Halfway through the Premier League season, Chelsea has become the hardest hit by injuries, with not only a number of players taking turns to contract the new crown, but also a number of players who have been injured consecutively. In a recent interview, Tuchel highlighted the team's injury troubles, believing that it would be detrimental to the team's title race, followed by Lukaku's heart for Inter, which made the situation in Chelsea very unoptimistic. The Premier League table shows that although Chelsea are temporarily in second place, they only have 43 points, which is 10 points apart by Manchester City at the top of the table, and it is difficult for the Premier League to compete for the title.
On the good side, Chelsea continue to show a very strong form in the cup, continuing the tenacious style of winning the Champions League last season. In the early morning of January 6, Beijing time, the Premier League Cup ushered in the first leg of the semi-final match, Chelsea sat at home to win 2-0 to Spurs, in the case of injured soldiers still in the cup soaring, fully kicked out the Chelsea giants, Spurs were fully suspended.
Statistics, Chelsea's possession rate in this game is 64%, and the shooting contrast with Tottenham is 19-5, the shooting contrast is 6-2, and finally it becomes a 2-0 victory, Chelsea attacks and defends the two ends of the perfect suppression of the opponent, but the injury situation continues to spread, the goal hero Havertz and the captain Azpilicueta both retired from injury, Lukaku regained the trust of Tuchel, and returned to the starting lineup.
In the 5th minute of the game, Chelsea made a fantastic start, Alonso pressed a successful grab on the left side of the front, completed the steal and then crossed the assist in front of the Hackts completed a small angle of the strong shot, Chelsea led 1-0, but Havertz then fractured the little finger, insisted on playing for a while and was replaced in the 46th minute of the game.
In the 35th minute of the game, Chelsea won the set-piece on the right side of the front, the ball was passed to the box, The Tottenham defender appeared oolong, TheTanganga header hit the shoulder of teammate Davis and bounced into the goal, Chelsea led 2-0, the rest of the game did not change the score, Azpilicueta retired in the 89th minute of the game, and finally Chelsea easily beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-0.
The first leg of the semi-final led 2-0, Chelsea basically reached the semi-finals basically stable, on the one hand, Chelsea is stable, in the League Cup has shown a "champion phase", from the first League Cup game of the season 5-4 elimination of Aston Villa, until the game 2-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur, won the Premier League Cup four consecutive wins, four games have been 5-4 Aston Villa (regular time 1-1, penalty 4-3), 5-4 Southampton (regular time 1-1, penalty 4-3), 2-0 Brentford 2-0 Tottenham Hotspur, four games perfectly interpret the attributes of the Predator, as tenacious as last season's Champions League victory.
On the other hand, there are a total of 30 teams in the history of the League Cup that lead by 2 goals in the first leg of the semi-finals, of which 29 have successfully advanced to the final, with the only exception of Tranmille in 1994, which defeated Aston Villa 3-1 in the first leg and lost 1-3 to the opponent in the second leg, and was eventually eliminated by the opponent on penalties. Considering that Chelsea have won the League Cup five times before, they will next attack the 6th League Cup title.