chelsea vs aston villa : Aston Villa toppled Chelsea at Stamford Bridge

The Villans also registered an eleventh successive success in all competitions, which allows them to remain three points behind Gunners and a unit of Manchester City (2nd), two victorious teams this weekend.

The blow is harsh for the Blues, who are expelled from the leading quartet by Liverpool.

Enzo Maresca’s men, who have won just one of their last five meetings, finished the match though, forgetting to wrap it up before the break.

Dominant from the start, the Londoners opened the scoring shortly after half an hour after Reece James’ corner was deflected very easily by Portugal’s Joao Pedro, the scorer of his sixth league goal of the season.

Forced back, Unai Emery’s men offered nothing offensively in the opening 45 minutes, starved of the ball by their opponents (71% possession for the Blues) who scored nine shots to none for the visitors.

The entry of Amadou Onana and Ollie Watkins woke him up though Villa which was equalized in time by the latter. And Watkins did it again in the 84th minute when he received a cross from Youri Tielemans to eliminate the Londoners who had completely lost track of the game in the last half hour.