Chelsea won a penalty against Everton and Cucurella made his debut

Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea had problems at Goodison Park, on the first day of the 2022-23 Premier, but won 0-1 thanks to a penalty goal converted by Jorginho. Former Barcelona player Marc Cucurella made his debut as a ‘blue’ player, coming on in the 75th minute after Kalidou Koulibaly was injured in the debut of both in the English championship, although the Catalan player acted as left winger.

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It was a game marked by a serious ankle injury sustained by Ben Godfreywho retired in the 18th minute, was replaced by Mason Holgate after the game was stopped for 7 minutes while the Everton defender was treated.

A foul play occurred when the ball clearly crossed the baseline but the referee decided to let the action continue due to controversial VAR regulations. After a mistake by Jordan Pickford, Everton goalkeeper, Godfrey who went all out to stop Kai Havertz from scoring and suffered a serious injury. Former Barcelona player Yerry Mina also retired injured in the 70th minute.

The ‘blue’ team jumped on the field with César Azpilicueta as the great captain after his renewal (after his ‘no’ at Barcelona) and Marcos Alonso was left out of the list. It was not, on an offensive level, Chelsea’s best afternoon. Former Liverpool and City player Raheem Sterling disallowed the goal for offside on his official debut as a player for the London team.

Players who are usually decisive at Chelsea, such as Kai Havertz or Mason Mount, were left out. Everton had the best chance of the first half, a shot from James Tarkowskito which Edouard Mendy responded with an excellent intervention.

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It was a penalty that Chelsea solved their first game in the Premier 2022-23. abdoulay Doucouré gave the ultimate penalty to Ben Chilwell (returned to the English championship after a serious injury he sustained last season). Jorginho changed it.

In the last part of the match, Vitaliy Mykolenko prevented Sterling from scoring after receiving a pass from Cucurella. The ‘blues’ had a poor second half in attack in a crucial match, with injuries to both teams and reaching the 100th minute.