AFP / London
With a goal in the final stretch from Mason Mount (78), Chelsea (seventh) defeated Fulham (18) 1-0 and gives oxygen to their questioned coach, Frank Lampard, while Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds (12) still unreacted in the Premier League.
After four defeats and a draw in the last six days, Lampard arrived with water up to his neck on this day, to the point that a new misstep could have ended the former English international out of Stamford Bridge.
The victory was not spectacular, on the contrary, against an opponent in the relegation zone and by a single goal despite the fact that Fulham played the entire second half at a disadvantage due to the expulsion, just before the break, of Antonee Robinson.
But the three points give Lampard some oxygen and, above all, prevent Chelsea from hanging out of the fight for the Champions League positions, remaining in provisional seventh place three points behind Manchester City (third) and Leicester (fourth) , which mark the Champions zone for now.
After the defeat against Tottenham on the last day of the Premier League and the humiliating elimination in the FA Cup against a team of the fourth category, Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds still did not react and yesterday lost 1-0 at home against a Brighton struggling not to descend.
The Franco-Argentine player Neal Maupay was the author of the important winning goal that allows the southern English club to move away from the relegation zone, now occupying position 16 with 17 points, five more than Fulham.
Leeds, for their part, remains with 23 points in position 12, although they could lose some places depending on the results of this date.
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