Enzo Fernandez and Jadon Sancho have shown their true colours following Chelsea's 4-3 win over Tottenham Hotspur. The duo played a crucial role in Enzo Maresca's side on Sunday afternoon as the Blues stormed past the Lilywhites to claim three crucial points in the Premier League title race.
Sancho pulled one back for Chelsea with a brilliant strike after early goals from Dominic Solanke and Dejan Kulusevski. Then, on the hour-mark, Yves Bissouma was penalised for fouling Moises Caicedo inside the box, gifting Cole Palmer the chance to equalise from the penalty spot.
The 22-year-old midfielder fired the ball past Fraser Forster, inspiring a brilliant comeback. Fernandez put Chelsea ahead with a quarter of an hour still to play before Palmer scored a second spot-kick to double the west Londoners' lead.
Son Heung-min managed to pull one back for Tottenham in the dying embers of stoppage time, but it proved to be nothing more than a consolation. After the game, Fernandez and Sancho marked the victory with celebratory posts on Instagram – and they had a clear message for Arsenal and Spurs.
They both captioned their posts 'London is Blue', eclipsing a combined one million likes. Thousands of fans, friends and family flooded the comment section to congratulate them on the win that has taken Chelsea within just four points of Liverpool at the top of the table.
Speaking to reporters after the game, Maresca was asked how impressed he's been with Sancho. The Blues boss said: "Since we started, the reason why Jadon came here is because we think Jadon is going to help us. Unfortunately he had small problems so he was out for a while. Now he is back and the only thing he has to do is continue in the same way.
"He cannot drop, otherwise he is not going to play. His performance and Pedro Neto, on and off the ball was very good. Off the ball, they were running, following Udogie and defensively they were very good. This is what we need."
Then, on Fernandez's new role in the second-half that inspired Chelsea to victory, Maresca said: "In the first-half, we had Cole Palmer on one side and Enzo Fernandez on the other side. In the second-half, we had Cole Palmer on one side and [Marc] Cucurella on the other side.
"We changed something in behind. It was just for this reason. I think it worked well in the end and we won the game."
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