Manchester United are trying to get Perisic for the pace and finishing that led to the decisive goal at the National Stadium in Singapore. The Croatia winger added to Stevan Jovetic’s opener and Geoffrey Kondogbia scored one of the all-time great own goals to pull one back.
But this has been a poor second leg of Antonio Conte’s tour of Asia.
The Italian keeps saying he needs more players and this defeat – along with the result against Bayern Munich earlier in the week – shows why.
It was Chelsea’s last game before next week’s curtain-raiser at Wembley in the Community Shield.
And it looks like record signing Alvaro Morata will be on the left flank against Arsenal.
That is where the Spaniard started in this defeat, with Michy Batshuayi the central striker up front. It seems like a bonkers decision to leave the club’s main striker feeding off scraps – and Chelsea certainly struggled to make chances.
Jovetic gave them the lead on the stroke of half-time when Azpilicueta hauled him down in the area for a spot-kick.
Thibaut Courtois saved the penalty but ex-Manchester City man Jovetic stabbed in the rebound. Perisic grabbed his goal just after the break. Nothing looked on when he approached the penalty area and Azpilicueta backed off – but he angled a lovely drive into the far corner.
Chelsea were given a lifeline when Kondogbia was under pressure from Charly Musonda and managed to lob his keeper from 45 yards.
Batshuayi had a goal ruled out for offside as Chelsea slumped to their second defeat of the tour.
From The Sun
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