Chelsea had Christian Pulisic to thank briefly champ against 10-player West Ham at Stamford Bridge, an outcome which reinforce their grasp on third spot in the Premier League.
The meeting Hammers seemed to be on course to wait for a point and had even endure an awful late Jorginho punishment, which had seen the generally remarkable Craig Dawson shipped off. Yet, Pulisic cleared home a Marcos Alonso cross similarly as the clock was going to hit stoppage time.
With one eye solidly on Thursday's Europa League semi-last first leg, there was a level of pivot and a protective viewpoint from David Moyes. Yet, they were right in it and nearly rebuffed Chelsea for individual errors under lock and key in the initial 20 minutes.
The Blues were noticeably level for over 50 minutes. They were without a limit swarm at to lift them because of progressing limitations on ticket deals as a component of the UK government sanctions against active proprietor Roman Abramovich. Unfortunate ongoing outcomes additionally appeared to be burdening them.
Thirty minutes in, Andriy Yarmolenko streaked one across the substance of objective. He could really have been improved leaving the ball for Said Benrahma, who was coming at it from a superior angle.But by the stretch, neither one of the sides had dealt with a shot on track. West Ham were glad to contain and allow Chelsea to play before them. There was no inventiveness from Thomas Tuchel's side and Mason Mount, Kai Havertz and Timo Werner should not have been on the pitch at that stage.
The last part at first began in comparable design until Chelsea at long last fired getting the rhythm. A flying square from Dawson left an objective bound Werner volley speechless, while the middle back obstructed two additional endeavors ahead of the pack to the hour mark.
Fabianski was before long called right into it two times, first as he appreciatively got a handle on an avoided exertion that took steps to curve over his head, then repelling a Trevoh Chalobah drive to somewhere safe and secure. Dawson then, at that point, made another tremendous square, this time denying Mount, before Fabianski shut down Werner on the bounce back.
At the point when Dawson at long last missed a cautious header, Werner couldn't get sufficient power on his ensuing short proximity shot to beat Fabianski.
Tuchel rang the progressions with 15 minutes left, going to Romelu Lukaku, Christian Pulisic and Hakim Ziyech to give Chelsea crisp going after catalyst. It looked like it had worked when Lukaku effectively moved Dawson in the last minutes and was pulled back by the West Ham protector, who was then provided his walking orders after ref Michael Oliver counseled the pitchside screen.
In any case, with Jorginho's frail punishment, along the floor and straight down the center, effortlessly saved by Fabianski, it was Pulisic who proceeded to win it all things considered.
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