Chelsea and Rosenior avoid corruption charges vs Man City to deny Arsenal title

For a while it looked as though Chelsea might have crossed the line into completely useless.

Cole Palmer was thoroughly enjoying himself between the lines. Joao Pedro was similarly hard to pin down just ahead of him. Pedro Neto was doing Cruyff-turn nutmegs and barged Rodri to the ground before forcing Gianluigi Donnarumma into a smart save. Malo Gusto was bombing down the wing, mirrored on the opposite flank by Marc Cucurella, who had a goal ruled out for a marginal offside.

They were as confident as Manchester City were turgid in the first half. Jeremy Doku was getting into decent positions but Antoine Semenyo and Rayan Cherki didn’t even manage that. Rodri passed to no one on at least three occasions and lost all four of his duels…