THE DATA DAY: JORGINHO RECORD

The statistics from yesterday’s win at St James’ Park include a couple of Chelsea records broken…

Date	Player	Opposition	Passes attempted
26/08/2018	Jorginho	Newcastle United	173
22/11/2014	Cesc Fabregas	West Bromwich Albion	153
09/05/2018	Cesc Fabregas	Huddersfield	149
27/09/2014	Cesc Fabregas	Aston Villa	144
12/12/2017	Cesar Azpilicueta	Huddersfield	143

We had 15 shots, of which a third were blocked and three hit the target. Hazard had the most efforts with five.

Newcastle had six attempts, of which two were from inside the box and just two on target. Our dominance of the ball forced the Magpies into plenty of defensive work, and they made 37 clearances and 15 interceptions.

Giroud and Marcos Alonso won a joint game-high three aerial duels, and no player won the ball more times than N’Golo Kante with five. As a team we had a 90 per cent tackle success rate.

Hazard completed a joint game-high two dribbles. His converted penalty took him clear in third for Premier League goals for Chelsea (70), now ahead of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (69), and behind only Frank Lampard (147) and Didier Drogba (104).