Chelsea vs Tottenham LIVE: Premier League result, score and reaction as Nicolas Jackson goal seals win

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Jamie Redknapp on Spurs midfield: “Midfield was an actual engine room firstly of the season. I regarded and thought this midfield regarded pretty much as good as something within the Premier League.

“Proper now he has modified it as we speak and gamers aren’t enjoying on the identical degree as they have been earlier within the season, and if you wish to compete you need to be performing each single week.”

It was a troublesome night for Ange Postecoglou as his facet confronted acquainted set-piece and VAR nightmares, after two objectives from corners in opposition to Arsenal on Sunday have been adopted up by Chalobah heading in from a free-kick and Jackson reacting quickest from Palmer’s rebounded shot.

What a night for Pochettino, and he’ll hope that the indicators of his Chelsea workforce are beginning to seem even when there will probably be powerful occasions to as properly.

When chatting with the BBC, he stated: “The primary half was implausible. Then you need to include and undergo. Tottenham have high quality gamers. Not an excessive amount of to say, all credit score to the gamers.

“So completely happy and so happy. So completely happy for our gamers.

“We’re in a very good place, now we have wonderful professionals engaged on set-pieces. The workforce actually confirmed in the way in which we needed to construct this technique to play.”

“It is going to be tough. I don’t need to look as much as the Champions League after this recreation, it was not a very good efficiency from us and it’s important we play a very good recreation on Sunday.

“First half we didn’t attempt to play. We didn’t push ahead after we come out. We tried to play within the second half however there was not that confidence as we speak.

“We now have to have a look again a this recreation and bounce again higher on the weekend.”

Chalobah opened the scoring with a header, however after an extended VAR examine it dominated that Marc Cucurella didn’t foul Brennan Johnson within the build-up to Postecoglou’s disagreement.

The Australian stated: “I nonetheless assume their aim is a foul however nobody cares about that and we didn’t deserve something greater than that.

“It wasn’t about conceding the aim it was about our method and we’re simply nowhere close to adequate and we’re nowhere close to constructive to the place we should be. That’s on me.

“I didn’t say I wasn’t , I stated it wasn’t my precedence however that’s okay, if individuals need to assume that what we’re lacking is about items that’s high-quality, I’ll do my job.”

It was a disheartening day for Spurs, and the stoop in kind continues for the north London membership, proper on the unsuitable second within the season.

Postecoglou stated to Sky Sports activities: “We now have misplaced some conviction and perception in our soccer that’s for positive, simply within the midfield however once more that on me.

“We didn’t play properly, would you like me to roll you a file on the place we went unsuitable?

“I’ve to take a look at myself in all of this and see how I’ve greater than an affect.

“Once we put in a efficiency like we did within the first half it clearly means my message isn’t getting by means of, so that’s for me to handle.”

These two wildly inconsistent groups have been at all times going to throw-up an entertaining fixture, but it surely was a far too frequent drawback for Ange Postecoglou was the distinction between them and their fierce London rivals.

Two set-piece objectives on both facet of the break gave Chelsea and Mauricio Pochettino a Premier League double over his former facet. Trevoh Chalobah punished Spurs’ sloppy defending by lofting a header over Vicario, whereas unmarked. Spurs tried to battle again into the sport after the break, however as a lot as they might preserve the ball they struggled to do something with it, and Jackson reacted quickest to Cole Palmer’s free-kick that hit the crossbar, to double the lead.

It was a 2-0 victory at Stamford Bridge for Chelsea that has seen their European possibilities massively improve as they transfer as much as eighth, whereas Tottenham have now misplaced three video games in a row and are shedding tempo with fourth-placed Aston Villa.