Enzo Fernández scored and assisted in his first Premier League start for six weeks as Chelsea beat their manager’s former club Leicester 2-1
Enzo Maresca has lost a few old friends at Leicester but it hardly matters when the Italian is making new ones at. They remained in the top four after cruising to victory at a despondent King Power Stadium thanks to goals from Nicolas Jackson and Enzo Fernández.
Leicester were oddly muted. Chelsea had enjoyed 82% possession by the half-hour mark and soon settled into a controlled rhythm. It was only when Leicester started to get stuck in before half-time that there was a hint of the mood shifting, although even then the hosts could have been reduced to 10 men when Wilfred Ndidi raked his studs down Cole Palmer’s achilles.
Enter Wout Faes, who was blissfully unaware of the Senegal striker’s willingness to hunt down any lost cause. The Belgian missed four chances to clear his lines and Fernández had space to tee up Jackson, who swiped a lovely right-foot shot across Mads Hermansen and into the far corner.
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