{"id":752266,"date":"2022-01-16T12:40:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T12:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/16\/man-city-loss-probably-dashed-chelsea-title-hopes-marcos-alonso\/"},"modified":"2022-01-16T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T12:40:56","slug":"man-city-loss-probably-dashed-chelsea-title-hopes-marcos-alonso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/16\/man-city-loss-probably-dashed-chelsea-title-hopes-marcos-alonso\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City loss probably dashed Chelsea title hopes \u2014 Marcos Alonso"},"content":{"rendered":"

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London \u2014 Chelsea defender Marcos Alonso believes his side may have squandered their last chance to stay in the Premier League title race after they lost 1-0 to leaders Manchester City on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Kevin De Bruyne’s 70th-minute strike lifted City to 56 points from 22 matches, 13 more than second-placed Chelsea. Third-placed Liverpool, who have two games in hand including Sunday’s home match against Brentford, are on 42 points.<\/p>\n

“It’s disappointing,” Alonso told Chelsea’s website. “It was maybe the last chance to keep on fighting for the Premier League.<\/p>\n

“We will keep trying until the end, until it’s gone mathematically, but it will be difficult now.<\/p>\n

“We need to think about Brighton & Hove Albion in three days, win that one, keep training hard and not look at the table at this moment.”<\/p>\n

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel raised concerns over Chelsea’s inability to pose a threat to City’s defence, which were echoed Spanish full back Alonso.<\/p>\n

“The chances were there but we just lacked a bit of good decision-making in the last third to create even more chances or to score the couple of chances we had,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We had a couple of chances to go 1-0 up and we were not that far from getting something from the match.<\/p>\n

“We expected something like this before the game but we competed well so of course we are disappointed.”<\/p>\n

Chelsea travel to Brighton on Tuesday, before hosting local rivals Tottenham Hotspur on January 23.<\/p>\n

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London \u2014 Chelsea defender Marcos Alonso believes his side may have squandered their last chance to stay in the Premier League title race after they lost 1-0 to leaders Manchester City on Saturday. Kevin De Bruyne’s 70th-minute strike lifted City to 56 points from 22 matches, 13 more than second-placed Chelsea. Third-placed Liverpool, who have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}