Chelsea defeated West Ham 5-1 to claim their first Premier League victory and increase pressure on West Ham head coach Graham Potter. Lucas Paqueta opened the scoring with a 25-yard strike after Cole Palmer limped out of Chelsea's warm-up and was replaced by Estevao. Joao Pedro equalised and later provided the cross for Neto to give Chelsea the lead, before Estevao and Liam Delap combined to set up Enzo Fernandez. Second-half set-piece errors allowed Moises Caicedo and Trevoh Chalobah to score. West Ham produced late chances but could not recover and sit bottom of the early standings.
Things started well for the Hammers as Lucas Paqueta beat Robert Sanchez with a thunderous 25-yard strike in the sixth minute, after Chelsea's talisman Cole Palmer limped out of the visitors' warm-up and was replaced in their starting XI by Estevao. But the Blues responded emphatically, levelling when Joao Pedro evaded Aaron Wan-Bissaka to nod home in the 15th minute, after Marc Cucurella flicked Pedro Neto's corner on.
Joao Pedro turned provider with a pinpoint cross as Neto put Chelsea ahead in the 23rd minute, shortly after Niclas Fullkrug saw an effort disallowed for offside at the other end. And Chelsea never looked back after taking the lead, with Estevao combining brilliantly with Liam Delap to tee up Enzo Fernandez for a 34th-minute tap-in. West Ham were booed off by their supporters at half-time and within 15 minutes of reemerging, some dismal set-piece defending had them 5-1 down.
Mads Hermansen flapped at a Fernandez corner in the 54th minute, allowing Moises Caicedo to prod home, and just three minutes later, the former Leicester City goalkeeper saw another set-piece delivery taken out of his hands by Wan-Bissaka before Trevoh Chalobah converted. Playing only for pride, West Ham started to create chances with the best of those seeing Caicedo deny Kyle Walker-Peters on the line, but they could not cut the deficit and the London Stadium was half-empty by the time the final whistle put them out of their misery.
Collection
[
|
...
]