Chelsea 5-0 Stoke City
Chelsea blew Stoke City away at the Bridge today, with a professional and explosive display to move Antonio Conte’s team into second place and 13 points from the top.
That could all change after the Manchester clubs play their weekend football games, but, for now, the Blues are progressing nicely. But after another poor showing, football betting pundits have Mark Hughes to be the next Premier League manager to lose his job. Following a spate of sackings, the Stoke boss recently said he was the last man standing, and hovering just above the drop zone that could be temporary.
It was all over in the first quarter of the match, if not the first three minutes, which was all it took for Antonio Rudiger to shrug off the weak Potters’ defence and fire home. And it was a cracking goal on nine minutes which doubled the lead, and Hughes’ agony, when Danny Drinkwater hit a beauty of a dipping volley into the net. Then, on 24 minutes, Pedro latched onto a ball from Willian to curl a lovely shot home.
It was damage limitation for Stoke in the second half and they were making a decent fist of that, until Geoff Cameron felled Willian in the box and the Brazilian star calmly slid the penalty home. Davide Zappacosta made it five in the dying minutes; and that was about a fair reflection.
Chelsea can go into 2018 in good heart, but Stoke are looking nervously over their shoulders.
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