Chelsea beat Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 away, where the Argentine Giovani Lo Celso played as a starter, in the revenge match of the English League Cup semifinal and is the first classified for the final of the tournament, instance in which he will play with the winner of the Liverpool match against Arsenal.
The game took place at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and Chelsea’s goal was scored by the German.
Antonio Rüdiger, with a header, 18 minutes into the first stage.
In the first leg match, held last Wednesday at London’s Stamford Bridge stadium, Chelsea had won 2-0 with goals from Kai Havertz and Ben Davies (against his goal), for which they reached the final of the contest with a wide accumulated result from 3 to 0.
Despite the victory in the first leg, Chelsea came out determined to stay with the victory again and had its prize after 18 minutes, when the German Rüdiger, with an imprecise but concrete header, established the 1-0.
Tottenham, where the Argentine Lo Celso (former Rosario Central) had a good performance and was replaced 25 minutes into the second half by the Spanish Bryan Gil Salvatierra, tried to react, but between the lack of precision and the security of the Basque goalkeeper Kepa, It didn’t make things too difficult for reigning European champions Chelsea, who fairly reached the English League Cup final.
The other semifinal will be held by Liverpool and Arsenal, with two-way matches tomorrow and Thursday, January 20, respectively, a key that should have started last week but was postponed due to an outbreak of coronavirus in several players from the first team.
The English League Cup will change champions this year, as Manchester City, winner of the last four editions, was eliminated from the tournament in the round of 16 after losing 1-0 to West Ham United.
The final of the current edition of the English League Cup will take place on Sunday, February 27, at the Wembley stadium in London, between Chelsea and the winner of Liverpool-Arsenal.
The top winners of the English League Cup are Liverpool and Manchester City with 8 titles; followed by Aston Villa, Chelsea and Manchester City with 5; and Nottingham Forest and Tottenham Hotspur with 4.
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