There is some breathing space at last, or at least 72 hours. As the pressure built in the closing stages there were sections of the home support at Stamford Bridge who were dismayed by the cautiousness of a Chelsea team that settled into five at the back. Yet it did not look like a template for his future Chelsea, if indeed there is to be a future. This was Potter’s first win in six Premier League games, and only his third in the 16 that have come since his appointment. It ended with a header from goalkeeper Ilan Meslier, up for a corner, that was caught easily by his counterpart Kepa Arrizabalaga but might otherwise have produced the kind of calamitous ending to which Potter has so far been accustomed. A run of three straight Chelsea defeats was ended by the narrow margin - a second half header from Wesley Fofana that prefaced a Leeds United siege in the closing stages. At last a shaft of sunlight for Chelsea’s embattled manager Graham Potter and a win that might just save his managerial skin for now.
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