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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 41 (setup 4, season 34)
Bradford City
v.
Chelsea
Formation:
4-3-3
Overall form:
Home form:
JÚLIO CÉSAR Soares de Espínola1Marcin BULKA
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
6
Overall form:
Home form:
Curtis NELSON2Cesar AZPILICUETA Tanco
THIAGO Carleto Alves73Solomon MARCH
Georginio WIJNALDUM48Mateo KOVACIC
Joe WORRALL75THIAGO Emiliano da SILVA
Paudie O'CONNOR768Malang SARR
Sofiane FEGHOULI77Kieran TRIPPIER
Iker MUNIAIN Gońi78Hakim ZIYECH
Andy COOK797Romelu LUKAKU
Vladimír WEISS6107Álvaro Borja MORATA Martín
Shay McCARTAN117Timo WERNER
Manager
Joe RILEY12Olivier GIROUD
Reece STAUNTON13Callum HUDSON-ODOI
Omari PATRICK14Ross BARKLEY
Zeli ISMAIL156Ruben LOFTUS-CHEEK
Jordan GIBSON16Phil JONES

Bradford City 0 Chelsea 2
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 22,653, Stadium: Valley Parade, Referee: Pavel NOVOTNÝ 7)
Scorers9 Lukaku, 80 Loftus-Cheek
68 Cook <=> PatrickSubstitutions52 Morata <=> Barkley, 80 Werner <=> Loftus-Cheek
Sendings off
Bookings37 Thiago Silva
4Corners3
0Fouls1
3Offsides0
2Shots on7
4Shots off19
6Total shots26
2Shots saved5
45%Possession55%
Man of the match: Malang SARR
2A great effort from MORATA scraped the woodwork.
3ZIYECH was put clear by MORATA and he raced past the Bradford City 'keeper but rammed his shot just beyond the far post.
8Uncertainty in the Bradford City defence enabled LUKAKU to thump an effort wide.
9GOAL!! An imaginative MORATA played a wonderful ball down the right to LUKAKU who seemingly in an offside position went on to easily score. (1-0 Chelsea)
11A free-kick from TRIPPIER flew over the bar.
22ZIYECH brought the ball round FEGHOULI and rattled a weak shot well wide.
25A cross from TRIPPIER left AZPILICUETA in lots of space but he fluffed his shot.
31LUKAKU fired the ball through a ruck of players but JÚLIO CÉSAR was a match for it as he dived to his left.
37THIAGO SILVA booked.
42LUKAKU knocked the ball to MARCH who flicked it just wide.
44A poor shot from NELSON rolled agonisingly wide.
45+3A shot from SARR seemed a certain goal but JÚLIO CÉSAR managed to force the ball away.
 
48A pin-point pass fell to MUNIAIN and his right foot shot floated narrowly over.
50LUKAKU beat FEGHOULI and drove the ball to ZIYECH who toe-poked his effort wide.
56ZIYECH rattled a simple chance past the near post.
58MARCH flicked a looping shot inches wide from twenty yards out.
61KOVACIC beat four Bradford City players and slammed a great chance inches wide.
63ZIYECH headed over the bar.
67The hapless Bradford City 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from THIAGO fell just wide.
69ZIYECH snapped at a simple chance.
79An outswinging corner was headed into the arms of JÚLIO CÉSAR by WERNER.
80GOAL!! A shot from LOFTUS-CHEEK bobbled through a ruck of players and trickled past the unsighted Bradford City 'keeper. (2-0 Chelsea)