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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 6 (setup 4, season 29)
Chelsea
v.
Darlington
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
1
Overall form:
Home form:
Claudio Andrés BRAVO Muñoz71Hugo LLORIS
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
4
Overall form:
Home form:
Antonio RÜDIGER726MARCELO Vieira da Silva Junior
Andreas CHRISTENSEN73Giorgio CHIELLINI
NGolo KANTÉ748Luka MODRIC
DAVID LUIZ Moreira Marinho757Daniele DE ROSSI
Ethan AMPADU66Thomas VERMAELEN
Danny DRINKWATER7Christian GENTNER
WILLIAN Borges da Silva8Ángel Fabián DI MARÍA
Álvaro Borja MORATA Martín96Mario Barwuah BALOTELLI
Olivier GIROUD106Stevan JOVETIC
PEDRO Eliezer Rodríguez Ledesma11Danny WELBECK
Manager
Davide ZAPPACOSTA12Samir NASRI
Jamal BLACKMAN13Jon FLATT
Callum HUDSON-ODOI14Mario GOMEZ
Francesc FABREGAS Soler15John BOSTOCK
Ike UGBO168Federico MACHEDA

Chelsea 0 Darlington 2
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 45,236, Stadium: Stamford Bridge, Referee: Graham LAWS 5)
Scorers51 Di María, 60 Chiellini
Substitutions72 Di María <=> Macheda
Sendings off83 Welbeck
18 Ampadu, 38 DrinkwaterBookings17 Welbeck
5Corners2
16Fouls8
2Offsides2
4Shots on9
9Shots off8
13Total shots17
4Shots saved7
47%Possession53%
Man of the match: Luka MODRIC
11WILLIAN shot over.
17WELBECK booked for gamesmanship.
18A bad challenge gets AMPADU a yellow card.
24A fine run was ended by a good save by the advancing BRAVO.
30MARCELO beat a number of Chelsea players and thundered a great chance inches over.
31WILLIAN clipped the ball through a ruck of players but LLORIS was a match for it as he dived to his left.
31MODRIC beat KANTÉ and placed the ball to CHIELLINI who dragged his shot wide.
34A drive from PEDRO seemed a certain goal but LLORIS managed to parry the ball away.
37The motionless Chelsea 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from WILLIAN fell just wide.
38The referee books DRINKWATER for dangerous play against DE ROSSI.
43A poor strike from BALOTELLI trickled agonisingly wide.
44The Chelsea 'keeper was able to palm clear a weak header from JOVETIC.
 
48MODRIC worked the ball to BALOTELLI, WELBECK collected his pass and hoofed the ball within easy reach of the 'keeper.
51GOAL!! The creative DE ROSSI neatly headed on a cross for DI MARÍA to fire the ball in. (1-0 Darlington)
60GOAL!! DI MARÍA drove a wicked shot against the upright with CHIELLINI driving in the rebound. (2-0 Darlington)
65BALOTELLI brought the ball away from KANTÉ and flicked a poor shot wide.
68CHRISTENSEN blasted a left foot shot just wide from long range.
80The 'keeper managed to palm clear a wicked shot.
83WELBECK sent off.
86A great effort from WILLIAN scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
87KANTÉ floated the ball to MORATA who flicked it over.
88DRINKWATER ran onto a delightful ball from KANTÉ but hit his shot wide of the righthand post.