Aston Villa vs Chelsea LIVE: Premier League updates

16 minutes: Chelsea defend the nook simply sufficient after which sweep down the left wing. The Blues have targeted their early assaults from the vast areas as Villa have a compact defensive form leaving house on the wings. Alonso places a cross into the field however Villa come away with the ball.

13 minutes: Morgan Sanson and Marcos Alonso get right into a tussle on Villa’s proper aspect. Alonso loses the ball and tries to win it again however bundles the Aston Villa man over within the course of.

Villa work the free kick into Buendia who flicks an aerial cross into the field for Ings. He brings the ball down and shoots however Thiago is there once more to dam it behind for a nook.

10 minutes: Likelihood! Buendia wins the ball simply inside his personal half and Villa sweep ahead on the counter-attack. Watkins and Ings are in entrance of him and he slides Watkins into the left aspect of the field. Ings breaks away from Thiago Silva however the Chelsea defender intercepts the cross because it comes throughout.

6 minutes: Douglas Luiz shifts the ball round Trevoh Chalobah who mistimes his sort out and takes out the Aston Villa man.

Chelsea win the ball and ship Reece James ahead on the fitting wing. He performs it inside to Antonio Rudiger who works it throughout the pitch to Marcos Alonso. Alonso sends a cross into the field and Douglas Luiz places it out of play.

3 minutes: It’s been a optimistic begin from Aston Villa. They’re passing the ball round confidently and getting caught into the midfield battle. Olliw Watkins wins the ball inside Chelsea’s half and the ball comes unfastened to Danny Ings. He knocks it over to Buendia who slides a cross into the field however it’s too far-off from Ings as he runs in behind and Mendy involves scoop up the ball.

Kick off: Chelsea get the match underway at Villa Park. Thye knock the ball into midfield however lose possession to the Villa press. The house aspect work the ball again to Emi Martinez who fires a ball over to Matty Money on the fitting wing. He performs it to Emiliano Buendia who shifts inside and slots a cross over to the other wing for Matt Targett. The left-back will get up the pitch and swings a cross into the Chelsea field however sends it straight into the fingers of Edouard Mendy.

Right here come the groups. Chelsea have to win after drawing 0-0 with Wolves final day trip. At the beginning of the sport they path Manchester Metropolis by 9 factors and if they’ve any probability of lifting the Premier League title on the finish of the season they will’t afford to drop too far behind the leaders.

Chelsea haven’t misplaced a Boxing Day league recreation outdoors of London since a 2-0 defeat at Notts County in 1991.

Although they’ve dropped seven factors from successful positions of their final eight Premier League video games.

Six of the 12 Premier League targets conceded by Chelsea this season have come through set-pieces

That Manchester Metropolis spent the ultimate jiffy trying to find a sixth aim to safe the three factors – and ultimately discovered it – nearly sums this recreation up.

This 6-3 victory was the highest-scoring Boxing Day recreation within the English prime flight for 30 years and, therefore, essentially the most gluttonous of the Premier League period. A depleted Leicester Metropolis had been first obliterated, then revived themselves, solely to be obliterated over again.

Aston Villa have received three successive Boxing Day fixtures, their longest run since 5 victories in a row between 1908 and 1913.

However they’ve misplaced 20 Premier League fixtures in 2021. Solely Newcastle United and Southampton, with 21 defeats every, have fared worse.

They’ve misplaced all 5 video games this season versus groups within the prime 5 of the desk.