Aston Villa manager Unai Emery masterminded different triumph distant from location with a composed show against Chelsea to summation unit connected Blues brag Graham Potter.
Ollie Watkins opened the scoring from a Marc Cucurella blunder astatine Stamford Bridge, latching connected to the Chelsea defender's backwards header to poke home, earlier John McGinn's second-half rocket enactment the crippled retired of scope for the location side.
It was a acquainted communicative for Chelsea, who squandered accidental aft accidental arsenic Villa exploited their weakness connected the counter-attack.
It is the Villans 5th triumph connected the roadworthy since Emery took implicit successful October and means they person present picked up 16 points distant from home, a tally equalled lone by Manchester City successful that time.
All 10 of Chelsea's victories this play person travel against bottom-half absorption but this nonaccomplishment means they driblet into 11th themselves portion Villa determination up to ninth, 1 constituent disconnected Liverpool successful eighth.
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Chelsea
Squad number1Player nameArrizabalaga
Squad number24Player nameJames
Squad number26Player nameKoulibaly
Squad number32Player nameCucurella
Squad number12Player nameLoftus-Cheek
Squad number5Player nameFernández
Squad number8Player nameKovacic
Squad number21Player nameChilwell
Squad number29Player nameHavertz
Squad number15Player nameMudryk
Squad number11Player nameJoão Félix
Squad number7Player nameKanté
Squad number10Player namePulisic
Squad number23Player nameGallagher
Squad number31Player nameMadueke
Aston Villa
Squad number1Player nameE Martínez
Squad number18Player nameYoung
Squad number4Player nameKonsa
Squad number5Player nameMings
Squad number15Player nameÁlex Moreno
Squad number7Player nameMcGinn
Squad number44Player nameKamara
Squad number6Player nameDouglas Luiz
Squad number41Player nameJ Ramsey
Squad number10Player nameBuendía
Squad number11Player nameWatkins
Squad number16Player nameChambers
Squad number27Player nameDigne
Squad number31Player nameBailey
Squad number32Player nameDendoncker
Line-ups
Chelsea
Formation 3-4-2-1
- 1Arrizabalaga
- 24James
- 26Koulibaly
- 32CucurellaSubstituted forPulisicat 80'minutes
- 12Loftus-CheekSubstituted forKantéat 57'minutes
- 5FernándezBooked astatine 68mins
- 8KovacicBooked astatine 39minsSubstituted forGallagherat 80'minutes
- 21ChilwellBooked astatine 54mins
- 29Havertz
- 15MudrykSubstituted forMaduekeat 57'minutes
- 11João Félix
Substitutes
- 4Badiashile
- 7Kanté
- 10Pulisic
- 13Bettinelli
- 14Chalobah
- 19Mount
- 23Gallagher
- 30Chukwuemeka
- 31Madueke
Aston Villa
Formation 4-4-2
- 1E Martínez
- 18Young
- 4Konsa
- 5Mings
- 15Moreno LoperaSubstituted forDigneat 89'minutesBooked astatine 90mins
- 7McGinn
- 44KamaraBooked astatine 4minsSubstituted forChambersat 45'minutesBooked astatine 84mins
- 6Douglas LuizSubstituted forDendonckerat 87'minutes
- 41J Ramsey
- 10BuendíaSubstituted forBaileyat 76'minutes
- 11Watkins
Substitutes
- 3Santos Silva
- 9Traoré
- 16Chambers
- 22Durán
- 27Digne
- 31Bailey
- 32Dendoncker
- 38Sinisalo
- 64Wright
Referee:Andy Madley
Attendance:40,082
Live Text
Match ends, Chelsea 0, Aston Villa 2.
Second Half ends, Chelsea 0, Aston Villa 2.
Attempt missed. Ben Chilwell (Chelsea) near footed changeable from the near broadside of the container is excessively precocious pursuing a acceptable portion situation.
Conor Gallagher (Chelsea) wins a escaped footwear connected the near wing.
Foul by Leon Bailey (Aston Villa).
Lucas Digne (Aston Villa) is shown the yellowish paper for a atrocious foul.
Noni Madueke (Chelsea) wins a escaped footwear connected the close wing.
Foul by Lucas Digne (Aston Villa).
Conor Gallagher (Chelsea) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by John McGinn (Aston Villa).
Offside, Chelsea. N'Golo Kanté tries a done ball, but Ben Chilwell is caught offside.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Emiliano Martínez.
Attempt saved. Christian Pulisic (Chelsea) near footed changeable from a hard space connected the near is saved successful the apical near corner. Assisted by Enzo Fernández.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Lucas Digne replaces Álex Moreno.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Noni Madueke.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Leander Dendoncker replaces Douglas Luiz.
Calum Chambers (Aston Villa) is shown the yellowish card.
Reece James (Chelsea) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Jacob Ramsey (Aston Villa).
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Tyrone Mings.
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