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Oliver Harbord

David Luiz battles the stewards & photographer takes a hit - Moments missed from Man United draw

Rudiger on to Alonso head

Marcos Alonso has come in for some stick from the Chelsea supporters this season however he scored a crucial equaliser in the 1-1 draw at Manchester United on Sunday afternoon.

However, it could have been a different story at the beginning of the game when the Spaniard and Antonio Rudiger got themselves in a bit of a mix up.


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Cesar Azpilicueta was in the wars at time and when you come up against Romelu Lukaku, you know you are going to be in for a tough afternoon.

Maybe Azpilicueta wasn't expecting one moment when he went flying into a poor photographer after Lukaku bumped him in the stands.

"I was okay, maybe I was lucky I had the photographer just in front of me. I was going straight to the wall," Azpilicueta said.

"It’s a fight, it’s a fight, we knew they are a very physical team. Physicality is part of football, the battles, I’m happy for it."

Luiz and the stewards

David Luiz as always had a special bond with the Chelsea supporters and he showed that once again after the game when he went over to the away end.

The Brazilian wanted to give his shirt to a fan in the crowd, however he was stopped from going too far over to the supporters by two stewards, for safety reasons.

Luiz seemed a bit annoyed by it, but eventually he got his way and one other steward took the shirt and gave it to someone who was holding up a banner.

Whatever happens with his contract situation, Luiz will always be a fans' favourite through his personality.

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Luiz and the dark arts

The other side of Luiz's game that has always been fun to watch is that the Brazilian knows when to be ever so sneaky when he needs to be.

That happened once again when Rudiger went down injured and Andreas Christensen wasn't allowed to be substituted on at the right time.

Chelsea were playing with ten men for a while, however Luiz went down with a 'groin injury' which meant the ball was kicked out of play. Christensen was able to come on, Luiz managed to 'recover' and Chelsea even got the ball kicked back to them.

Genius.

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