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After successive defeats by three goals to Bournemouth and Watford, a change could be made.
“Watford had a series of chances to go in front as Chelsea started slowly with Abdoulaye Doucoure, Deulofeu and Deeney failing to hit the target”. Chelsea offered a rare attacking threat when attacking midfielder Willian fired over the Blues bar from close-range. His early dismissal capped a terrible half hour for the midfielder and shaped the rest of the contest.
And Gracia backed up Deulofeu, agreeing with Dean’s call to give a penalty and to send off Bakayoko for a pair of fouls on Etienne Capoue and Richarlison inside five minutes. Chelsea looked to have snatched something from the game with just eight minutes left on the clock. Where is the £34m differential between those two players?
The home side all but sealed the points on 88 minutes.
Former Barcelona boss Luis Enrique is the front-runner to succeed Conte should they decide to replace him and could take up the position immediately having been without a job since leaving the Nou Camp last summer.
Deulofeu, a January loan signing from Barcelona, then dribbled 40 yards before firing in via a nick off Cahill and Pereyra completed the scoring in stoppage time when he ran onto Abdoulaye Doucoure’s through-ball and whipped a shot across Courtois.
Watford’s Dutch defender Daryl Janmaat (2L) scores past Chelsea’s Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois during the English Premier League football match between Watford and Chelsea at Vicarage Road Stadium in Watford, north of London on February 5, 2018.
This is Gracia’s first win since taking over from Marco Silva, and has the Hornets six points above the relegation zone.
My soul [conscience] is clear.
“I tried to warn everyone about the difficulty of our path in the league and Champions League”, Conte said.
The majority of Chelsea fans are STILL backing Antonio Conte, despite witnessing two of the worst performances of the Roman Abramovich era in back-to-back Premier League games.
“My choice was very poor I think”, he said.
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Monday night’s 4-1 away defeat to Watford could be the final nail in the coffin for Conte, whose relationship with his employers has become increasingly sour over the course of the season.
