Chelsea Pimpin Klasemen Berkat Hat-trick Diego Costa
Costa Hat-trick Sends Chelsea Clear at Top
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
London (B2B) - Diego Costa mencetak hatrik bagi Chelsea ketika melawan Swansea di Stamford Bridge, Sabtu, (13/9), yang berakhir dengan keunggulan Chelsea 4-2 Swansea City.
Chelsea sebagai tuan rumah kemasukan lebih dulu karena gol bunuh diri John Terry. Namun, Diego Costa menyarangkan tiga gol menit (45', 56', dan 67'), dan satu gol lagi dicetak oleh Loic Remy menit 81. Kemudian Shelvey mencetak satu gol untuk Swansea menit 86.
Itu berawal dari kerja sama bagus dari pemain Swansea, Ki yang membuka pertahanan Chelsea dengan umpan ke kiri untuk Taylor. Namun, bola malah mengenai kaki Terry, seperti dilansir ESPN.
Setelah itu, Oscar mencoba merespon gol bunuh diri itu dengan bekerja sama dengan Ivanovic, tetapi gagal.
Swansea juga mencoba menekan lewat Shelvey, tetapi gagal.
Gol penyeimbang Chelsea datang menit 45 lewat Diego Costa. Pemain yang baru didatangkan dari Atletico Madrid ini sukses mengeksekusi umpan dari Cesc Fabregas.
Costa merupakan pemain pertama Chelsea yang mencetak di empat pertandingan pertamanya di klub sejak John Meredith pada 1928.
Babak kedua dimulai dengan pergantian Andre Schurrle yang keluar, dan Ramires masuk. Sementara Swansea memasukan Federico Fernandez dan menari Jordi Amat.
Tak lama berselang, Diego Costa mencetak gol keduanya berkat Fabregas menit 56.
Kesempatan emas untuk Swansea datang menit 66, Routledge mengirimi Gomis umpan namun tendangannya melebar.
Setelah itu, Chelsea mencoba menggandakan skor lewat Ramires tetapi gagal.
Satu menit kemudian, Costa membuktikan ketajaman dengan mencetak tiga gol menit 67 berkat Ramires.
Swansea yang tertinggal, tak bisa berbuat banyak, ketika Remy kembali mencetak gol untuk Chelsea menit 81.
Baru lima menit berselang, Shelvey mencetak satu gol untuk Swansea.
Hingga pluit panjang dibunyikan, Chelsea unggul 4-2 Swansea City. Chelsea menguasai 56% pertandingan, sementara Swansea 44%.
London - A clinical hat-trick from Diego Costa gave Chelsea victory over Swansea City as they showed their mettle to move top of the Premier League.
Swansea dominated the early stages of the match and fully deserved to be ahead when John Terry put through his own goal on 11 minutes.
Further chances were squandered, however, and Costa made them pay on the stroke of half-time when he scored from Cesc Fabregas' corner.
The two Spanish internationals combined again 11 minutes into the second half as Costa put Chelsea ahead, before completing his hat-trick on 67 minutes. It takes his tally for the season to seven goals in four Premier League matches.
Substitute Loic Remy - making his debut for Chelsea - completed what had turned into a rout with nine minutes to go. Jonjo Shelvey pulled one back on 86 minutes, but it leaves Chelsea as the only team in the Premier League with a 100% record.
Wayne Routledge volleyed wide and then dispossessed Nemanja Matic in a challenge he should not have won in the move which led to the opening goal. Ki Sung-yeung, influential early on, fed left-back Neil Taylor, whose cross Terry could only turn in to his own net.
Bafetimbi Gomis - Swansea's one change following the 3-0 defeat of West Brom, Wilfried Bony dropping to the bench - twice had half chances but could not find the target.
Routledge curled one narrowly wide as Swansea threatened again before Chelsea finally came into the game.
Jordi Amat and Shelvey were each booked for fouls on Eden Hazard on the edge of the Swansea box and from the second opportunity Andre Schurrle's free-kick was tipped over by Lukasz Fabianski.