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Last week the football world came back to life as the king of kings league started after a short summer of boring weekends and of course this light up the mood of football fanatics. On the biggest match day of the new season was the clashing of the two biggest rivals in the premier league in 21 century and what an excited way to kick start the league. As always, fans get behind their team to show loyalty and support no matter the state of their club. Frank Lampard has just landed his biggest job of his life time after an illustrious playing career and a brief stay at Derby. The Stamford Bridge legend was to navigate the club through its hardest time following as heavy transfer bad sanction on the club. No other top manager would have loved to take up that role and suffer pending disgrace in a league where top football managers are dominating. His experience must definitely be bad side of the coin and his enthusiasm to pick up the challenge the good side.
As expected, the rivalry between the London and Manchester clubs sold papers. It was Frank Lampard leading his youthful and relatively inexperience side to Old Trafford. His first official game of being in charge. The stadium was filled to capacity, the officials taking to their stand, looking at the time, referee blow his whistle. The opening minutes was not expected as the Chelsea lads dominated their opponent and having the most possession of the ball. Quit entertaining many kept applauding. This was not what Ole Solskjear: the Manchester United interim turn full time coach has envisaged as luck was on his side as Tammy Abraham and Emerson Palmieri efforts toward the goals all hit the woodwork. Who said luck isn’t part of the game, not just hard work. Pedro struck wide followed by Cesar Azpilicueta deadly cross but Mount effort at goals was not enough to beat the too good United keeper. The only read threat for United resulted to a goal via penalty kick when French player Kurt Zouma was forced to make a high pressure mistake inside his own box as he brought down Rashford. VAR was on display to spot and confirm the foul and there you have it. Referee Anthony Taylor pointed to the spot kick. Rashford made no mistake in beating Kepa to his post for the first goal at the closing stage of the first half. Chelsea started the second half form where they stopped when Pedro shot deflected and Emerson followed it up with stinging palm. Maguire who happen to be expensive defender signing of the season got away from referee punishment as he fouled Tammy Abraham at the edge of United box, leading to a break out counter attack against Chelsea. With all defenders running off their guard. Pereira created a lot of space to give Martial a pass that he bundle to the back of the net at the 65 minutes. From there on, things started falling apart for Lampard’s kids. Two minutes later as Chelsea went searching for goal, Paul Pogba had in his own half gotten the ball, sighted Rashford making a killer run behind the Chelsea defence and the flight of his pass got Rashford at the right spot as the English boy made it 3:0. The red devils fans erupted in jubilation. The third goal has sealed the game and out of reach for Chelsea. The score was already embarrassing but Pogba added salt to Chelsea using his power and little pace burst into another counter to feed substitute James whose efforts clipped Emersion to beat Kepa once again. 4:0 the scoreboard displayed it clearly. There was nothing to fight for again but the boys continued to make effort to deny their host a clean shirt which never yielded at the end of 90 minutes. Solskjaer won his first match on the season in front of home fans. “You tried’ Solskjaer must have told Lampard as they shook hands. Haven seen the effort his boys put up and were unfortunate being the better side of the day, went into the pitch to huge them one after the other. A very cheering bitter experience. Welcome premier league Franky, there are more matches to come. If young keep you ass locked down in good defence, there will more to come. . Lampard may have lost the game owning to bad luck but he must keep his head high with the lads for the style of football he has brought to Chelsea. With more blending, success awaits you.
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