Some post-match reaction for you:

So all that’s left is to usher you towards Daniel Taylor’s take on a wonderfully entertaining afternoon at Stamford Bridge. Thanks for reading this MBM. See you later for Huddersfield-Liverpool.

Sarri speaks, with refreshing grace and honesty. “We have done a very good first half, but we were not very good in the second. We didn’t play our football. In a physical match, United is better than us. Tactically, the match was the same in both halves, but I need to study the second half. I don’t know why. The match after the international break is always very difficult, it’s no easy. But it was a fantastic match. In the second half, it was a physical match, it was not for us. Sincerely, I did not see what happened at the end of the match. But I have spoken to Jose, then a couple of members of our staff. We were on the wrong side. I cannot tell everything, but I am not really happy. I understood that we were on the wrong side.”

And then he’s asked whether, having promised before the game to respect Chelsea, he got that respect back: “No I don’t think so. But that is not my responsibility. I have a certain level of education, socially and in sport. What I did here today I would do in Porto and Madrid and Milan, try to behave always the same way, which I did. The reaction of the fans is up to them. I am not annoyed with anything. What happened was with Sarri’s assistant, and Sarri came to me and said he would resolve the problem internally. Then Sarri’s assistant came to me in Sarri’s office and apologised, and I said if you really feel that way and want to apologise, of course I accept it, and forget it because I have made lots of mistakes in my career and I’m not going to kill you because of one. It is over, he apologised, and I accepted it!”

Jose speaks! “I can tell you that the 97-minutes game was so good that you have to focus on that. We were the best team on the pitch. If you say before the match, one point at Stamford Bridge is always a good result. But after it, the way the game was, it was an awful result for us, and a phenomenal result for them. It is different from the Newcastle match, because in the first half of that, we were not there. But in this game we were there. We were in the game. We controlled Hazard, Jorginho, we were in complete control. We had positions to score the third goal, we were the best team. The referee gave six minutes; normally when I am losing I never get six minutes. I do not know where the extra time came from. We always tried to play, even in extra time. But that is football.”

Zen master Antonio Rudiger speaks. “To bounce back at the end, we can be happy to take the point. I saw the benches were standing up, but there are emotions, this is football. I didn’t see anything. But it’s OK, at the end of the day we shake hands. At least everything is calmed down now, everyone can go home.”

More on that last-gasp equaliser, then. Azpilicueta swung in a deep cross from the right. Luiz, out on the left, rose magnificently and planted a downwards header across a rooted de Gea and off the right-hand post. The ball broke to Rudiger, who headed down from six yards. De Gea stuck an arm out to parry brilliantly, but Barkley was on hand to slam home. At which point Sarri lifted his arms in jubilation, a member of his backroom team cavorted in front of the United box, and the red mist consumed Mourinho. To be fair to the United manager, he embraced Sarri at the final whistle, and the two seemed to part on good terms. But there was still time for him to reply to dismissive chants from the Chelsea faithful with three fingers, one for each Premier League title he won at Stamford Bridge.

Oh yes, and the full-time whistle’s just gone. There had been a football match going on. Remember that?

90 min +8: This is madness. We’ve not restarted on the pitch yet, but the players nearly erupt into a brawl as well. On the touchline, a rerun of the Mourinho incident: a member of the Chelsea staff got right up in Mourinho’s grille, celebrating in front of the United boss, who jumped up and tried to run after him down the tunnel. A steward got into the road and stopped things escalating further.

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A melee in the United box. The ball pings off the right-hand post and falls to Barkley, who slams home from close range! And then a melee on the touchline, as a member of the Chelsea staff runs close to a fuming Mourinho, who looks to engage him in earnest dialogue! This is out of control.

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90 min +5: Pereira is booked for a time-wasting challenge, 30 yards from goal. It allows Chelsea to send the ball into the mixer. It’s sent out of play on the right. A chance for Azpilicueta to fling in a throw. From which ...

90 min +4: Sanchez is booked for a clip on Jorginho’s ankles as Chelsea look to attack. Hazard dribbles down the left and tries to score an outrageous goal from a tight angle. Nope.

90 min +2: Lukaku - who has been much improved in the second half - storms down the right and looks for Pogba, marauding down the middle. Rudiger sticks out a telescopic leg and guides the ball back to Kepa. Chelsea go up the other end, through Pedro on the left. Pedro whips a low cross to the near post; Giroud clanks it out of play under pressure from Lindelof behind. There’s a claim for a penalty but there didn’t seem to be much contact. The referee’s not having it, anyway.

90 min: Alonso crosses from the left. Azpilicueta blams over from the edge of the box. There will be six added minutes; it was always going to be like this, wasn’t it.

88 min: United spend a little time in Chelsea’s half. They go nowhere, but that’s not really the point: the clock is their friend now.

86 min: Alonso swings one in from the left. Pedro tries to meet it acrobatically, coming in from the other wing. But no. United - who appear to be battling for their manager, what’s that everyone’s been saying again? - launch clear.

85 min: Chelsea win a corner down the right, and waste it. Then Sanchez finally comes on for Rashford. All that faffing around has certainly raised the temperature around Stamford Bridge; the fans are howling with rage, and Sarri’s still on a rolling boil. Welcome back, Premier League!

83 min: United prepare to send Sanchez and Pereira on. But for who? Rashford goes down injured and United have a good old think about it. On the touchline, Sarri goes spare at what he considers to be brazen timewasting. Eventually Pereira comes on for Martial, but the other switch isn’t made yet.

81 min: Herrera, hoping to latch onto a Pogba cut-back from the right, goes over Kante’s leg in the Chelsea area. Screams for a penalty, but it looked a fair tackle.

80 min: Lukaku flicks on a long ball, and suddenly Herrera’s free in the Chelsea box! Kepa comes out to close down the angle. Not particularly convincingly, and Herrera is given the chance to guide the ball past him and into the empty net. But he doesn’t connect properly.

79 min: Giroud comes on for the ineffectual Morata. Meanwhile the travelling United fans sing their support for Jose Mourinho.

78 min: Chelsea are the league leaders in late goals. Nobody’s scored more in the final 15 minutes of matches than Sarri’s side: eight to Arsenal’s six. They’ll be desperate to find another. But they’ll have to do better than this: Hazard flings a free kick from the right into the area; Alonso takes a fresh-air swipe by the far post. Goal kick.

76 min: Rashford goes sliding in on Barkley, who wants a free kick on the edge of the United box. He’s not getting it.

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75 min: And now Herrera comes on for Mata, as United presumably look to lock it down.

74 min: Pedro comes on for Willian.

Mata bursts past Luiz on the right. He shuttles the ball inside to Rashford, on the right-hand edge of the D. Rashford keeps the ball moving left, for Martial, in space in the left of the area. Martial takes a touch back inside, then curls an unstoppable effort into the bottom right! Kepa had no chance! And Jose Mourinho’s comeback kings are at it again!

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71 min: Hazard drifts down the inside-right channel, then cuts the ball back for Kante, who is in acres on the edge of the box. Kante takes a touch to the right, then pearls a shot towards the bottom left. It’s on target, a fine effort, but de Gea’s save, made at full stretch, is even better! Alonso tries to meet the rebound, but nothing’s doing.

69 min: Barkley comes on for Kovacic.

68 min: Lukaku finds a bit of time and space down the left. He dinks a cross into the middle. Fine work, but there’s nobody there to take advantage and Luiz clears. After a poor first half, United are giving as good as they’re getting. Where have we heard this before?

67 min: Mata bustles down the middle. For a second he threatens to break into the area, but Azpilicueta comes across to blast clear. Mata keeps going and takes out his former team-mate. Oof, ooyah, that’s gotta hurt. Mata’s booked, and the pair embrace with a smile when Azpilicueta finally picks himself up.

66 min: A free kick for Chelsea out on the right. Willian swings it in. And once again, United’s defending is beyond parody; they allow Luiz a free header from ten yards. Unlike Rudiger in the first half, Luiz can’t take advantage, and sends a lame effort wide left. What a chance spurned!

65 min: This is set up nicely now. Chelsea have recovered a little from the blow of the equaliser; United meanwhile look a totally different proposition now. A reminder that, for all United’s travails this season, they’d be only four points behind Chelsea tonight if they were to find a winner.

63 min: Pogba drops deep and sends one of his low diagonal fizzers, left to right, towards Lukaku, who powers off down the wing. Luiz, the last man, does very well to stop him getting a shot away, limiting the damage to a corner. The set piece leads to nothing.

62 min: Another corner for Chelsea, out on the left again. The ball drops to Kovacic, who takes a fresh-air swipe. United clear.

60 min: Hazard probes once more down the left. He drops a shoulder to cut into the area, and sees his low, slightly scuffed, shot deflected wide for a corner. From which nothing occurs.

59 min: So much for Chelsea’s early second-half confidence. Their balloon has been thoroughly deflated. They can hardly string two passes together. Now it’s the hosts who have to clear their heads.

57 min: Pogba takes up possession 30 yards from goal, turns and curls powerfully towards the top right. Kepa’s got it covered, just about, and it’s high and wide. But suddenly the visitors have their tails up! Chelsea, meanwhile, were annoyed that Alonso was lying on the floor as the ball pinged around their penalty area during the build-up to United’s equaliser, and they addressed the ref accordingly. But the whistler wasn’t having a bar of it.

United suddenly come alive, and push Chelsea back. Shaw swings a cross in from the left. Mata shoots, but Kepa parries. The ball breaks right. Young pearls a first-time cross-cum-shot back into the mixer. The ball defects off Jorginho, and drops kindly to Martial, who slams home from six yards!

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53 min: Pogba, deep inside his own half on the left, tries to fizz a low, diagonal pass to the feet of Rashford, in a lot of space in Chelsea’s half on the right. It’s absurdly ambitious, but there’s nothing wrong with that. However there’s just a little bit too much on the pass, and it flies through to Kepa. Still, what vision!

52 min: Luiz beckenbauers his way up the pitch, and then one-twos with Hazard on the edge of the area. Hazard’s cheeky backheel sends Luiz striding into the box down the inside-left channel. He shoots, but it’s blocked. The resulting corner comes to nothing. Chelsea have come out looking very confident.

50 min: Hazard’s back up. He’s fine to continue. Young’s challenge was deemed hard but fair, hence no penalty or second yellow. Hazard’s not making a song and dance about it.

48 min: Hazard goes at Young down the left, then turns on the jets. He fires a fierce shot goalwards from a tight angle, but it’s safely gathered at his near post by de Gea. Young slides in a couple of milliseconds later, and catches Hazard, who goes down in pain, clutching his ankle.

47 min: A glorious, bustling burst from Jorginho, straight down the middle, past Smalling, on walkabout, with ease. He feeds Morata on the edge of the United box. Morata miscontrols, but is still able to spin and get a shot away. It’s not much of an effort, a dribbler towards the bottom left that’s easily snaffled by de Gea.

And we’re off again! No changes. Mourinho takes his seat in the dugout looking pretty relaxed. His team get the ball rolling once more.

Half-time reading:

Mata hoists a cross in from the left. Luiz clears. Then Martial pointlessly clatters into the back of Rudiger, releasing the pressure. Chelsea go up the other end, Willian not able to get the better of Shaw down the right. And that’s it for the first half. Chelsea have dominated, but needed Pogba to fall asleep in order to get their goal. They’ll hope to improve in the second half; United need to.

45 min: A rare United attack finds Pogba free down the left. He reaches the byline, but his pullback is to nobody in particular and easily cleared by Azpilicueta.

43 min: Chelsea knock the ball around in pretty triangles for an age. United can’t get a sniff of it at all.

41 min: Jorginho, out on the left, nearly releases Willian into the United area with a glorious crossfield pass. Not quite, but the crowd appreciated the effort and ambition.

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40 min: Morata tries to curl one into the top right from distance, but it doesn’t go well. He’s been poor so far this afternoon; Giroud will have itchy feet right now.

39 min: Chelsea continue to push United back. But the visitors are looking a little more secure right now, holding their shape. Willian can’t open them up down the right.

37 min: Matic is robbed in the midfield. Chelsea stream forward. Alonso crosses from the left, hoping to find Morata, but Lindelof does very well to hold off the striker and head clear.

36 min: Chelsea with more of the passing.