Leicester City 1-3 Chelsea: Blues win again to leave Foxes near drop zone

Kai Havertz is Chelsea's apical scorer this play connected 8 goals successful each competitions

Chelsea's mini-revival continued with a 3rd triumph successful a enactment arsenic they consigned struggling Leicester City to a 5th consecutive defeat.

Chelsea's Joao Felix and Leicester's Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall deed the woodwork successful the abstraction of 2 minutes, past Felix had a extremity ruled retired by the video adjunct referee for offside.

Patson Daka rifled location an fantabulous equaliser aft Ricardo Pereira won the shot disconnected the dawdling Felix extracurricular the box.

But Kai Havertz pounced six minutes into first-half wounded clip with an fantabulous dinked decorativeness from Enzo Fernandez's clever aerial ball.

Mykhailo Mudryk thought helium had his archetypal extremity for the Blues aft the interruption but his effort was disallowed for offside.

Mateo Kovacic sealed the triumph arsenic helium volleyed successful from Mudryk's header.

The sliding Foxes, who ended with 10 men pursuing Wout Faes' precocious dismissal for a 2nd booking, present conscionable beryllium 1 constituent extracurricular the relegation zone.

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Are Chelsea redeeming their season?

Chelsea person present despatched Leeds, Dortmund and Leicester successful the abstraction of 8 days - having failed to triumph successful the erstwhile six games dispersed implicit 5 weeks.

This ended their worst tally without an distant triumph since 2000-01, having failed to triumph successful their past 10 games connected the roadworthy since October.

Graham Potter volition beryllium hoping this is the turning constituent aft a hard commencement successful his archetypal relation astatine 1 of Europe's biggest teams. They are inactive lone 10th but present beryllium conscionable 2 points disconnected a imaginable European place.

They led from their archetypal large accidental erstwhile Chilwell met Kalidou Koulibaly's transverse to smash home, a extremity helium celebrated against his erstwhile employers.

It could person been adjacent amended with Felix clipping a changeable past Danny Ward which deed the post, past uncovering the nett from Ruben Loftus-Cheek's cross. With everyone backmost astatine the centre ellipse acceptable to restart, it was ruled retired by the VAR due to the fact that Felix was offside.

Havertz did enactment them backmost into the pb with a clever decorativeness from Fernandez's ball.

The £89m Ukraine guardant Mudryk sped distant from Leicester's defence to slot successful but helium was ruled outside. Not agelong aft helium had his archetypal assistance successful English shot arsenic Havertz crossed from the close and Mudryk headed down for Kovacic to lash in.

The extremity was checked by the VAR for a imaginable Havertz offside but the extremity was given.

Pressure grows connected Rodgers?

Leicester's play is ridiculously streaky. They started the play terribly and past went connected a large tally earlier the World Cup. Then they mislaid their archetypal 4 Premier League games aft the break, earlier going 3 unbeaten and present losing 4 successful a enactment (five including the FA Cup decision by Blackburn).

This latest diminution has taken them to wrong touching region of the relegation portion and they were booed disconnected astatine full-time.

Five losses successful a enactment is their worst tally since November to December 2014. They person suffered 16 Premier League defeats successful a play for lone the 2nd clip - the astir Rodgers has ever mislaid successful a league play successful his managerial career.

Not taking chances has been 1 of their issues this play - and they had 17 shots present (to Chelsea's 12), but lone netted once.

James Maddison was 1 of their prima performers again with 5 shots, 2 connected target, and 3 chances created. But nary ended up successful the net.

He should person had an assistance erstwhile his free-kick landed connected the caput of Daniel Amartey successful beforehand of an unfastened extremity but the defender someway missed.

Dewsbury-Hall cracked a deflected changeable disconnected the space of barroom and station from 25 yards out.

The chances continued successful the 2nd fractional with Harry Souttar having an effort cleared disconnected the enactment by Conor Gallagher and Dewsbury-Hall mis-kicking erstwhile helium had an casual accidental from six yards out.

Their misery was compounded erstwhile Faes lunged successful connected Carney Chukwuemeka and was shown his 2nd yellowish card.

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