{"id":2757,"date":"2025-09-13T23:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2025\/09\/13\/chelsea-held-2-2-by-brentford-after-late-equaliser-in-stoppage-time\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T23:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:37:06","slug":"chelsea-held-2-2-by-brentford-after-late-equaliser-in-stoppage-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2025\/09\/13\/chelsea-held-2-2-by-brentford-after-late-equaliser-in-stoppage-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Held 2-2 by Brentford After Late Equaliser in Stoppage Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea and Brentford finished level at 2-2 as a stoppage-time intervention denied the Blues a comeback win. Brentford\u2019s five-at-the-back set-up, implemented by Keith Andrews, aimed to blunt Chelsea and exploit breakaways through Kevin Schade and Igor Thiago.<\/p>\n<p>The Bees\u2019 approach produced the opening goal in the 35th minute. A rapid counter saw Schade run onto a dangerous pass from Jordan Henderson and, when his effort deflected off the inside of Tosin Adarabioyo\u2019s right leg, the ball ended up past Robert S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea made three halftime changes, bringing on Marc Cucurella, Reece James and Tyrique George to try to restore parity. Tyrique George came close to scoring, only for Caoimhin Kelleher to produce a strong save. Cole Palmer was introduced in the 61st minute and would eventually get on the scoresheet; it was his first non-penalty goal since Jan. 14. Alejandro Garnacho was also introduced in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Mois\u00e9s Caicedo turned the game in Chelsea\u2019s favour with a goal in the 85th minute, and it briefly looked as though the Blues had taken the win. In stoppage time, however, Kristoffer Ajer flicked on a long Brentford throw-in and Fabio Carvalho tucked the ball in at the far post in the 94th minute to level the scores.<\/p>\n<p>The match finished 2-2, Chelsea\u2019s second draw in four to begin the season. Below are the Blues player ratings from the match.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Player Ratings (Out of 10)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GK: Robert S\u00e1nchez \u2014 7.2<\/li>\n<li>RB: Wesley Fofana \u2014 6.6<\/li>\n<li>CB: Tosin Adarabioyo \u2014 6.8<\/li>\n<li>CB: Trevoh Chalobah \u2014 7.6<\/li>\n<li>LB: Jorrel Hato \u2014 6.1<\/li>\n<li>CM: Mois\u00e9s Caicedo \u2014 8.2<\/li>\n<li>CM: Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez (c) \u2014 7.5<\/li>\n<li>RW: Pedro Neto \u2014 7.0<\/li>\n<li>AM: Facundo Buonanotte \u2014 6.7<\/li>\n<li>LW: Jamie Gittens \u2014 6.4<\/li>\n<li>ST: Jo\u00e3o Pedro \u2014 7.5<\/li>\n<li>SUB: Tyrique George (46\u2019 for Buonanotte) \u2014 6.2<\/li>\n<li>SUB: Reece James (46\u2019 for Fofana) \u2014 6.6<\/li>\n<li>SUB: Marc Cucurella (46\u2019 for Hato) \u2014 6.9<\/li>\n<li>SUB: Cole Palmer (56\u2019 for Gittens) \u2014 7.4<\/li>\n<li>SUB: Alejandro Garnacho (79\u2019 for Pedro) \u2014 6.4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Subs not used: Filip J\u00f8rgensen (GK), Josh Acheampong, Malo Gusto, Andrey Santos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brentford (5-3-2):<\/strong> Caoimhin Kelleher; Michael Kayode, Sepp van den Berg, Nathan Collins, Ethan Pinnock, Keane Lewis-Potter; Yehor Yarmoliuk, Jordan Henderson, Mathias Jensen; Igor Thiago, Kevin Schade.<\/p>\n<p>Brentford subs: H\u00e1kon Rafn Valdimarsson (GK), Kristoffer Ajer, Rico Henry, Aaron Hickey, Frank Onyeka, Vitaly Janelt, Dango Ouattara, Fabio Carvalho, Reiss Nelson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blues draw 2-2 with Brentford after late equaliser; Caicedo had put Chelsea ahead in 85th minute&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[728,190,969],"tags":[227,767,319],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brentford","category-chelsea","category-premier-league","tag-alejandro-garnacho","tag-caoimhin-kelleher","tag-cole-palmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}