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4¹ YAMAL booked for a high challenge. 14¹ LUKAKU shot over. 19¹ An exceptional effort from LUKAKU scraped the top of the crossbar. 24¹ A shot from YAMAL held little difficulty for DIEGO PIÑEIRO. 25¹ BENZEMA scuffed an easy chance. 30¹ The 'keeper was able to block a tame shot from ANTONY. 37¹ LAIMER beat PAVLOVIC and whacked the ball to MARIO HERMOSO who dragged his effort wide. 39¹ A high tackle gets BAKAYOKO a yellow card. 4² GOAL!! A neat one-two left YAMAL clear and he made no mistake by floating the ball past the oncoming Chelsea 'keeper. (1-0 Stoke City) 5² A penalty box scramble resulted in LUKAKU cracking a low shot over. 14² GOAL!! A short goal-kick was intercepted by ZAÏRE-EMERY who setup YAMAL with a simple chance. (2-0 Stoke City) 16² FOFANA stroked a simple chance past the lefthand post. 20² MOUNT beat two Stoke City players and fired a shot just beyond the far post. 22² GOAL!! The Chelsea 'keeper got into trouble with a backpass from THIAGO SILVA and YAMAL managed to scramble the ball into the back of the net. (3-0 Stoke City) 24² SESKO booked for dangerous play. 25² RUI CARLOS books OTAMENDI for a high foul. 28² A cross from DOUÉ left YAMAL in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot. 31² A fine ball from EDER MILITÃO on the right found MOUNT who sliced his shot wide. 32² SESKO drove a left foot shot inches over from close range. 34² YAMAL sent off. 37² A poor shot from FOFANA trickled agonisingly wide. 44² GOAL!! A delightful dummy from LUKAKU allowed BENZEMA to lay a lovely ball off to MARIO HERMOSO who drilled the ball into the back of the net. (3-1 Stoke City)

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

Line-ups DIEGO PIÑEIRO del Álamo 5  1 6  Bart VERBRUGGEN Benjamin PAVARD 7½ 2 8  Levi COLWILL MARIO HERMOSO Canseco 6½ 3 6½ Aleksandar PAVLOVIC Konrad LAIMER 7½ 4 7  Warren ZAÏRE-EMERY EDER Gabriel MILITÃO 6½ 5 6½ Nicolás OTAMENDI(c) (c)THIAGO Emiliano SILVA 6½ 6 6  Robin LE NORMAND ANTONY Matheus 8  7 7  Johan BAKAYOKO(f) Mason MOUNT 5½ 8 6½ Malick FOFANA (p)Romelu LUKAKU 7½ 9 7  Benjamin SESKO (f)Karim BENZEMA 6  10 6½ Désiré DOUÉ Timo WERNER 6½ 11 6½ Lamine YAMAL(p) Manager Anthony ABBEY Bashir HUMPHREYS    12    Pio ESPOSITO Jayden WAREHAM    13    Michele DI GREGORIO Nélson SEMEDO    14    Angelo STILLER Aleix GARRIDO    15    PAU CUBARSÍ Paredes Ben CHILWELL 6½ 16    Luka VUSKOVIC

Stoke City   League position: 16 Away league form: LLLX Overall league form: LLWLLLWX Formation: 4-4-2

Statistics

Chelsea 1 Stoke City 3 (Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 23,662, Stadium: Stamford Bridge, Referee: Rui Carlos Madureira 7½) Mario Hermoso 44² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Yamal 4², Yamal 14², Yamal 22² WerneróChilwell 5²     Yamal 34²   Yamal 4¹, Bakayoko 39¹, Sesko 24², Otamendi 25² 7 5 10 13 2 12 8 6 13 4 21 10 6 2 52% 48% ¶ Man of the match: Levi Colwill ¶