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Game #5607

Aston Villa

Sunday, 26 December 2021

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Lost

11th (-2)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥

Premier League

Chelsea

Villa Park

Attendance: 41,907

🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park.

Aston Villa

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Chelsea

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🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Sunday, 26 December 2021

⚽ | 28’ Goal, 1-0, Own Goal, Reece James
🟨 | 33’ Booking, Emiliano Martínez
🥅 | 34’ Goal, 1-1, (Chelsea, pen), Jorginho
⏱️ | HT Aston Villa 1-1 Chelsea
🥅 | 56’ Goal, 1-2, (Chelsea), Romelu Lukaku
🟨 | 65’ Booking, Tyrone Mings, Bad foul
🔁 | 73’ Sub off, Danny Ings, Sub on, Bertrand Traoré
🔁 | 74’ Sub off, Emiliano Buendía, Sub on, Carney Chukwuemeka
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, Morgan Sanson, Sub on, Anwar El Ghazi
🟨 | 90’+2 Booking, Ezri Konsa
🥅 | 90’+3 Goal, 1-3, (Chelsea, pen), Jorginho
⏱️ | FT Aston Villa 1-3 Chelsea

Match Statistics

Possession F | 42%
Possession A | 58%
Shots F | 8
Shots A | 10
Shots on Target F | 1
Shots on Target A | 4
Corners F | 2
Corners A | 5
Fouls F | 8
Fouls A | 11

🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Sunday, 26 December 2021

  • Villa take the lead but lose to a title challenging Chelsea side as Covid stricken Steven Gerrard is absent. 

  • Douglas Luiz, 23, makes his 90th appearance in a Villa shirt (79 Starts) since joining in July 2019 to make it W33 D15 L42, 3 Goals, 8 Assists, 22 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Chelsea

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European Cup / Champions League: 🏆🏆
UEFA Cup / Europa League: 🏆🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2020-21

Aston Villa

Chelsea

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FIXTURE HISTORY

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Chelsea

Previous 5 vs. Chelsea: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟨

🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2021-22 |
Matchday | #20 |
League Match | #18 |
Manager Game | #7 |
Sunday, 26 December 2021
Attendance | 41,907 |

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🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Merseyside, 2021-2022 *Absent due to Covid-19*
Manager: Gary McAllister (Caretaker) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Motherwell, 2021
Referee: Martin Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | West Riding, 2003-2022
Kick off: 5.30pm
Half Time Score: 🟨 1-1
Full Time Result: 🟥 Lost
Full Time Score: 🟥 1-3
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2021-2022

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 7 | 🟩 | 4 🟨 | 0 🟥 3 | 1.71

Villa Career Form:

Top 6

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2021-2022

🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park.

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Martin Atkinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | West Riding, 2003-2022
Matches Officiated: 44
🟩 : 17
🟨 : 9
🟥 : 18
🆘 : 4
Previous 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 13 May 21, Villa 0-0 Everton (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Lee Betts, Constantine Hatzidakis.
Fourth official: Michael Salisbury.
VAR: Stuart Attwell.
Assistant VAR: Dan Cook.

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Emiliano Martínez
🟨 Tyrone Mings, Bad foul
🟨 Ezri Konsa

🟨 Marcos Alonso

🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Morgan Sanson and Danny Ings return after illness and injury respectively as Ashley Young and John McGinn are rules out with COVID-19. Bertrand Traoré returns to the bench after long term injury alongside recent returnee Trézéguet as the substitutes bench has a significantly more experienced look than in recent games with just two under 23 players represented in Carney Chukwuemeka and Tim Iroegbunam.

Starting XI Average Age: 25.98
Oldest Player: F Danny Ings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 29.80 |
Youngest Player: M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.59 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park.

MANAGER

Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2021-2022

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Aston Villa

GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | 🟨 |
LB Matt Targett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
RB Matty Cash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇱 |
M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 |
M Morgan Sanson | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | 🔁 |
CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Danny Ings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Thomas Tuchel | 🇩🇪 |

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Chelsea

GK Edouard Mendy | 🇸🇳 |
LB Marcos Alonso | 🇪🇸 | 🟨 |
CB Trevoh Chalobah | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CB Thiago Silva | 🇧🇷 | 🔁 |
CB Antonio Rüdiger | 🇩🇪 |
RB Reece James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M N’Golo Kanté | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Jorginho | 🇮🇹 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
M Mason Mount | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Callum Hudson-Odoi | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Christian Pulisic | 🇺🇸 |

Line Ups

🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | W Bertrand Traoré | 🇧🇫 | for F Danny Ings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 73’ |
🔁 | M Carney Chukwuemeka | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | 74’ |
🔁 | W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | for M Morgan Sanson | 🇫🇷 | 76’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CF Romelu Lukaku | 🇧🇪 | ⚽ | for CB Trevoh Chalobah | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46’ |
🔁 | CB Andreas Christensen | 🇩🇰 | for CB Thiago Silva | 🇧🇷 | 52’ |
🔁 | M Mateo Kovacic | 🇭🇷 | for M N’Golo Kanté | 🇫🇷 | 63’ |

Substitutes

🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Jed Steer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Kortney Hause | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Axel Tuanzebe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Tim Iroegbunam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Trézéguet | 🇪🇬 |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Kepa Arrizabalaga | 🇪🇸 |
RB César Azpilicueta | 🇪🇸 |
CB Malang Sarr | 🇫🇷 |
M Saúl Ñíguez | 🇪🇸 |
M Ross Barkley (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Hakim Ziyech | 🇲🇦

Player Positions:

GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half


M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward

Match Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

Squad Bios

🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park.

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI Cost: £196.81m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £24.66m
Team Cost: £221.47m
Squad Cost: £225.01m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 12/20
Homegrown: 4/20

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI Cost: £194.22m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 4/11
Homegrown: 4/11
Subs Cost: £144.00m
Team Cost: £338.22m
Squad Cost: £469.26m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/20
Homegrown: 5/20

🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | £19.58m |
GK Jed Steer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £0.49m |

RB Matty Cash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇱 | £14.18m |
LB Matt Targett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £14.04m |

CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £20.60m |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £11.97m |
CB Kortney Hause | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £2.70m |
CB Axel Tuanzebe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Loan |

M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 | £15.12m |
M Morgan Sanson | 🇫🇷 | £14.22m |
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |
M Carney Chukwuemeka | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |
M Tim Iroegbunam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Free |

W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | £34.56m |
W Bertrand Traoré | 🇧🇫 | £16.56m |
W Trézéguet | 🇪🇬 | £9.00m |
W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | £8.10m |

F Danny Ings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £31.59m |
CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £27.72m |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Free |

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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GK Kepa Arrizabalaga | 🇪🇸 | £72.00m |
GK Edouard Mendy | 🇸🇳 | £21.06m |

RB César Azpilicueta | 🇪🇸 | £7.92m |
RB Reece James | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |
LB Marcos Alonso | 🇪🇸 | Free |

CB Antonio Rüdiger | 🇩🇪 | £31.50m |
CB Trevoh Chalobah | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |
CB Andreas Christensen | 🇩🇰 | Youth |
CB Thiago Silva | 🇧🇷 | Free |
CB Malang Sarr | 🇫🇷 | Free |

M Jorginho | 🇮🇹 | £51.30m |
M Mateo Kovacic | 🇭🇷 | £40.50m |
M Hakim Ziyech | 🇲🇦 | £36.00m |
M N’Golo Kanté | 🇫🇷 | £32.22m |
M Ross Barkley (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £15.12m |
M Mason Mount | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |
M Saúl Ñíguez | 🇪🇸 | Loan |

W Christian Pulisic | 🇺🇸 | £57.60m |
W Callum Hudson-Odoi | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |

CF Romelu Lukaku | 🇧🇪 | £103.50m |

🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park.

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 4 |
W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | Thigh, 5 Dec 2021 [4]
M Marvelous Nakamba | 🇿🇼 | Knee, 14 Dec 2021 [2]
RB Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Broken Toe, 26 Dec 2021 [1]
M John McGinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Covid-19 Guidelines, 26 Dec 2021 [1]

Out On Loan | 3 |
CF Wesley | 🇧🇷 | Club Brugge
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | Sheffield United
RB Frédéric Guilbert | 🇫🇷 | Strasbourg

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park.

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MATCH QUOTES

“Looking at the result, I think it flatters Chelsea a bit. They have some very good players. Romelu Lukaku made a difference. I felt that we played some good football and we kept the ball away from our goal, but then they made the changes, and they came out on top. “In the phases of play I thought we were better in possession at times but the wrong decision was made with the final pass at times. We started the second half very slowly and we sunk a bit, and hence lost that goal to Lukaku’s header. We tried to play with an intensity and make passes. “We know it is very important to get possession of the football against a quality side like Chelsea. We have played City, Liverpool and Chelsea in the last few weeks and had the chance to have a look at the elite teams and it’s encouraging that we have competed very well. A bit of identity is starting to appear.” Villa assistant manager Gary McAllister.
Quotes

🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park.

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Sunday, 26 December 2021

Jorginho scored two penalties as Chelsea fought back from a goal down to beat Aston Villa. Villa had taken a fortunate lead in the 28th minute when Matt Targett’s whipped cross from the left was met by Chelsea defender Reece James and his glancing header diverted the ball past Edouard Mendy and into the net for an own goal. But Chelsea were level six minutes later with Jorginho converting a penalty after Callum Hudson-Odoi had been brought down by Matty Cash’s clumsy challenge in the 18-yard box. Substitute Romelu Lukaku, who had missed three matches because of Covid-19, came on at the start of the second half and scored within 11 minutes, heading in from Hudson-Odoi’s cross. Lukaku helped create Chelsea’s third as he won an injury-time penalty, which Jorginho converted for his second goal of the game. Returning Lukaku makes the difference Chelsea were top of the league after their 2-1 win against Watford on 1 December, before a run of only five points from four games saw them fall behind City in the title race, but this was a hard-earned and much needed victory. Villa were without manager Steven Gerrard after he tested positive for Covid-19, with assistant Gary McAllister issuing the instructions from the touchline. Chelsea have also been affected by Covid-19 and boss Thomas Tuchel had unsuccessfully asked to have their goalless draw at Wolves on 19 December postponed. They were still without Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, although Lukaku was back in the squad with Hudson-Odoi returning to the starting line-up. Mason Mount nearly gave them a fortunate lead when a mis-hit cross hit the top of the bar, before Villa gained a slice of luck themselves. James diverted Targett’s cross into his own net, although Blues goalkeeper Mendy should have done better as he got his fingers to it, but could not keep the ball out. Chelsea were soon level with Jorginho’s first penalty. Tuchel made a change at half-time with Lukaku coming on for defender Trevoh Chalobah, although the German was then forced into another substitution six minutes later when Thiago Silva went off injured with Andreas Christensen replacing him. After Lukaku’s goal, Mount should have stretched Chelsea’s lead further. He had taken the ball past goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez and with only defender Tyrone Mings guarding the net, the England midfielder fired wide. Hudson-Odoi also had a late effort saved by Martinez, but those misses did not prove costly as Chelsea scored their third late on. It came from a storming run from Lukaku, with the forward brought down by Ezri Konsa and Jorginho kept his cool to score his ninth goal of the season and his sixth in six games. Villa are 11th in the Premier League and McAllister said: “I’ve been speaking to Steven [Gerrard] ever since he was diagnosed, he’s obviously very frustrated. “We’re in this world of Zoom and there are ways of communicating. We were in constant contact with each other during the game. “He is due to be back on Friday and we have four or five days to work and try to correct the things which didn’t go so well.”
Reports

🟥 26 Dec 2021, Villa 1-3 Chelsea, Villa Park.

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