Premier League: United draw blank again at Chelsea to fall further behind City | Football News – Times of India
LONDON: Manchester United and Chelsea performed out a second 0-0 draw of the season on Sunday with the outcome doing little for both aspect’s ambitions at the highest of the Premier League.
Second-placed United now path runaway leaders Manchester City by 12 factors, whereas Chelsea stay some extent outdoors the highest 4 in fifth.
Neither aspect did sufficient to deserve all three factors in a sport of few possibilities, though United will declare they need to have had a primary-half penalty for a handball by Callum Hudson-Odoi.
Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel stays unbeaten in 9 video games since changing the sacked Frank Lampard, however a scarcity of firepower that has been an issue within the German’s brief reign up to now was in proof again for the Blues.
Tuchel’s determination to play Hakim Ziyech and Mason Mount shut to Olivier Giroud in assault left the hosts with out the width to trigger United issues and Chelsea solely regarded seemingly to make the breakthrough as soon as Christian Pulisic and Timo Werner got here off the bench within the remaining quarter.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had given Mason Greenwood a begin forward of the out-of-types Anthony Martial and the younger striker was concerned in essentially the most noteworthy incident as he and Hudson-Odoi vied for possession contained in the Chelsea field.
Hudson-Odoi inadvertently caught the ball together with his arm and was fortunate to escape a VAR assessment for a penalty.
Giroud then simply failed to meet a teasing Hudson-Odoi cross at the opposite finish with Chelsea’s greatest second of the primary-half.
Stalemates in opposition to conventional high six opponents has been a theme of United’s season with 0-0 attracts in opposition to Chelsea twice, City, Liverpool and Arsenal within the league this season.
Edouard Mendy did nicely to save Scott McTominay’s low shot early within the second-half and nervously parried Fred’s piledriver in stoppage time.
But it was Chelsea who posed the larger menace after the break.
Werner stung David De Gea’s palms from lengthy-vary earlier than Victor Lindelof’s sensible clearance denied the German worldwide a faucet in from Reece James’s inviting cross.
