Chelsea's five-star display gives Mauricio Pochettino hope over his future while David Moyes is waiting to be put out of his misery at West Ham

After truthful overmuch incoherent mumbling, Chelsea are yet opening to make a small sense. Not capable to spot them, but capable for Mauricio Pochettino to articulate a beardown lawsuit for continued employment beyond this summer.

As ever, immoderate talk of revivals ought to beryllium weighed against nan calamities that person followed each of their caller dawns successful this strangest of campaigns.

But location is besides nary uncertainty that Pochettino has orchestrated a reasonable upturn, pinch triumph complete Tottenham now followed by this exuberant demolition of different London rival.

In what was their 4th triumph successful 7 convention games, Chelsea were excellent. There was nary ambiguity astir that and nary proposal either that this was a one-man effort.

Unlike a number of their precocious points this season, Cole Palmer wasn’t nan sole supplier of destruction. Sure, he was brilliant, which extends further than his latest extremity – nan 21st of his wonderous run to spell pinch 9 assists - but present he had company. Here, nan load was shared. Here, nan value rotated and sparkled. Whisper it and past hide it, because little than a fortnight agone they were walloped 5-0 by Arsenal, but present they looked for illustration a good team.

Conor Gallagher was people among nan champion of them. Anyone wrong that boardroom who sees axenic profit successful his performances ought to beryllium drummed retired of westbound London – he is axenic people and indispensable; a maestro of winning nan shot backmost and 1 of nan safest pairs of boots erstwhile they person it. His extremity was highly good taken.

Then you had Noni Madueke, delivering arguably his champion showing of nan season. He annihilated Emerson successful nan conflict up Chelsea’s correct flank, which saw a scruffy extremity scored and an unselfish assistance provided for Nicolas Jackson, whose ain play is mirroring that of his club. This erstwhile lightning rod for Pochettino’s difficulties impressed against Spurs and sewage 2 successful this mauling, which accrued nan momentum of Chelsea belated push for European qualification.

Now this is nan tricky portion – really do you contextualise a hiding erstwhile nan unfortunate is truthful awfully mediocre arsenic nan broadside served up by David Moyes astatine Stamford Bridge? They were rotten. Spineless. Gutless. For what he has brought to West Ham, we mightiness reasonably opportunity that his tenure deserved a much spirited end, if these do so beryllium to beryllium his last weeks astatine nan club.

In that conversation, he was fto down by this performance. Shamed by nan indifference of it. If Julen Lopetegui was watching, he mightiness good person incurred a fewer reservations astir nan characteristic of a squad that could tie pinch Liverpool and rotation complete truthful softly adjacent clip out.

This battering could beryllium foretold almost immediately. Not needfully done glaring opportunities but successful nan easiness pinch which Chelsea retained possession and past regained it. West Ham’s complicity successful each that cannot beryllium understated – their midfield was dismally consenting to beryllium ransacked.

On nan backmost of their capacity against Liverpool, we mightiness person expected thing acold much robust. Moyes surely did - he went pinch an unchanged broadside here, but it’s overseas really nan aforesaid cogs tin person specified variance.

Inside 4 minutes we saw Moises Caicedo charging 30 yards aliases much unchallenged done nan mediate of nan pitch. Such freedoms presumably weren’t successful nan plan, though successful this lawsuit nan move collapsed down connected nan separator of West Ham’s area erstwhile Jackson fumbled his touch.

A infinitesimal later, Emerson was dragged retired of position astatine near backmost and surrendered abstraction for Gallagher to play a speedy free-kick up nan statement to Jackson. Cutting successful from nan right, he went for nan snapshot to nan adjacent station and Alphonse Areola saved, but those 2 warnings illustrated what each head was moving with.

The salary disconnected came conscionable awkward of nan quarter-hour mark, though location was a grade of luck successful it for Chelsea, pinch Jackson gathering a transverse from Madueke and crashing his volley against Kurt Zouma’s thigh. In nan randomness of a ricochet, nan shot could person gone anywhere, but it chose Palmer and nan inevitable followed – a lovely, precise deed to nan corner.

For nan briefest of moments, West Ham summoned immoderate resilience, pinch Jarrod Bowen heading against nan barroom almost instantly aft nan restart, but it was a short-lived fight. Across nan adjacent fewer passages of play, some Jackson and Madueke were capable to surge unimpeded done Moyes’s midfield towards threatening outcomes earlier nan 2nd onslaught arrived successful nan 30th minute.

As pinch nan first goal, location was immoderate bully fortune, and erstwhile much nan luck went against Zouma. This clip he blocked a Madueke volley and it was Gallagher who lashed successful nan loose ball.

Sensing a capitulation, Chelsea pushed for much and recovered it via Madueke. He had been near free by Tomas Soucek erstwhile Mykhailo Mudryk’s area passed overhead and was successful nan correct spot to nudge complete nan statement aft Thiago Silva rerouted it backmost nan different way.

Watching a replay connected his monitor, Moyes had a look of disgust carved into his look – set-piece errors ever sting him more.

Both Gallagher and Bowen deed nan opposing bars towards nan extremity of nan half, earlier Chelsea sewage nan 2nd going pinch different slap for their visitors.

Better put, West Ham tripped themselves up. Full marks to Trevoh Chalobah for nan 50-yard through-ball that Madueke kindly squared for Jackson to pat in, but Emerson’s search of nan English winger disconnected nan first walk was shambolic.

Jackson’s 2nd carried a higher tariff of difficulty, but he nailed nan 1 connected 1 pinch Areola aft a shot up nan mediate from Caicedo. Naturally, it started pinch a West Ham gaffe erstwhile Soucek mis-controlled, but Moyes was beyond gesticulating astatine this point.

If location was immoderate alleviation for him, it is that astir of West Ham’s fans had already gone home.