Match Report & 4 discussion points by Stamford Bridge Mauling

From Stamford Bridge-Schelsea ended a three games with a comfortable 4-0 walk on Tuesday evening with a comfortable 4-0 walk to Southampton.

Goals in the first half by Christopher Nkunku, Pedro Neto and Levi Colwill in front of Marc Cucurella's late strike made a mockery about Enzo Maresca's prediction that this would be a “tricky” game. The blues fought for the shape in this calendar year, but their difficulties were put in the shade by visitors, who have now lost 12 of their last 14 Premier League games.

The victory for Chelsea brought them back to the top 4, although Manchester City and Newcastle United were both able to skip the outfit in West London on Wednesday evening.

How the game unfolds

“There is a big difference between us,” sighed Southampton's increasingly dilapidated head coach Ivan Juric before the game. “You are an incredible team with incredible players.” This quality of the quality was not immediately recognizable. After a nervous opening of 20 minutes, Chelsea soon rammed her superiority home.

Enzo Fernandez and Cole Palmer roamed between the lines of the glaring, yellow Southampton shirts and effortlessly picked each other as if they were playing between rows of neon skins.

Palmer had a close effort that impressively suffocated Aaron Ramsdale, although this only led to the corner that produced the prelude by Christopher Nkunku. Tosin Adarabioyo took the first contact on the covered delivery and steered it towards the rear post after 24 minutes so that Nkunku bent and nods.

Southampton was not entirely toothless, the timberfalls by Paul Onuachu, a 6'7 striker who spends just as much time to fight with his own limbs as opposition-middle-backs, the two goals were valuable lead Pedro Neto, the ten minutes was provided before the interval.

The fleet, Portuguese striker again drove as a mobile central striker and implemented himself around the left shoulder of Nkunku when Chelsea Southampton caught in the transition and blew up a toxic first exertion directly through Ramsdale.

Chelsea closed her flash in the first half with a high -towering header from Levi Colwill, the central defender born in Southampton, who still lives on the south coast and commutes to London. Maybe he doesn't start an elevator in the Saints team coach.

As a sleeping second half to conclude his inevitable conclusion, the tireless Marc Cucurella hung a further turn of the dagger in Southampton lifeless body. Chelsea's wild-haired left-back, which was picked up from a saint-on attack from a Saints corner, held his coolness to check Tyrique Georges measured cut and to choose the lower corner.

Take a look at Chelsea's player reviews against Southampton.

When Chelsea was facing the south coast in the back of Southampton, the fans bragged out in the external department Jublig: “We have our Chelsea back.” The news behind the considerable protest, which took place before the removal on Tuesday, was simple: “We want our Chelsea back.”

In addition to its similar loose persecution, the current property regime of the club could hardly be diametrical against Roman Abramovich's trophy rule. While the Russian oligarch ruthlessly sought after immediate success, especially six months after winning the Champions League 2012, Maresca has repeatedly pointed out that the association is not even targeting the qualification for the first European club competition this season.

The Italian has been forced to trace this pessimistic attitude back in the past few days, but if you shadow a historically cruel iteration of a Premier League Football Club, the bed sheet will not be forced for a long time.

“Cole is a person,” Maresca recalled on Monday. Palmer delivered his own refresher course about this fact with a destructive stubborn display in front of a public that is defiantly consumed when worshiping its playmaker.

After Palmer had violently slaughtered half a volley over Ramsdale's Crosshels shortly before the hour, the youngest in a catalog of snapshots and dirty shots, over Ramsdales latte.

Joe Aribo, a naturally attacking midfielder who spent spokes on the advance in the championship campaign of last season and only competed with Center-Back, was commissioned with Man-Marking Palmer. Chelsea's slippery Talisman escaped Aribos, but wasted the several years of pocket in the square, which he scored around with him.

Palmer's dots now has seven consecutive games – he has not scored a goal for his teammates since December 1st.

The handsome goal line – and the efficiency of his teammates – ensured that the pouting playmaker did not give a sharp change in detachment. All frustration of Palmer was reserved for himself when he ended the game with seven unsuccessful goals.

Within less than two full games as a central striker, Neto Nicolas Jackson's production agreed in his last ten appearances before suffering a serious thigh injury at the beginning of the month (one goal, two templates).

It was thrown away by the negativity that flooded the collapse of the second half against Aston Villa at the weekend, but Neto's unique brand of the Waspish Härgeriswert has stored the energy that was missing Chelsea's front in Jackson's absence.

After Neto scurried around the central disc of the field, Nkunku looked far more convenient when Palmer fed a front line closed by Jadon Sancho on the right wing.

Juric has openly admitted that he already wants to “create something good for the future”. However, Southampton still has some work to do in the current campaign to avoid becoming the worst team in the history of the Premier League.

The team from Derby County from 2007/08 holds this specific wooden spoon with a total of 11 points. Similar to Southampton, the Rams had nine points from their first 27 games and had given 57 goals – eight less than the saints.

Southampton only needs one victory – or three draws – to avoid this bleak statistical jewelry empty, but completely where these results come from appears desperate. The end of Stamford Bridge was at least half right in his claim: “You are nothing special, we lose every week.”

A trip to Anfield is your next league trip before a revived Wolverhampton Wanderers travels to St. Mary before the international break next month. A visit from similarly sad Leicester City on May 3rd will ring red.

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