Football
Chelsea: Smash-and-grab derby win can inspire momentum shift in Champions League race
Chelsea’s comeback win at Craven Cottage came at the perfect moment ahead of a daunting run in
On a Pedro Neto swivel, perhaps at last Chelsea’s season may turn.
As the winger spun and thrashed a ferocious stoppage-time winner into the Fulham net, his next move was to twist again and make straight for an away end who could celebrate their side winning on the road in the Premier League for the first time in more than four months.
If not the performance, then the scenes at full-time will give Enzo Maresca hope, not only that a flagging side can now be re-energised for the run-in, but of rebuilding his own brittle connection with Chelsea supporters, which has come under heavy strain of late.
