Daily Express - 02.09.2019

know if you put it into

an area Vards is always

going to be running. He

is horrible to play

against.

“I looked up and saw

Vards on their

defensive line and

knew he would be the

first to get to the ball. It

was a great finish.”

Callum Wilson

levelled but Vardy set

up Youri Tielemans for

the Foxes’ second.

Later Tielemans, who

was fortunate to stay

on for catching Wilson’s

ankle, returned the

favour for Vardy

following good work

from James Maddison.

Cherries goalkeeper

Aaron Ramsdale said:

“That’s not the

Bournemouth I know,

not the fighting spirit

we’ve shown.”

LEICESTER (4-2-3-1): Schmeichel 7;

Pereira 7, Evans 7, Soyuncu 7, Chilwell

7; Tielemans 8, Ndidi 7; Barnes 7

(Choudhury 71, 6), Maddison 8 (Fuchs

86), Albrighton 6 (Gray 64, 6); Vardy 8.

Goals: Vardy 12, 73, Tielemans 41.

BOURNEMOUTH (4-2-3-1):

Ramsdale 6; Smith 6 (Ibe 64, 5),

Mepham 6, Cook 6, Ake 6; Lerman 7,

Billing 6; H Wilson 6 (Solanke 64, 6),

King 6 (Surman 79), Fraser 7;

C Wilson 7. Goal: Wilson 15.

believe the decision

to disallow the goal.

Should have come

away with a point.”

Bar the controversy,

Palace deserved the

win. Jordan

Ayew’s strike

sealed it

against 10

men, with

Trezeguet

sent off for

two bookings.

CRYSTAL PALACE (4-4-2): Guaita

6; Ward 6, Kelly 7 (Sakho 79), Cahill 7,

Van Aanholt 7; McArthur 6, Kouyate

7, Milivojevic 7, Schlupp 8 (Townsend

84); Zaha 6, Ayew 6 (Benteke 85).

Goal: Ayew 73.

ASTON VILLA (4-3-3): Heaton 7;

Guilbert 6, Engels 6, Mings 7, Taylor 6;

McGinn 6, Douglas Luiz 6 (Hourihane

71), Grealish 6; Jota 6 (Davis 58, 6),

Wesley 6 (Lansbury 84), Trezeguet 4.

Sent off: Trezeguet 54.

AT LEAST Aston

Villa’s Tom Heaton

and Tyrone Mings

could look forward to

England duty after a

controversial defeat.

Henri Lansbury’s

injury-time effort was

disallowed, referee

Kevin Friend

whistling for a

dive by Jack

Grealish,

right, as the

goal went in.

Grealish

looked to be

fouled twice in the

area, but VAR denied

Villa a penalty.

They were furious

and a section of away

fans then clashed with

stewards, security and

baton-wielding police.

Grealish said on

social media: “Can’t

Grealish is fuming

as Villa miss point

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CHELSEA

SHEFFIELD UTD

game and we all held our hands

up – we all didn’t perform to

the levels we know we can.”

Tammy Abraham scored

twice in the opening 43

minutes, first after a mistake

from goalkeeper Dean

Henderson and then following a

collision between

Jack O’Connell and

John Egan.

Neither boss was

happy at half-time.

United’s Chris

Wilder “smashed”

Henderson and

striker Callum

Robinson, who

missed a great chance before

the second Chelsea goal.

And Lampard told his team

about the “warning signs” from

the opening period. Barkley

said: “He’s not too nice. He can

have a go.”

Lampard added: “I wasn’t

happy. Generally we had to

move the ball quicker. We were

taking too much time.”

Just 49 seconds after the

break, Robinson pulled a goal

back and then

the Blades levelled

when Kurt Zouma

deflected home

the Republic of

Ireland striker’s

89th-minute cross.

Lampard was

asked whether

game-management

problems were “inevitable”

with such a young squad.

“I don’t know about

inevitable because I don’t want

to say that – we are obviously

having those issues,” he said.

“It is not just the young

players – it is for all of us to

resolve the issue.”

Barkley said: “We’re going

through a bit of a development

phase at the minute but we can

still perform really well over the

season and surprise a lot of

people”

Wilder said: “We are going

toe to toe with the big clubs and

if we don’t get a result then it

won’t be for the want of doing

it our way.”

CHELSEA (4-3-3): Kepa 6; Azpilicueta 4, Tomori

7, Zouma 5, Emerson 6; Kovacic 7 (Batshuayi 83),

Jorginho 7, Barkley 7 (Willian 60, 6); Pulisic 5,

Abraham 8 (Gilmour 84) Mount 7. Goals: Abraham

19, 43.

SHEFFIELD UNITED (3-5-2): Henderson 6;

Basham 6 (Osborn 84), Egan 6, O’Connell 5; Baldock

5, Lundstram 6, Norwood 6, Freeman 6 (Mousset 79),

Stevens 6; Robinson 8, McBurnie 5 (McGoldrick 63, 5).

Goals: Robinson 46, Zouma 89 og.

WE ALL KNOW

WE WERE NOT

GOOD ENOUGH

Barkley delivers home truths for Blues

ROSS BARKLEY revealed

Chelsea players “all held our

hands up” and confessed they

were not good enough

after failing to win again at

Stamford Bridge.

This season was always going

to be testing with a transfer ban

and a rookie head coach.

But Chelsea have looked like

a side who have sold their best

player while being held at home

against Leicester and now

Sheffield United – games the

Europa League winners would

have won last season with

Eden Hazard.

There was no X factor from a

team too slow and predictable

on the ball and sloppy at the

back. Frank Lampard, who is

still awaiting his first home win,

appealed for “patience” after

the youngest side the Blues

have ever fielded in the

Premier League could not hold

on to a two-goal lead.

Fans and the board will need

that patience this season on the

evidence of this display against

last season’s Championship

runners-up. Barkley said: “The

players we’ve got are

unbelievable but today we

weren’t at the level we should

be at. We didn’t perform well.

“You’ve just got to try and

make things happen and we

didn’t create enough chances,

didn’t hit the target as much as

we should have. We all spoke in

the changing room after the

CRUEL FOR KURT: Zouma puts

the ball into his own net to hand

the Blades a late equaliser

done well for us. He speaks

good English, which really

helps and is a great lad who

wants to learn and wants to

win. This club needed to

move on from bringing in

players who were here to

live in London and get a bit

of a payday – we need

young, enthusiastic players

who want to be here for a

long time.”

Whoever could he mean?

Haller also made his mark

on Norwich centre-back

Christoph Zimmermann,

who was caught by a late

challenge that did not even

merit a free-kick according

to referee Paul Tierney.

The German, making his

Premier League bow, could

hardly move afterwards.

Arthur Masuaku skipped

past him with ease in the

36th minute to set up

Haller for a tap-in. Norwich

had been decent up until

then, although five-goal

striker Teemu Pukki was

limited to just one

long-range effort all game,

which was saved.

Todd

Cantwell

helped gift

the hosts a

56th-minute

second. The

midfielder’s

wayward

pass in his

own half set up an attack

that ended with Yarmolenko

lashing home from a

rebound off a defender.

After that it was all West

Ham, with

Canaries

goalkeeper Tim

Krul having to

make a series of

quality stops.

Krul fears it

could take his

side a while to

settle in the top flight. He

said: “It took Brighton,

when I was there, at least

10 games to get the hang of

the Premier League.”

WEST HAM (4-2-3-1): Fabianski

6; Fredericks 6, Diop 7, Ogbonna 7,

Masuaku 7; Rice 7, Noble 7 (Sanchez 85);

Yarmolenko 6 (Snodgrass, 71), Lanzini 7,

Anderson 8 (Fornals 88); Haller 7. Goals:

Haller 24, Yarmolenko 56.

NORWICH CITY (4-2-3-1): Krul 8;

Aarons 6, Godfrey 7, Zimmermann 6

(Amadou 36, 6), Lewis 6; Trybull 6, Leitner

6; Buendia 5, Stiepermann 5 (Drmic 77),

Cantwell 5 (McLean 78); Pukki 5.

WEST HAM v NORWICH

49 POSSESSION % 51

8 SHOTS ON TARGET 3

7 SHOTS OFF TARGET 3

8 CORNERS 2

2 OFFSIDES 3

16 FOULS 10

2 YELLOW CARDS 1

0 RED CARDS 0

Source: Opta

CHELSEA v SHEFF UTD

62 POSSESSION % 38

5 SHOTS ON TARGET 2

5 SHOTS OFF TARGET 5

3 CORNERS 4

2 OFFSIDES 0

6 FOULS 11

0 YELLOW CARDS 1

0 RED CARDS 0

Source: Opta

LEICESTER are

playing a dynamic new

style but Ben Chilwell

admits Jamie Vardy’s

opener was straight

out of the club’s

title-winning routines.

And the England

left-back believes “on

fire” Vardy is still good

enough to be latching

on to his passes on

international duty, too.

But the Foxes’

talismanic striker will

be resting up this week

after stepping down

from England duty a

year ago.

It will ensure the

32-year-old is fresh for

their next clash, against

Manchester United on

September 14, and on

this evidence it could

be a tough day for

former Foxes defender

Harry Maguire.

Vardy, who has three

goals this term, got an

early breakthrough

when Chilwell released

Vardy to lob home in a

move from their

training manual in

2015-16, a season in

which the hitman

scored 24 goals.

Asked about the

comparison, Chilwell

said: “Yes of course. You

Hardy Vardy gets

back in old routine

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