A trademark James Ward-Prowse free-kick earned basement membership Southampton a treasured three factors at Chelsea in a scrappy 1-0 Premier League win on Saturday and piled extra strain on dwelling coach Graham Potter.
Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta introduced down Stuart Armstrong simply exterior the realm within the forty fifth minute and Ward-Prowse curled a free kick over the wall into the right-hand facet of the web with goalkeeper Kepa left sprawling.
Azpilicueta wanted almost 10 minutes of remedy on the pitch within the second half after he obtained a kick to the top in a goalmouth conflict. Physios from each golf equipment rushed to his help and the Spaniard was finally carried off on a stretcher.
Chelsea, which has scored solely 4 objectives in 10 video games in all competitions because the begin of the yr, seemed livelier within the second half when Raheem Sterling and Kai Havertz got here on they usually stored the Southampton defence beneath strain.
But regardless of spending almost 300 million kilos ($361.05 million) within the January switch window, the Blues nonetheless couldn’t rating in opposition to the south-coast staff led by caretaker coach Ruben Selles after Nathan Jones was sacked per week in the past.
Chelsea are languishing in tenth place on 31 factors from 23 video games and are 10 factors adrift of the highest 4. Southampton have 18 factors and are three factors exterior the protection zone.
