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Commentary

0¹ A corner was collected by LUKAKU who turned the ball over the bar. 1¹ WERNER was put clear by THIAGO SILVA and he pulled away from the 'keeper but rammed his shot over. 4¹ DEADMAN books MORATA. 5¹ SAKA dribbled away from KOVACIC and poked a poor shot over the bar. 10¹ A poor strike from MORATA bounced agonisingly wide. 14¹ The motionless Norwich City 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from PEDRI fell just over. 19¹ GOAL!! An energetic SAKA ran down the right wing and dragged the ball back for HAALAND to slide home. (1-0 Norwich City) 21¹ DONNARUMMA saved a curling shot from LUKAKU. 22¹ HAALAND ran onto a delightful ball from BELLINGHAM but pulled his shot wide. 23¹ A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing Norwich City 'keeper. 28¹ GOAL!! As VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR was attempting to hold back TRIPPIER the ball dropped to MADUEKE who slammed the ball into the roof of the net. (1-1) 37¹ A pin-point pass was collected by SAKA and his left foot effort raced narrowly wide. 42¹ GOAL!! A long ball from GVARDIOL had the Chelsea defence back-pedalling and VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR made the most of the opportunity with an exceptional goal. (2-1 Norwich City) 0² SAKA shot over. 3² HAALAND floated the ball to VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR who forced it just beyond the far post. 7² SAKA beat MORATA and placed the ball to BELLINGHAM who fired his effort wide. 8² A free-kick from KOUNDÉ went wide. 15² A lovely effort from KOVACIC scraped the woodwork. 23² DEADMAN books KOVACIC for dangerous play against BELLINGHAM. 26² SAKA rushed a simple chance. 28² WERNER worked the ball to GUENDOUZI, LUKAKU collected his cross and hoofed the ball within easy reach of the Norwich City 'keeper. 37² GOAL!! A free-kick was palmed away by the Norwich City 'keeper, MORATA was first to the loose ball and knocked the ball to LUKAKU to tuck in. (2-2)

Chelsea   League position: 12 Home league form: WWXW Overall league form: XWWLXXWL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Marcin BULKA 6  1 6  Gianluigi DONNARUMMA Kieran TRIPPIER 7  2 7  Jules KOUNDÉ Lewis HALL 7  3 8½ Josko GVARDIOL Mateo KOVACIC 7  4 7½ PEDRI Cesar AZPILICUETA 7  5 6½ Dayot UPAMECANO (c)THIAGO Emiliano SILVA 6  6 7  MARQUINHOS Mattéo GUENDOUZI 6½ 7 6½ RODRYGO Silva Noni MADUEKE 7½ 8 7  Jude BELLINGHAM(c,f) (p)Romelu LUKAKU 7  9 6½ Bukayo SAKA(p) (f)Álvaro MORATA 6  10 6  Erling HAALAND Timo WERNER 6½ 11 7½ VINÍCIUS José JÚNIOR Manager Chris GODDARD Olivier GIROUD    12    Florian WIRTZ Gabriel SLONINA    13    Thibaut COURTOIS Pierre-Emerick AUBAMEYANG    14    RODRI Malang SARR    15    Jamal MUSIALA Billy GILMOUR    16    Nicolò BARELLA

Norwich City   League position: 2 Away league form: WWWW Overall league form: WWWWWWXW Formation: 4-4-2

Statistics

Chelsea 2 Norwich City 2 (Half-time: 1-2, Attendance: 45,334, Stadium: Stamford Bridge, Referee: Darren Deadman 6) Madueke 28¹, Lukaku 37² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Haaland 19¹, Vinícius Júnior 42¹         Morata 4¹, Kovacic 23²   2 5 7 8 3 1 7 4 6 13 13 17 5 1 54% 46% ¶ Man of the match: Josko Gvardiol ¶