HITS THE WOODWORKpublished at 15:49 BST
Newcastle 1-0 Wolves
Oh my. Newcastle midfielder Sandro Tonali crashes a shot off the inside of the post from about 20 yards out. The keeper couldn't even move.
Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
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4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
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4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 9 |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
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4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
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4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 8 |
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4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
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4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
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4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
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4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
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4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 5 |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
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4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 4 |
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4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 4 |
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4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 4 |
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4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -5 | 4 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 3 |
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4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -7 | 3 |
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4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 2 |
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4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -7 | 0 |
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Manager: Keith Andrews
Formation: 5 - 3 - 2
Manager: Enzo Maresca
Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
Manager: Keith Andrews
Formation: 5 - 3 - 2
Manager: Enzo Maresca
Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
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Just one of the eight Premier League meetings between Brentford and Chelsea have been won by the home side (D3 L4), a 2-1 win for the Blues in December 2024.
Brentford have won three Premier League matches against Chelsea but all of them have been away from home – at home, they are winless in four against the Blues (D3 L1).
This is Chelsea’s fourth London derby in four Premier League matches this season, making them just the second side in Football League history to start a league campaign with four consecutive London derbies, after Crystal Palace in 2021-22. Having won their last two, the Blues could win three successive league derbies for the first time since February 2024 (run of 4).
After only losing two of their final 10 league games last season (W5 D3), Brentford have lost two of their first three in 2025-26 (W1). At home, though, the Bees have won three of their last four league games (L1).
Chelsea have won as many as two of their first three Premier League games for only the second time in the last seven seasons (also two out of three in 2021-22).
Brentford have lost three of their last five Premier League matches (W1 D1), as many as they’d lost in their previous 14 combined (W8 D3 L3).
Chelsea kept just four clean sheets in their first 26 Premier League games under Enzo Maresca but have since kept nine in their last 15, conceding only eight goals. Since the start of this clean sheet run (25 February), the Blues have the most clean sheets in the top-flight.
Enzo Fernández has been involved in 14 goals in his last 18 appearances in all competitions for Chelsea (5 goals, 9 assists). Since the start of last season, the only Premier League player with more assists in all competitions than Fernández (18) is Mohamed Salah (24).
Despite only playing 181 minutes in the Premier League this season, only one player has made more dribbles than Chelsea’s Estêvão (18). His nine against Fulham made him the youngest player on record (since 2006-07) with that many in a game for the Blues (18 years, 128 days) and youngest of any player since a 17-year-old Raheem Sterling for Liverpool vs Stoke in October 2012.
Brentford forward Igor Thiago has applied 132 high intensity pressures in the opposition half this season so far, 27 more than any other player, and he also leads the way high intensity pressures in the final third of the pitch (88).