Antonio Conte says there is ‘no evaluation’ between Tottenham and Chelsea after their Carabao Cup semi-final first leg at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea ran out snug 2-zero winners thanks to Kai Havertz’s opener and an very own intention from Ben Davies. Romelu Lukaku, lower back inside the side after his latest controversial comments, may want to have placed the Blues in front early on.
He went through on goal but opted to rectangular the ball for Havertz, simplest to overlook the German by some margin.
But Chelsea got their lead with five minutes on the clock. Japhet Tanganga offered Emerson Royal quick, allowing Marcos Alonso to thieve.
The left-back sent Havertz through and he did the relaxation, maintaining off his marker earlier than beating Hugo Lloris, with a bit of help from Davinson Sanchez.
Things went from awful to worse for Tottenham within the 34th minute. Sanchez did nicely to prevent Lukaku however then introduced the Belgian down, giving Hakim Ziyech the threat to swing in a unfastened-kick.
Tanganga went to clear but headed into Davies, who turned into unlucky to peer the ball ricochet off him and into the net.
Spurs were higher inside the second 1/2 however in no way in reality managed to challenge Thomas Tuchel’s guys.
During a post-in shape interview with Sky Sports (via BBC Sport), Conte said: “It changed into a hard sport, hard from the begin, Chelsea showed to be a lot better than us.
“The first half of, we struggled a lot from the start but we know that we're speakme about one of the excellent teams in Europe, within the global, ultimate season they gained the Champions League. If you examine the two groups there is not a comparison. We are speakme about a group equipped to win – nowadays we've got seen the difference between the two teams.
