320 million euros and still no improvement. Chelsea owner Todd Boehly is spending like crazy, but his team remains 10 points behind fourth placed Manchester United. He brought Benoit Badiashile today, he might give over 100 million euros for Enzo Hernandez, but the goal scoring problems remain. Chelsea lost 1-0 to Manchester City tonight and against failed to score. In fact, City’s Erling Haaland (didn’t score tonight) so far managed 21 Premier League goals in 15 appearances this season. Chelsea have scored 20 goals in 16 games. What’s even worse, club’s only recognized striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang entered the game in the 5th minute, and was substituted in the 68th minute.1 – Chelsea have won just one of their last eight Premier League matches (D3 L4) – since the first game in this run on October 19th, no side has won fewer games in the competition. Sticky. pic.twitter.com/OI6l9KOpdR— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) January 5, 2023 The only bright part for Chelsea’s fans must be the overall performance, which was actually quite OK, considering the form, absence of any attacking form and a huge number of injuries. Manchester City continued their Arsenal chase but played a poor and boring game. Raheem Sterling made his first Premier League appearance against Manchester City since leaving them this summer, but it ended badly, as the England international got injured after only 5 minutes and was substituted. 17 minutes later, Cristian Pulisic also got injured and was replaced by a 19 year old Carney Chukwuemeka, a new boy from Aston Villa. Already without injured James Reece and Mason Mount, these two new injuries crippled Chelsea even more, but unexpectedly, the Blues were the better team in the first half, especially Chukwuemeka, who had the best chance, but the post got in the way.Pep Guardiola was not impressed with his boys and decided to change the defense, leaving Cancelo and Walker on the bench and introduced Akanji and Rico Lewis. The Citizens decided to attack more and soon enough, De Bruyne’s shot was saved by Kepa. Pep then changed uninspired Foden with Grealish and Silva with Mahrez and it brought results immediately. Mahrez started the action before sneaking into the penalty area and tapped the ball into the net after Grealish’s cross. It ended up being the winning goal and Graham Potter couldn’t even make proper replacements due to multiply injuries, but introduced kids like Hall and Hutchinson. Chelsea remain 10 points behind fourth placed Manchester and the beginning of 2023 doesn’t look good. ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE – Matchday 19MondayBrentford – Liverpool 3-1 (2-0)/Konate 19 og, Wissa 42, Mbeumo 84 – Oxlade-Chamberlain 50/TuesdayLeicester – Fulham 0-1 (0-1)/Mitrovic 17/Arsenal – Newcastle 0-0Everton – Brighton 1-4 (0-1)/Gray 90+2 (p) – Mitoma 14, Ferguson 51, March 54, Gross 57/Man.Utd. – Bournemouth 3-0 (1-0)/Casemiro 23, Shaw 49, Rashford 86/WednesdaySouthampton – Nott.Forest 0-1 (0-1)/Awoniyi 27/Leeds – West Ham 2-2 (1-1)/Gnonto 27, Rodrigo 70 – Paqueta 44 pen, Scamacca 46/Aston Villa – Wolverhampton 1-1 (0-1)/Ings 78 – Podence 12/Crystal Palace – Tottenham 0-4 (0-0)/Kane 48, 54, Doherty 68, Son 73/ThursdayChelsea – Man.City 0-1 (0-0)/Mahrez 63/
