From the London Stadium - A litany of individual mistakes noticed Chelsea's indifferent recent shape trap up with them as they suffered a harmful overdue defeat to West Ham United on Saturday - one on the way to possibly see them surrender pinnacle spot inside the Premier League.
It is a long way too soon for Thomas Tuchel's meticulous education methods to be known as into query, but this represented the 0.33 suit in a row wherein he became allow down by lapses from some of his maximum depended on lieutenants.
While the Blues had escaped punishment for terrible mistakes within the draw towards Manchester United and the slender victory over Watford - where Jorginho and Ruben Loftus-Cheek were the culprits respectively - they had been ruthlessly punished by means of a vivacious Hammers side on the London Stadium.
Chelsea had controlled the early degrees and in the end took the lead while Thiago Silva rose to go Mason Mount's corner in off the post on the 1/2-hour mark. It appeared they'd a maintain on the sport, however their difficult work became undone by way of another careless piece of play by way of Jorginho.
Less than every week after gifting Jadon Sancho ownership in the construct-as much as the Man Utd winger's strike within the 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge, the Italy global beneath-hit a returned-pass to Edouard Mendy, who - having first of all controlled to hold off the stress of Jarrod Bowen - lost the ball and compounded Jorginho's lapse via scything down the attacker to concede a penalty.
That two-in-one comedy of errors turned into rounded off by Manuel Lanzini stepping up to hearth the penalty home and produce the Hammers stage.
Chelsea were capable of restore their lead on the stroke of 1/2-time via Mount's outstanding volley from a pinpoint diagonal skip from Hakim Ziyech.
However, no matter once more performing to have a degree of manage over court cases, the visitors conceded a second leveller ten minutes after the ruin as West Ham have been able to flow the ball from back to the front below little or no pressure and Bowen rifled domestic from the threshold of he field unchallenged.
While Chelsea had been able to find the desires they wanted in opposition to both Man Utd and Watford, they slightly threatened after the equaliser, with West Ham as an alternative making use of the strain. Although the hosts had no clean openings, it turned into some other individual lapse that exceeded them a dramatic past due winner.
Arthur Masuaku's mishit cross was misjudged via Mendy, and he become unable to get throughout in time to forestall the ball flying inside the near put up to make it 3-2 to the difficult-operating Hammers.
