Chapter 238: The Game Begins

The days are in the constant discussion in the media, passed, Chelsea's players are not affected at all, or change training to train, and wait until the 17th, Chelsea set off to challenge West Bromwich Albion, although the league has just passed 11 rounds, but Chelsea has got 31 points, except for Manchester City, Manchester United other teams if they do not close the gap as soon as possible, they will lose hope of competing for the league title.

The Blues will be aiming to take all three points at West Bromwich Albion and win away from home to make it five wins in a row in a league that will see Chelsea win five in a row after winning six in a row this season before being held to a draw by Manchester City.

Khodic will rotate some of the main players, Chelsea will travel to Qarabag in the Champions League group stage next Wednesday, for the Blues, who are currently ranked first in the group, the two games will be the best chance to rotate players, Eden Hazard, Cesc Fabregas and captain Cahill and Costa are all rotational players, Jones was not left out of the list by Kodic, it seems that Jones will be rested in the Champions League.

With Chelsea on the verge of starting the devil's fixtures, after the final international break of 2017, Chelsea will also have a month-and-a-half-long campaign of fixtures, starting with this weekend's away game at West Bromwich Albion, Chelsea will play 14 games in a row over the next 45 days, an average of one every three days, including 11 league games, two Champions League group stage games and one League Cup match, which will determine Chelsea's title prospects in the league and League Cup.

West Bromwich Albion's recent form is bad, West Brom finished 10th in the league last season, but after the first 11 rounds of this season, Pulis's team has only 10 points, they are currently only 1 point away from the relegation zone, the first two rounds of the season, West Brom won a row to get 6 points, but then they fell into a winless circle, the last 3 rounds have suffered consecutive defeats, although this time it is at home, but in the face of Chelsea, who urgently need to get three points, Pulis's team may also be more than lucky.

The 12th round of the English Premier League was played at Hawthorn Stadium, the defending champion Chelsea played West Bromwich Albion away, the first 11 rounds of the Premier League ended, Chelsea got a record of 10 wins and 1 draw, and ranked 1st with 31 points, West Bromwich Albion has a record of 2 wins, 4 draws and 5 losses, with 10 points, ranking 16th in the league.

The history of the meeting between the two teams, Chelsea and West Brom have met 137 times in history, the Blues have the advantage of 58 wins, 36 draws and 43 defeats, scoring 218 goals and conceding 196 goals, including 122 meetings in league history, Chelsea have the upper hand with 54 wins, 30 draws and 38 defeats, and the last time the two teams met was in the 37th round of the Premier League last season, when Chelsea won 1-0 and won the title early.

The starting lineup of both sides, West Bromwich Albion formation 4141: No. 1 Foster, No. 3 Gibbs, No. 6 Evans, No. 26 Hegac, No. 2 Njom; Barry 18; No. 22 Shazri, No. 20 Korehowiak, No. 8 Livermore, No. 10 Phillips; No. 19 Rodriguez

Chelsea formation 343: 13-Courtois; 28-Azpilicueta, 27-Christensen, 24-Gary Cahill; 21-Zappacosta, 14-Bakayoko, 7-Kante, 3-Alonso; 11-Pedro, 23-Segura, No. 9 Jones

In this game, Jones played as a striker again, responsible for the attack in the frontcourt, and saw that Jones turned out to be a starter, which made Alan Pardew a headache, originally thought that Chelsea was going to rotate the main team, and his hope of winning was not small, but now it can only depend on the situation, Kodic didn't want Jones to play, it was Jones who asked to play, Jones found Kodic before the game, and said that the Champions League game would let him be substituted, and he would go on the field to score goals in this game.

"Let's hope Jones doesn't get hurt, buy another striker in the winter transfer, and there will be no problem with the rotation." Kodic said from the sidelines.

Chelsea scored first on the road soon after the game began, and the recent succession of victories has brought the confidence of Chelsea's attacking players to a peak, and at the Hawthorn Stadium they attacked bravely from the start, this time it was a flash of inspiration for Chelsea's midfield star, N'Golo Kante split the ball from the back, Segula used his characteristic dribbling action on the right to dodge his defenders at once, and was tripped by Evans as he cut inside to the middle to break into the box.

Jones came up to take the free kick, glanced at the position of the players in the penalty area, and kicked the ball over the wall directly, Segura understood in an instant, and came out from behind the wall to the back point to shoot lightly at the falling ball, the saved Foster pounced too hard, and the ball flew over his body into the goal.

"Beautiful free kick coordination, the perfect combination of Jones and Segura, West Bromwich Albion's backline did not react at all, so that the two players who cooperated tacitly completed the goal, it seems that Chelsea rotated a lot of main players, and it is also very strong, Jones and Segura are in very hot form in this game."

'Seven minutes into the game, Chelsea broke the door for West Brom with a brilliant free-kick combination, Segura's third goal of the season and his third in the Premier League!'

'Chelsea not only have Costa and Eden Hazard Jones as the three goalscorers, but the combination of Jones and Segura has made all the fans believe that Segura is just a substitute.

Chelsea's goal only extinguished the last bit of luck in West Bromwich Albion's mind, and they sent out a desperate counter-attack, regardless of their physical strength, pressing the Chelsea players all over the field, sometimes even using rough movements, because this game was their home stadium, so the referee's bias was very obvious.

With a lot of players in rotation, the Chelsea backline was a little unable to stop their frantic counter-attacks, so they put in a couple of beautiful attacks after conceding the goal, but Courtois made a couple of good saves.

However, West Bromwich Albion, who was desperate to attack, conceded again, after an offensive error, Perez broke through Gibbs on the left and crossed, Jones grabbed a header in front of Barry in front of the penalty area, and the unguarded Segura volleyed home from the left side of the penalty area, and Foster did not react.

0 to 2! Segura scored twice, Jones provided two assists, and West Brom were once again poured cold water on it, and under the continuous delivery of cannonballs from Kante and Alonso, they launched a continuous attack on West Bromwich Albion.

N'Golo Kante split to the right after a half-time break, Segura stepped in to receive the ball and used his body to cover the ball past two men in a row, then stabbed wide of the far post on the right side of the box, and then Perez and Jones tore apart the opposition defence in succession and fired a shot on the left side of the box, West Bromwich Albion goalkeeper Forster, who fell to the ground in time to save the ball.