Apologies if posted already.....this is the match report from the OFFICIAL Chelsea website!!
They really should stop allowing 12 year olds to submit these....not quite as bad as the one they did at Emirates Marketing Project earlier this season but still highly amusing that they're all this deluded!
Enjoy!
Match report
NEWSSUN 29 NOV 2015
Chelsea shaded this hard-fought London derby and leave White Hart Lane with a much-deserved point after an excellent performance on a windy afternoon in the north of the capital.
The Blues were dominant for much of the game against a physical team who hadn’t lost in the Premier League since the opening day of the season, but clear chances were in short supply at both ends.
The best opportunities were a pair of first-half headers. Ours fell to striker-for-the-day
Eden Hazard who nodded over, and soon after Heung-Min Son could only direct his aerial effort at
Asmir Begovic.
In the second period it was
Hazard who came closest to breaking the deadlock with a well-struck volley that Hugo Lloris did superbly to tip round the post, but by the end both teams were happy to settle for a point on a day when defences were on top. It is now three clean sheets in a row for the Blues, who are in next in action against Bournemouth on Saturday.
John Terry and
Ramires were not able to recover from injuries sustained in Israel earlier in the week but there was a return to the starting XI for
Branislav Ivanovic. The captain for the day came in at right-back with
Cesar Azpilicueta shifting to the left, either side of
Gary Cahill and
Kurt Zouma.
Diego Costa was named on the bench and with
Loic Remy unavailable,
Eden Hazard led the Chelsea attack in front of
Willian,
Oscar and
Pedro.
Tottenham’s only change from their win against West Ham last weekend was enforced, with Ryan Mason replacing the suspended Dele Alli in midfield.
When the action got underway on a chilly afternoon in north London, the maiden Tottenham attack of threat, inside the opening three minutes, ended with a brilliant, diving
Gary Cahill challenge to stop a low cross reaching Harry Kane. Begovic got a blow to the face in the process but happily was okay to continue.
His fellow keeper Hugo Lloris comfortably gathered a
Willian delivery as we threatened for the first time once
Hazard had stolen possession near the halfway line.
Pedro then nearly latched on to
Willian’s through ball behind a high Tottenham line.
The diminutive Spanish forward almost got away again but this time from a long Begovic kick that held up in the wind. A combination of Jan Vertonghen and Lloris just about dealt with the danger.
After Begovic gathered a Kane strike at the second time of asking, we threatened through Pedro once more. Hazard and Willian provided the intricate link-up play but Alderweirald stuck a leg out before Pedro could truly gather the ball under his control.
The tempo had remained high throughout - to be expected from a high-pressure London derby – and it was Chelsea who had shone the brighter in the game’s first quarter. Two more good chances arrived before the midway point of the opening half.
First, Hazard swung the ball wide to Oscar in space out wide. His left-footed cross was perfect for the Belgian, who had continued his run into the box, but unfortunately he couldn’t keep his six-yard header down.
The lively Pedro, regularly our furthest man forward, then had a fierce shot deflected over from outside the box after cutting inside on to his right foot.
The home side showed what they could do in attack before the half-hour was up and Begovic was called into action twice in quick succession, first denying Heung-Min Son who should have done better with his back-post header, and then Mousa Dembele who fired a daisy-cutter in from distance.
Danny Rose picked up the first card of the afternoon for a crunching challenge on Hazard right in front of the vocal travelling support, and the ineffective Kane followed him into Michael Oliver’s notebook before the break for a cynical foul on Willian.
The touch and vision of Cesc Fabregas was evident when he flicked a bouncing ball in Willian’s direction on halfway, picked up the return pass and sprayed a glorious first-time pass to Oscar on the opposite flank. The Brazilian nutmegged Mason but the angle was tight and so his toe-poke could only ripple Lloris’s side-netting.
The last significant moment of the half was a poor late tackle from Walker on Azpilicueta. Like his young English team-mates Rose and Kane, the right-back was booked. Only a goal was missing from what had been an excellent first-half showing from those in blue.
Zouma came close to applying a finishing touch to a typically dangerous Willian free-kick a few minutes into the second half, and then Vertonghen became Tottenham’s fourth carded player - and third defender - for a poor tackle on the irrepressible Hazard.
Mason got his studs caught in the turf after weaving into the box and limped off, Eric Lamela the man introduced by Pochettino. Dembele dropped back into midfield.
On the hour Matic was booked and the same man needed treatment after getting an accidental hand to the face on halfway. Between those incidents, Son half-volleyed at Begovic who saved with ease, but the game had got a little scrappy as tensions rose.
Hazard brought it to life once more when he met Ivanovic’s searching, deep cross with a technically-exquisite first-time volley, not dissimilar to the one Shaun Wright-Phillips thrashed in at that end in an FA Cup sixth-round replay in 2007. On this occasion the goalkeeper prevented the net rippling, as Lloris produced a save to match the effort, tipping Hazard’s volley round the post. It was football of the highest quality.
Pedro blasted over from well out and then from much closer in couldn’t get a shot away after wriggling free inside the six-yard box. Oscar and Hazard were foiled following up.
The final 10 minutes were uneventful, but after a solid defensive showing and having posed a regular threat going forward, the Blues can certainly leave north London happy after what Jose Mourinho called the best performance of the season so far.
Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Begovic; Ivanovic (c), Zouma, Cahill, Azpilicueta; Fabregas, Matic; Willian (Kenedy 89), Oscar, Pedro (Loftus-Cheek 90+2); Hazard.
Unused subs Amelia, Djilobodji, Baba Rahman, Mikel, Diego Costa.
Booked Matic 59, Azpilicueta 90+5
Tottenham (4-2-3-1): Lloris (c); Walker, Alderweirald, Vertonghen, Rose; Dier, Mason (Lamela 56); Dembele, Eriksen, Son (Clinton 75); Kane.
Unused subs Vorm, Trippier, Wimmer, Onomah, Carroll.
Booked Rose 34, Kane 40, Walker 45+1, Vertonghen 53
Referee Michael Oliver
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