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2¹ A shot from BUENDIA was headed off the line by SARR. 4¹ GOAL!! A beautiful outswinging corner was forced in at the far post by WATKINS. (1-0 Aston Villa) 7¹ A good ball from TARGETT on the left was collected by WATKINS who scuffed his shot over. 10¹ GOAL!! A deep corner left the Chelsea 'keeper struggling and EL GHAZI banged the ball into the net. (2-0 Aston Villa) 17¹ A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the oncoming 'keeper. 24¹ A wonderful save prevented EL GHAZI from scoring a great goal. 29¹ LUKAKU worked the ball to WERNER, TRIPPIER collected his cross and kicked the ball within easy reach of HEATON. 38¹ GOAL!! WATKINS drove an amazing shot against the crossbar with CASH knocking in the rebound. (3-0 Aston Villa) 41¹ GOAL!! A shot from WATKINS raced through a ruck of players and trickled past the unsighted Chelsea 'keeper. (4-0 Aston Villa) 46¹ A penalty box meleé resulted in LUKAKU tapping the ball over. 1² KAMARA rushed an easy chance. 1² A cross from McGINN left TARGETT in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot. 2² A corner fell to TARGETT who fired the ball over. 3² BUENDIA made space on the left and pulled the ball to EL GHAZI who touched the ball over. 17² WATKINS waltzed away from ZIYECH and poked a tame shot wide. 21² RAMSEY cautioned for a bad foul. 23² GOAL!! A cross from KOVACIC was headed away by KAMARA only for WERNER to tap the ball back into the box for AZPILICUETA to force into the net. (4-1 Aston Villa) 25² CASH beat two Chelsea players and stroked an effort over. 25² TARGETT ran onto a wonderful ball from McGINN but toe-poked his effort wide. 40² A pin-point pass fell to CASH and his looping shot raced narrowly over. 41² HEATON dived to his right to block a lovely shot from Chelsea's MORATA. 45² McGINN beat MARCH and blasted the ball to WATKINS who dragged his shot wide.

Aston Villa   League position: 8 Home league form: WWXL Overall league form: WWXWWXWL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups (c)Tom HEATON 6½ 1 6½ Marcin BULKA Matty CASH 7  2 6½ Cesar AZPILICUETA Matt TARGETT 6  3 6½ Solomon MARCH John McGINN 7  4 7  Mateo KOVACIC Cameron ARCHER 6  5 7  THIAGO Emiliano SILVA(c) Carney CHUKWUEMEKA 6½ 6 6  Malang SARR Emiliano BUENDIA 7½ 7 7½ Kieran TRIPPIER Anwar EL GHAZI 5  8 6½ Hakim ZIYECH (p)Ollie WATKINS 7½ 9 7  Romelu LUKAKU(p) (f)Boubacar KAMARA 6½ 10 6  Álvaro MORATA(f) Tyreik WRIGHT 6  11 7  Timo WERNER Manager Bertrand TRAORÉ    12    Olivier GIROUD Jacob RAMSEY 6  13    Callum HUDSON-ODOI Morgan SANSON    14    Ross BARKLEY Aaron RAMSEY 7  15    Ruben LOFTUS-CHEEK DOUGLAS LUIZ Soares    16    Phil JONES

Chelsea   League position: 6 Away league form: LWWL Overall league form: WLXWWWLX Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Aston Villa 4 Chelsea 1 (Half-time: 4-0, Attendance: 42,149, Stadium: Villa Park, Referee: Colin Webster 7½) Watkins 4¹, El Ghazi 10¹, Cash 38¹, Watkins 41¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Azpilicueta 23² El GhazióRamsey 4², ChukwuemekaóRamsey 30²       Ramsey 21²   4 3 6 4 4 9 6 5 13 2 19 7 2 4 54% 46% ¶ Man of the match: Emiliano Buendia ¶