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Chelsea's Clean Sheet Comes With a Medical Check
· New York time
Chelsea beat Everton 2-0, securing their first clean sheet in nine months. Goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez was taken to hospital for precautionary tests, according to the BBC. The win supplied a long-awaited defensive milestone, while the hospital visit brought a separate concern about the goalkeeper's health. The reported assessment was precautionary, with no further medical conclusion attached to that update. For football's statistics industry, the clean sheet ends a long wait. The spreadsheet can finally stop sending the same reminder. Nine months is a considerable interval for a column whose entire professional ambition is to display a zero.
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