Premier League: Chelsea register slender win over Fulham; Leicester bounce to 2nd

Image Source : AP Mount’s 78th-minute aim in a 1-0 victory capped a man-of-the-match efficiency the place Chelsea’s extra high-profile gamers once more got here up quick towards Fulham.
Four months into the season and Chelsea supervisor Frank Lampard seems no nearer to understanding his finest lineup following a $300 million offseason spending spree that delivered him a squad bursting with high quality.
One participant he is aware of he can’t do with out is Mason Mount.

The England worldwide appeared to be the person with essentially the most to lose popping out of a summer time when Kai Havertz, Hakim Ziyech and Timo Werner arrived at Stamford Bridge at nice expense so as to add competitors to the attacking midfield and ahead spots.
But there was Mount on Saturday, beginning for Chelsea for the twelfth straight English Premier League recreation — he has performed 90 minutes in all of them — and grabbing a badly wanted winner for Lampard towards Fulham at Craven Cottage.
Mount’s 78th-minute aim in a 1-0 victory capped a man-of-the-match efficiency the place Chelsea’s extra high-profile gamers once more got here up quick towards a staff which performed all the second half with 10 males, following the Forty fourth-minute sending-off of U.S. worldwide Antonee Robinson.
Werner got here off the bench within the seventy fifth and squandered a wonderful, one-on-one likelihood in stoppage time, summing up a striker wanting confidence after one aim in two months for membership and nation.
Havertz, signed for $92 million and supposedly a direct risk to Mount, by no means obtained onto the sector in an indication that he’s nonetheless not absolutely trusted by Lampard.
Ziyech was substituted after 75 minutes, having provided little.
Mount was there, after all, till the top. He is a trusted lieutenant of Lampard, who had the younger, hard-working Englishman with him when supervisor of Derby County within the second-tier Championship within the 2018-19 season.
“His quality and attitude is brilliant,” Lampard stated of Mount, who has began 16 of Chelsea’s 18 video games — second solely to N’Golo Kante.
Mount’s aim got here when he drilled house a unfastened ball from a central place inside the world after Fulham goalkeeper Alphonse Areola scooped away a cross, and it introduced Chelsea solely its second win in its final seven league matches.
That poor latest run plunged Chelsea to ninth place and prompted scrutiny on Lampard, the membership nice who’s in simply his third 12 months in senior soccer administration and dealing with big expectations this season.

“I won’t say I was blown away with the performance,” he stated.
CELEBRATING ALONE
Also beneath scrutiny this weekend are goal-scoring gamers, with the British authorities having advised groups to keep away from shut contact comparable to hugging and kissing throughout celebrations because the nation battles the coronavirus pandemic and stays in lockdown.
One participant who caught to the protocols was James Maddison, who scored Leicester’s first aim in its 2-0 win over Southampton and responded by waving away his approaching teammates and applauding himself repeatedly.
Harvey Barnes netted the second aim in second-half stoppage time at King Power Stadium.
Leicester jumped into second place with a joint-best eleventh victory of the marketing campaign, splitting chief Manchester United and champion Liverpool forward of their much-anticipated match at Anfield on Sunday.
FIRST WIN
Sam Allardyce is understood for his acts of escapology as a soccer supervisor, and it is likely to be his biggest feat but if he is ready to hold West Bromwich Albion within the Premier League.
A month after taking cost of the relegation-threatened staff, “Big Sam” — as he’s extensively recognized — obtained his first win at Wolverhampton 3-2 in a Midlands derby. Matheus Pereira scored the winner together with his second penalty of the sport.
West Brom stayed second from backside however moved to inside 5 factors of security.
“If you win two on the trot at this time of year, it’s massive,” Allardyce stated, “because it puts the fear of God up the teams above us … we have given ourselves a three-point platform.”
Burnley is the staff sitting simply above the underside three, in seventeenth place, after dropping to West Ham 1-0 courtesy of Michail Antonio’s aim.
Brighton jumped a spot and some extent above Burnley by additionally successful at Leeds 1-0, with Neal Maupay scoring a well-worked staff aim within the seventeenth.