Diego Costa and Chelsea are now down 2-1 in the middle of the second half at Swansea City.
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Swansea can take heart from the second-half performance after what has been a tough start to the season, and Ki says they have to take it into the game against the Saints, who have also struggled.
Costa curled home the opening goal in the 18th minute, and is looking back to his best this season with four goals in four games.
Cahill, 30, clearly felt he had been fouled by Dutch midfielder Fer and protested with referee Andre Marriner, who dismissed his claims.
“There are so many sides who can win it”.
The Chelsea captain is now a big doubt for Liverpool’s visit to Stamford Bridge on Friday night.
Instead, Ivanovic was allowed to roam free down the right with Swansea’s attacking threat nearly nil in a first half which Chelsea dominated.
Ivanovic headed over Willian’s free-kick and Fabianski showed bravery to fall at the feet of Costa, but the breakthrough eventually came after some scruffy Swansea defending. “When he is scoring goals, we are doing the right things”.
Swansea did not threaten until Sigurdsson went close from 20 yards five minutes before the break. There were two fouls, and between the officials they have said that they couldn’t see it.
Costa doubled his tally to put Chelsea level with Swansea. Fer ran through and hesitated before sending a weak shot through Courtois’ legs, the ball squirming over the line before Cahill could make a clearance.
His pinpoint finish in the first half gave the Blues a deserved lead, and while his second-half bicycle kick spared his teammates blushes rather than sealed all three points, it highlighted his status as one of the finest center forwards in the English top flight. Chelsea is in second place on 10 points.
Guidolin made two changes to the Swansea side that lost 2-1 to champions Leicester last time out, with Neil Taylor and Ki Sung-yueng coming in for Wayne Routledge and Modou Barrow.
“This year there are a lot of handsome teams, two of which [Manchester United and Manchester City] we saw yesterday [Saturday]”.
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“We created a lot of chances to score many goals, and I think we were dominating the game when we were leading 1-0”. I’m frustrated. Come on, seriously.
