{"id":296764,"date":"2023-11-06T23:24:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T23:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=296764"},"modified":"2023-11-06T23:24:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T23:24:15","slug":"tottenham-1-4-chelsea-nicolas-jackson-hat-trick-earns-blues-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/soccer\/tottenham-1-4-chelsea-nicolas-jackson-hat-trick-earns-blues-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham 1-4 Chelsea: Nicolas Jackson hat-trick earns Blues win"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ange Postecoglou went to a West End performance of King Lear last week. If he thought he was watching an evening of madness unfold in front of him at Wyndham\u2019s Theatre, English football turned to him triumphantly at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last night and said: \u2018Hold my beer.\u2019<\/p>\n
As the Spurs boss watched his nine-man team succumb to its first defeat under his reign amid a battalion of red and yellow cards, disallowed goals, injuries and VAR checks, he could have been forgiven for thinking that the chaos of Lear on the heath had nothing on Spurs-Chelsea on a Monday night in November.<\/p>\n
The defeat, Postecoglou\u2019s first in the English game, meant Manchester City stayed at the top of the table and gave former Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino a morale-boosting win on his first return to the club where he enjoyed so much success in his five and a half years in charge.<\/p>\n
The 4-1 victory, secured after Cristian Romero was sent off in the first half and Destiny Udogie early in the second, moved Chelsea and their \u00a31bn squad up to the heady heights of 10th place but this match will be remembered for the storm of drama it unleashed.<\/p>\n
\u2018Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks,\u2019 Lear shouts at the elements. \u2018Rage, blow, you cataracts and hurricanoes, spout till you have drench\u2019d our steeples.\u2019 Postecoglou didn\u2019t quite match that but he was booked.<\/p>\n
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Nicolas Jackson’s hat-trick on Monday evening earned Chelsea a hard-fought win over Spurs<\/p>\n
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It also saw Pochettino emerge victorious on his return to the north London club. While Postecoglou will be disappointed with his side after they were reduced to nine men<\/p>\n
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Tottenham actually opened the scoring after Kulusevski’s strike deflected into the net<\/p>\n
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Conjure up a picture of that storm and you\u2019ll get an idea of the dramas that unfolded on one of the craziest, strangest, most entertaining nights the game has seen for a while.<\/p>\n
Know that by the 63rd minute, only three of the Spurs outfield players that had started the match were still on the pitch and you\u2019ll get an idea of the madness that enveloped this corner of north London.<\/p>\n
After proceeding so serenely, so beautifully through their first ten games under the refreshing and inspirational leadership of the Australian, this, at last, was the night the wheels fell off for Spurs.<\/p>\n
Pochettino accepted before the game that his move to Chelsea might be enough to earn him a hostile reception from the home fans on his return. \u2018I am going to accept what they will show,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
The Spurs fans showed him respect, as was his due. And when the teams came out before kick-off, Postecoglou strode straight over to Pochettino and wrapped him in a bear hug and the two men exchanged warm words. It was all very civil. It was the calm before the storm.<\/p>\n
Spurs took the lead after six minutes. James Maddison got the ball midway inside his own half, turned and slid a lovely ball into the path of Pape Sarr. Sarr helped it on to Kulusevski and Kulusevski\u2019s curling shot deflected off Levi Colwill\u2019s back, wrong-footed Robert Sanchez and nestled in the back of the Chelsea net.<\/p>\n
That was still the calm before the storm. Spurs thought they had gone further ahead when Brennan Johnson, Spurs\u2019 \u00a347m summer signing from Nottingham Forest, ended a sweeping move by playing a ball across the face of goal into the path of Heung-Min Son who sidefooted it home. VAR showed Son was offside.<\/p>\n
Chelsea nearly equalised when Pedro Porro gave the ball away inside his own half, Raheem Sterling freed Nicolas Jackson and Jackson closed in on goal. Jackson delayed but still got a shot away and Guglielmo Vicario got down sharply to his left to push the ball around the post.<\/p>\n
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However, things started to go down hill for Spurs after Cristian Romero was shown a red card<\/p>\n
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Cole Palmer found the back of the net from the penalty spot in the 35th minute of the game<\/p>\n
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Udogie picked up a second yellow card and was subsequently sent off in the 55th minute<\/p>\n
Destiny Udogie was booked for a double-footed challenge on Sterling, Colwill and Cristian Romero were involved in an off-the-ball incident that left both men flat out on the turf and Sterling thought he had levelled things up when he wriggled past Porro and squeezed the ball home. It was disallowed because the ball had hit his hand in the build-up.<\/p>\n
Now the storm broke. Sterling broke into the box and fell under a challenge, the ball fell to Enzo Fernandez who was pole-axed inside the area by a scything, brutal challenge from Romero that got the ball but caught Fernandez above the ankle, too. When the ball broke loose, Moises Caicedo lashed it in.<\/p>\n
Chelsea celebrated but there was an assistant\u2019s flag. VAR checked for offside, a possible penalty on Sterling, and a possible penalty for Romero\u2019s challenge. Referee Michael Oliver went to the monitor to check Romero\u2019s challenge and made the correct decision: red card and penalty to Chelsea.<\/p>\n
The process took five minutes. When it was over, when Romero had finally been persuaded to leave the field and Eric Dier came on to replace him, Cole Palmer took the penalty. He hit it cleanly and even though Vicario got two hands to it, he could only push it on to the post and watch it roll across the line and into the net.<\/p>\n
Palmer shushed the Spurs crowd, which did not do much to calm the mood. Postecoglou was booked, Micky van de Ven crashed to the floor clutching his right hamstring in agony as he chased Jackson on to a through ball and Maddison was forced off with an injury, too. There were 12 minutes of added time. Now the storm was raging.<\/p>\n
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It was a long night for referee Michael Oliver as there ended up being five disallowed goals, two red cards and a penalty during Tottenham’s clash with Chelsea<\/p>\n
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Dier,\u00a0Jackson, Son and Sterling were among those who had goals disallowed on Monday<\/p>\n
So, there had been two goals given, three disallowed, a legion of VAR checks and a sending off. Soon, Colwill was touched by the madness, too, and lost his temper with Sarr to the extent he had to be held back by Fernandez and was booked. He did not reappear for the second half, replaced by Marc Cucurella.<\/p>\n
The madness did not abate. Less than ten minutes into the second half, Spurs were down to nine men. Chelsea broke and even though the move broke down, Sterling latched on to the loose ball and was chopped down by Udogie. Udogie was lucky to have escaped a red the first time. This time, he got a second yellow. He could have no complaints.<\/p>\n
Tottenham’s starting XI: Vicario; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Udogie; Bissouma, Sarr, Maddison; Kulusevski, Son, Johnson.<\/p>\n
Chelsea’s starting XI: Sanchez; James, Thiago Silva, Disasi, Colwill; Fernandez, Gallagher, Caicedo; Palmer, Sterling, Jackson.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chelsea should have gone ahead from the free kick. Reece James floated a cross into the box and Jackson met it unmarked two yards out. He tried to glance it in but headed it to close to Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, who deflected it over the bar. The Spurs players celebrated as if they had scored.<\/p>\n
Soon, it was like the Alamo. Chelsea got in behind the Spurs defence with almost every attack. With every attack, they found a way of wasting their opportunity. Pochettino grew more and more exasperated on the touchline.<\/p>\n
Spurs\u2019 defending was relentlessly cavalier and consistently heroic. Vicario flung himself at the feet of Cucurella when he burst clean through, Oliver Skipp made a last-ditch tackle to deny Jackson, time ticked by and hope of salvation grew.<\/p>\n
But 15 minutes from time, the inevitable happened. Chelsea sprung the offside trap yet again, Sterling raced clear, glanced across to see Jackson alongside him and squared the ball into his path. Jackson took it first time with his left foot and guided it into the net.<\/p>\n
Chelsea went 3-1 up deep into stoppage time when Conor Gallagher sprinted in behind the Spurs defence yet again and squared the ball to Jackson. As before, Jackson was clinical with his finish, sliding the ball past Vicario.<\/p>\n
To complete a surreal evening, Jackson waltzed through again a minute later, rounded Vicario and slid the ball over the line for his hat-trick. He had doubled his tally for the season in one evening.<\/p>\n
What a night.<\/p>\n
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