Cunha Scores Hat Trick As Wolves Beat Chelsea 4-2, Handing Blues 2nd Big EPL Defeat This Week – News18

LONDON: Chelsea’s expensively assembled workforce slumped to a second straight heavy loss within the Premier League, with Wolverhampton following Liverpool in taking aside Mauricio Pochettino’s workforce in a 4-2 victory on Sunday.

Chelsea was overrun in a 4-1 hammering at Anfield on Wednesday and was additionally picked off by Wolves, for whom Brazil striker Matheus Cunha scored a hat trick at Stamford Bridge the place jeers rang out at fulltime.

Chelsea, which was quiet within the January switch market after spending greater than $1 billion in three earlier home windows, dropped to eleventh place and under Wolves in one other under-par league marketing campaign below the membership’s American possession.

Cole Palmer gave Chelsea the lead within the nineteenth minute however the hosts have been behind at halftime due to Cunha’s deflected equalizer — after middle-midfielder Moises Caicedo was dispossessed — within the twenty second and an personal-purpose within the forty third by Axel Disasi, who stretched to dam Rayan Ait-Nouri’s shot and noticed the ball spin into the web.

Cunha transformed Pedro Neto’s reduce-again within the 63rd for 3-1 and calmly stroked dwelling a penalty within the 82nd after he was tripped by Malo Gusto.

Thiago Silva replied for Chelsea within the 86th however Pochettino’s workforce couldn’t add one other regardless of heavy strain in 10 minutes of stoppage time.

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