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Full-Time: Chelsea 2-0 Newcastle.
17.40 – After a quiet opening, Newcastle give the ball away and Torres bears down on goal. He pulls it back to Mikel but he skies his effort.
17.47 – Hazard shoots from the edge of the Newcastle penalty area but it wasn’t anything for Tim Krul to worry about.
18.00 – Another interesting one…
Hazard is the first man, apart from Frank Lampard or Didier Drogba, to score for Chelsea from the penalty spot since Michael Ballack in 2008. Excluding penalty shootouts.
18.04 – A smart header from the edge of the box by Ivanovic, who has already scored twice this season, but Krul saves well.
We haven’t seen much from Newcastle going forward yet, in that we haven’t really seen anything.
18.37 – We’re back, and no substitutions at half-time.
19.30 – As the rain just gets worse, the referee blows it up.
The second half failed to match the quality of the first but Chelsea are far removed from the functional teams of the past. Hazard and Mata, behind Torres, will be the envy of many teams over the season and the Belgian has already been a revelation.
That’s it from me, we’ll be back tomorrow for Stoke v Arsenal and Liverpool v Man City…
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