Chelsea vs Burnley (2-2)
Chelsea lost N’Golo Kante associate degreed Callum Hudson-Odoi to injury as they suffered a chance to travel third within the Premier League in a diverting 2-2 draw against Burnley at Stamford Bridge.
Maurizio Sarri’s men were hoping to retrieve from a 2-0 defeat to Liverpool in their previous top-hole outing however they born points all over again and will be facing critical games against Manchester United and Eintracht Frankfurt on the Main while not Kante.
Burnley – still nonetheless to verify their survival – went ahead through Jeff Hendrick early, and though Kante and Gonzalo Higuain saw Chelsea flip things around within the area of 2 minutes, Ashley Barnes pegged them back in associate degree entrancing half.
Chelsea did abundant of the offensive once the interval, however, Sarri – World Health Organization was far from the aspect lines in stoppage time – saw his side fail to form the foremost of top-four rivals Tottenham, Arsenal, and United losing at the weekend.
Burnley edged ahead just eight minutes into an exhilarating half once Hendrick sent a fine volley into the bottom-right corner, however the Blues fleetly equal due to Kante’s left-footed effort into the roof of the web once excellent work from Eden Hazard.
A brilliant move within the ordinal minute saw Higuain score for the first time since March three, grooving in off the crossbar from a right angle following Cesar Azpilicueta’s clever flick.
However, Burnley rehabilitated parity ten minutes later once Barnes fast on to Chris Wood’s glancing header.
Having lost Hudson-Odoi late within the half to a plain shin drawback, Kante was unable to return out for the period of play thanks to an according to a back injury.
Chelsea still looked cohesive going forward and nearly retook the lead within the 51st minute.
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Goals Chelsea
| 12′ | Chelsea | N. Kante |
| 14′ | Chelsea | G. Higuain |
Goals Burnley
| 8′ | Burnley | J. Hendrick |
| 24′ | Burnley | A. Barnes |
Chelsea Lineups
| 1 | Kepa Arrizabalaga |
| 28 | César Azpilicueta |
| 27 | Andreas Christensen |
| 30 | David Luiz |
| 33 | Emerson Palmieri |
| 7 | N’Golo Kanté |
| 5 | Jorginho |
| 12 | Ruben Loftus-Cheek |
| 20 | Callum Hudson-Odoi |
| 9 | Gonzalo Higuaín |
| 10 | Eden Hazard |
Burnley Lineups
| 1 | Tom Heaton |
| 2 | Matthew Lowton |
| 5 | James Tarkowski |
| 6 | Ben Mee |
| 3 | Charlie Taylor |
| 13 | Jeff Hendrick |
| 18 | Ashley Westwood |
| 4 | Jack Cork |
| 31 | Dwight McNeil |
| 10 | Ashley Barnes |
| 11 | Chris Wood |
Chelsea – Burnley Match Statistics
Chelsea |
Burnley |
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| 22 | Shots Total | 6 |
| 9 | Shots on goal | 3 |
| 8 | Shots off goal | 2 |
| 5 | Shots blocked | 1 |
| 12 | Shots inside box | 4 |
| 10 | Shots outside box | 2 |
| 9 | Fouls | 4 |
| 9 | Corners | 1 |
| 1 | Offsides | 2 |
| 1 | Saves | 6 |
| 76% | Possession Time | 24% |
| 676 | Passes Total | 217 |
| 590 | Accurate Passes | 131 |
| 87% | Accurate Passes% | 60% |
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— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) April 22, 2019