Chelsea vs Watford result: Loftus-Cheek, Luiz and Higuain score as Chelsea beat Watford
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Your support makes all the difference.Chelsea hosted Watford in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon.
The Blues have their Champions League chances firmly in their own hands after they battled to a deserved win over the Hornets at Stamford Bridge. A tepid first-half was put behind them in the second with Ruben Loftus-Cheek, David Luiz and Gonzalo Higuain all scoring to move Maurizio Sarri's side up to third above Tottenham and Arsenal in the race for the top four.
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73 minutes
My word - that's a miss and a half.
Just the man you'd want, too, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang all of seven yards out, completely unmarked as the ball deflects his way.
Acrobatically he cycles the legs Paulo Di Canio-style to hit it firmly and you think the net is moments from building but he somehow manages to arrow it wide.
Arsenal are preparing THREE changes.
75 minutes
But will they need to bring them on?
Alexandre Lacazette wins another corner. It feels like a matter of time...
76 minutes
Solly March's concedes another, but Shane Duffy is up well to meet it.
Here comes the horde...
78 minutes
Brighton will make a change, too.
Arsenal: Kolasinac, Guendouzi, Iwobi on; Lichtsteiner, Xhaka, Mkhitaryan off
Brighton: Andone on; Murray off
80 minutes
The clock ticks past 80 minutes.
Those Arsenal changes came at completely the wrong time, with all the momentum they had build now completely lost.
Ten minutes and stoppage time to find a winner and keep their Champions League from being all but dead.
81 minutes
A driven low cross from Alex Iwobi, a slash at the ball from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang that strikes nothing but air.
83 minutes
Matteo Guendouzi is booked as he grabs hold of the ball after going down under insufficient contact to earn a free kick.
84 minutes
And Shkodran Mustafi follows his teammate into the book after getting in Anthony Taylor's face, aggrieved that a foul was not lien as Yves Bissouma fires well over the bar.
85 minutes
How has that stayed out???
Arsenal have survived, somehow.
The ball flies across the goal in both directions, initially a magnificent diving stop from Bernd Leno denying a brilliant diving header from Solly March, before Pascal Gross somehow managed to hook the ball away from goal from just three yards with goal agape.
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