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Commentary
GOAL!! A lovely set-piece enabled LUKAKU to slip the ball home. (1-0 Chelsea)
A cross from KOVACIC left ZIYECH in lots of space but he rushed his shot.
10¹A accurate pass fell to ZIYECH and his deadly effort went narrowly wide.
14¹LUKAKU beat BROBBEY but blasted the ball into the arms of the Newcastle United 'keeper.
16¹AUBAMEYANG beat three Newcastle United players and stroked an effort over.
19¹ANTONY worked the ball to GORETZKA, GUERREIRO latched onto his pass and booted the ball within easy reach of the 'keeper.
23¹CHIESA brought the ball past GIROUD and stabbed a poor shot past the post.
24¹LUKAKU's shot beat GILLESPIE but rebounded off the Newcastle United post.
30¹GOAL!! A goalmouth meleé culminated with KOVACIC blasting the ball into the roof of the net. (2-0 Chelsea)
34¹KOVACIC was put clear by AZPILICUETA and he dummied the 'keeper but drilled his shot over the bar.
35¹The hapless 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from GUERREIRO fell just wide.
43¹A free-kick from CHIESA went wide.
44¹BULKA dived to his left to stop a lovely drive from Newcastle United's ANTONY.
45¹AUBAMEYANG made space on the right and touched the ball to MADUEKE who clipped the ball over.
GOAL!! A long ball from PEMBÉLÉ down the middle found the lurking GONÇALO RAMOS who flicked a looping shot into the top corner. (2-1 Chelsea)
A poor strike from GUERREIRO trickled agonisingly wide.
GORETZKA headed the ball wide of the righthand post from just outside the area.
ANTONY ran onto a great ball from GORETZKA but pulled his effort wide of the goal.
10²GOAL!! A wonderful shot from BROBBEY was pushed away by BULKA only as far as GORETZKA who blasted the ball past the stranded BULKA. (2-2)
10²LUKAKU placed a deadly shot over from just outside the area.
16²AUBAMEYANG shot wide.
17²GOAL!! A shot from LUKAKU dribbled through a ruck of players and bounced past the unsighted GILLESPIE. (3-2 Chelsea)
36²A penalty box scramble resulted in CHIESA cracking the ball over.
37²CHIESA given a yellow card by the referee.

 
Chelsea
 
League position: -
Home league form: WWWW
Overall league form: WLWWWLWO
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Marcin BULKA1Mark GILLESPIE
Kieran TRIPPIER2Timothée PEMBÉLÉ
Dylan WILLIAMS3Raphaël GUERREIRO(c)
Mateo KOVACIC4Leon GORETZKA
(c)THIAGO Emiliano SILVA5Sven BOTMAN
Cesar AZPILICUETA6NUNO Alexandre MENDES
Noni MADUEKE7ANTONY Matheus
Hakim ZIYECH8Federico CHIESA
(p)Romelu LUKAKU9GONÇALO Matias RAMOS(p)
(f)Olivier GIROUD10Brian BROBBEY(f)
Pierre-Emerick AUBAMEYANG11Memphis DEPAY
Manager
Ruben LOFTUS-CHEEK  12  Franck KESSIÉ
Gabriel SLONINA  13  Jude SMITH
Mattéo GUENDOUZI  14  Jacob MURPHY
Denis ZAKARIA  15  Maurits KJÆRGAARD
Phil JONES  16  Benjamin SESKO
 
Newcastle United
 
League position: -
Away league form: WLLW
Overall league form: WWLLWXWL
Formation: 4-3-3
Chelsea go through to the next round
Statistics
Chelsea 3 Newcastle United 2
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 45,293, Stadium: Stamford Bridge, Referee: Phil Dowd 8)

Lukaku 2¹, Kovacic 30¹, Lukaku 17²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Gonçalo Ramos 0², Goretzka 10²
  
  
 Chiesa 37²
22
212
02
54
86
1310
22
51%49%
Man of the match: Mateo Kovacic