Our approach is humble, but when we play like this anything is possible. “I don’t want to get carried away,” said Thomas Tuchel, the Chelsea head coach, who barely missed the absences of injured Romelu Lukaku and Timo Werner. Nature took its course and while Mason Mount scored a hat trick, three wasn’t even half of his team’s goals, six of which were scored by English players as Gareth Southgate looked on, the seventh being an own goal. Bottom of the table Norwich City were abysmal. Table-topping European champions Chelsea were magnificent. They say there are no easy games in the Premier League. Winless Norwich reduced to 10 men after Ben Gibson sent off for two yellow cards.Six out of seven goals come from Chelsea's English players in front of watching Gareth Southgate.Mason Mount, without a goal since Champions League semi-final in May, leads the way with a hat-trick.Match report: Mason Mount's hat-trick helps classy Chelsea put seven past sorry Norwich After that, their season will be defined. In their next five fixtures, Norwich face Leeds, Brentford, Southampton, Wolves and Newcastle. Nascent signs of supporter discontent notwithstanding, strugglers’ seasons are not defined by visits to the European Champions and Farke’s influence extends beyond the first team, but he has little to show for a summer outlay of circa £50 million. “Everyone in that dressing room has to look at themselves because everyone has got to do better.” “When you come to Chelsea you need to be resilient abd fight for your pride, but we didn’t show much of that,” admitted captain Grant Hanley. Outfought, out-thought and utterly outclassed, for Norwich there was nothing to take comfort from as they squandered the momentum spawned by draws with Burnley and Brighton. We are tough on him, but we’ve found a way to push him to his limits.”
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“Guys who are so full of quality hear a little bit too often how good they are. Tuchel wants more, but, as we already know, Tuchel always wants more. After a heated, albeit one-way, discussion, the player blossomed, scoring when he expertly read the pass of the afternoon from Kovacic, providing for Aarons’ own goal and outwitting his theoretical chaperone Ozan Kabak at every turn. In the very first minute Tuchel was incandescent when Hudson-Odoi lolloped rather than sprinted. “It’s not that he’s hard to please, you have to prove to yourself you’re worthy of being in the team.” “He told me to keep putting in the intensity,” explained Hudson-Odoi. A player who allowed himself to drift is beginning to wake up after Tuchel explained what was required. More fascinating still is Hudson-Odoi’s renaissance. Hat-trick hero Mason Mount and Callum Hudson-Odoi notched their first league goals of the season, the 13th and 14th Chelsea players to do so, while sharp-shooting full-back Ben Chilwell scored for the third consecutive league game. With Jorginho and Mateo Kovacic spraying daisy-cutting passes left and right from central midfield, all Chelsea’s goals utilised width and two involved the ball being elegantly shifted from touchline to touchline. Instead, new Chelsea took advantage of the gaps behind wing backs Aarons and Dimitris Giannoulis. None of the seven goals were scored inside the six-yard box, none were the work of poachers and in a game short on corners (five for Chelsea none of course for threat-free Norwich) and high crosses, none were headed. Chelsea did not pivot around nominal sole striker Kai Havertz as they do with Lukaku. As a result, Tuchal has found the managerial holy grail: options. Without Lukaku, Tuchel was forced to innovate and from necessity came sublimeness. Lukaku has scored just three league goals and before hobbling off during the midweek Champions League crushing of Malmo, hadn’t struck since early September. With Lukaku on board, they get the ball to him as early as possible, confident of what will follow. That makes things special.”īeyond the glitter of the magnificent seven, this was a different Chelsea. “They understand there is no problem in being a nice guy and playing hard. “The academy guys are humble guys who know what it is to play for Chelsea,” enthused head coach Thomas Tuchel afterwards. Chelsea’s demolition of wretched Norwich City may have been the least surprising outcome of the weekend in the Premier League, but in its own way, it was a pivotal moment in the European champions’ season.Īs Gareth Southgate looked on, five of Chelsea’s seven goals were scored by English players nurtured at the club’s Cobham academy.
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