Fans rage after Chelsea avoid giving away penalty despite clear hand ball - after rival Premier League club were punished for the same offence last season

Fans have argued Chelsea were fortunate to avoid conceding a penalty after Trevoh Chalobah handled the ball in the area against Burnley .

The incident occurred in the first half at Turf Moor, with Chelsea preparing to take a goal kick.

Goalkeeper Robert Sanchez kicked a stationary ball to Chalobah, which the defender stopped with his hand on the six-yard line.

Chalobah then passed the ball back to Sanchez, with the match resuming.

While Burnley offered no protest over the manner of Chelsea's goal kick, fans on social media claimed the Blues should have conceded a penalty for handball.

A comparison was made to Aston Villa 's Tyrone Mings conceding a penalty in similar fashion in last season's Champions League .

Mings was penalised for picking the ball up against Club Brugge, after being deemed to have handled from the goal kick, with the defender having been unaware the game had resumed.

'That Chalobah handball is not a penalty?????,' one fan questioned.

'That incident between Sanchez and Chalobah. Is that not handball by Chalobah? Sanchez passed the ball to him to continue play and he stopped the ball with his hands,' another wrote.

'Trevoh Chalobah has got away with one there, should be a penalty to Burnley for handball,' a third wrote.

'So that goal kick rule with the handball only applies to Villa then,' one Aston Villa fan complained.