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Commentary
1¹GAKPO shot over.
3¹Uncertainty in the Brentford defence enabled GAKPO to hit the ball wide.
9¹A delightful strike from EVANILSON was dealt with by a fine block from the Chelsea 'keeper.
24¹DILROSUN hoofed the ball wide of the goal from the edge of the box.
25¹The bemused Chelsea 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from DE LIGT dropped just over.
26¹LEES-MELOU's header was well saved by the 'keeper.
39¹GOAL!! A short clearance dropped to JANSSON who sliced a shot goalward, luckily DILROSUN was on hand to volley the ball in off the post. (1-0 Brentford)
39¹GOAL!! Showing lots of skill VLAHOVIC dribbled past LEES-MELOU and drove the ball past the 'keeper. (1-1)
43¹A lovely effort from GAKPO scraped the outside of the post.
46¹GOAL!! A neat one-two left GAKPO clear and he made no mistake by expertly chipping the ball beyond the oncoming STEFFEN. (2-1 Chelsea)
7²A free-kick from WHITE raced just beyond the near post.
10²A cross from GRAVENBERCH left GAKPO in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot.
13²The 'keeper dived to his left to save an accurate shot from Chelsea's VLAHOVIC.
19²The 'keeper was able to palm clear a weak shot from GAKPO.
19²A useful ball from HINCAPIÉ on the right was collected by LEES-MELOU who scuffed his shot over the bar.
20²The referee yellow cards JANSSON for a clumsy foul.
26²GOAL!! A long range effort was deflected into the path of GAKPO who tapped the ball past the helpless Brentford 'keeper. (3-1 Chelsea)
28²WHITE ran onto a delightful ball from MADUEKE but dragged his shot wide of the goal.
31²A deadly effort from GAKPO was forced wide by the 'keeper.
33²WHITE dribbled away from JANSSON and poked a tame shot well wide.
37²LEES-MELOU made space on the left and touched the ball to DILROSUN who touched the ball wide.
45²VLAHOVIC stroked a simple chance past the righthand post.

 
Chelsea
 
League position: 12
Home league form: LXOX
Overall league form: OLXXWOWW
Formation: 4-4-2
Line-ups
(c)EDERSON Santana6½17 Zack STEFFEN
Ben WHITE7 26 Joël VELTMAN(c)
Rayan AÏT-NOURI8 36 Piero HINCAPIÉ
BRUNO GUIMARÃES Rodriguez7½47 Christian NØRGAARD
Matthijs DE LIGT7 56 Ethan PINNOCK
Mickey VAN DE VEN7 66½Pontus JANSSON
Noni MADUEKE7 76½Andreas SKOV OLSEN
Jéremy DOKU7 86½Javairô DILROSUN
(p)Dusan VLAHOVIC7½96 Conrad HARDER(p)
(f)Cody GAKPO7 106 Pierre LEES-MELOU(f)
Ryan GRAVENBERCH6 116½Francisco EVANILSON
Ady LIPPIATTManager
Sven BOTMAN  12  Vitaly JANELT
Takefusa KUBO  13  ÁLVARO Fernández
Sandro TONALI  14  Frank ONYEKA
Callum HUDSON-ODOI  15  Jonas WIND
GONÇALO Matias RAMOS  16  Josh DASILVA
 
Brentford
 
League position: 13
Away league form: WLWL
Overall league form: LWLLWWWL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Chelsea 3 Brentford 1
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 45,741, Stadium: Stamford Bridge, Referee: Mark Halsey 6)

Vlahovic 39¹, Gakpo 46¹, Gakpo 26²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Dilrosun 39¹
  
  
 Jansson 20²
38
64
54
65
106
1611
24
56%44%
Man of the match: Rayan Aït-Nouri