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It was not how Antonio Conte had envisaged his return to Chelsea, the club where he enjoyed such success for two seasons before everything went bang, his departure in 2018 marked by acrimony and a long-running legal case.
Results had generally been impressive for Conte on the domestic front since his arrival at Tottenham in early November but this was quite the unravelling, the only consolation being that his team are still just about alive ahead of the second leg of this Carabao Cup semi-final.
Spurs’s defending in the first half was almost impossibly bad. If Kai Havertz’s early opener owed much to their looseness, the second was entirely down to it, Japhet Tanganga’s attempted clearing header from a Hakim Ziyech free-kick smacking into Ben Davies and flying in for a darkly comic own goal. There was no Chelsea player in the vicinity. It was not the only time that Spurs were a danger to themselves, players getting in the way of each other, coherence sorely lacking.Spurs’s defending in the first half was almost impossibly bad. If Kai Havertz’s early opener owed much to their looseness, the second was entirely down to it, Japhet Tanganga’s attempted clearing header from a Hakim Ziyech free-kick smacking into Ben Davies and flying in for a darkly comic own goal. There was no Chelsea player in the vicinity. It was not the only time that Spurs were a danger to themselves, players getting in the way of each other, coherence sorely lacking.
Almost implausibly, they came close to burgling a late goal when the substitute, Bryan Gil, showed off his quick feet and cut back for another replacement, Giovani Lo Celso, whose shot was pushed out by Kepa Arrizabalaga. Tanguy Ndombele, who also came off the bench, could not force home the rebound. It was difficult to remember Spurs doing much else as an attacking force. Harry Kane and Son Heung-min were entirely peripheral.
The story was one of Chelsea profligacy, with Romelu Lukaku among the guilty. Thomas Tuchel had restored the striker to the starting XI after the fallout from his controversial interview and he struggled to make an impression; his finishing was rushed, his moves a little predictable. It was almost as if he was trying too hard at times.
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