Leicester 1 Chelsea 2: Blues go just one point behind Man City with comfortable win that inflicts more misery on Foxes

ENZO MARESCA’S jet-lagged duo combined to marque his instrumentality to Leicester a victorious if not an awesome one.

The erstwhile Leicester brag went backmost to the nine wherever helium won past season’s Championship rubric and came distant with 3 points acknowledgment to goals successful each half.

Nicolas Jackson and skipper Enzo Fernandez person hardly touched down connected the Heathrow tarmac pursuing planetary work but shrugged disconnected the fatigue to clinch archetypal Premier League triumph three.

Striker Jackson has been distant successful Africa playing for Senegal successful African Cup of Nations qualifiers. Fernandez was with Argentina progressive successful World Cup action.

Yet they came to their manager’s rescue arsenic Chelsea’s weary-looking set of cosmopolitan  stars struggled against the upwind of Storm Bert to spot disconnected struggling City.

Jackson scored the archetypal connected 15 minutes and Fernandez wrapped it up with 15 to go. The effect keeps Chelsea firmly successful the apical 4 contempt a wobbly show connected the road.

Maresca is ever wary of his squad’s fittingness and fatigue levels aft an planetary break.

Fernandez successful peculiar was 1 of the past of his men backmost from playing for their respective countries aft 90 minutes for Argentina against Paraguay successful the aboriginal hours of Wednesday morning, UK time.

England guardant Cole Palmer played a afloat 90 minutes connected his instrumentality to enactment aft withdrawing from planetary work due to the fact that of a genu injury. As did defender Levi Colwill.

Palmer had a large accidental to people aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional but his goalbound changeable deed team-mate Noni Madueke and rolled wide.

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Maresca ever fears the archetypal fixture backmost pursuing a fortnight with his players dispersed acold and wide astir the globe.

So it volition beryllium a large alleviation to person travel done a achy aboriginal footwear disconnected with 3 points and to look from his instrumentality to the King Power Stadium triumphant.

City were ever going to beryllium up against it defensively but they were beauteous feeble going forwards excessively with 37-year-old Jamie Vardy starring the line.

However, contempt going a extremity down erstwhile Wout Faes could not rather wide the information comprehensively nether unit from Nicolas Jackson, truthful overmuch of their disappointing archetypal fractional came from mediocre passing and breakdowns successful the mediate third.

It didn’t assistance losing midfielder Harry Winks aft lone 11 minutes. The erstwhile Tottenham subordinate looked to person twisted his ankle falling awkwardly and was replaced by his aged White Hart Lane team-mate Oliver Skipp.

But Winks had been enjoying a agleam commencement to the crippled and for a squad nether the cosh similar metropolis to person a cardinal antheral travel disconnected truthful soon made the conflict uphill adjacent steeper.

Faes looked to beryllium the culprit erstwhile Maresca’s visitors went up 4 minutes aft Winks limped off.

His cumbersome effort astatine an overhead hook portion tangling with Jackson was risky.

The shot lone went arsenic acold arsenic Chelsea skipper Enzo Fernandez charging done and the Argentinian threaded the shot backmost done to Jackson to latch onto and prod the shot home.

City person present gone down successful the past six games. And with assurance debased and a comparative OAP up front, albeit a classy 1 successful vastly experienced Vardy, conceding archetypal is simply a large problem.

Marc Cucurella scored a 2nd for Chelsea but was offside. But however City stopped from being overrun is worthy of praise and a interest for Maresca that his squad could not decorativeness this crippled disconnected agelong earlier fractional time.

Noni Madueke missed a large accidental to treble the pb with a volley wide, Joao Felix went wide and past precocious with different chances. 

No wonderment Maresca remains perpetually captious of his team’s attacking prowess adjacent though it sits comfortably successful the Premier League apical four.

For failing to termination disconnected games leads to hairy moments similar the mates that the location managed to muster conscionable earlier fractional time.

Both Kasey McAteer and Wilfred Ndidi should person enactment Chelsea keeper Robert Sanchez nether acold much unit than they did with their shots but it was inactive a informing that The Blues had enactment to do.

Palmer should person enactment the seal connected the crippled connected 54 minutes erstwhile Cucurella chipped a changeable into the box.

Jackson’s archetypal clip header was parried by keeper Mads Hermansen but different unforced mistake by Leicester’s defence near Fernandez unmarked to beauteous overmuch autumn forwards and caput the shot into an bare nett from 5 yards.

It is present 5 games without a triumph for City adjacent though they were handed a late, precocious lifeline from the punishment spot.

Chelsea sub Romeo Lavia tripped Bobby Decordova-Reid and Jordan Ayew rolled location his spot kick.