Leicester City on Saturday, 27 August, continued with their unimpressive performance in the Premier League Brendan Rodgers and his wards were beaten by 10-man Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in a tough game England international Raheem Sterling scored the two goals that gave Chelsea the win in this encounter .
Chelsea on Saturday afternoon, 27 August, produced brilliant and eye-catching performance beating visiting Leicester City 2-1 in a tough Premier League battle despite being one-man down. Going into this Premier League game, Chelsea players and coaching crew knew that they only thing that can help them get redemption is to beat the Foxes at Stamford Bridge. This is because many Chelsea fans were still angry about the defeat at Leeds United in which Chelsea were hammered 3-0.
And against Leicester City, Chelsea started the game very agile looking for an early goal, but their opponents were more cautious in the defense. Things turned sour for Chelsea in the 28th minute when Conor Gallagher was red carded.
Despite being one-man down, Raheem Sterling gave Chelsea the lead in the 47th minute and doubled the lead for the Blues in the 63rd minute sending all Blues' into serious jubilation. Harvey Barnes pulled one back for Leicester City in the 66th minute and efforts for the visitors to restore parity proved abortive as it ended 2-1 in favour of Chelsea.
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