Chelsea chasing record 13th straight win in a single season
Blues have 10 clean sheets in past 12 matches
Chelsea 4-2 Stoke
The Blues equal the top-flight record of 13 consecutive wins in a single season, emulating Preston North End and Sunderland in 1891-92, and Arsenal in 2001-02.
What a thriller it was at Stamford Bridge!
Chelsea 4-2 Stoke
Three minutes of it.
Eden Hazard almost finds Lee Grant far left corner, but he doesn't.
Diego Costa
He's finally got the goal he deserves.
The Spain striker picks up Charlie Adam's wayward attempted defensive header in the area.
He outmuscles Bruno Martins Indi and fires an angled shot past Lee Grant.
Diego Costa has been truly brilliant today.
Image source, ReutersChelsea 3-2 Stoke
Glen Johnson, rampant down the right, plays a delivery into the area intended for Peter Crouch, but Cesar Azpilicueta gets a foot to it just before the tall striker can net his second.
Crouch would have put that away, surely.
How will this one end?
Nathaniel Chalobah comes on for Blues' goal-hero (at the moment) Willian.
Chelsea 3-2 Stoke
...who gives it away to Willian.
The double-goalscorer sprays it to the other wing where Eden Hazard is.
The Belgian then feeds Diego Costa, who with just the keeper to beat fires his shot over the bar.
The Spain forward deserves a goal today.
Chelsea 3-2 Stoke
Corner for Stoke.
Crouch is there, of course.
Chelsea 3-2 Stoke
Nemanja Matic comes on for the excellent Cesc Fabregas.
Two assists fantasy fans.
Chelsea 3-2 Stoke
Trevor Sinclair
Ex-Man City & West Ham winger on Final Score
So disappointing for Stoke after Crouch's goal.
To react like that from Chelsea encapsulates everything that Antonio Conte's management is about. That never-say-die spirit.
What an excellent reaction from Willian, who I think was their best player last season.
Image source, ReutersChelsea 3-2 Stoke
Pat Nevin
Ex-Chelsea winger at Stamford Bridge for 5 live Sport
Stoke have worked so, so hard. They have always kept chasing, and at no stage have they ever looked like giving up.
But it's extraordinary how Chelsea seem to be able to turn it on just when they need to turn it on. After the second Stoke equaliser, Chelsea suddenly opted to step it up by a couple of gears. Hazard took on a few players then Willian had it laid on a plate for him.
Nothing now would be a surprise in this game, even Stoke scoring again.
Willian
How many seconds?
Cesc Fabregas plays in Willian on the right of the area. The Brazilian wallops his angled shot past keeper Lee Grant - who I expect is probably sick of seeing the ball up close.
The Blues back in front.
I've been here before this season. This finishes 5-4 doesn't it?
Image source, ReutersPeter Crouch
Peter Crouch had not scored in the league since May 2015.
He has now, obviously.
Chelsea's defence make a mess of things on the edge of the area. The newly-arrived Bojan plays in Mame Biram Diouf on the right whose square pass in finished off high into the net by the former England striker..
Image source, ReutersChelsea 2-1 Stoke
Stoke's Bojan and Giannelli Imbula come on for Xherdan Shaqiri and Ibrahim Afellay.
Seconds later Diego Costa has a pop from 20 yards.
Chelsea 2-1 Stoke
Pat Nevin
Ex-Chelsea winger at Stamford Bridge for 5 live Sport
The ball laid back by Eden Hazard was genius, 10/10. It was such deftness of touch. That is an exceptional team goal.
Image source, ReutersWillian
They don't do that panic thing do they?
Victor Moses twists and turns in the area before playing the ball to Eden Hazard whose one-touch lay-off finds Willian who arrows his shot past Lee Grant.
A simple yet brilliant move.
Chelsea 1-1 Stoke
Diego Costa is a such a beautiful player to watch in full flight.
His lovely reverse flick on the right finds Eden Hazard whose low square ball is a cut out again by Stoke.
Chelsea 1-1 Stoke
Chelsea seek a swift response.
A Blues free-kick comes off the head of Charlie Adam.
The resulting corner is cleared but eventually Willian picks up the ball and fires a low angled drive that narrowly drifts past Lee Grant's right-hand upright.
Moments later, Lee Grant dives low to cut out Diego Costa's square ball.
Chelsea 1-1 Stoke
Trevor Sinclair
Ex-Man City & West Ham winger on Final Score
Bruno Martins Indi did brilliantly to open his ankle up - if I did that I'd end up in A&E because it'd snap!
Image source, Getty ImagesChelsea 1-1 Stoke
Pat Nevin
Ex-Chelsea winger at Stamford Bridge for 5 live Sport
The most likely way Stoke were going to score was going to be a good delivery, probably something from Charlie Adam.
I think Courtois could have come for that but he didn't, and now the visitors are level. And you know what? 1-1 if probably a fair reflection of the balance of this game.
Bruno Martins Indi
Yes, Bruno Martins Indi.
Charlie Adam floats the free-kick from the left into the area.
Peter Crouch is there to do what Peter Crouch does best and nod the ball down into the 'danger area', finding the Dutch defender, who fires in his first for the club.
Cripes! And double cripes!
Chelsea 1-0 Stoke
Stoke win an early free-kick on the left after Cesar Azpilicueta trips Charlie Adam...