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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 30 (setup 4, season 35)
Southend United
v.
Chelsea
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
16
Overall form:
Home form:
Brice SAMBA61Marcin BULKA
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
5
Overall form:
Home form:
Ryan LEONARD27Cesar AZPILICUETA Tanco
Ethan PINNOCK738Solomon MARCH
Hamza CHOUDHURY4Mateo KOVACIC
Scott McKENNA5THIAGO Emiliano da SILVA
Taylor HARWOOD-BELLIS67Malang SARR
Muhamed BESIC677Ruben LOFTUS-CHEEK
CARLES GIL de Pareja Vicent8Hakim ZIYECH
John GUIDETTI9Romelu LUKAKU
Charlie KELMAN10Álvaro Borja MORATA Martín
Simon COX611Timo WERNER
Manager
Stephen McLAUGHLIN12Kieran TRIPPIER
Paulo Dino GAZZANIGA13Olivier GIROUD
Michael KLASS14Callum HUDSON-ODOI
Jermaine McGLASHAN15Juan FAMILIA-CASTILLO
Joe BRYAN16Lewis HALL

Southend United 1 Chelsea 3
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 13,278, Stadium: Roots Hall, Referee: Christian BEECK 5½)
60 Carles GilScorers37 Ziyech, 50 Ziyech, 81 Azpilicueta
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings76 Bulka
4Corners2
11Fouls4
0Offsides1
1Shots on7
6Shots off8
7Total shots15
0Shots saved4
42%Possession58%
Man of the match: Mateo KOVACIC
4An inswinging corner was flicked into the arms of the Southend United 'keeper by MARCH.
8A pin-point pass fell to THIAGO SILVA and his right foot shot went narrowly wide.
14CARLES GIL whacked a right foot shot over the bar from just outside the area.
15A mix up in the Chelsea defence enabled CARLES GIL to blast the ball just beyond the near post.
19AZPILICUETA beat three Southend United players and blasted an effort wide.
23A free-kick from WERNER raced over the bar.
35LUKAKU beat KELMAN and drilled the ball to ZIYECH who toe-poked his shot wide.
37GOAL!! A neat one-two left ZIYECH clear and he made no mistake by drifting the ball past the oncoming SAMBA. (1-0 Chelsea)
40A lovely effort from ZIYECH scraped the outside of the post.
44SAMBA did well to hold onto a wicked strike from ZIYECH.
45MORATA shot wide.
45+1A fine ball from HARWOOD-BELLIS on the left was collected by CHOUDHURY who sliced his effort wide.
45+1A penalty box scramble resulted in LUKAKU driving a low shot over.
 
50GOAL!! A short corner was chipped out to ZIYECH who placed the ball in off the post. (2-0 Chelsea)
55A neatly crafted cross from MORATA, was blasted goalbound by ZIYECH only for the 'keeper to claw away.
60GOAL!! On the right wing GUIDETTI collected a defender's clearance and hit it across the goalmouth for CARLES GIL to fire it into the back of the net. (2-1 Chelsea)
62GUIDETTI made space on the right and knocked the ball to CARLES GIL who touched the ball over.
71LUKAKU dummied BESIC but knocked the ball into the arms of SAMBA.
75The bemused Chelsea 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from MARCH fell just over.
76The referee cautions BULKA for a late tackle.
81GOAL!! After WERNER was bundled over the ref waved play-on and AZPILICUETA went on to comfortably score. (3-1 Chelsea)
89A poor strike from CARLES GIL trickled agonisingly wide.
90+1ZIYECH was put clear by MARCH and he pulled away from the Southend United 'keeper but struck his shot just wide.