Southampton made two direct long passes into the box, apparently wanting to skip the midfield entanglement and attack directly into the Chelsea box.

But they thought of José too simply.

In the face of Bertrand's long pass, Jose made a decisive attack and easily confiscated the ball.

Jose took another goal kick.

Passed directly to Cesc Fabregas.

Chelsea are attacking again.

It's a pity that when Xiaofa passed the ball in the penalty area again, it was directly confiscated by the opponent's goalkeeper.

Southampton takes a goal kick.

The unexpected happened.

Pedro signaled that he was injured.

Jose Mourinho was forced to make a substitution.

Oscar came off the bench and Pedro was substituted through injury, leaving Chelsea with one less player available.

At 6 minutes and 23 seconds into the game, this will be the earliest substitution in the Premier League this season.

The game continues.

With Southampton abandoning the midfield, the pace of the game was very fast.

Both sides easily hit the opposition penalty area.

In the 8th minute, Southampton counter-attacked quickly.

Virgil van Dijk played a long ball at the back and found Davies on the right side of the pitch.

Davies crosses from the right.

On the left side of the box, Cesar Azpilicueta flew to block the ball off the line.

Southampton win a corner from the left.

The Saints' tactical corner was delivered to a team-mate on the left.

Kick in again.

This time, it was Costa who kept the ball out of the line.

Southampton were awarded corners in quick succession.

The left-hand corner is taken again.

The ball is directly high to the right side of the penalty area.

Jose jumped high and hit the ball halfway through.

In the middle of the box, possession is still at Southampton's feet.

A picky pass.

The ball was sent to the right side of the penalty area.

Van Dijk won the ball and he opted to pick up the middle of the box again.

Shaun Lang beat Cesar Azpilicueta to get the ball first.

Direct header on goal.

The ball was noticeably higher than the crossbar.

However, what was amazing was that Jose actually took the ball high directly.

With Jose's current bouncing power, it's not impossible to do this, it's just a matter of giving it your all.

Jose's purpose in doing this was naturally to get a quick counterattack.

Jose takes a quick goal kick.

The ball reached Costa's feet.

Unfortunately, the other teammates couldn't think of a piece, and the rare opportunity for a quick counterattack eventually turned into a positional battle.

The scrupulous scramble between the two sides was fierce, but neither could threaten the opposing goal.

In the 26th minute, Willian passed to Oscar behind him from the right side of the penalty area.

Outside the top of the arc to the left, Oscar shoots hard.

The ball flew straight below the goal.

It's a pity that he couldn't escape the opponent's goalkeeper's ten fingers and was directly confiscated by Foster.

It was the first shot on target from both teams in the game.

Three minutes later, Mikel passed.

Costa fired a powerful shot from 25 yards that went over the crossbar.

Before you know it, more than 40 minutes have passed in the game, and there are very few effective shots on goal from both sides.

In the 42nd minute, a mistake at the back by Chelsea allowed Southampton a great chance.

Cesar Azpilicueta's header was deflected to Cahill, but the power was too low.

Sean Lang successfully broke the ball and got a chance to face Jose alone.

Jose struck decisively.

From 12 yards on the right side of the penalty area, Jose met Sean Long.

At the moment when Sean Long was about to shoot with his feet, Jose decisively used the "time-lapse".

If Chelsea are leading at this point, Jose may try to make a tackle on his own.

But in the first half, most of Chelsea's attacking players were out of form.

So Jose didn't hesitate to use the first plug-in of the game.

It was only a second, but it was enough for Jose to poke the ball away from Sean Long's feet.

Jose single-handedly made amends for the mistakes of his teammates.

The first half was tied 0-0.

In the second half, the two sides exchanged venues.

While Chelsea's attack was not as good as it could be, Southampton's attack was no threat to Jose either.

Gradually, Jose became the most idle person on the field.

In the 50th minute, Hazard received a pass from Willian in front of the penalty area and shot with his left foot, but the ball deflected off the bottom line from the top left corner of the goal.

Chelsea then missed a succession of chances.

In the 53rd minute, Mikel's close-range header from a corner kick scuffle went wide.

Six minutes later, Eden Hazard crossed from the right.

Unguarded Diego Costa fired a left-footed volley from 8 yards,

Still off the bottom line.

The two sides fought fiercely, and Atkinson pulled out yellow cards to Costa, Bertrand and Krasi in succession for three minutes.

In the 71st minute, Southampton crossed from the left.

Substitute Saints player Pelle burst into the box after chest stopping.

Cahill pressed it.

On the edge of the box, Pelle went down under Cahill's pressure and the ball hit Cahill at the same time.

Pelle immediately complained to the referee that Cahill was not only fouled in defensive action, but also handball in the penalty area.

Referee Atkinson awarded a penalty after consulting the linesman.

A penalty was awarded and Chelsea fans didn't look worried.

This season, Jose has made successful saves in all of his penalty attempts.

It's an extremely horrible thing.

Pelle takes the penalty.

Sure enough, he couldn't escape Jose's ten fingers.

"What if you give you a penalty, you can't score it anyway." Chelsea fans in the stands, singing like this.

Such a singing can be said to be fatal to Southampton's morale.

In the 75th minute, Chelsea finally opened the scoring.

Diego Costa crossed back from the left and the ball reached the feet of Cesc Fabregas.

On the left side of the penalty area, Xiaofa crosses.

Eden Hazard grabs the point.

The result interfered with goalkeeper Foster's judgment.

The ball bounced off the ground and into the far corner.

Chelsea have a one-goal lead away from home.

Xiaofa's goal is simply weird.

After conceding a goal, Southampton had a run of 637 minutes without conceding a goal.

The game continues.

Chelsea added another in the 89th minute.

Willian takes a corner.

Branislav Ivanovic headed in from 10 yards over Virgil van Dijk.

The goal went in again, 2-0.

Ivan equalled the Premier League defender's goal record for at least two goals in six consecutive seasons.

In the end, Chelsea relied on a magical late game to win 2-0.

Jose guarded the goal and began to make other teams despair.

Three days later, the 28th round of the Premier League continued.

Chelsea are still playing away from home, against a mediocre Norwich City.

Chelsea have won nine and drawn three of their last 12 games against Norwich, which last won in 1985.

Kenedy, Nemanja Matic, Traore and Oscar rotated.

Pato was on the bench for the first time, and in addition, Willian and Mikel were given a rotational break.

The two games in a row have led to injuries to John Terry, Kurt Zouma, and Pedro, leaving Chelsea, which is already a thin squad, with fewer players available.

It was a dream start.

Norwich kicks off in the centre circle.

The attack was the first to be launched from the left, but Khura Khan's stop went straight out of bounds.

Within 10 seconds, Chelsea had a chance to take the ball from the perimeter.

Ivan takes the boundary ball and throws it directly to Jose.

Jose stopped the ball, glanced at the front of the pitch and found the unmarked Eden Hazard.

Straight with a long ball and the ball went to the feet of Hazard.

Eden Hazard splits the ball.

The ball reached Kennedy's feet.

Kenedy advanced down the left and Norwich's players were undetermined to intercept him.

In front of Norwich on the left side of the box, Kenedy cuts inside with the ball.

It was only then that two Norwich players interfered with him.

Outside the left-hand edge of the box, Kenedy easily beat two opposing players and suddenly kicked the goal.

The ball flies straight into the bottom right corner of the goal.

Norwich goalkeeper Rudy was clearly not in the groove yet, and made a hasty save in the face of Kenedy's sudden cold arrow.

However, he failed to touch the ball at all.

The ball went in.

Just 39 seconds into the game, Chelsea took the lead.

It was Kenedy's first Premier League goal.

It is also the fastest goal in the Premier League this season, and Chelsea's fastest goal since facing Arsenal in February 2004.

On that occasion, Gudjohnsen scored after 27 seconds in the game.

Kenedy's goal had a lot of luck in it, but luck was also part of the game.

Chelsea then came close to doubling the scoreline.

Eden Hazard bursts into the box and crosses from the left.

But Traore missed the ball from just outside the edge of the six-yard box.

In the 7th minute, Norwich counterattacked.

Khurakhan crosses diagonally from the left.

Jerome shot over the top from 12 yards out.

Jose could see at a glance that his opponent's header had gone high.

Despite a fantastic start, it is also true that the Chelsea players are in poor form.

The game was then deadlocked.

In the 26th minute, Traore's shot from the right side of the box was blocked.

In the 38th minute, Hazard passed the ball.

Xiaofa grabbed the header before the opposing goalkeeper.

It's a pity that the top is high.

Before you know it, the first half of the game has entered injury time.

Jose didn't get any chances to show compared to the previous game.

Aside from the occasional return pass from his teammates, Jose didn't even have many chances to touch the ball.

The last minute of stoppage time at half-time.

Traore crosses diagonally from the right.

Diego Costa was successful against offside.

Single-handedly into the right side of the penalty area.

From 11 yards out, Costa fired into the far corner.

The ball went in.

In the first half, Chelsea led 2-0.

Second.

Norwich stepped up their attack, while Chelsea players began to shrink their defence.

In the 53rd minute, O'Neill crossed.

Jerome shoots from close range.

It didn't threaten Jose at all, and it was easily confiscated by Jose.

It was Norwich's second shot of the game.

Three minutes later, Norwich City struck again.

Khurakhan crosses from the left.

Russell Martin header ferry.

On the edge of the six-yard box, Jerome shoots with his right foot.

The ball flies straight to the right side of the goal.

Jose made a leap of relief, but couldn't touch the ball.

Jerome's shot was deflected off target.

In the 59th minute, Willian and Mikel came on as substitutes.

Traore and Oscar were replaced.

In the 76th minute, there was an extremely oolong scene on the field.

Xiaofa passed on to find William.

Norwich players Brady and O'Neill stepped forward at the same time to scramble, only to collide at the same time.

Caught in the middle, William passively crashed to the ground.

O'Neill's forehead was punctured, causing him to bleed profusely and eventually had to return to the locker room to be bandaged.

William wanted to yell at the two of them, "You have to get nervous, don't take me with you." ”

On the football field, sometimes you have to be careful, but there are still accidents.

In the 86th minute, Chelsea were awarded another corner.

Willian takes a corner.

On the edge of the six-yard box, Nemanja Matic stabbed in front of Jerome with a volley.

It's a pity that it hit high.

In the 90th minute, Chelsea missed another great chance.

Xiaofa counter-attacks and crosses from the right.

Diego Costa pushes from 12 yards,

The result is out of the direction of the column on the left.

In the final minute of stoppage time, Norwich City organized a final wave of attacks.

Horahan passes through from the right.

There was a big hole in Chelsea's defence and the unmarked Raymond got his hands on the ball.

Raymond dribbled the ball into the right side of the box.

Stones shoveled it down, but it failed.

From 10 yards on the right side of the penalty area, Raymond fired a powerful shot.

(End of chapter)