Reece James had a bad start to this game, giving the ball away and sending in a few uncharacteristically bad crosses.
Now he’s gone one worse – scoring an own goal.
It was very unlucky – a whipped cross was delivered by Matt Targett and James had no option other than to get his head on it. Unfortunately his glancing header flew over his goalkeeper, who was on his way out to collect the cross, and flew into the side netting.
Yet more bad luck from Chelsea, who now need to strike back.
You can see the goal in the clips embedded here:
🗣 "Aston Villa get a bit of luck…"
Targett whips a pacey ball into the #CFC box. James is near post, no Villa man around him, but it skims off his head and over Mendy! 😮
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[Footage from Sky Sports]
