Diego Costa rescued a point for Chelsea as Swansea secured a 2-2 draw to end Antonio Conte’s flawless start to the season as head coach.
Advertisement
Antonio Conte makes no critical changes to the starting line-up today, as the Blues go into the game with very similar eleven as they did when they beat Burnley 3-0 before the global break.
Costa then felt he should have been awarded a penalty, being lightly taken down by Fabianski, who then pulled out a fantastic save to prevent Oscar’s curling attempt finding the top corner.
He said: “He is working, but he has to go slow (in training) for two or three days”.
Chelsea arrived at the Liberty Stadium looking to maintain their 100 percent start to the Premier League and they were utterly dominant in the first half as they outclassed their opponents.
“(Courtois) could have been sent off but I would not say (he is) lucky”, Guidolin said.
The Spain global has enjoyed a brilliant start to life under new Blues manager Antonio Conte after scoring in two of Chelsea’s opening three Premier League games.
Chelsea have lead by half-time in their last two outings, while Leicester found themselves behind at that stage in their most recent game against Leicester. Conte’s team are [2.62] to win HT/FT, while another possibility is the [2.4] for Chelsea to win to nil for the second game in a row.
Willian was proving a real handful for Swansea, bursting past Neil Taylor but Fabianski showed excellent handling skills to claim the Brazilian’s cross with Costa waiting to pounce.
Midfielder, Eden Hazard is certainly a player that has come back to form under Conte and the Swans will have to be at their best on Sunday to get anything out of the game.
“After last season there’s a bit of worry among the fans and that’s understandable”.
“I think it is the first time in my career I have taken off a player before half time”.
Just a typical all-action match for Diego Costa.
Costa nearly wrapped up a man-of-the-match performance with a hat-trick when he was put through by Hazard but Fabianski was equal to his shot and the points were shared.
Will it be John Terry orGary Cahill?
“I think we have a good team”, said Swansea manager Guidolin.
– Gylfi Sigurdsson has now scored more Premier League goals for Swansea than any other player (26).
Twitter has told us it’s thoughts on the Spaniard’s exclusion again today, so FFC has brought the best that the Twittersphere has to offer….
It’s Luiz’s signing that has raised the most eyebrows and it seems doubtful that he was the type of centre-back that Conte really wanted to improve his defence.
Advertisement
“Provisional squad: Fabianski, Naughton, Amat, Fernandez, Kingsley, Britton, Cork, Fer, Routledge, Barrow, Sigurdsson, Llorente, Nordfeldt, Rangel, Taylor, Mawson, Van der Hoorn, Ki, Dyer, Montero, Fulton, McBurnie, Borja”.
