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Chelsea vs Manchester United live updates: Palmer scores penalty after Gallagher goal
Follow all the action as two Premier League heavyweights meet at Stamford Bridge with Manchester United still in the hunt for a Champions League place
Michael Dominski and Max Mathews
April 4, 2024 at 8:41 PM GMT+1
Chelsea vs Manchester United live updates: Palmer scores penalty after Gallagher goal
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Michael Dominski
Live Reporter
Latest score: Chelsea 2-0 Manchester United
4′: Gallagher opens the scoring for Chelsea.
19′: Palmer doubles lead from spot after Antony fouls Cucurella in box.
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3m ago
Liam Twomey
Chelsea Correspondent
Mount’s return to Stamford Bridge
The biggest surprise of the evening so far: the thousands of travelling United fans, who are consistently making themselves heard, are yet to chant about Mason Mount. It is coming though…
3m ago
Will Jeanes
Johnny on the spot
Cole Palmer has now scored seven penalties (out of seven) in the Premier League this season, which is three more than any other player.
4m ago
Max Mathews
Live Reporter
Good penalty from Palmer
20′ Chelsea 2-0 Manchester United
Palmer always looks so cool and calm. He sent Andre Onana the wrong way, Onana diving to his right and Palmer smashing it into the bottom corner to Onana’s left.
Even if the Cameroonian went the right way, he’d have struggled to save it.
Palmer does a ‘talking’ gesture to celebrate, after Manchester United’s “Manchester City reject” chants earlier, before doing his signature ‘shivering’ celebration.
6m ago
Max Mathews
Live Reporter
GOAL! Cole Palmer scores it and Chelsea are two up!
19′ Chelsea 2-0 Manchester United
Who expected this?! Chelsea are two goals ahead inside 20 minutes!
Palmer, of course, the Manchester United childhood fan, rattles it in.
6m ago
Max Mathews
Live Reporter
Penalty confirmed!
18′ Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United
Yep, VAR has confirmed it.
Cole Palmer to take…
7m ago
Max Mathews
Live Reporter
PENALTY to Chelsea!
18′ Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United
Chelsea have a golden chance to double the lead!
Marc Cucurella is brought down by Antony, ref Jarred Gillett thinks about it and points to the spot.
VAR check is ongoing…
8m ago
Andy Mitten
Good reaction by United
Manchester United have reacted well to their early setback. The game has been open and entertaining so far.
United fans are singing “City reject” to Cole Palmer, who was a Mancunian childhood United fan before joining City as an 8-year-old.
8m ago
Max Mathews
Live Reporter
Cucurella smashes over
14′ Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United
Mykhailo Mudryk outstrips Wan-Bissaka for pace down the left wing… or does he? No he doesn’t, Wan-Bissaka stretches out a long leg and puts it behind from a corner.
From the second phase, Mudryk goes crossfield to Gusto , who squares it to fellow full-back Marc Cucurella outside the box… but he balloons it miles over with his weaker right foot. Poor.
10m ago
Max Mathews
Live Reporter
United respond reasonably well
12′ Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United
Antony has actually been fairly lively so far and will be hoping to get his first goal or assist in the Premier League in 23 appearances. Not an ideal record for someone bought for £86million (more than $100m) as the marquee summer signing in 2023.
But he’s linked up well with Bruno Fernandes, with plenty of neat little passes around the Chelsea area and cute interplay. But Fernandes goes down softly wanting a free-kick and the move ends. Nothing doing. Rightly so.
It’s half-time at Anfield with Liverpool 1-0 up on Sheffield United, by the way.
14m ago
Carl Anka
Man Utd Correspondent
Recurring issue for United crops up again
It’s another cutback goal conceded by Manchester United, albeit one that owed a stroke of unfortunate luck to a deflection.
Follow the link below for a piece we did in January covering United’s vulnerability to these kinds of moves.
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14m ago
Max Mathews
Live Reporter
Big win coming?
Big win coming?
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10′ Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United
That was Chelsea’s fastest Premier League goal against Manchester United since a first-minute goal by Spanish winger Pedro on October 23, 2016.
They won that game 4-0.
15m ago
Andy Mitten
United undone by poor defending
That was a horrible goal for United to concede. Unintentional flicks, deflections, and balls through legs. So slack. Too many goals conceded through cutbacks.
16m ago
Dan Sheldon
Manchester United Correspondent
Nightmare start for United
A nightmare start for United in what had been a frantic four minutes.
Kobbie Mainoo gave the ball away just inside the away side’s half, which eventually led to Gallagher opening the scoring for Chelsea.
Even though the ball went through Casemiro’s legs on its way in, there is an argument that Andre Onana, who got a hand to the strike, should be doing better.
16m ago
Liam Twomey
Chelsea Correspondent
End-to-end action
End-to-end action
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The opening minutes have been every bit as wide open as this match was billed to be.
In between bouts of frantic defending on the edge of their own box, Chelsea have lifted the volume of Stamford Bridge with a well-worked goal that exploited a startlingly open United flank.
But there are near-constant reminders from both teams that the scoring is unlikely to end there.
17m ago
Max Mathews
Live Reporter
How Gallagher stunned United early on
5′ Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United
I did question why Dalot was on the left and not Wan-Bissaka after they played that way against Brentford – and that switch has indirectly led to the goal. Dalot came infield, Mainoo lost it, and the full-back was miles out of position.
Chelsea played it down the right flank to the onrushing full-back Malo Gusto, who crossed low back towards the penalty spot. It took a nick off Raphael Varane’s heel, and Dalot missed it with a casual back-flick attempted clearance.
Gallagher kept his head over the ball and kept the shot low. It went through Casemiro’s legs but it was far from being right in the bottom corner.
Indeed, United goalkeeper Andre Onana was very close to it and the ball squirmed under his hand. Was he unsighted? It looked like he could have done better there.
21m ago
Max Mathews
Live Reporter
GOAL! Chelsea lead already – and it’s come via Conor Gallagher!
4′ Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United
Chelsea are ahead inside four minutes! What a start for the hosts, what a nightmare for Manchester United.
Diogo Dalot comes inside, Kobbie Mainoo loses it, Malo Gusto crosses and Conor Gallagher sweeps it in.
22m ago
Max Mathews
Live Reporter
Garnacho gets in already
2′ Chelsea 0-0 Manchester United
Already quite end-to-end, this game.
Chelsea attack but when it’s cleared, Alejandro Garnacho suddenly has 40 yards of space in front of him.
Malo Gusto is jogging 40 yards behind him. Not encouraging signs.
23m ago
Michael Dominski
Live Reporter
Not an empty seat in the house
Not an empty seat in the house
Andy Mitten
A look at the away supporters section at a sold-out Stamford Bridge.
23m ago
Max Mathews
Live Reporter
Caicedo with an important block!
1′ Chelsea 0-0 Manchester United
Interesting that this is the most drawn fixture in the history of the Premier League. Also interesting that it’s Diogo Dalot, not Aaron Wan-Bissaka, at left-back for United.
And Wan-Bissaka bursts down the right to help create a very early chance, laying it back to Antony who shoots… but it’s well blocked twice by Moises Caicedo.
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