Chelsea came from 2-0 down to beat Tottenham Hotspur 4-3 on Sunday (Dec 8) and go second in the Premier League thanks to two Cole Palmer penalties.
Tottenham Hotspur squandered another two-goal lead as they slumped to a 4-3 defeat at home to fierce London rivals Chelsea on Sunday (Dec 8).
When Spurs hosted Chelsea in this fixture last season, it produced the game of the season. The pair did their best to top that bonkers contest during a dizzying display.
Marc Cucurella stole the spotlight in the opening 11 minutes. The free-wheeling left-back twice lost his footing, gifting possession to a home side feverishly pressing from the front. Dominic Solanke fired Spurs in front after the first giveaway and Dejan Kulusevski doubled that advantage following another turnover.
The Tottenham crowd were only partially celebrating their 2-0 lead, halting the cheers to jeer Cucurella as he trundled across to the touchline to swap boots at the break in play.
In a breathless contest, Jadon Sancho halved the deficit for Chelsea with barely 15 minutes on the clock. The former Manchester United forward jinked in off the left flank and fizzed a crisp shot beyond Fraser Forster's dive, clipping the inside of the post on its way into the net.
Cole Palmer completed the comeback shortly after the hour mark, nervelessly dispatching a spot-kick won by the energetic Moises Caicedo. Chelsea's talismanic playmaker was at the heart of the move that nudged the visitors in front after 73 minutes, wriggling between a crowd of white shirts before his deflected shot sat up for Enzo Fernandez to lash into the bottom corner from the top of the box.
Ever the showman, Palmer ended this manic display with a Panenka penalty, demonstrating a layer of composure entirely out of keeping with a wild game to dink Chelsea into a 4-2 lead in the 84th minute.
James Maddison emerged off the bench to tee up his skipper Son Heung-min in the sixth minute of stoppage time, yet that strike only proved to be a not so consilatory consolation.
