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4¹ A poor strike from RODRYGO trickled agonisingly wide. 5¹ GOAL!! The creative AKÉ neatly nodded on a cross for MATHEUS CUNHA to hit the ball in. (1-0 Arsenal) 10¹ A cross from MARTINELLI left MATHEUS CUNHA in lots of space but he snapped at his shot. 11¹ A penalty box scramble resulted in MATHEUS CUNHA knocking a low shot wide. 16¹ LUKAKU brought the ball past FOFANA and poked a poor shot over the bar. 17¹ GOAL!! A long goal-kick from FOFANA caught the Chelsea defence napping and RODRYGO raced through to round the 'keeper and score. (2-0 Arsenal) 23¹ A good effort from MATHEUS CUNHA scraped the outside of the post. 35¹ A delightful save prevented LUKAKU from scoring a lovely goal. 40¹ GOAL!! THIAGO SILVA dribbled forward, glanced up and thundered a shot into the Arsenal net. (2-1 Arsenal) 40¹ A good ball from AKÉ on the right bobbled toward MATHEUS CUNHA who sliced his shot over the bar. 2² RODRYGO booked for gamesmanship. 5² The referee yellow cards MATHEUS CUNHA for violent conduct against BENZEMA. 7² PAVARD fluffed a simple chance. 14² The hapless Arsenal 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from SALIBA fell just over. 25² GOAL!! LAIMER tried to play the ball out of the Chelsea penalty area but was tackled by MADUEKE who forced the ball to RODRYGO for a simple goal. (3-1 Arsenal) 27² LUKAKU ran onto a great ball from BENZEMA but dragged his effort wide. 28² A free-kick from BENZEMA raced wide. 37² ØDEGAARD headed inches over. 38² MARTINELLI nodded the ball wide from just outside the area. 41² LUKAKU stabbed a simple chance past the near post. 42² GOAL!! A goalmouth scramble culminated with RODRYGO firing the ball into the back of the net. (4-1 Arsenal) 44² LUKAKU shot over.

Chelsea   League position: 15 Home league form: LLLW Overall league form: LLLLLLWW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups DIEGO PIÑEIRO del Álamo 5  1 5½ Mike MAIGNAN Benjamin PAVARD 7  2 8  Youssouf FOFANA MARIO HERMOSO Canseco 7  3 6½ Max KILMAN Konrad LAIMER 7  4 6½ Jonathan TAH(c) EDER Gabriel MILITÃO 7  5 7½ William SALIBA (c)THIAGO Emiliano SILVA 6  6 7½ Nathan AKÉ ANTONY Matheus 6½ 7 6½ Noni MADUEKE Mason MOUNT 6  8 7  Gabriel MARTINELLI (p)Romelu LUKAKU 7  9 6½ MATHEUS CUNHA(p) (f)Karim BENZEMA 5½ 10 7  Martin ØDEGAARD(f) Xavi SIMONS 6½ 11 7  RODRYGO Silva Manager Tony Abbey Ben CHILWELL    12    Joe JOHNSON Bashir HUMPHREYS    13    DIOGO Meireles COSTA Timo WERNER    14    Godwill KUKONKI Nélson SEMEDO    15    SAVINHO Leo HJELDE    16    Stefan DE VRIJ

Arsenal   League position: 8 Away league form: LWLW Overall league form: LXWWLWWL Formation: 3-5-2

Statistics

Chelsea 1 Arsenal 4 (Half-time: 1-2, Attendance: 37,002, Stadium: Stamford Bridge, Referee: Martin Atkinson 6) Thiago Silva 40¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Matheus Cunha 5¹, Rodrygo 17¹, Rodrygo 25², Rodrygo 42²           Rodrygo 2², Matheus Cunha 5² 8 11 9 12 2 10 3 5 11 11 14 16 2 1 43% 57% ¶ Man of the match: Youssouf Fofana ¶