Chelsea vs Burnley Live: Chelsea vs Burnley
Chelsea vs Burnley, Premier League: live score and goal updates.Chelsea vs Burnley in the Premier League kicks off at 8pm on Sky One, Sky Sports Premier League, Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Ultra HD.
Really enjoyable performance from Brentford just now, sending Leeds back oop north with a flea in their ear. Or a bee I suppose. Anyway, they won 2-0 and it'll be a long trudge home for those Leeds fans. Also in West London this evening: Chelsea. They take on a Northern visitor of their own, in the shape of Burnley, and will be thinking that nothing other than three points will do.
Eden Hazard - despite his ankles getting their customry battering in midweek - starts for Chelsea. Callum Hudson-Odoi, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Gonzalo Higuain and Jorginho all return to the starting XI:
It is knocking on for five years since Chelsea first crossed paths with Sean Dyche-era Burnley.
On a genuinely balmy August evening at Turf Moor in 2014, despite Scott Arfield rudely opening the scoring, Jose Mourinho's champions elect - recently reinforced with the deluxe double signing of Cesc Fabregas and Diego Costa - applied their hot knife to Burnley's butter.
On a genuinely balmy August evening at Turf Moor in 2014, despite Scott Arfield rudely opening the scoring, Jose Mourinho's champions elect - recently reinforced with the deluxe double signing of Cesc Fabregas and Diego Costa - applied their hot knife to Burnley's butter.
Chelsea cruised through the first 14 games of that season unbeaten - winning 11 - and went on to secure Mourinho's third Premier League title by a comfortable eight points from Manchester City. Burnley, still very much wet behind the top-flight ears, were relegated.
Since then, any hopes the Stamford Bridge faithful might have had of sustained domestic success have gone up in a cloud of intermittently acrimonious smoke. Out went Mourinho, during the astonishingly bad title defence of 2015/16. His replacement Antonio Conte won the title at the first attempt, from which we now had learned the only way was down.
Methods were questioned, tools were downed, text messages were sent, and Chelsea were on the hunt for yet another manager.
All that time, Sean Dyche was grafting away in Lancashire, moulding Burnley into a consistent Premier League irritant, a team of short-sleeved nightclub bouncers who didn't care what your name was because you weren't coming in anyway. By 2017/18, he had scaled the heights of seventh, just two places behind Chelsea.
Since then, any hopes the Stamford Bridge faithful might have had of sustained domestic success have gone up in a cloud of intermittently acrimonious smoke. Out went Mourinho, during the astonishingly bad title defence of 2015/16. His replacement Antonio Conte won the title at the first attempt, from which we now had learned the only way was down.
Methods were questioned, tools were downed, text messages were sent, and Chelsea were on the hunt for yet another manager.
All that time, Sean Dyche was grafting away in Lancashire, moulding Burnley into a consistent Premier League irritant, a team of short-sleeved nightclub bouncers who didn't care what your name was because you weren't coming in anyway. By 2017/18, he had scaled the heights of seventh, just two places behind Chelsea.
Power shift? No chance. Burnley have stagnated this season and - despite an upturn in form since the New Year - sit down in 15th. Maurizio Sarri has taken all sort of flak for eight months but, with a win tonight, could take Chelsea into third.
We certainly haven't come full circle - Chelsea are not as effortless as 2014, nor are Burnley as naive - but the Premier League has a habit of restoring its order in the end. Team news, then, for Chelsea 0 Burnley 1 (Barnes, 72) will be on the way shortly...
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