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Commentary
4¹A great shot from TOORNSTRA was dealt with by a fine parry from the Chelsea 'keeper.
7¹GÖTZE made space on the left and dragged the ball to PLÉA who rasped the ball wide.
13¹VENEMA beat RICARDO ESGAIO and blasted the ball to LINSSEN who fumbled his shot wide.
13¹HATEBOER receives a yellow card for a cynical foul.
16¹GOAL!! The creative CHALOBAH neatly touched on a cross for JOÃO PEDRO to blast the ball in. (1-0 Chelsea)
19¹BOUSSAID receives a yellow card by the referee for a cynical challenge.
21¹GOAL!! Chelsea were awarded a penalty after a foul on PLÉA and JIMÉNEZ put it past PAES sending him the wrong way. (2-0 Chelsea)
22¹A pin-point pass bobbled toward LINSSEN and his left foot shot raced narrowly over.
29¹A cynical tackle on VERTONGHEN by VENEMA results in a booking.
39¹WEGHORST headed wide.
43¹A good ball from VAN BEEK on the left bobbled toward LINSSEN who sliced his shot inches wide.
44¹A free-kick from JIMÉNEZ raced over.
46¹GOAL!! A long ball from SMAL had the Chelsea defence back-pedalling and BOOTH made the most of the opportunity with a lovely goal. (2-1 Chelsea)
5²WEGHORST beat two FC Utrecht players and blasted a golden opportunity wide.
6²A cross from JOÃO PEDRO left PLÉA in plenty of space but he scuffed his shot.
13²A shot from JIMÉNEZ was kicked off the line by SMAL.
14²A lovely effort from BOUSSAID scraped the woodwork.
23²The Chelsea 'keeper managed to palm clear a fierce effort.
26²WEGHORST dribbled away from BOOTH and stabbed a poor shot into the crowd.
29²ALVES AZEVEDO yellow cards PAES for a bad challenge.
30²GOAL!! A debatable penalty was awarded to Chelsea, after WARMERDAM had fouled JOÃO PEDRO which JIMÉNEZ comfortably converted. (3-1 Chelsea)
31²A refined cross from WARMERDAM was hit goalbound by LINSSEN only for the 'keeper to claw away.
35²A penalty box meleé resulted in JOÃO PEDRO cracking a low shot wide.
38²SMAL's header was well saved by MESLIER.
41²JOÃO PEDRO shot wide.

 
FC Utrecht
 
League position: 7
Home league form: WLWW
Overall league form: LWWLLWWW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Maarten PAES5 16 Illan MESLIER
Sean KLAIBER6½27 Trevoh CHALOBAH
Gijs SMAL6½38 Jan VERTONGHEN(c)
Django WARMERDAM6½48 Mario GÖTZE
Justin HOOGMA6½57 RICARDO de Sousa ESGAIO
Sven VAN BEEK5½66 Hans HATEBOER
(c)Jens TOORNSTRA7 77½Ricardo HORTA
Othmane BOUSSAID7 87 JOÃO PEDRO Junqueira
(p)Bryan LINSSEN6 97 Raúl JIMÉNEZ(p)
(f)Taylor BOOTH7 105½Wout WEGHORST(f)
Nick VENEMA6 116 Alassane PLÉA
Manager
Tommy JAGO  12  ANTONY Matheus
Fabian DE KEIJZER  13  Lucas BERGSTRÖM
Jean-Christophe BAHEBECK  14  Billy GILMOUR
Hidde TER AVEST  157½WILLIAM Silva CARVALHO
Moussa SYLLA  16  Héctor JUNIOR FIRPO
 
Chelsea
 
League position: 20
Away league form: LXXL
Overall league form: LXOXWLLX
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
FC Utrecht 1 Chelsea 3
(Half-time: 1-2, Attendance: 23,644, Stadium: De Galgenwaard, Referee: Fortunato Alves Azevedo 8)

Booth 46¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
João Pedro 16¹, Jiménez 21¹ (pen), Jiménez 30² (pen)
 ChalobahóWilliam Carvalho 20²
  
Boussaid 19¹, Venema 29¹, Paes 29²Hateboer 13¹
31
128
05
54
48
912
41
48%52%
Man of the match: Jan Vertonghen