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Southampton 1-1 Chelsea: Mason Mount’s second-half penalty earns Blues a draw

Southampton 1-1 Chelsea: Mason Mount’s second-half penalty earns Blues a draw
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Mason Mount scores from the penalty spot against Southampton
Southampton have conceded five penalties this season in the Premier League

Mason Mount’s second-half penalty earned Chelsea a point as they came from behind to draw at Southampton, who ended a run of six successive defeats in the Premier League.

The hosts took the lead against the run of play in the first half when Nathan Redmond played a brilliant ball to send Takumi Minamino clear and the on-loan Liverpool striker showed great composure to slot beyond Edouard Mendy.

But the Saints gifted Chelsea an equaliser eight minutes after the break when Danny Ings brought down Mason Mount inside the box and the Blues midfielder stepped up to send Alex McCarthy the wrong way from the penalty spot.

Chelsea were unable to kick on after that and instead it was Southampton who went closest to grabbing a winner as Jannik Vestergaard hit the crossbar with a header before Ings put the loose ball into the side-netting.

The point means Chelsea stay in fourth place on 43 points while Southampton are 13th on 30 points.

Saints end losing run

Takumi Minamino
Takumi Minamino has scored three goals in his last five Premier League appearances

Southampton were third on 16 December but a terrible run of losses going into this game had seen then slide down into the bottom half of the table. While they may not have been nervously over their shoulder, arresting their alarming slide down the table had become a priority.

For large periods against Chelsea they were like a plucky lower league side aiming to shock a Premier League opponent. They barely saw the ball for the majority of the first half and it was from their first touch inside the Blues’ area that they got the goal with a brilliantly composed finish by Minamino.

However, no side has dropped more points from winning positions in the Premier League than Southampton and once again they were their own worst enemy as Ings gave away a penalty with Chelsea having rarely looked like creating anything from open play.

While it could have been an even better result, particularly with Vestergaard hitting the woodwork, the point is a positive against an in-form Chelsea. They will hope it provides a good base to try and build from before a tricky-looking run of four successive away games in the Premier League.

A good test for Tuchel

Thomas Tuchel enjoyed a near perfect start to his reign at Chelsea, winning four of his first five Premier League games and drawing the other one – a goalless stalemate with Wolves in his first game in charge.

The Blues had never been behind during that run, so Minamino’s goal – the first scored by an opposition player since Tuchel’s arrival – presented a new challenge for the German in his short time so far in England.

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Even before the Southampton goal, Chelsea had struggled to break down their stubborn opponents and that continued after Mount equalised from the penalty spot.

The visitors’ attacking play became increasingly sloppy as frustration grew with their inability to find a way through the Southampton defence, exemplified by a poor Reece James finish when he lashed over at the far post.

Failure to win meant Chelsea missed the opportunity to strengthen their position in the top four but Tuchel will have learned a lot about how his side fare when they come up against sides set up to stifle them.

No penalty blues for Chelsea – the stats

  • Mason Mount became the 25th different player to score a penalty for Chelsea in the Premier League, with the Blues having more penalty scorers than any other team in the competition’s history.
  • Southampton ended a run of six successive Premier League defeats, the club’s worst losing run in their Football League history, since winning 1-0 against Liverpool on 4 January.
  • Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel is the 16th manager in Premier League history to avoid defeat in his first six games in the competition (W4 D2) and the first since Maurizio Sarri in September 2018, also with the Blues.
  • Southampton have lost 18 points from leading positions in the Premier League this season, more than any other side.
  • Chelsea are unbeaten in three away league games (W2 D1) after losing four of the five before that (W1).
  • Southampton conceded their fifth penalty goal of the league season; only in 1993-94 and 2016-17 (both six) did the Saints concede more goals from the spot in a Premier League campaign.
  • Southampton’s Takumi Minamino became the first opposition player to score against Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea in all competitions, ending a run of 572 minutes without such a goal for the German manager (Antonio Rüdiger scored an own-goal in game v Sheffield United).
  • Southampton scored with their first shot of the game via Takumi Minamino’s opener on 33 minutes, with that strike also Saints’ first touch in Chelsea’s box.
  • Southampton’s Nathan Redmond registered his first assist in his last 16 Premier League appearances, since July 2020 against Bournemouth.

What next?

Southampton travel to Leeds on Tuesday, 23 February (18:00 GMT) in the Premier League while Chelsea are in Champions League action on the same night as they play Atletico Madrid in Bucharest (20:00)


Player of the match

VestergaardJannik Vestergaard

with an average of 7.20

Southampton

  1. Squad number4Player nameVestergaard
    Average rating

    7.20

  2. Squad number19Player nameMinamino
    Average rating

    7.08

  3. Squad number12Player nameDjenepo
    Average rating

    7.03

  4. Squad number22Player nameSalisu
    Average rating

    6.85

  5. Squad number8Player nameWard-Prowse
    Average rating

    6.58

  6. Squad number35Player nameBednarek
    Average rating

    6.58

  7. Squad number6Player nameOriol Romeu
    Average rating

    6.42

  8. Squad number3Player nameBertrand
    Average rating

    6.35

  9. Squad number1Player nameMcCarthy
    Average rating

    6.32

  10. Squad number11Player nameRedmond
    Average rating

    6.16

  11. Squad number10Player nameAdams
    Average rating

    5.97

  12. Squad number9Player nameIngs
    Average rating

    5.95

  13. Squad number23Player nameTella
    Average rating

    5.87

  14. Squad number40Player nameN’Lundulu
    Average rating

    5.80

Chelsea

  1. Squad number19Player nameMount

    Average rating

    6.98

  2. Squad number7Player nameKanté

    Average rating

    6.12

  3. Squad number17Player nameKovacic

    Average rating

    5.28

  4. Squad number16Player nameMendy

    Average rating

    5.27

  5. Squad number28Player nameAzpilicueta

    Average rating

    5.23

  6. Squad number3Player nameAlonso

    Average rating

    5.18

  7. Squad number24Player nameJames

    Average rating

    5.15

  8. Squad number11Player nameWerner

    Average rating

    5.10

  9. Squad number15Player nameZouma

    Average rating

    5.06

  10. Squad number2Player nameRüdiger

    Average rating

    5.04

  11. Squad number20Player nameHudson-Odoi

    Average rating

    4.87

  12. Squad number5Player nameJorginho

    Average rating

    4.46

  13. Squad number22Player nameZiyech

    Average rating

    4.25

  14. Squad number9Player nameAbraham

    Average rating

    4.23

Line-ups

Southampton

Formation 4-4-2

1McCarthy

35Bednarek22Salisu4Vestergaard3Bertrand

12Djenepo8Ward-Prowse6Romeu19Minamino

9Ings11Redmond

  • 1McCarthyBooked at 90mins
  • 35Bednarek
  • 22Salisu
  • 4Vestergaard
  • 3Bertrand
  • 12Djenepo
  • 8Ward-Prowse
  • 6Romeu
  • 19MinaminoSubstituted forTellaat 76′minutes
  • 9IngsSubstituted forAdamsat 85′minutes
  • 11RedmondSubstituted forN’Lunduluat 90+4′minutes

Substitutes

  • 5Stephens
  • 10Adams
  • 23Tella
  • 31Ramsay
  • 40N’Lundulu
  • 44Forster
  • 47Ferry
  • 64Jankewitz
  • 72Chauke

Chelsea

Formation 3-4-2-1

16Mendy

28Azpilicueta15Zouma2Rüdiger

24James7Kanté17Kovacic3Alonso

19Mount11Werner

9Abraham

  • 16Mendy
  • 28Azpilicueta
  • 15Zouma
  • 2Rüdiger
  • 24James
  • 7Kanté
  • 17KovacicSubstituted forJorginhoat 76′minutes
  • 3AlonsoBooked at 80mins
  • 19Mount
  • 11Werner
  • 9AbrahamSubstituted forHudson-Odoiat 45′minutesSubstituted forZiyechat 76′minutes

Substitutes

  • 1Arrizabalaga
  • 4Christensen
  • 5Jorginho
  • 18Giroud
  • 20Hudson-Odoi
  • 21Chilwell
  • 22Ziyech
  • 23Gilmour
  • 33Emerson

Referee:
Anthony Taylor

Match Stats

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