Thomas Tuchel said after the loss at Villa Park the game was in some respects ‘the story of our season’, with the Blues struggling to make the most of our dominance in the final third and opportunities in front of goal.

Overall we had 23 attempts to Aston Villa’s six. Seven of our shots were on target, five were blocked and eight were struck from outside the box.

Villa certainly made the most of their dominant spell in the game either side of half-time. We had nine to attempts to their one inside the first 25 minutes, but they then had five of the next seven shots up to and including Anwar El-Ghazi’s penalty.

From then onwards, we had 12 efforts on goal, half of which were blocked as the Villa defence dug deep.

Ben brings the threat

Mason Mount registered six attempts, and was closely followed by Ben Chilwell and sub Kai Havertz with four apiece.

Chilwell was probably our best player on the day. As well as scoring the goal, he recorded game-high figures for shots on target, key passes and successful tackles.

Only Trent Alexander-Arnold (nine) had more goal involvements than Chilwell’s eight in the Premier League this season (three goals, five assists).

Villa Wall

We had a 71.2 per cent share of possession and were accurate with the ball (89 per cent success rate), but we struggled to wear down a Villa side that defended their box well.

Their two centre-backs, Tyrone Mings and Kortney Hause, won eight of the nine aerial duels they contested between them. That duo also cleared the ball on 23 occasions.

Havertz’s introduction helped us offer more of an aerial threat as crosses continued to fly into the box, and he won two of the three such duels he contested. That was the best ratio of anyone in blue.

Not one of our nine corners was met by a Chelsea player, with Villa’s opener stemming from one of the two corners they won.

Jorginho tops the tally

Jorginho finishes as our top goalscorer in the Premier League with seven, which is just over 12 per cent of our overall tally of 58 goals.

That is the lowest number of league goals our topscorer has netted since 1974/1975, when Ian Hutchinson scored seven as we were relegated from the old First Division (over 42 games).

It is the first time in Premier League history a team’s top goalscorer has exclusively scored penalties.

Jorginho’s seven successful spot-kicks is the joint-most by a player in a Premier League season in which they have not scored a goal from open play (also James Milner, 2016/17).