Nine-man Chelsea beaten at the Bridge by Burnley on shocking away victory at Premier League opener.
Antonio Conte's champions, reduced to nine men following red cards for
Gary Cahill and Cesc Fabregas, got their title defence off to the worst
start at Stamford Bridge.
The 2015/16 campaign hung over so much of this and, even if it is clearly overblown to immediately start thinking the same will happen especially given the Alvaro Morata-inspired late rally, there were comparison that were impossible to escape.
Conte went into this campaign so unhappy about transfers, just like Jose Mourinho in 2015, with that leaving him with a depleted side for the first game, at least five regularly playing champions out and 20-year-old Jeremie Boga starting, and also setting the wrong tone and the wrong mood.
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There was just a clear unease about the champions, an anxiety, and that became manifest on 14 minutes when Gary Cahill lunged in for a ball he miscontrolled to then take out Steven Defour and get sent off.
Burnley knew it was one of those rare opportunities, and that was never better illustrated than when Stephen Ward scored a rare absolute screamer on 39 minutes. Chesting down a flick at the far corner of the 18-yard box, the Irish international let it bounce up before brilliantly volleying the ball past Courtois.
It was stunning, but still not as stunning as what was to come. Four minutes later, Vokes got another, heading in a Defour free-kick unmarked. The champions were 3-0 down at home, but with multiple problems to think of.
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Sensational, bizarre and yet still considerably familiar for Chelsea. Antonio Conte’s nine-man side were beaten 3-2 by a brutal Burnley to become just the second defending Premier League champions ever to lose on the opening weekend, after Leicester City last season, and the first to do so at home but those already remarkable stats barely begin to tell the story of this game.
The 2015/16 campaign hung over so much of this and, even if it is clearly overblown to immediately start thinking the same will happen especially given the Alvaro Morata-inspired late rally, there were comparison that were impossible to escape.
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Conte went into this campaign so unhappy about transfers, just like Jose Mourinho in 2015, with that leaving him with a depleted side for the first game, at least five regularly playing champions out and 20-year-old Jeremie Boga starting, and also setting the wrong tone and the wrong mood.
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There was just a clear unease about the champions, an anxiety, and that became manifest on 14 minutes when Gary Cahill lunged in for a ball he miscontrolled to then take out Steven Defour and get sent off.
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Burnley knew it was one of those rare opportunities, and that was never better illustrated than when Stephen Ward scored a rare absolute screamer on 39 minutes. Chesting down a flick at the far corner of the 18-yard box, the Irish international let it bounce up before brilliantly volleying the ball past Courtois.
It was stunning, but still not as stunning as what was to come. Four minutes later, Vokes got another, heading in a Defour free-kick unmarked. The champions were 3-0 down at home, but with multiple problems to think of.
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