The Blues took an early lead in the Saturday tea-time kick-off thanks to another Willian free-kick but could not build on the advantage. Pedro played the last stage of the game after replacing the Brazilian scorer on 64’.
Southampton levelled shortly before the interval through Steven Davies after what had been a fairly even first half and then had the better of the second period, going ahead on the hour and extending the lead on the break not long after. Sadio Mane and Graziano Pelle were the scorers.
Falcao was not given a penalty with the score 1-1 when the goalkeeper dived at his feet and made contact, Southampton having had an appeal of their own turned down earlier in the game, but Chelsea on the attack could not create the openings to turn this contest around, instead going down to our second home defeat of the season.
- Match stats:
Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Begovic; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry (c), Azpilicueta; Ramires (Matic h-t (Remy 74), Fabregas; Willian (Pedro 64), Oscar, Hazard; Falcao.
Unused subs Blackman, Baba, Zouma, Loftus-Cheek.
Scorer Willian 10,
Booked Ramires 43, Falcao 57.
Southampton (4-3-3): Stekelenburg; Soares, Fonte (c), Van Dijk, Bertrand; Romeu (Ward-Prowse h-t), S Davis, Wanyama; Mane (Yoshida 90+1), Pelle, Tadic (Rodriguez 77).
Unused subs K Davis, Martina, Long, Juanmi.
Scorers Davis 44, Mane 59, Pelle 73.
Booked Romeu 9, Bertrand 25, Mane 33, Ward-Prowse 78, Pelle 88.
Referee Bobby Madley
Crowd 41,642
- Match report by chelseafc.com
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