Chelsea continue their winning run as they secure their 6th consecutive Premier league win as they beat Crystal Palace in a one sided London derby on Saturday 09th November 2019. Chelsea manager Frank Lampard named the youngest ever starting Xi in Chelsea's premier league history with an average age of 24 years and 88 days which is the youngest by any team in the competition this season. The young guns surely dint let their manager down as they put up yet another impressive performance to secure all 3 points against an in form Crystal Palace . The match also marked the Premier league debut of 19 year old Chelsea right back Reece James who was brought in at the expense of Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta another absentee was Chelsea's vice captain Jorginho who was suspended after receiving his 5th yellow card of the season last weekend
Chelsea controlled the first half as Roy Hodgon's Crystal Palace failed to produce even a single shot at Chelsea's goal in the first half. Chelsea on the other hand did get close to scoring their first goal but were denied from a brilliant effort by their own former defender Garry Cahill who put his body on the line and threw himself in front of a close range shot from Willian. Chelsea took the lead in early minutes of the second half as Willian flicked a brilliant ball to Tammy Abraham in the Palace box who slotted it smoothly past Guaita to reach the figures in the Premier league Tammy now has 10 goals under his belt this campaign
Pulisic wrapped up the victory with a 79th minute header after Michy Batshuayi's shot was blocked and bounced up for the United States International who scored to bring up his first Chelsea goal at Stamford Bridge. Pulisic now has 5 goals in last 3 league games for Chelsea. Chelsea now sit 3rd on the table evenly matched with Leicester City who currently are at the no 2 spot and are only 5 points behind the table toppers Liverpool who face Manchester City in the biggest game of the weekend
A great game by Chelsea and coming to 2nd position .. Lampard showing why he's one of the great
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