Marco Silva, with his Fulham, opened the crisis this Saturday by winning at Everton (3-1), on matchday 31 of the English Football League in which Chelsea and Tottenham were still in free fall.
In London, Chelsea were surprised by Brighton (2-1) and have gone five games without winning in the Premier League (two draws and three losses), while Tottenham were also defeated, but against Bournemouth, 3-2. .
For the moment, the return has been difficult for the forwards, since Newcastle suffered a heavy defeat at Aston Villa (3-0), suddenly having arguments for the Birmingham team to be able to dream of an unexpected qualification for the Champions League in the next season.
Living through the worst phase of the season, Fulham finished with a record of five defeats in all competitions, and five without a win in the championship (four defeats and a draw), with a resounding victory in Liverpool, which left Everton in ‘ Hot water’.
With Palhinha in the ’11’ and with Cédric as an unused substitute, Marco Silva’s team sighed with relief with goals from Reed (minute 22) and the Welsh Wilson (51) and James (68), while McNeil even managed to redo the equality at 35
Fulham is in 10th place, with 42 points, a much calmer position than Everton, a historic player in English football, who is in 17th place, with 27, and could even end the journey in the relegation zone.
With 120 seasons, Everton is the club that has played the most times in England’s top flight (relegated only in 1929-30 and 1950-51) and is a totalist of the Premier League ‘era’.
This time with João Félix on the bench (he came on in the 57th minute), Chelsea maintained their ‘desert crossing’ in the championship and was defeated again, in a game in which Brighton operated the turnaround.
At Stamford Bridge, Gallagher put the ‘blues’ ahead, in minute 13, but veteran Welbeck, in minute 42, and Paraguayan Enciso, in minute 69, ensured the visitors’ celebration.
Chelsea continues in an unthinkable 11th place, with 39 points, with Brighton rising to seventh, with 49, and consolidating their intentions to live in European football in 2023/24.
Also in the English capital, a goal in minute 90+5 by Ouattara, the Burkina Faso striker, gave Bournemouth victory, after several comebacks on the scoreboard, preventing Tottenham from equalizing Manchester United and also Newcastle in the third position.
At the opening of the day, the ‘magpies’, the new ‘millionaires’ of the Premier League, were defeated by Aston Villa, with a ‘double’ from Watkins (minutes 64 and 83) leaving the emblem of Birmingham in a situation unexpected.
The team now led by the Spanish Unai Emery, who made a small ‘revolution’ in the club, is in sixth place with 50 points, six of the ‘Champions’ places.
Wolverhampton and their Portuguese ‘armada’ remain calmer (José Sá, Nélson Semedo, Toti, Matheus Nunes were in the starting eleven today, while João Moutinho and Pedro Neto were substitutes), after receiving the 2-0 defeat by Brentford , a result that leaves the ‘wolves’ in 13th place, and seven points above the ‘forbidden’ zone.
At 75, Roy Hodgson, former England coach and history of his country, came out of retirement (again) and added the third victory in as many games for Crystal Palace, this time with a 2-0 victory in Southampton, the now lower: Premier League red.
Source: TSF
