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0¹ GRIEZMANN shot wide. 3¹ GOAL!! A cross from the left was touched down by ZANIOLO for DEPAY to score. (1-0 Aston Villa) 8¹ PASALIC fired a right foot shot just beyond the near post from thirty yards out. 13¹ GOAL!! A shot from EDER MILITÃO was booted off the line only for MARC CUCURELLA to flick the ball in. (1-1) 14¹ GOAL!! After PASALIC was fouled the ref waved play-on and DEPAY went on to comfortably score. (2-1 Aston Villa) 16¹ LUKAKU was put clear by EDER MILITÃO and he pulled away from the Aston Villa 'keeper but rammed his shot wide. 19¹ GOAL!! ZANIOLO made space for BOEY who, after an interchange of passes twenty yards out, glanced the ball past the Chelsea 'keeper. (3-1 Aston Villa) 24¹ A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing Aston Villa 'keeper. 34¹ A accurate pass found MENDY and his deadly effort flew narrowly wide. 1² A lovely effort from BOEY scraped the upright. 2² A poor strike from LUKAKU trickled agonisingly wide. 5² A penalty box meleé resulted in LUKAKU driving the ball over. 12² The stunned KOVÁR was all agog as a backpass from CARRASCO dropped just wide. 14² CHRISTENSEN cautioned for a cynical challenge. 15² A high challenge gets LUKAKU a yellow card. 26² PASALIC headed wide. 27² BADIASHILE booked for a poor tackle on LUKAKU. 28² GOAL!! Chelsea were awarded a penalty after a foul on ANTONY and LUKAKU put it past the Aston Villa 'keeper sending him the wrong way. (3-2 Aston Villa) 31² PENTON yellow cards CARRASCO. 33² A drive from BADIASHILE seemed a certain goal but the 'keeper managed to fist the ball clear. 42² BADIASHILE beat four Chelsea players and drove a golden opportunity inches wide. 44² The referee books BOEY for a cynical challenge.

Chelsea   League position: - Home league form: LWWX Overall league form: LWWLXWWX Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups DIEGO PIÑEIRO del Álamo 5½ 1 6  Matej KOVÁR Konrad LAIMER 7  2 6½ Sacha BOEY MARC CUCURELLA Saseta 7  3 7½ Ferland MENDY Xavi SIMONS 7  4 7½ Adrien RABIOT EDER Gabriel MILITÃO 6  5 7½ Benoît BADIASHILE Andreas CHRISTENSEN 6½ 6 6½ Yannick CARRASCO ANTONY Matheus 6½ 7 6  Nicoló ZANIOLO Mason MOUNT 6  8 7  Sadio MANÉ(c) (p)Romelu LUKAKU 6½ 9 6½ Memphis DEPAY(p) (f)Karim BENZEMA 6  10 6  Mario PASALIC(f) (c)Antoine GRIEZMANN 6  11 6½ RICHARLISON de Andrade Manager MARIO HERMOSO Canseco    12    Marcelo BROZOVIC Timo WERNER 6½ 13    Odysseas VLACHODIMOS Dominic BALLARD    14    Quilindschy HARTMAN Nélson SEMEDO    15    Ben CHRISENE THIAGO Emiliano SILVA    16    Franco CARBONI

Aston Villa   League position: 11 Away league form: LXXL Overall league form: LLXXWLWL Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Chelsea 2 Aston Villa 3 (Half-time: 1-3, Attendance: 41,576, Stadium: Stamford Bridge, Referee: Clive Penton 7½) Marc Cucurella 13¹, Lukaku 28² (pen) Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Depay 3¹, Depay 14¹, Boey 19¹ Eder MilitãoóWerner 19²       Christensen 14², Lukaku 15² Badiashile 27², Carrasco 31², Boey 44² 3 7 15 17 4 10 3 5 8 9 11 14 1 2 48% 52% ¶ Man of the match: Benoît Badiashile ¶