From Stamford Bridge - It's no longer often that you're feeling obliged to label a 1-0 win 'a battering', but that was destined to be the case with Chelsea a goal beforehand with ten minutes last against Burnley on Saturday.
Chelsea had clearly pummelled their combatants during, with just the goals lacking in a replica performance of the 7-0 drubbing of Norwich of their closing home healthy.
The onslaught began from minute one. In the outlet exchanges, Callum Hudson-Odoi saw his initial shot well saved by using Nick Pope earlier than flashing the rebound simply huge. Kai Havertz then drew some other satisfactory prevent from Pope simply moments later, and from the resulting nook Andreas Christensen sent a header just huge.
Chelsea had been inside the temper, and after Ross Barkley and Antonio Rudiger had each come inside inches of scoring, they unavoidably took the lead while Havertz rose unmarked to meet Reece James' perfect shipping.
At half of-time the fit had all of the hallmarks of a Stamford Bridge thrashing, and although the house aspect didn't convey the identical depth in attack after the spoil, they nevertheless created gilt-edged possibilities to double the lead.
Thiago Silva's header flicked the outdoor of the submit and Havertz popped up in the center of the box once more, however this time lifted his shot over. With the host's ultimate simple chance, Callum Hudson-Odoi couldn't find the corners as Pope once again got within the manner all over again.
With 79 minutes at the clock it regarded as even though it might ought to be one of those occasions where one aim was enough. Time to see out the win. But lo and behold, the Blues had been caught cold and Matej Vydra popped as much as package home from near range to degree.
Chelsea tried to rally, however a winner became now not impending.
It feels harsh to criticise Thomas Tuchel's facet due to the fact had they visible out the win, this would have been hailed as another complete overall performance - albeit minus the desires.
Chelsea finished the match with 25 photographs to Burnley's five - despite the fact that simplest four of these had been on course - and a whopping 70% share of possession.
