Chelsea defeat Swansea to move 11 points clear

Fabregas, Pedro and Costa score as Cheslea defeat Swansea 3-1 at home to cement their position at the top of the table, 11 points clear from second place Manchester City.

Cesc Fabregas’ strike on his 300th appearance (19) set the pioneers on their way, in spite of the fact that it took late objectives from Pedro and Diego Costa to take care of business after Fernando Llorente headed an equalizer in first-half stoppage time.

Swansea may point – with some avocation – to an unpunished Cesar Azpilicueta handball in his own punishment box with the score at 1-1, arbitrator Neil Swarbrick evidently administering the lacking elbow room contact inadvertent.

Be that as it may, Chelsea were great incentive for an appreciated win after twice dropping focuses in their previous three matches, and they may have won by additional as Fabregas alone approached a cap trap amid an uncommon a hour and a half under Antonio Conte.

A 6th begin in this present season’s Premier League made him the main Spanish individual from the opposition’s 300 club, and he took his historic point appearance as a chance to grandstand his continuing class.

Fabregas assumed the midfield metronome part to flawlessness – as much ticky-tocka as tiki-taka – chipped his short going with the odd very much pointed slingshot into the keeps running of Costa and Eden Hazard, and brought on Swansea endless issues with his goal-oriented late entries in their crate.

One such run brought the opener as a Pedro pass went for Costa was rapidly brought under control and pushed into the far corner with Lukasz Fabianski as yet setting himself.

Fabianski denied his old Arsenal partner a moment in the blink of an eye a short time later and later stood spectating as Fabregas’ firm side-footer bounced back off his crossbar.

By that stage the amusement was level. By one means or another. Swansea supervisor Paul Clement, coming back to the club where he won the title as Carlo Ancelotti’s aide, had called the trek a “shot to nothing” for Swansea, however they enrolled nothing in the shots section until the last few moments of the main half when Gylfi Sigurdsson’s sans level kick was met by Llorente as Chelsea’s protection dithered.

Had the amusement completed even there might have been words about the authenticity of the free-kick – disastrously granted against N’Golo Kante – however Swansea had their very own objection when Azpilicueta’s outstretched arm obstructed Sigurdsson’s flick after the break.