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Commentary
GREALISH fired the ball through a ruck of players but the Stoke City 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
BOTMAN rifled a simple chance past the righthand post.
GREALISH flicked a right foot shot wide from just outside the area.
A wonderful save prevented SHAW from scoring an exceptional goal.
12¹A corner bobbled toward MADUEKE who flicked an effort over the bar.
24¹A header by MADUEKE at the near post was easily collected by BUTLAND.
24¹A fine ball from ETEBO on the right found MARTINS-INDI who mishit his shot wide.
26¹GOAL!! A shot from GREALISH flew through a crowd of players and bounced past the unsighted Stoke City 'keeper. (1-0 Chelsea)
28¹CAMPBELL beat MADUEKE and hit the ball to NGOY who hit his shot wide.
37¹A accurate pass found CASEMIRO and his right foot shot went narrowly over.
44¹A fine run was ended by a good save by the oncoming Stoke City 'keeper.
A penalty box scramble resulted in VLAHOVIC driving a low shot wide.
CASEMIRO made space on the left and touched the ball to GREALISH who rasped the ball wide.
10²A lovely effort from MARTINELLI scraped the upright.
12²GOAL!! A lovely set-piece enabled SHAQIRI to drive the ball into the back of the net. (1-1)
14²BUTLAND saved a beautiful shot from WILLIAMS.
16²MARTINELLI chipped the ball to VLAHOVIC who turned it wide.
33²VLAHOVIC shot over.
34²BUTLAND did well to hold onto a wicked strike from SHAW.
35²MARTINELLI's shot was well saved by BUTLAND.
40²GOAL!! A long shot from MARTINELLI deflected off the shins of BATTH and into his own net. (2-1 Chelsea)
46²GOAL!! After a useful build-up GREALISH drove a low shot past the 'keeper. (3-1 Chelsea)

 
Chelsea
 
League position: 20
Home league form: WLWW
Overall league form: LWLWWWXL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Roman BÜRKI1Jack BUTLAND(c)
George BALDOCK2Tom SPARROW
Luke SHAW3Bruno MARTINS-INDI
(c)Carlos CASEMIRO4Peter ETEBO
Benoît BADIASHILE5Ben WILMOT
Sven BOTMAN6Danny BATTH
Noni MADUEKE7Joe ALLEN
Jack GREALISH8Xherdan SHAQIRI
(p)Dusan VLAHOVIC9Julien NGOY(p)
(f)GONÇALO Matias RAMOS10Nathan LOWE(f)
Gabriel MARTINELLI11Tyrese CAMPBELL
Manager
ZANKA  12  Connor TAYLOR
Marcus BETTINELLI  13  Jack BONHAM
Dylan WILLIAMS14  Matt BAKER
Cody GAKPO15  Sam CLUCAS
Conor GALLAGHER  16  Nick POWELL
 
Stoke City
 
League position: 22
Away league form: LWLW
Overall league form: WLLWXLXL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Chelsea 3 Stoke City 1
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 42,431, Stadium: Stamford Bridge, Referee: Grant Hegley 7½)

Grealish 26¹, Batth 40² (og), Grealish 46²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Shaqiri 12²
MaduekeóWilliams 9², BotmanóGakpo 40² 
  
  
34
1816
58
131
123
254
90
55%45%
Man of the match: Luke Shaw