Eden Hazard scores twice as Chelsea beat Watford
The Belgian helped the Blues to all three points
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Your support makes all the difference.Chelsea bounced back from defeat to Leicester with a hard-fought but impressive win at Watford.
Eden Hazard was the Blues' hero scoring twice to cancel out Roberto Pereyra's superb first-half equaliser and earn all three points and keep them in the hunt for the top four.
Here's how they did it:
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81 min: Watford 1-2 Chelsea
Substitution for Chelsea, with Mateo Kovacic being withdrawn for Ross Barkley.
81 min: Watford 1-2 Chelsea
Big chance for Watford, but Troy Deeney can only flick wide at the near post!
82 min: Watford 1-2 Chelsea
And now a change for the hosts, with Isaac Success replacing Deulofeu.
86 min: Watford 1-2 Chelsea
Final change for Chelsea, and the sub is being subbed!
Callum Hudson-Odoi is brought off, having replaced Pedro earlier on, with Emerson his replacement,
87 min: Watford 1-2 Chelsea
Chelsea have had a few chances to wrap this game up, and this is another.
A corner is cleared to Jorginho, who sets himself before firing a shot just over the bar.
89 min: Watford 1-2 Chelsea
This ball really doesn't want to go in for Chelsea. Alonso lays it off to Willian, whose scuffed shot causes more problems than expected for Foster, who is glad to see it go past his near post.
90 min: Watford 1-2 Chelsea
Four minutes added on at the end of this one.
90+3 min: Watford 1-2 Chelsea
A corner for Watford with Ben Foster coming up......
90+4 min: Watford 1-2 Chelsea
It comes to nothing, but not before we see an acrobatic effort from the Watford keeper.
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