Cesc Fabregas passes.

Ivan won the ball and forced his way into the right side of the Swansea penalty area, and after successive passes, he got up and hit the goal.

It's a pity that it was blocked by Swansea players.

The ball bounced off and flew to the left side of the penalty area.

On the edge of the small penalty area, Costa grabbed the first landing point and hung the golden hook upside down.

The ball hit Federico Fernandez's chest and deflected into the net.

2 to 0.

Chelsea also started the game on a four-game winning streak and are at the top of the table alongside Pep Guardiola's Manchester City.

In this game, Costa single-handedly muddied the Swansea backline and made a huge contribution to Chelsea's goal.

Jose saved a penalty and an absolute one-on-one chance to keep the goal and was the biggest contributor to Chelsea's victory.

Suffice it to say that without Jose and Costa, the outcome of this match would still be uncertain.

After this campaign, Chelsea will face a real test.

First up is the Champions League group stage.

With Chelsea's current strength, there should be no problem qualifying, and of course beware of capsizing in the gutter.

The second is that the league will play against Liverpool and Arsenal in succession.

Although Liverpool's results are not stable today, robbing the rich and helping the poor has become their new synonym.

Liverpool will show unrivalled fighting power against teams at the top of the table, but they will often be upset when facing weaker teams.

As for Arsenal, before the end of the transfer period, it has purchased several powerful players such as Mustafi and Xhaka.

What's more, Arsene Wenger's "most ready" has enough fighting spirit, and now Chelsea are unbeaten in 43 league games across the season, and there is only a five-game gap between Arsenal's 49 unbeaten games.

Arsenal have absolutely no hope that Chelsea will break their unbeaten run of 49 games.

Finally, there is the Carabao Cup against Leicester City.

Leicester City set a legendary record last season, and Mahrez had to go to Pep Guardiola for the summer, but Leicester City never let them go, which shows that they are completely different from Villa.

Chelsea were able to win Kante because Kante had liquidated damages, otherwise the result would probably be the same as Mahrez.

No one knows how far Leicester City are from last season.

Of course, the EFL Cup can be abandoned.

For Premier League teams, the EFL Cup's only role is to qualify for Europe. After all, just £200,000 in prize money is not enough for a player's weekly salary.

On September 14, on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival in China, a match of the Champions League group stage was played at Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea host Monaco.

In this game, Mourinho attaches great importance to it, as the defending champion of the Champions League, he can't even qualify for the group stage like he did in 12 years.

There was only one change in Chelsea's starting line-up, with David Luiz making his first appearance for Chelsea in more than two years, while Cahill, who almost made a big mistake in his last game due to carelessness, was on the bench.

As for Monaco, Falcao started after a season of injury at Chelsea, while popular fried chicken Mbappe was sidelined due to injury, and the specific list is as follows.

Goalkeeper: Subazic.

Defenders: Sidibé, Gemerson, Glick, Raj.

Two midfielders: Tiemoue Bakayoko, Fabinho.

Attacking defenders: Bernardo Silva, Moutinho, Di Rabi.

Centre: Falcao.

Chelsea kicked off the ball first, taking advantage of home advantage to launch a series of attacks directly against Monaco.

Monaco knew how terrible it was for the defending champions to give up possession and then take the initiative to shrink their defence.

Against a heavily defended Monaco, Chelsea don't seem to have much to do.

Costa, Eden Hazard and Willian missed chances.

Monaco, on the other hand, used quick counter-attacks to create a couple of great scoring chances in the first half.

In the 15th minute, Fabinho successfully counter-attacked in front of the field and blocked the ball to seat B.

Bernardo Silva won the ball on the right rib and burst into the right side of the box.

From 16 yards out, Silva fired a low left-footed shot into the far corner.

The ball flew past the Chelsea defence and into the bottom left corner of the goal.

Fortunately, Jose sensed the threat in advance and decisively chose to attack, blocking the ball halfway through.

Chelsea didn't come to their senses after escaping.

In the 31st minute, Monaco had another good chance.

Monaco full-back Sidibe crosses from the left.

Substitute Lemar headed home from the edge of the six-yard box.

David Luiz defended very aggressively, using his body to block Le Marre's header.

In fact, it would have been better for David Luiz not to block Le Mar's header, because Jose was already ready to make a save.

The ball hit Luiz, but instead of bouncing off the six-yard box, it rolled towards the left side of the six-yard box.

At this moment, all four Blues players in the Chelsea penalty area were down in their brains, and none of them stepped forward to win the ball and clear the ball.

By the time they could react, Lemar got the ball a second time.

From three yards out, Le Marre volleyed a left-footed volley into the bottom left corner of the goal.

With such a close-range shot, even Jose didn't dare to deal with it carelessly.

To be on the safe side, José decisively used cheats.

You don't have to be in vain.

In a thrilling situation, Jose finally got the ball in his hands.

At the beginning of the season, there will always be problems with the run-in between the players.

Jose has felt this after two seasons with Villa, Bayer Leverkusen and Chelsea.

In the first half, the two sides played out 0-0 and Chelsea were scoreless.

In the second half, Monaco insisted on using the counter-attacking tactics of the first half.

At one point, Chelsea had 70 per cent possession and more than three times as many shots as Monaco, but the real threat was far less than Monaco's two chances in the first half.

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

It looks like the match will end in a dull draw.

Jose wins the ball in the center circle.

Monaco substitute striker Germain came to steal the ball.

Jose did not dodge or dodge, and when the opponent stretched out his foot to poke the ball, he flicked his left foot lightly, and the ball instantly moved from the left side to Jose's right side.

Germain, of course, did not touch the ball, but swept it on Jose's ankle.

"Ahh José screamed, and the sound resounded throughout the audience.

The referee decisively showed Germain a yellow card.

No one cares too much about a free kick in the centre circle.

And that's exactly what José wanted.

A quick free-kick was struck straight at the goal.

Although Jose blasted the ball at a speed of more than 220 mph, the shot was too far away and was blocked by the Monaco goalkeeper.

The ball didn't fly out of the box.

On the right side of the penalty area, Costa grabbed the ball that bounced back.

Costa volleys with his right foot.

This time, the ball finally went in.

Jose was an indirect assist for Costa's goal.

Monaco only came to its senses at this time that Jose had deliberately lured Le Mar into committing a foul.

(End of chapter)