- Enzo Fernandez went to take his shirt off after scoring in London on Sunday
- However his Chelsea team-mate Nicolas Jackson stopped him, to a punter’s dismay
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Nicolas Jackson has stopped a fan from successful over £1,000 with an act that may be very not often seen on a football pitch.
Chelsea, who discovered themselves 2-0 down towards Tottenham contained in the opening 11 minutes on Sunday evening, fought again to triumph 4-3 over their London rivals to shut the hole on Premier League leaders Liverpool within the title race.
The Blues halved the deficit by means of Jadon Sancho shortly after Dominic Solanke and Dejan Kulusevski fired Spurs in entrance — and have been again on stage phrases when Cole Palmer coolly slotted house his first penalty of the night.
Enzo Fernandez scored his third purpose in 4 league video games to place Chelsea forward within the 73rd minute, earlier than Palmer netted a Paneka penalty to place the sport past Spurs, who claimed a late comfort purpose by means of Son Heung-min.
Fernandez, who has been the topic of criticism since his £107million transfer to Stamford Bridge however is now having fun with a wealthy vein of kind, went to take his shirt off after smashing his left-footed effort previous Tottenham goalkeeper Fraser Forster.
As he wheeled away to have a good time with the away followers, Fernandez had his shirt midway previous his head however was swiftly stopped by team-mate Jackson, who pulled down on the jersey to forestall what would have been a yellow card offence.
Nicolas Jackson (proper) prevented a fan from successful £1,000 by stopping Enzo Fernandez (left) from taking his shirt off throughout Chelsea’s 4-3 overcome Tottenham on Sunday evening
Fernandez’s strike gave Chelsea their first lead of the sport in 73rd minute in north London
Referees are routinely required to e-book gamers who take away their shirts throughout a Premier League match, as occurred with Liverpool famous person Mohamed Salah towards Southampton final month.
Though Jackson may have happy supervisor Enzo Maresca, one punter might be ruing the striker’s act of quick-thinking because it prevented their 200/1 10-leg guess from touchdown.
The fan positioned £5 stake on the 10-fold accumulator and had 9 of these legs return, with solely a yellow card from Fernandez wanted to assert the £1,005 return.
In addition they guess on Romeo Lavia and Pape Sarr to be booked throughout the sport, in addition to each groups to attain and a number of other gamers to select up over 0.5 fouls or 1.5 fouls.
Regardless of scoring within the London derby, Jackson has been in excellent kind to this point this marketing campaign, chalking up eight objectives and three assists from his opening 14 league fixtures.
Jackson himself is on 4 yellow playing cards and one reserving away from a one-match suspension, whereas Fernandez solely has one to his title to this point.
The 4-3 win fired Chelsea above Arsenal within the Premier League desk and simply 4 factors behind Liverpool, whose Merseyside derby towards Everton on Saturday was postponed on account of Storm Darragh.
Maresca maintains that he himself doesn’t imagine they’re actually able to be on this season’s title race, even joking their rivals is not going to ‘slide like Marc Cucurella’ after his two slips led to Spurs’ objectives right here.
Enzo Maresca doesn’t imagine his facet are in a title race, however did not cease followers from ‘dreaming’
The Chelsea striker, who has 4 yellow playing cards, has been in excellent kind to this point this marketing campaign, chalking up eight objectives and three assists from his opening 14 fixtures within the Premier League
Encouraging supporters to imagine, nonetheless, Maresca stated: ‘The followers can dream as a result of from the skin, it’s fairly clear.
‘Inside, the truth is we’re not prepared, however the vital factor is we enhance daily. Arsenal, Metropolis and Liverpool most likely do not slide like Marc Cucurella did!’
In the meantime, Tottenham slipped into the underside half of the Premier League this weekend, with strain mounting considerably on Ange Postecoglou.
The Australian might be on the lookout for a response from his facet throughout their Europa League match towards Rangers on Thursday, whereas in-form Chelsea face Astana within the Europa Convention League.
