Chelsea beat Burnley 2-0 with an efficient – if unspectacular – performance at Turf Moor.
As we’ve seen countless times before, it was a slow start from the Blues. A changed up team coming into an early kick off after an international break looked sleepy and sluggish against a Burnley side who were the opposite.
The opening 15 minutes saw the home team break through three times, with three big blocks from Chelsea players denying great chances for the Clarets. Trevoh Chalobah, Andrey Santos and Tosin all had to get in the way of shots to keep their team ahead, a sure sign that the Blues couldn’t find their feet
One major chance the other way saw Liam Delap disappoint everyone by not picking out Jamie Gittens, who had a much better angle to shoot from. Things continued in much the same vein for the rest of the first half – Chelsea looking disjointed, but creating here and there. Delap was involved again when his good link up with Pedro Neto set up Gittens, who had the ball nicked off his toes by Kyle Walker just as he was about to score.
The breakthrough [finally came after 36 minutes](https://chelsea.news/2025/11/video-goal-chelsea-burnley-pedro-neto-gittens/), with a superb goal which saw Chalobah find Marc Cucurella with a long ball. He played it back to Jamie Gittens, who swung in a superb far post cross for Neto to bury with a diving header.
The second half was more of the same – the Blues now had the lead and Burnley had lost some of their conviction, but the Blues couldn’t create any proper chances, and as the game reached the final ten minutes the tension kept rising.
Finally the increased aggression from the Clarets cost them – they were open at the back and Chelsea were able to sweep forward with another superb team move, finally finished off by Enzo Fernandez.
**MOTM – Andrey Santos**
Analysis
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Enzo Fernandez lashes in against Burnley. (Photo by Nathan Stirk/Getty Images)
Chelsea’s second goal killed the game and made the result look a little more comfortable than it had been. The Blues were really poor in the opening stages, and while their goal was great, it came against the run of play.
The Joao Pedro – Liam Delap combination up front struggled to create much once again, and while it should be remembered that this was a team without key men Cole Palmer and Moises Caicedo, it would also be risky to read too much into this performance.
The real tests come against Arsenal and Barcelona this week, where we find out how far this team has really come.
Teams
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**Burnley**
Martin Dúbravka
Kyle Walker
Quilindschy Hartman
Maxime Estève
Axel Tuanzebe
Lesley Ugochukwu
Luís Florentino
Loum Tchaouna
Zian Flemming
Josh Cullen
Jaidon Anthony
_Substitutes_
Max Weiss
Jacob Bruun Larsen (on 76′)
Lyle Foster (on 72′)
Marcus Edwards
Hjalmar Ekdal
Silva Lucas Pires
Armando Broja (on 72′)
Hannibal Mejbri (on 72′)
Josh Laurent (on 84′)
**Chelsea**
Robert Sánchez
Reece James
Tosin Adarabioyo
Trevoh Chalobah
Marc Cucurella
Enzo Fernández
Andrey Santos
Pedro Neto
João Pedro
Jamie Gittens
Liam Delap
_Substitutes_
Filip Jørgensen
Benoît Badiashile (on 46′)
Jorrel Hato
Moisés Caicedo
Malo Gusto (on 67′)
Josh Acheampong
Marc Guiu (on 76′)
Estêvão
Alejandro Garnacho
Stats
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Quote of the game
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“It can happen. I wake up many times during the night to go to the toilet. I hit my head, my legs, my everything, so it can happen” – Enzo Maresca on Cole Palmer’s stubbed toe.