Frank Lampard made a losing instrumentality to the Chelsea hot-seat arsenic Wolverhampton Wanderers eased their relegation worries with a hard-earned victory.
Chelsea fable Lampard was predictably fixed a rapturous reception from the travelling fans astatine Molineux pursuing his assignment arsenic interim caput manager 18 months aft being sacked from the role.
Yet the club's all-time grounds scorer was incapable to halt the mediocre signifier that led to Graham Potter's sacking arsenic mid-table Chelsea slumped to an 11th top-flight decision of the play aft failing to people for the 3rd successive game.
Wolves were connected the front-foot passim and deserved their triumph which came aft a saccharine decorativeness by Matheus Nunes, the Portugal midfielder's archetypal extremity for the nine since joining from Sporting Lisbon past August.
Nunes, who outgo a nine grounds £38m, bushed Kepa Arrizabalaga with a fierce effort from the tightest of angles aft an attempted headed clearance by Kalidou Koulibaly.
Joao Felix forced a prevention from Jose Sa but Chelsea were disappointing and stay 11th aft conscionable 2 wins successful 11 league games.
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Wolverhampton Wanderers
Squad number1Player nameJosé Sá
Squad number22Player nameNélson Semedo
Squad number15Player nameDawson
Squad number23Player nameKilman
Squad number24Player nameToti
Squad number27Player nameMatheus Nunes
Squad number35Player nameJoão Gomes
Squad number5Player nameLemina
Squad number10Player nameDaniel Podence
Squad number12Player nameMatheus Cunha
Squad number29Player nameDiego Costa
Squad number4Player nameCollins
Squad number11Player nameHwang Hee-chan
Squad number21Player nameSarabia
Squad number28Player nameJoão Moutinho
Squad number37Player nameTraoré
Chelsea
Squad number1Player nameArrizabalaga
Squad number24Player nameJames
Squad number33Player nameFofana
Squad number26Player nameKoulibaly
Squad number32Player nameCucurella
Squad number23Player nameGallagher
Squad number5Player nameFernández
Squad number8Player nameKovacic
Squad number17Player nameSterling
Squad number29Player nameHavertz
Squad number11Player nameJoão Félix
Squad number9Player nameAubameyang
Squad number10Player namePulisic
Squad number14Player nameChalobah
Squad number15Player nameMudryk
Squad number21Player nameChilwell
Line-ups
Wolves
Formation 4-4-2
- 1Sá
- 22Nélson Semedo
- 15Dawson
- 23Kilman
- 24Gomes
- 27NunesSubstituted forCollinsat 90+6'minutes
- 35João GomesBooked astatine 59mins
- 5LeminaBooked astatine 39minsSubstituted forTraoréat 74'minutes
- 10PodenceSubstituted forJoão Moutinhoat 64'minutes
- 12Matheus CunhaSubstituted forSarabiaat 75'minutes
- 29Diego CostaSubstituted forHwang Hee-chanat 63'minutes
Substitutes
- 4Collins
- 7Neto
- 11Hwang Hee-chan
- 21Sarabia
- 25Bentley
- 28João Moutinho
- 37Traoré
- 59Hodge
- 64Bueno
Chelsea
Formation 4-3-3
- 1Arrizabalaga
- 24James
- 33FofanaSubstituted forChalobahat 80'minutes
- 26Koulibaly
- 32CucurellaBooked astatine 49minsSubstituted forChilwellat 68'minutesBooked astatine 89mins
- 23GallagherBooked astatine 67mins
- 5Fernández
- 8KovacicBooked astatine 87mins
- 17SterlingBooked astatine 63minsSubstituted forMudrykat 68'minutes
- 29HavertzSubstituted forPulisicat 61'minutes
- 11João FélixSubstituted forAubameyangat 67'minutes
Substitutes
- 4Badiashile
- 9Aubameyang
- 10Pulisic
- 12Loftus-Cheek
- 14Chalobah
- 15Mudryk
- 16Mendy
- 20Zakaria
- 21Chilwell
Referee:Peter Bankes
Attendance:31,614
Live Text
Match ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Chelsea 0.
Second Half ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Chelsea 0.
Hand shot by Ben Chilwell (Chelsea).
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Nathan Collins replaces Matheus Nunes due to the fact that of an injury.
Delay over. They are acceptable to continue.
Delay successful lucifer due to the fact that of an wounded Matheus Nunes (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Ben Chilwell (Chelsea) near footed changeable from extracurricular the container is excessively high. Assisted by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Foul by Conor Gallagher (Chelsea).
João Gomes (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Ben Chilwell (Chelsea) is shown the yellowish card.
Kalidou Koulibaly (Chelsea) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Hwang Hee-Chan (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Nélson Semedo.
Mateo Kovacic (Chelsea) is shown the yellowish card.
Mateo Kovacic (Chelsea) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by João Gomes (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Delay over. They are acceptable to continue.
Delay successful lucifer (Chelsea).
Attempt blocked. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Chelsea) close footed changeable from the centre of the container is blocked. Assisted by Reece James with a cross.
Mykhailo Mudryk (Chelsea) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
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