{"id":216938,"date":"2023-11-25T19:26:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T19:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=216938"},"modified":"2023-11-25T19:26:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T19:26:17","slug":"newcastle-4-chelsea-1-reece-james-sees-red-as-hot-headed-blues-fall-to-heavy-defeat-against-rampant-toon-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/sport\/newcastle-4-chelsea-1-reece-james-sees-red-as-hot-headed-blues-fall-to-heavy-defeat-against-rampant-toon-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle 4 Chelsea 1: Reece James sees red as hot-headed Blues fall to heavy defeat against rampant Toon | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

AFTER arriving at Stamford Bridge in July charged with turn the club around, consider it mission accomplished for Mauricio Pochettino.<\/p>\n

Because a smidgeon under five months Pochettino has indeed transformed Chelsea…into Spursy.<\/p>\n


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Soft-centred replicas of his old club who promise much then find a way to shoot themselves in the foot.<\/p>\n

A four-goal win over, ironically, Tottenham and a 4-4 draw against Manchester City before the international break had seen many claim the billionaire Blues were on the march.<\/p>\n

The wiser heads, the ones not suckered in by one \u2013 or two \u2013 swallows and all that, put their foot on the ball a little. There was still a hint of the emperor\u2019s new clothes about it all.<\/p>\n

And boy, weren\u2019t they proved right at St James\u2019 Park, because for all the injury-hit Toon were terrific, Chelsea were frankly diabolical.<\/p>\n

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Bear in mind that Newcastle were missing nigh on a full team of players. A casualty list that hit double figures saw Eddie How name three keepers on the bench.<\/p>\n

Even so the Toon boss insisted the injuries could never be used as an excuse. He never came close to having to.<\/p>\n

Four times his patched-up prize-guys showed up Chelsea\u2019s dud defence for what it was\u2026an embarrassing, shambolic mess.<\/p>\n

The marking for Alexander Isak\u2019s opener, the same for Jamaal Lascelles\u2019 second, the clanger to gift Joelinton a third, and the backed-off, lack of a challenge for Anthony Gordon\u2019s fourth.<\/p>\n

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Schoolboy errors all. Clinical, cut-throat finishes, yes, but this wasn\u2019t Premier League defending. It wasn\u2019t National League defending. It was Sunday pub team stuff.<\/p>\n

Cucurella was first in the firing line, bizarrely and inexplicably going AWOL in the box for the Toon opener on 13 minutes.<\/p>\n

An opener, incidentally, for which \u00a0the architect was a youngster who would have been on the bench at best if the Toon had anything like a full quota.<\/p>\n

Lewis Miley only turned 17 in May and started his first Premier League game in the loss at Bournemouth just before the international break.<\/p>\n

But the cool-as-you-like incision through the heart of the Chelsea box to pick out Isak \u2013 helped by Cucurella\u2019s wandering \u2013 was more wizened pro than early-days teen.<\/p>\n

When Gordon\u2019s ball from the left pinged off Joelinton and fell to Miley, it seemed the whole of St James\u2019s Park was baying for him to shoot.<\/p>\n

Instead the youngster took his time, slid the perfect ball to Isak \u2013 back after five games out with a damaged groin \u2013 and his team-mate was just as cool in picking his spot past Robert Sanchez.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s just as well Pochettino wasn\u2019t in the dugout, given the way his side\u2019s backline parted for that Newcastle opener.<\/p>\n

He was watching from the stands, after a third booking of the season in the draw with City earned a one-game ban from the dugout.<\/p>\n

Although when his side did show the balls to find a way back, it seemed as though it might not be a bad day after all for the visitors.<\/p>\n


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It came when Raheem Sterling crashed under Kieran Trippier\u2019s challenge \u2013 somewhat theatrically it must be said, before picking himself up to make it a double whammy.<\/p>\n

There was more than a hint of Cristiano Ronaldo in the way Sterling struck the free kick, a couple of yards outside the box.<\/p>\n

And the result was worthy of a place of any others on the Portuguese maestro\u2019s CV, as it dipped dramatically just under the bar, with Nick Pope rooted.<\/p>\n

Some reckon the Toon keeper \u2013 playing his 50th<\/sup>\u00a0Prem game for the club \u2013 could have at least made a better fist of it. In reality, Sterling\u2019s effort was nigh on unsavable.<\/p>\n

And not too many were having a pop at Pope when he showed great reflexes in throwing himself to his left to turn an Enzo Fernandez first timer behind.<\/p>\n

Trippier then clipped the crossbar with a free kick \u2013 but the dam wasn\u2019t long in bursting. Twice in 90 seconds, as it happens, as Chelsea simply imploded.<\/p>\n

First there wasn\u2019t a defender in sight when Gordon swung a cross into the box and Lascelles \u2013 one of THREE <\/strong>unmarked Magpies \u2013 rose highest to bury a header past Sanchez.<\/p>\n

The Blues were still reeling when Cole Palmer rolled a bog standard pass to Thiago Silva, and ther Brazilian old timer suddenly looked every one of his 39 years.<\/p>\n

He looked a damn sight more, in fact, as he was caught in two minds, stubbed his foot and rolled the ball for Joelinton to gallop away and blast a third.<\/p>\n

Gordon himself bagged the fourth, making the most of Benoit Badiashile\u2019s decision to back off, rather than challenge, and picking out the far corner.<\/p>\n

And by then Chelsea \u2013 just to rub salt into the wounds \u2013 were down to ten after Reece James, booked for fouling Bruno Guimaraes, earned a justifiable second for a challenge on Gordon.<\/p>\n

All of which made it a day to forget for Pochettino and Co\u2026and one the boys in black and white never will.<\/p>\n


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