Marc Cucurella of Chelsea changes his boots after 13 minutes
Marc Cucurella had to change his boots after two costly slips
Marc Cucurella took to social media to make light of his nightmare start against Tottenham before deleting his cheeky post.
Cucurella was at fault for Tottenham's fast start on Sunday evening as Dominic Solanke and Dejan Kulusevski put the home side 2-0 up inside 11 minutes. The Chelsea left-back slipped to gift Brennan Johnson the ball after five minutes and the Spurs winger crossed for Solanke to make it 1-0.
Remarkably, Cucurella lost his balance just six minutes later, giving the ball away again before Kulusevski found the bottom corner from the edge of the box. The Spaniard was left aghast as he ran over to the sidelines to change his boots while getting some stern criticism from Jamie Carragher on Sky Sports' commentary.
"Cucurella's coming to the bench. Don't blame anyone else it's your own fault son. Absolutley schoolboy stuff. Embarrassing," Carragher said. "He slips again, we just seen that. There he goes again. Look at him shrugging his shoulders like it's not his fault. Blaming the boots. Did he not do a warm-up?"
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Thankfully for Cucurella, Chelsea roared back into the match and went on to win it 4-3 to move themselves up to second in the Premier League table. Jadon Sancho halved the deficit from range before two Cole Palmer penalties and a blast from Enzo Fernandez made the game safe from Son Heung-min's late goal.
Cucurella was clearly in a buoyant mood in the dressing room after the final whistle because he got his phone out to post a picture on his Instagram story. The picture showed the culprit white boots in the bin, accompanied by the caption "Sorry Blues...." and a crying smiling emoji.
The post was quickly screenshotted and shared elsewhere, meaning that Cucurella's decision to delete it - perhaps with his boot sponsor Puma in mind - didn't have the desired effect. Minutes later, the defender had put up three pictures of himself in action, with one having the caption "London is blue".
Marc Cucurella's deleted post ( Image: Instagram/cucurella3)
Speaking post-match, Sancho joked: "They're going in the bin after this game. After the mistakes, I thought he played fantastic. We believe in Cucu." The post went down well with Chelsea fans, who immediately forgave him for his dreadful start to the match.
"Haha at least he has a laugh about it," one fan wrote on X. Another wrote: "Without him, it would have been boring". A third concluded: "Chelsea fans holds no grudge against Cucurella".
Chelsea have now won five successive Premier League matches and are second place, just four points behind leaders Liverpool, who do have a game in-hand after the Merseyside Derby was postponed on Saturday.
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