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I didn't expect Chelsea to concede a humiliating 4-1 defeat to Newcastle. Chelsea have performed very well in the last two matches. They scored 4 goals each against strong teams like City and Tottenham. They drew 4-4 against City, so I expected Chelsea to win against Newcastle. But the Chelsea team was defeated by a big margin in this match due to bad defense.
After falling behind by 1 goal in just 13 minutes, Chelsea was able to equalize the match in 10 minutes. But in the second half we only saw the power of the Newcastle players. Chelsea could not make any good attack in the second half. And after a win in this match, Newcastle are sixth in the table. The team may be able to move to fourth or fifth place in the table.
That happened because indeed our expectations of Chelsea were quite large after the positive results they achieved in the previous few matches but in the end surprises always happen including in this match. I also had slightly higher expectations because I expected a draw in this match but in the end my expectations had to be in vain because of Chelsea's unpredictable performance.
The red card received by Reece James also made them suffer even more where they had to try to reduce the gap but with less players they had to concede the ball back and had to be willing to lose badly in this match.
Don't expect too much from Chelsea, because their series of wins only lasted for a moment. Pochettino again showed the weak point of his strategy in an effort to make the club consistently secure three points and improve its position in the standings. Newcastle managed to complete their mission even though they were facing a storm of injuries, a result that really surprised us all. I judge by the character of the game displayed by Sterling and his colleagues, never mind winning, even playing a draw is difficult, Pochettino admitted that his team played soft and without energy.
Pochettino next job is to improve his defense line, so that he no longer concedes up to 4 goals. Previously they also conceded 4 goals against Manchester City, this is work that must be completed immediately. Overall, perhaps the match against Newcastle was the worst for them so far, and for Newcastle they recorded valuable capital to look forward to the next match in the UCL group phase against PSG.