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0¹ A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the oncoming Chelsea 'keeper. 4¹ RICHARLISON stabbed a simple chance past the far post. 10¹ The ref books RAFA. 12¹ A thirty yard shot from VAN DE BEEK caused the 'keeper no problem. 14¹ MYKOLENKO headed the ball wide from just outside the area. 19¹ PETAGNA touched the ball through a ruck of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right. 22¹ A good effort from CAIRNEY scraped the woodwork. 23¹ GOAL!! A short corner was floated out to CROSS-ADAIR who nudged the ball into the net. (1-0 Chelsea) 24¹ A poor strike from DANI OLMO rolled agonisingly wide. 27¹ The Crewe Alexandra 'keeper blocked a neatly crafted shot from CAIRNEY. 27¹ MILINKOVIC-SAVIC booked for dangerous play. 32¹ An exceptional shot from MORATA was dealt with by a fine block from CRAGNO. 34¹ GOAL!! MILINKOVIC-SAVIC tried to play the ball out of the Crewe Alexandra penalty area but was tackled by PETAGNA who fired the ball to ZAPPACOSTA for a simple goal. (2-0 Chelsea) 35¹ CARRASCO's shot was well held by CRAGNO. 2² A header by MORATA at the near post was comfortably collected by the Chelsea 'keeper. 5² RICHARLISON's shot beat the 'keeper but rebounded off the Chelsea upright. 12² A shot from PETAGNA seemed a certain goal but LENO managed to palm the ball away. 12² GOAL!! A deep cross from GUERREIRO on the right was headed home by CARRASCO at the near post. (2-1 Chelsea) 18² A fine ball from XHAKA on the right was collected by MORATA who mishit his shot just beyond the near post. 22² CRAGNO saved a curling shot from MORATA. 25² A neatly crafted cross from RICHARLISON was hit goalbound by MORATA only for the Chelsea 'keeper to claw away. 29² The 'keeper dived to his right to stop a fierce drive from Crewe Alexandra's XHAKA. 32² RAFA dribbled past HELANDER and stroked a tame shot over. 37² GOAL!! A strike from RICHARLISON which the 'keeper managed to palm clear seemed to have crossed the line and the referee awarded the goal. (2-2)

Chelsea   League position: 18 Home league form: LLLL Overall league form: XLLLLLLL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Alessio CRAGNO 6  1 6½ Bernd LENO (c)Davide ZAPPACOSTA 6  2 8  Stefan DE VRIJ Vitaliy MYKOLENKO 6½ 3 6½ Granit XHAKA(c) Mauro ARAMBARRI 7  4 7  RICHARLISON de Andrade Filip HELANDER 6½ 5 7½ Achraf HAKIMI Cheick KEITA 5½ 6 8  Raphaël GUERREIRO Tom CAIRNEY 7½ 7 8  Álvaro MORATA(f) Ondrej DUDA 6  8 7  Sergej MILINKOVIC-SAVIC (p)Andrea PETAGNA 6½ 9 8  DANI OLMO(p) (f)Donny VAN DE BEEK 6  10 8½ Yannick CARRASCO Finlay CROSS-ADAIR 5½ 11 6  RAFA Manager Beck Nigel IRFAN CAN Kahveci    12    Emile SMITH ROWE Ben WHITEMAN    13    Janis BLASWICH Hayden CARTER    14    Elliot ANDERSON Raúl DE TOMÁS 6  15    CARLOS SOLER Barragán Bartosz BIALEK    16    Arkadiusz MILIK

Crewe Alexandra   League position: 11 Away league form: WLWL Overall league form: WWWLWLWL Formation: 3-5-2

Statistics

Chelsea 2 Crewe Alexandra 2 (Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 28,730, Stadium: Stamford Bridge, Referee: Lee Mason 5½) Cross-Adair 23¹, Zappacosta 34¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Carrasco 12², Richarlison 37² Dudaóde Tomás 30²         Rafa 10¹, Milinkovic-Savic 27¹ 5 6 6 6 4 13 6 10 2 4 8 14 4 8 41% 59% ¶ Man of the match: Yannick Carrasco ¶