/Chelsea vs Aston Villa LIVE: Team news, line-ups and more ahead of Premier League fixture today

Chelsea vs Aston Villa LIVE: Team news, line-ups and more ahead of Premier League fixture today

Lampard looking forward to seeing fans again

Chelsea welcome Aston Villa to Stamford Bridge in the Premier League this afternoon as the Blues look to get back on track after three defeats in their last four top-flight outings.

Aston Villa, meanwhile, are in fine form, with three wins and one draw in their last four games – two of those victories coming in spite of going down to 10 men, and all four results carrying clean sheets. Dean Smith’s men were 3-0 winners in their last two outings and will bring a lot of confidence into this clash against a stumbling Chelsea outfit.

This fixture marks one of two games in hand for Villa, who will move to within one point of Liverpool if they can win both of those matches.

Follow live updates from the Premier League meeting below after Crystal Palace vs Leicester.

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5’: Early corner for Chelsea is headed on target by Antonio Rudiger.

Bright start to the game.

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Crystal Palace’s Wilfried Zaha has also given his thoughts on the game:

“The last couple of games have been tough for us so we worked hard today and I’ll take a point,”  Zaha tells Amazon. “I’m not trying to think about scoring too much, just playing well. I play with passion, others might see it as anger but I just I love what I do.”

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Leicester goalscorer Harvey Barnes has commented on the game:

“In the first half we didn’t create a lot of chances but I felt after they scored it was coming,” says Barnes. “We created a lot more chances in the second half but we just couldn’t put them away. We’re not leaving here satisfied because we want to win every game. We’ve given ourselves a good platform for the new year.”

Emmet Gates28 December 2020 17:18

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Villa’s last win came at Villa Park in March 2014.

Fabian Delph got the winner in a 1-0 win.

Since then it’s been nothing but defeats for Villa.

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Games between these two have been majorly one sided in the last decade.

Villa have only beaten Chelsea twice in the last 14 fixtures.

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Who remembers this classic between the two sides over the Christmas period in 2007/08?

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Coming up in 30 minutes we will have coverage of Chelsea’s clash against Aston Villa.

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