Nigerian international, Victor Moses, starred for 90 minutes as Chelsea handed Manchester United an embarrassing 4-0 defeat on former manager Jose Mourinho’s return to Stamford Bridge.
While Moses was instrumental to some of the moves that neutralized the visitors’ defence, his Nigerian counterpart, John Obi Mikel, was still missing from Chelsea’s line up.
Chelsea manager, Antonio Conte, however, opted for Oscar, Willian, Michy Batshuayi, John Terry, Nathaniel Chalobah and Olaoluwa Aina for the bench role ahead of Mikel.
The Blues scored two in either half as they cruised to a comfortable victory against their old boss – just the second time the Portuguese has witnessed his side ship four or more goals in a Premier League game.
It is still just the one win for United here in the past 14 years and got off to the worst of starts when Pedro latched on to a Marcos Alonso pass around the back and simply rounded a stranded David de Gea to open the scoring.
There was a second 21 minutes in, however, when Gary Cahill blasted the ball over the line after it fell nicely into his path from a deflected corner into the box.
Openings were proving to be far harder to come by in the second period, but it was Chelsea who scored the killer third goal moments after that Courtois save thanks to a slick passing move.
A quick one-two saw Matic slide in Hazard, who tucked the ball past De Gea with ease to make certain of the points – the Serbian’s fourth assist in nine outings already this season, compared to two in 33 last term.
There was even better to come for the Blues, too – N’Golo Kante once again highlighting the fragile nature of the oppositions’ midfield by simply waltzing through and delicately placing the ball past De Gea to make it four.
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