Graham Potter has been under huge pressure since he replaced German Thomas Tuchel as manager of Chelsea Football club. On Saturd...
On Saturday, the Blues played to a standard a Potter team would play like especially with how he set-up his team back at Brighton.
With two wins out of 12 matches, the talk of an early sack has filled the air about the English man but he is begining to get the Blues where he wants them with a third consecutive win for the first time since he took charge of the Stamford Bridge side.
The Potter inspired mini-revival was helped by the struggling Leicester City, who were handed a fifth consecutive defeat.
Chelsea were buoyed by their Champions League win over Borussia Dortmund as Ben Chilwell volleyed in from a tight angle against his old club to open scoring.
Joao Felix, who is on loan from Atletico Madrid and Foxes Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall hit the woodwork in the space of two minutes. Felix then thought he had scored but his goal ruled out by the video assistant referee for offside.
Zambian international, Patson Daka scored an excellent equaliser after Ricardo Pereira won the ball off the dawdling Felix outside the box.
But German international, Kai Havertz pounced six minutes into first-half injury time with an excellent dinked finish from Enzo Fernandez's clever aerial ball to put Chelsea ahead.
Newly signed, Mykhailo Mudryk thought he had his first goal for the Blues after the break but his effort was disallowed for offside. But he soon turned provider for Croatian World Cup star and former Real Madrid midfielder Mateo Kovacic sealed the win with a sweet volley.
Leicester City ended the encounter with 10 men following Wout Faes' late sending off for a second booking.
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