Raheem Sterling hailed 10-man Chelsea’s “passion and commitment” after scoring each targets of their 2-1 Premier League win in opposition to Leicester.
Sterling’s first targets for Chelsea fc following his £50million summer season change from Manchester City got here within the second half after Conor Gallagher’s Twenty eighth-minute dismissal.
Thomas Tuchel’s aspect bounced again from final week’s 3-0 defeat at Leeds with their second win of the season and moved as much as sixth within the desk.
Sterling informed Chelsea’s official web site: “It was a massive three points and one that we needed, especially off the back of last weekend.
“Even going down to 10 men, the boys showed a lot of passion and commitment to get the job done and it was a good win for us. It was a big team performance and everyone played their part.”
Sterling gave Chelsea a Forty seventh-minute lead with a deflected effort from the sting of the world and turned dwelling Reece James’ cross on the far publish simply after the hour mark.
Chelsea head coach Tuchel was serving a touchline ban following his pink card within the latest 2-2 draw in opposition to Tottenham.
Gallagher was dismissed on Saturday after two yellow playing cards within the house of six minutes, each for challenges on Leicester’s Harvey Barnes.
Sterling, denied a hat-trick by Foxes goalkeeper Danny Ward late on, added: “It’s always difficult when you go down to 10 men, but it just showed how hard the boys worked for victory.
“The defenders were excellent in stopping Leicester and that ran right through the team, everybody worked hard for one another and you could see how much it meant to all the boys.
“It’s teams that win games and everyone pulled their weight today. Edou (Mendy) made some big saves and Kai (Havertz) led from the front, working his socks off to defend high up the pitch.”
Leicester stay winless and sit second from backside after 4 matches, however created sufficient possibilities to have left Stamford Bridge with some extent.
Daniel Amartey had an effort dominated out after Barnes was harshly dominated to have fouled keeper Mendy and Ayoze Perez struck the crossbar.
Leicester defender Timothy Castagne admitted it was “tough at the moment” however stays assured it can quickly begin to click on for Brendan Rodgers’ aspect.
He informed LCFC TV: “He (Rodgers) knows it’s tough for us because we haven’t had the start to the season that we wanted.
“It was again a bit like the first games when we were good in the games and then we give away cheap goals and we lose the result that we want. It’s tough at the moment.
“I think it’s going to come. We just can’t panic because sometimes – it didn’t happen here – but I feel in some of the other games we desperately want the win, so we start to panic, we stop playing our game and we lose the result. We need to keep working, keep playing our game.”
Source: www.impartial.co.uk