Spoilt for years with their envious collection of silverware, outsiders have told Chelsea to stomach a year in transition. There were six changes from the defeat to Dortmund, as Benoit Badiashile, Noni Madueke and David Fofana, all ineligible midweek, started. Ward-Prowse gleefully accepted, viciously whipping the ball up and over the wall and into the bottom left corner. Joao Felix’s injury-time free-kick was beaten away by Bazunu and Mara even threatened a second with a breakaway run. But after 12 desperate minutes of injury time, Chelsea ran out of ideas and now sit 23 points behind leaders Arsenal, while Southampton have renewed hope of survival.
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