Bournemouth vs Chelsea LIVE! Premier League result, match stream, latest updates today

Bournemouth vs Chelsea LIVE!

Chelsea substitute Christopher Nkunku struck in the 86th minute to secure a 1-0 victory at Bournemouth in a game littered with a Premier League record 14 yellow cards on Saturday.

Bournemouth twice struck the woodwork and Evanilson had a first-half penalty saved by Robert Sanchez.

But Chelsea finished the game strongly and Nkunku, who came on in the 79th minute, slotted home from close range to make it two away wins out of two for the London side.

Chelsea moved up to seventh with seven points from four games, while Bournemouth are 11th with five points.

Bournemouth vs Chelsea latest updates

• GOAL! Super-sub Nkunku with late strike

• PENALTY SAVE! Sanchez denies Evanilson

Full-time!

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96min: Chelsea hold on for a big win.

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95min: A big save from Sanchez at the death!

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91min: Six minutes added on.

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88min: Huge roar from Colwill as he blocks a shot.

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87min: Veiga booked for celebrating in the crowd!

GOAL!

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86min: Nkunku off the bench and looks to have won it for the Blues!

He holds off tackles inside the area to slot home at the far post after collecting Sancho’s pass on the turn.

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82min: Cucurella, who has been booked, goes through the back of a Bournemouth player - but no second yellow card.

That looked worse than most of the other bookings!

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81min: Senesi is booked for a late challenge on Felix.

That’s yellow card no13.

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79min: Another roll of the dice from Maresca as Nkunku replaces Jackson with 11 minutes to play.

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78min: A fantastic pass from Colwill is just about picked up by Felix in the area, but Senesi does enough to put him off to send him away from goal.

Chelsea on top now.

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75min: Cries for a Bournemouth penalty as Caicedo slides in the area and almost handles the ball, but the flag had already been raised for offside.

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72min: Almost brilliant from Veiga as he bursts through midfield and tries to trick his way into the penalty area... and almost does until he takes one touch too many.

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70min: Felix thinks he has won a corner for Chelsea but hits him on the way out.

Chelsea just not quite clicking in the final third. Almost.

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66min: Jackson did very well on the turn to get a shot off inside the area, but again he gets a Bournemouth boot in the way.

Cucurella is enjoying this more advanced role.

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63min: Sancho is finding space well in the final third, trying to link up with Palmer.

Felix has also started well.

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61min: Disasi and Madueke are off, Felix and Tosin are on.

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60min: Kluivert now booked, making it 11 yellow cards. That one was deserved at least.

OFF THE POST!

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59min: Wave after wave from Bournemouth, and this is their closest yet this half as Christie sweeps a shot onto the post.

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57min: Colwill is booked for a clumsy foul and now Sancho gets one, 12 minutes into his debut, for complaining to the referee.

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56min: Nearly a very special goal as Sancho, on at half-time, jinks into the area and finds Jackson to bend a shot just beyond the far post.

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53min: Evanilson finds the back of the net but the referee had already blown his whistle for offside.

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51min: Deary me.

Caicedo sends Jackson scampering into the area, the striker takes one touch and then takes a tumble under pressure from three Bournemouth defenders.

Made a right meal of it.

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49min: Cucurella, in a more advanced position, gets into the area and cuts the ball back across the face of goal but it evades both Palmer and Jackson.

Second half!

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46min: Back underway.

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You wonder if Maresca will be tempted by changes. Not much on the bench to help their midfield but about £200million worth of attacking prowess is sitting on their hands.

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An entertaining clash under the lights, which remains level thanks to Sanchez saving Evanilson's penalty.Chelsea defence is all over the place, and the midfield is not much better. Bournemouth have been impressive.

Half-time!

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47min: An entertaining first half!

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45min: One minute added on.

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44min: A rocket from Cook, across the keeper but wide of the far post.

Superb effort, a yard or so wide.

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40min: Chelsea need to compose themselves after that. A real let-off.

PENALTY SAVED

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38min: Evanilson picks himself up to take the penalty... and Sanchez saves!

Superb save down to his right.

BOURNEMOUTH PENALTY!

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37min: Sanchez wipes out Evanilson after a short pass back.

Stone wall.

Malik Ouzia at the Vitality Stadium

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Maresca actually turned away in disgust and shouted "No!" when Madueke turned back inside early in that move but it ended up leading not Chelsea's best chance of the game.

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35min: Cook now booked, which is music to Palmer’s ears.

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34min: Jackson this time gets his shot away but is rushed and straight at the keeper.

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31min: Fofana now booked for what looked like a very soft foul on Evanilson.

Malik Ouzia at the Vitality Stadium

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Among Chelsea's many problems here is that they don't seem to have any way of progressing the ball from the back six to the front four.

Neither Caicedo nor Veiga have been able to get the ball into the feet of Palmer.

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29min: Superb recovery tackle from Senesi to take the ball off Jackson’s toe as the striker was winding up inside the area.

Goal-saving tackle.

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25min: Smith and Cucurella now getting stuck in as the Cherries man pushes the Spanish defender after winning a free kick.

Malik Ouzia at the Vitality Stadium

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Marcus Tavernier is causing all sorts of problems down that Bournemouth left. Mix-up there between Disasi and Fofana. Chelsea look a bit all over the shop.

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23min: Bournemouth should be ahead!

Disasi gets it all wrong and lets Tavernier ghost past him and tees up Kluivert for a stinging effort from the edge of the area. Great save from Sanchez.

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21min: Semenyo goes down on the edge of the area under pressure from Cucurella but the ref is rightly not interested. Tells him to get up.

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20min: Palmer and Madueke try to link up for the first time but the latter’s pass is a tough too weak into the area.

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18min: Christie is the first player into the book.

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15min: Chelsea starting to get a foot on the ball, finally.

Bournemouth continue to be brave but Chelsea are looking more comfortable.

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12min: Neto gets down the left for the first time and drills in a low cross, which Bournemouth hoof clear.

Malik Ouzia at the Vitality Stadium

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Lewis Cook is almost doing a man-marking job on Cole Palmer here, but if his intention there was to leave one on the Chelsea man early then it might have backfired.

He was too blatant and I suspect one more of those and Anthony Taylor will have his card out.

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8min: Tavernier is very busy in these opening stages, this time beating Diasi to the ball and whipping in a good cross from Evanilson.

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7min: Chelsea’s first corner is from Palmer, who fails to beat the first man.

Malik Ouzia at the Vitality Stadium

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Renato Veiga looks absolutely miles off it in these first five minutes.

He's lost the ball in the middle of the park for Bournemouth's two most dangerous attacks and Chelsea are lucky not to be behind.

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4min: Woah, Tavernier with an absolute rocket from 25 yards which dips onto the bar and flies away with Sanchez beaten.

A further yard back and that’s a Cherries goal.

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3min: A delivery turn from Madueke takes him dancing through the Bournemouth midfield before winning a throw in.

He’s in confident mood, then.

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2min: Lots of argy-bargy at Bournemouth’s first corner, sees Senesi and Cucurella require a talking too.

Eventually comes in and Chelsea deal with it well.

Kick-off!

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1min: Here we go!

Malik Ouzia at the Vitality Stadium

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The poor lads holding the Premier League banner have just been absolutely nailed by the sprinklers. One or two wearing it rather better than the others.

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Here come the teams.

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Not long to do until kick-off. It’s a bit chilly on the south coast.

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Final drills.

Malik Ouzia at the Vitality Stadium

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Could be something, could be nothing, but while all the other Chelsea substitutes warm-up separately from the main group, Jadon Sancho is the one involved in drills with the starting XI.

Malik Ouzia at the Vitality Stadium

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Enzo Maresca has confirmed that, like Enzo Fernandez, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall is also ill tonight.

With Romeo Lavia still out injured, suddenly they're looking very light in there.

Renato Veiga played at full-back against Servette last month, though he did play predominantly as a midfielder for Basel last term.

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Chelsea have a good record against Bournemouth, winning three and drawing two of the last five.

They drew this game last season 0-0, but did the double of the Cherries the previous campaign.

It’s been quite a while since Bournemouth scored four in the second half to win 4-0.

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It’s a first Premier League start for Renato Veiga.

Malik Ouzia at the Vitality Stadium

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Kepa Arrizabalaga is watching the warm-ups from one of the executive box balconies just to the left of the press box. He's ineligible tonight against his parent club.

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Enzo Fernandez misses out today through illness.

Malik Ouzia at the Vitality Stadium

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Ben Chilwell was named in Chelsea's 25-man Premier League squad yesterday but has not yet returned to full-time training with the first-team squad.

As a result, he's not even on the bench tonight despite Marc Cucurella now being the club's only fit specialist full-back.

Malik Ouzia checks in

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Our Chelsea reporter checks in.

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So, as expected, Palmer starts for Chelsea despite pulling out of the England squad with a thigh injury.

Gusto is out through injury, while Fernandez is an unexplained absence. They are replaced by Diasai and Veiga.

Sancho, who joined on deadline day, is on the bench.

Team news in full

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Chelsea XI: Sanchez; Disasi, W Fofana, Colwill, Cucurella; Caicedo, Veiga; Madueke, Palmer, Neto; Jackson

Subs: Jorgensen, Tosin, Badiashile, Casadei, Felix, Mudryk, Nkunku, Sancho, Guiu

Bournemouth XI: Travers, Smith, Senesi, Zabarnyi, Kerkez, Cook, Christie, Tavernier, Kluivert, Semenyo, Evanilson

Subs: Dennis, Huijsen, Brooks, Scott, Sinisterra, Araujo, Hill, Enus Unal, Philip

Chelsea XI

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...and the visitors!

Bournemouth XI

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Here’s how the hosts look!

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Team news is minutes away.

Enzo Maresca dismisses Jadon Sancho 'risk' talk

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Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca has denied that signing Jadon Sancho is “a risk”, insisting he has no concerns about the winger’s attitude despite his high-profile falling out with Erik ten Hag at Manchester United.

Maresca revealed that he warned Sancho during negotiations that “if you come here and don’t work properly then you are not going to play”, but issued a fierce backing of his deadline day signing ahead of a potential debut at Bournemouth on Saturday night.

“First of all I don’t consider Jadon a risk because I consider Jadon as a player who can help us,” Maresca said.

“With the way we play he is that kind of player to help us a lot, especially in the last third when we arrive there so many times and need more quality, more patience, more accuracy.

“I love Jadon, I love the players we have. The reason Jadon is here is because I love him, otherwise he would not be here.”

Ben Chilwell lifeline

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Chelsea on Friday offered Ben Chilwell the chance to revive his Blues career after including the left-back in their 25-man Premier League squad.

The England defender formed part of the group of players who had been frozen out by head coach Enzo Maresca, who admitted Chilwell may be better served leaving Stamford Bridge this summer.

Still, a proposed loan move to the Turkish Super League did not come off, leaving Chilwell in a state of limbo before the transfer window opens again in January.

Chilwell was one of the stars of the Blues team who won the Champions League under Thomas Tuchel but has since suffered seemingly constant injury problems.

The 27-year-old was limited to only nine Premier League starts under Mauricio Pochettino last season and was left out of the England squad who reached the final at Euro 2024.

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It’s a lovely evening on the south coast.

Bournemouth vs Chelsea prediction

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Blues will look to repeat their performance at Wolves with an away win.

Chelsea to win, 2-1.

No Kepa for Cherries

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Goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga is unable to play for Bournemouth as he is on loan from Chelsea, with Mark Travers set to replace him.

David Brooks has returned to training, while Enes Unal could be involved. Dango Ouattara picked up a knock on international duty and is not available, while Tyler Adams remains injured.

Reece James and Romeo Lavia latest

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Chelsea remain without Reece James and Romeo Lavia, though Maresca suggested the latter could be fit for next weekend’s London derby against West Ham.

“Romeo looks very close, hopefully for the next game,” he added. “Unfortunately Reece needs more time."

Deadline day signing Jadon Sancho is available, having been registered too late to face Palace.

Cole Palmer fit, but Malo Gusto out

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Chelsea are expected to have Cole Palmer fit tonight, though Malo Gusto is injured.

Gusto was forced off during the 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace just before the international break and Blues boss Enzo Maresca has confirmed he will not make the trip to the south coast.

"Malo is still out,” Maresca said on Friday. “He is not available for tomorrow's game."

Palmer was initially named in interim boss Lee Carsley’s first England squad but withdrew at the start of the camp and missed the 2-0 wins over Finland and Republic of Ireland.

However, the 22-year-old has been pictured in training this week and is expected to start at Bournemouth.

Where to watch Bournemouth vs Chelsea

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TV channel: The game will be broadcast on Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Ultra HDR. Coverage starts just before kick-off.

Live stream: Subscribers will be able to watch on a live stream via the Sky Go app.

Welcome

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Good evening and welcome to the Standard’s LIVE coverage of the Premier League clash between Bournemouth and Chelsea at the Vitality Stadium.

It’s a Saturday night clash under the lights and the Blues look to continue their unbeaten run against the Cherries, which runs back five years.

And you feel Enzo Maresca needs a result as the 6-2 win at Wolves already feels like a while ago. Bournemouth, meanwhile, will hope to continue their good momentum after a remarkable comeback against Everton last time out.

Kick-off is at 8pm. Stick with us.