Burnley’s Matej Vydra stuns league leaders Chelsea with late equaliser

06-Nov-2021 17:14:57 | The Guardian

This was the moment when Romelu Lukaku’s absence with a twisted ankle caught up with Chelsea. The game could hardly have been more one-sided and yet Thomas Tuchel’s side somehow found a way to blow it, their profligacy punished when Matej Vydra came off the bench to burgle a late point for Sean Dyche’s defiant Burnley side.

The frustration was immense for Tuchel, who knew that his side only had themselves to blame. Chelsea finished with 25 shots, seven of them coming inside the first 15 minutes alone, but only one of them went past Burnley’s goalkeeper, Nick Pope. Callum Hudson-Odoi, Ross Barkley and Kai Havertz were guilty of some poor misses and the longer it stayed 1-0, the likelier it became that Burnley would find a way to make the European champions pay for failing to make the most of their dominance.