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Match report
English Footie
FA Cup: Round 3 (setup 4, season 27)
Chelsea
v.
Rushden&Diamonds
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
3
Overall form:
Home form:
Claudio Andrés BRAVO Muñoz1Bogdan LOBONT
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
11
Overall form:
Home form:
Cesar AZPILICUETA Tanco427Shkodran MUSTAFI
Domenico CRISCITO3Alexander BUTTNER
NGolo KANTÉ4Jake LIVERMORE
Branislav IVANOVIC857Emanuel POGATETZ
DAVID LUIZ Moreira Marinho66RAFAEL Pereira da Silva
Danny DRINKWATER77KI Sung-yueng
Eden HAZARD8Stephen HUNT
DIEGO da Silva COSTA97Mauro BOSELLI
Miralem PJANIC10Billy SHARP
PEDRO Eliezer Rodríguez Ledesma7117Georgios SAMARAS
Manager
Olivier GIROUD12Brian STOCK
Sergio Germán ROMERO13Alan JULIAN
Michy BATSHUAYI146John SUTTON
Francesc FABREGAS Soler15Andrew TAYLOR
WILLIAN Borges da Silva16Massimo MACCARONE

Chelsea 6 Rushden&Diamonds 0
(Half-time: 3-0, Attendance: 45,356, Stadium: Stamford Bridge, Referee: Jarnail SINGH 7)
23 Drinkwater, 41 Diego Costa, 44 Pedro, 58 Hazard, 86 Pedro, 89 PjanicScorers
55 Azpilicueta <=> FabregasSubstitutions47 Pogatetz <=> Sutton, 49 Samaras <=> Maccarone
Sendings off
Bookings19 Rafael
4Corners2
3Fouls11
6Offsides3
7Shots on4
11Shots off4
18Total shots8
0Shots saved3
55%Possession45%
Man of the match: Francesc FABREGAS Soler
6BOSELLI booted the ball wide from just outside the area.
9The Chelsea 'keeper dived to his left to save a lovely shot from Rushden&Diamonds's HUNT.
11A looping shot from HAZARD was pushed round the post by LOBONT.
15A penalty box scramble resulted in LIVERMORE knocking a low shot wide.
19RAFAEL cautioned by SINGH for a clumsy foul.
23GOAL!! A long ball from HAZARD down the middle found the lurking DRINKWATER who whacked a looping shot into the top corner. (1-0 Chelsea)
31KANTÉ played the ball to HAZARD who fired it wide.
36A fine ball from CRISCITO on the left found HAZARD who mishit his shot inches wide.
37A shot from BOSELLI was booted off the line by CRISCITO.
41GOAL!! Chelsea's DIEGO COSTA beat two defenders before firing just inside the Rushden&Diamonds 'keeper's righthand post. (2-0 Chelsea)
44GOAL!! An outswinging corner hoofed out by KI was knocked home by PEDRO. (3-0 Chelsea)
 
52MACCARONE stepped inside HAZARD but flicked the ball into the arms of the 'keeper.
52KANTÉ brought the ball away from HUNT and poked a tame shot over.
58GOAL!! A long ball from CRISCITO had the Rushden&Diamonds defence back-pedalling and HAZARD made the most of the opportunity with an exceptional goal. (4-0 Chelsea)
61A corner bobbled toward HAZARD who turned the ball wide.
65DRINKWATER beat MACCARONE and placed the ball to DIEGO COSTA who blasted his shot wide.
66A cross from HAZARD left KANTÉ in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot.
72BOSELLI headed just wide.
73PJANIC flicked an easy chance past the near post.
80A free-kick from DRINKWATER raced over.
86GOAL!! An imaginative PJANIC played a wonderful ball down the left to PEDRO who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (5-0 Chelsea)
89GOAL!! A perfect ball from FABREGAS left PEDRO in the clear, he made the 'keeper commit himself before passing the ball to PJANIC to score. (6-0 Chelsea)