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REVEALED: Chelsea ace Jorginho dominated Newcastle in passing

Chelsea midfielder Jorginho dominated the first-half of Sunday's victory at Newcastle United.

Although the game was goalless at the break before Chelsea went on to win 2-1, the 26-year-old pulled the strings in the middle of the park. And the stats from OptaJoe backed it up too.

Of the 92 passes he attempted, only six went astray, giving Jorginho a completion rate of 93.5 per cent.

To further rub the Magpies faces in it, those 86 completed passes from Jorginho were 19 more than the whole of the Newcastle side combined on 67.

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