Costa’s acrobatics in the 81st minute salvaged a point for Chelsea at Liberty Stadium after two defensive blunders in a three-minute span nearly gifted Swansea a victory. I think the defenders know him and sometimes they try to provoke him.
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“Yes, yes, I apologise on the bench, and in the dressing-room”, said Guidolin.
The Chelsea captain reportedly left the Liberty Stadium on crutches and Conte said more about Terry’s condition would be known on Monday.
“You could be sat on the moon and see it is a clear foul”, he said. I don’t want to complain, but this is the reality.
We’ll have to wait and see the results of the scan before we’ll learn how long Terry will be out for but the defender is now considered as a major doubt for Chelsea’s clash with Liverpool at Stamford Bridge on Friday night. “I am not anxious”.
The fiery Spain striker scored in the 17th minute as Antonio Conte’s team took control of the game before conceding twice in quick succession. A one goal cushion is never safe no matter how a team is playing, and Swansea went on to show why.
Guidolin moved from a three-man defence to a more familiar back four and Taylor was the player sacrificed, much to his dissatisfaction.
What had been a slow-burner of a game exploded into life when Thibaut Courtois raced rashly from his goal after 59 minutes to fell Sigurdsson.
“Neil’s reaction [to being substituted] was normal”, said Guidolin.
But Conte said: “I don’t know the extent of the injury”.
“He is a clever guy”.
“I took the touch away from [Fer], he came through the back of me”.
“But Mo (Barrow) was ready five minutes before, so I chose to do it this way”.
The 29-year-old linked up with Chelsea from Barcelona in 2014 and won the Premier League title in his first season with the Blues.
Manager Francesco Guidolin changed tactics from a misfiring 3-5-1-1 system before halftime, withdrawing the disgruntled Welsh global Neil Taylor for Gambian winger Modou Barrow. But we are happy because we changed something.
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What he learnt, if he did not already know it, was that a team as dominant as Chelsea were for nearly an hour, need to make more of 28 attempts on goal. Probably, with the change of shape, we played in the second half with more aggression, energy and intensity.
