Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino suffered his first defeat as Michail Antonio‘s excellent strike and Enzo Fernandez‘s penalty miss condemned the Blues to a 3-1 loss towards West Ham on Sunday. After final weekend’s 1-1 draw towards Liverpool, Pochettino’s facet wasted a full of life efficiency as they paid the worth for sloppy defending and wasteful ending on the London Stadium. Antonio blasted West Ham’s decisive second aim after half-time and Lucas Paqueta added a late penalty to depart Pochettino nonetheless ready for his first Premier League win since taking cost within the close-season.

Chelsea teenager Carney Chukwuemeka had scored an eye catching first half equaliser to cancel Nayef Aguerd’s early opener for West Ham.

But the turning level got here when Fernandez’s penalty was saved by Alphonse Areola simply earlier than the break.

Antonio netted quickly after the interval and Chelsea could not reply regardless of Aguerd’s dismissal for a second reserving halfway by means of the half.

Paqueta, reportedly the topic of an FA probe into betting breaches, utilized the knockout blow within the closing seconds.

Dating again to final season, Chelsea have received simply 5 instances in 31 league matches, whereas their solely victory of their final 14 top-flight video games got here at Bournemouth in May.

They have additionally misplaced 4 successive top-flight London derbies for the primary time since 1990.

Much of the blame for these dismal statistics lies with Pochettino’s predecessors Graham Potter and Frank Lampard, who struggled by means of a turbulent marketing campaign that ended with Chelsea’s lowest end since 1996.

Pochettino has been tasked with cleansing up the mess, however regardless of latest signings of Moises Caicedo and Romeo Lavia taking Chelsea’s whole spending beneath proprietor Todd Boehly to greater than £850 million ($1.08 billion), the squad stays a piece in progress.

Putting his religion in a largely youthful crew is a raffle from Pochettino, whose facet’s lack of expertise was uncovered within the seventh minute.

James Ward-Prowse‘s nook was whipped to the far publish, the place Morocco defender Aguerd simply evaded Conor Gallagher and Chukwuemeka to nod residence from six yards.

Since his Premier League debut in 2012, Ward-Prowse has 25 assists from set-plays, with solely Christian Eriksen offering extra within the competitors over the identical interval.

– Debut to neglect –

Dominating possession after that setback, Chelsea deservedly drew stage within the twenty eighth minute.

Kurt Zouma miscued a weak clearance and Chukwuemeka cleverly shifted the ball away from Tomas Soucek earlier than smashing a superb end into the far nook from 12 yards.

It was Chukwuemeka’s first Premier League aim, underlining the potential that satisfied Chelsea to signal the 19-year-old midfielder from Aston Villa final yr.

Chelsea had been in command and Raheem Sterling‘s driving run received them a forty second minute penalty after the winger was despatched tumbling by Soucek’s clumsy sort out.

But Areola plunged to his proper to make an outstanding save from Fernandez’s tentative spot-kick, denying the Argentine midfielder his first aim for Chelsea.

The Blues suffered one other blow when Chukwuemeka limped off on the strike of half-time.

Antonio had simply 5 touches within the first half however the West Ham striker made probably the most of a uncommon involvement within the 53rd minute.

Chelsea defender Levi Colwill and Axel Disasi had been bullied by Antonio, who took Ward-Prowse’s cross and used his power to manouevre into place for a ferocious strike that flashed previous Sanchez from the sting of the world.

With an hour gone, Ecuador midfielder Caicedo got here on for his Chelsea debut after becoming a member of from Brighton for a British file charge of £115 million ($146 million).

Caicedo blazed over from distance with considered one of his first touches in a Chelsea shirt.

Aguerd’s 67th minute purple card, earned for a slipshod second reserving when he chopped down Nicolas Jackson, handed Chelsea a possible lifeline.

But the guests laboured to mount a response and Caicedo’s debut to neglect was full when he fouled Emerson in stoppage-time, conceding a penalty that Paqueta fired previous Sanchez.

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