Chelsea's first result after the "Russia-Ukraine" war sanctions
Chelsea, which suffers from an administrative crisis after the assets of its owner, rich Russian businessman Roman Abramovich, were frozen and prevented from being sold by the British government as part of a series of measures due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, consolidated its third place in the English Premier League football by returning with a victory from Norwich City 3-1 Thursday .
Chelsea raised its score in third place to 56 points, 8 points ahead of Arsenal, who has two matches postponed.
Chelsea German coach Thomas Tuchel continued to exclude Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku from the starting lineup (he participated in the last ten minutes) after his level declined recently.
The London team opened the scoring early by defender Trevor Chalobah after a pass from Mason Mount after 3 minutes.
And Mount quickly added the second before the passage of a quarter of an hour.
However, Norwich appeared in a different way in the second half and succeeded in reducing the difference from a penalty kick by Finnish top scorer Timo Pukki after a handball from Chalobah inside the area (69).
The last word was for Chelsea, for which the German Kai Havertz scored the third goal in the last minute, taking advantage of the pass of the French substitute N'Golo Kante.
Newcastle continued their winning streak by beating Southampton 2-1 in the latter's backyard.
Southampton advanced with a goal by Stuart Armstrong (25), and Newcastle responded with two goals for the newcomers to him in the last winter transfer market, New Zealander Chris Wood (32) and Brazilian Bruno Guimaraes (52).
Wolverhampton crushed Watford 4-0, alternating between Mexican Raul Jimenez (13) and Juan Hernandez (18 fouls), Portugal's Daniel Bodance (21) and the latter's compatriot Ruben Neves (85).
Aston Villa deepened the injury of Leeds, who was threatened with relegation, by defeating him 3-0 in his own home, with the signatures of Brazilian Philippe Coutinho (22) and Polish defender Matti Cash (66) and Callum Chambers (73).
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