{"id":471751,"date":"2023-12-03T12:40:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T16:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=471751"},"modified":"2023-12-03T12:40:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T16:40:15","slug":"10-men-chelsea-hold-off-brighton-to-secure-narrow-3-2-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/10-men-chelsea-hold-off-brighton-to-secure-narrow-3-2-win\/","title":{"rendered":"10-men Chelsea hold off Brighton to secure narrow 3-2 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea breathe a sigh of relief as they emerged triumphant against Brighton 3-2 in a hard-fought game in front of their home supporters at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kicking off a big December with a W. \ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CFC<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CheBri?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CheBri<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nrNU0DKw5a\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nrNU0DKw5a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFC\/status\/1731344684553802085?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Enzo Fernandez proved to be the hero for the Blues as he netted his first goals in the Premier League and what a time to do it. Fernandez put the hosts in front after 20 minutes heading the ball home after a fine cross.<\/p>\n<p>Not long after Chelsea were 2-0 up thanks to Levi Colwill, who also headed a fine cross.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Seagulls were quick to respond and just before half-time reduced their deficit to 2-1 with a superb hit from Facundo Buananotte.<\/p>\n<p>Things got from bad to worse for the home team, as Connor Galagher saw red in the 65th minute for a second bookable offense. But up stepped Fernandez to give his team a two goal cushion again.<\/p>\n<p>Brighton came back again late on and were knocking on the door for a point, but the Blues managed to hold on and emerge as winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea breathe a sigh of relief as they emerged triumphant against Brighton 3-2 in a hard-fought game in front of their home supporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":471752,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18821,16774,16946],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18822,17902,21373],"acf":{"announce":"Vital 3 points for the Blues as they try to gather momentum","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471753,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471751\/revisions\/471753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471751"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=471751"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=471751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}