Two painful blows for Chelsea .. A severe loss and the expulsion of Coulibaly
Leeds United inflicted its guest Chelsea on the first defeat of the season, and it came with a very harsh result 3-0 Sunday in the third stage of the English Football Championship on Sunday, in addition to the loss of the pillar of its Senegalese defense, Kalidou Coulibaly because of the red card.
Leeds, who survived relegation to the "Championship" league in the last few minutes last season, presented one of his best performances for a long time, specifically since his American coach Jesse Marsh took over the task of supervising him, succeeding Argentine Marcelo Bielsa in the second division of the league last season.
To indicate the importance of Leeds' victory, he lost against Chelsea by the same result last season at this particular stadium, and also lost his 12 home and away matches against the Big Six last season as well.
Chelsea, who lost their Belgian strikers, Ramilo Lukaku, loaned to Inter, and German Timo Werner, who returned to his former team Leipzig, started the season with a 1-0 away victory over Everton, and was close to scoring his second victory when he advanced against his neighbor Tottenham 2 1 until the fifth minute of stoppage time last week before the latter's top scorer, Harry Kane, snatched the equalizer at the last gasp.
Although the English Football Association suspended Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel for one match due to a quarrel with the Italian Tottenham coach Antonio Conte, the first was on the bench of the reserve players after his sentence was suspended pending the issuance of writing the reasons for the union's decision.
After the referee canceled a goal scored by Chelsea striker Raheem Sterling for offside, Leeds managed to open the scoring after a fatal mistake by Senegalese goalkeeper Edouard Mendy, who tried to evade Leeds midfielder Brendan Aranson, but the latter snatched the ball from him and put it in the net (33).
No sooner did the London team rise from this stumble, until Leeds gave him another blow when Spaniard Rodrigo Moreno rose to a ball that came to him from a direct free kick, and turned it header into the net (37).
Chelsea's performance improved somewhat in the second half without being able to reduce the difference before Jack Harrison dealt a fatal blow to him by adding the third goal of reassurance to the owners of the land (69).
And things got worse for Chelsea, as he completed the last minutes with ten men, after his Senegalese defender, Kalidou Coulibaly, received a second warning in the match in the 85th minute. In a second match, West Ham, a surprise last season, suffered their third loss in a row by falling at home to Brighton with two goals scored by the Argentine. Alexis McAllister (22 penalty kick) and Belgian Leandro Trossar (66).
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