Antonio Conte’s side have gone four points clear at the top of the Premier League after an impressive comeback win at the Etihad Stadium despite their defender’s blunder on the …
Diego Costa, Willian and Eden Hazard struck for Chelsea to fire them to a 3-1 Premier League win at Manchester City on Saturday, cancelling out Gary Cahill’s spectacular own goal in the first half.
The 30-year-old had unwittingly opened the scoring for Pep Guardiola’s men right on the stroke of half-time, acrobatically vollying Jesus Navas’s cross into his own net.
Cesc Fabregas, starting a league match for just the second time this season in the absence of the injured Nemanja Matic, evoked memories of Chelsea’s title-winning 2014-15 season when he played a stunning long ball from which Costa scored his 11th league goal of the campaign to restore parity.
Chelsea then completed the turnaround with 20 minutes remaining thanks to Willian’s cool finish from a brilliant Blues counter-attack.
Hazard then added late gloss to the scoreline for Chelsea, before the contest ended in ugly circumstances as Sergio Aguero saw red for a dreadful lunge on David Luiz, with Fernandinho also dismissed for his role in the resulting melee.
In a high-octane opening David Silva saw a penalty claim for handball against a sliding Cahill waved away, while at the other end Eden Hazard bent a shot just past the right post from 20 yards after good work from Pedro.
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