Chelsea v West Ham LIVE: Premier League result and reaction as own goal gives Blues narrow win
Chelsea 2-1 West Ham: Neto’s rebound and Wan-Bissaka’s deflection from a Cole Palmer cross gave the Blues a win that moved them into fourth
Chelsea beat West Ham 2-1 in the Premier League on Monday night as Enzo Maresca’s side returned to the Champions League places.
The hosts started the brighter of the two sides as Noni Madueke and Enzo Fernandez spurned chances, with West Ham more than happy to sit back and wait to pounce on Chelsea mistakes.
And they did exactly that as Levi Colwill’s pass back towards goal went straight into the path of an unmarked Jarrod Bowen, who was clean through and arrowed a low finish past Filip Jorgensen.
The second half started with chances for both sides, but it was Enzo Maresca’s changes that paid off as Pedro Neto rifled in after pinball in the box.
From there, Chelsea were in the ascendancy, peppering the West Ham area before Cole Palmer’s cross took a cruel deflection off Aaron Wan-Bissaka, taking it into the back of the West Ham net to move the Blues back into the Premier League’s top four.
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Chelsea 1-1 West Ham
68 mins
A late sliding challenge from Fernandez means he’s given a yellow card. Palmer is also booked for dissent.
From the free-kick, it breaks to Kudus, whose effort is deflected over for a corner.
GOAL GIVEN! Chelsea 1-1 West Ham
67 mins
The check was due to a potential touch from Guiu knocking it into the path of Cucurella, but it’s cleared and the hosts are level!
GOAL! Chelsea 1-1 West Ham
64 mins
GOAL! And the hosts have the equaliser!
It’s swept wide to Neto, who plays a great cross to the back post that Cucurella manages to keep alive. He knocks it back in to Enzo, who takes it down and forces a save from Areola.
The ball bounces back out to Neto, and he rifles it in past a couple of bodies for 1-1!
But hang on, there’s a potential offside against Cucurella...
Chelsea 0-1 West Ham
61 mins
Boos from the home crowd as Tosin hesitates on the ball. There were few options ahead of him, to be fair.
Chelsea make two more changes, as Reece James and Noni Madueke come off for Malo Gusto and Christopher Nkunku.
Chelsea 0-1 West Ham
58 mins
A cheeky effort from the free-kick from Cresswell. He spots Jorgensen off his line, anticipating the cross, and hits an early effort that goes wide of the near post.
Moments later, a marauding run into the box from Bowen ends with him receiving the one-two pass before firing a shot into the bodies in the box.
Chelsea 0-1 West Ham
56 mins
Some groans around the ground as Caicedo fouls Soler - James is booked after making the initial foul, having given away possession.
It’s still not clicking in attack for Chelsea at the moment.
Chelsea 0-1 West Ham
54 mins
West Ham are still looking dangerous on the counter, as evidenced by Wan-Bissaka getting forward and clipping in a cross that Chelsea struggle to deal with. Bowen just couldn’t quite get the shot away.
Chelsea 0-1 West Ham
52 mins
Some early changes for the hosts as Pedro Neto and Marc Guiu come on for Jadon Sancho and Nicolas Jackson.
Chelsea 0-1 West Ham
49 mins
Chelsea have tried to inject some early pace into the attack so far, though Madueke is the latest to be dispossessed when attempting a dribble into the box.
Moments later, Palmer sees a tame effort deflected away.
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