In other news, Kai Havertz scored a stunning last-minute goal to give Chelsea a fifth Premier League win on the spin and hand Newcastle a first defeat in 10 in the competition.
It was a day when the action on the field felt strangely incidental, as Chelsea played at Stamford Bridge for the first time since the fall of their oligarch owner, Roman Abramovich, in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Facing them were opponents owned by the Public Investment Fund of a country that is involved in the war with Yemen and also one in which 81 men were executed on Saturday.
