Kai Havertz scored a brace to help Chelsea produce one of the comfortable football scores of the weekend in the Premier League. Reece James opened the scoring in the 47th minute before Havertz scored his first in the 52nd minute. He scored his second three minutes later before Christian Pulisic completed the scoring in the 69th minute.
Player ratings
Burnley: Pope (5), Roberts (6), Tarkowski (5), Collins (6), Taylor (6), Lennon (6), Brownhill (6), Westwood (6), McNeil (4), Rodriguez (5), Weghorst (5).
Subs: Cornet (6), Barnes (n/a).
Chelsea: Mendy (6), Chalobah (6), Thiago Silva (7), Rudiger (6), James (8), Jorginho (6), Kante (6), Saul (6), Mount (6), Pulisic (7), Havertz (8).
Subs: Kovacic (5), Werner (5), Loftus-Cheek (5).
Man of the Match: Reece James
Managers Reaction
Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel: “It was not the moment to do this. If we show solidarity, we show solidarity, we should do it together. We take the knee together. If an important person from our club or another club unfortunately dies, we show a minute of respect, it is not the moment to give other messages, it’s a moment to show respect. We do this because this is what we are, we show respect as a club, and we need our fans to commit to this minute of applause. We do it for Ukraine, there is no second opinion about the situation there.”
Burnley boss Sean Dyche: “You hope you’re not going to pay for it [for not taking our chances] but we did. We were excellent in the first half. The game plan we started out with was delivered by the players; we kept it nice and tight, the shape was excellent, they played around our shape and never broke us down. We had the best chances, one fell to Dwight [McNeil] which you hope will go in, but we were completely in the game at half-time.”
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