‘For him to go down’: Wright-Phillips reacts to Chelsea man’s actions against Leeds

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Shaun Wright-Phillips stated that there ‘doesn’t seem to be enough’ contact for Antonio Rudiger to go down during Chelsea’s 3-2 win against Leeds on Saturday, as he told Premier League Productions (11/12/21 at 5:15 pm).

The former Chelsea winger suggests that Thomas Tuchel’s men were fortunate to beat Marcelo Bielsa’s all-action Leeds side at Stamford Bridge.

It was a game of penalties in London, two of them awarded to the home team and the other to Leeds.

Raphinha opened the scoring from the spot-kick when Marcos Alonso took down Dan James in a clumsy fashion, before the Brazilian recklessly fouled Rudiger in the second half which put Chelsea ahead, at the time.

With less than ten minutes left on the clock, Joe Gelhardt thought he secured a point for his side.

But in stoppage-time, substitute Mateusz Klich was punished for kicking Rudiger in the back of the leg and Jorginho stepped up once more to seal the points for his team.

Former Liverpool striker Michael Owen thinks all three penalties were ‘debatable’, as Wright-Phillips was unsure of Rudiger’s actions.

“For me, it’s a bit soft,” said Wright-Phillips. “Rudiger again in that attacking position.

“For me, there doesn’t seem to be enough contact for him to go down. But he gets it and the man steps up, Jorginho, to score again.”

Owen added: “You could argue that all three of those penalties were debatable at Stamford Bridge. But nothing is debatable about the finish.”

For Leeds, they need to take the positives from the match and how they managed to push a team that is going for the Premier League title race right till the death.

What’s even more impressive is that Bielsa was without Kalvin Phillips, Rodrigo, Patrick Bamford and Liam Cooper.

Yet it was two goals, from the spot, and individual mistakes that meant the Whites walked away empty-handed.

Leeds went into yesterday’s game having scored two stoppage-time goals against Brentford and Crystal Palace – but they got a taste of their own medicine yesterday.