The only deviation from that blueprint cost Chelsea their goal. pedro neto Gained possession in midfield and passed the ball to Garnacho on the left, who ran around Mukiele perhaps too easily before slipping his finish through the legs of Robin Roefs.
Garnacho was playing his best-ever 45 minutes in blue, but at the other end Neto was struggling to escape the attentions of the unassailable Reinaldo Mandava, who was tearing apart Chelsea’s right flank.
In fact their greatest threat seems to arise from here mark cucurellaMoving three times down the left and stun Sunderland with his presence inside their box.
Maresca said this week that if he ever became a disciple of the long throw he would call upon former Stoke midfielder Rory Delap, but Regis Le Bris had his own weapon in the shape of Mukiele. It was his powerful launch that made its way to Bertrand Traoré, whose shot hit Joao Pedro and ricocheted off Isidore, who scored the equaliser.
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Estevao Willian was sent on to try to give Chelsea some blow on the right, but it was a more experienced hand who gave them the next chance, reece james Beat Enzo Le Fe and cross for Cucurella, who took the ball off his head with a brilliant intervention from Rofes.
A draw would have been a fair result. Talbi’s late completion made it notable.