{"id":474500,"date":"2023-12-30T11:54:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T15:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474500"},"modified":"2023-12-30T11:55:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T15:55:19","slug":"chelsea-edge-out-luton-in-5-goal-thriller","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/chelsea-edge-out-luton-in-5-goal-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea edge out Luton in 5-goal thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea came out on top against Luton 3-2 in what proved to be a nervy finish at Kenilworth Road on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Victory on the road! \ud83d\ude01<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\/LutChe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LutChe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w6ZM4f7RzJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/w6ZM4f7RzJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFC\/status\/1741104210626662812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Blues seemed all but destined for a win after opening a 3-goal lead, but it would prove anything but straightforward.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Palmer gave the visitors an early lead as he took full advantage of Luton&#8217;s poor clearance.<\/p>\n<p>Again Palmer was in the mix for Chelsea&#8217;s second as he worked the ball from left to right, feeding to Noni Madueke inside the box who managed to dribble past Amari&#8217;i Bell and smash the ball from a tight angle into the top corner.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer completed his brace in the 70th minute to extend Chelsea&#8217;s lead to 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>But it was all but over as stubborn Luton came back with Ross Barkley for 3-1. They even had a goal disallowed for an offside in the build-up.<\/p>\n<p>Elijah Adebayo made it 3-2, which made for a nervy finish. Chelsea in the end prevailed for a vital win, their second straight in the Premier League, which stabilizes their situation in the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea came out on top against Luton 3-2 in what proved to be a nervy finish at Kenilworth Road on Saturday. Victory on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":474503,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,20871,20865],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17902,20872,20867],"acf":{"announce":"The Blues survive late surge from the hosts to grab the 3 points","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\/474500"}],"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=474500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474502,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474500\/revisions\/474502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474500"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474500"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}