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Chelsea kept up their pursuit for a European spot by hitting West Ham for 5 astatine Stamford Bridge connected Sunday afternoon.
Cole Palmer, Conor Gallagher and Noni Madueke sewage first half goals for nan Blues arsenic they looked to build connected Thursday's triumph astatine location to Tottenham.
Nicolas Jackson nabbed a 2nd half brace, to widen Chelsea's lead complete the Hammers in nan Premier League table.
David Moyes' squad look group to extremity their run successful a whimper, whilst nan Blues proceed to rack up important points successful their bid to climb nan league.
Mail Sport's Kieran Gill analyses Chelsea while Kathryn Batte looks astatine West Ham successful nan lucifer ratings from Chelsea 5-0 West Ham:
Nicolas Jackson scored a second-half brace successful Chelsea's 5-0 triumph complete West Ham connected Sunday
Djordje Petrovic kept a cleanable expanse for nan Blues, but Jarrod Bowen deed nan crossbar 3 times
Chelsea (4-2-3-1)
Djordje Petrovic 7
Superb prevention to extremity James Ward-Prowse from scoring a consolation free-kick, though grateful that Jarrod Bowen could only find nan crossbar not once, not twice, but 3 times.
Trevoh Chalobah 8
Defensively sound yet again, particularly arsenic he was up against nan energetic Mohammed Kudus. Played astatine correct backmost this time, aft starring astatine centre backmost against Tottenham. Versatile.
Thiago Silva 8
Chelsea fans showed their appreciation for nan 39-year-old Brazilian up of his summertime exit but this was yet much grounds that Silva tin proceed to execute astatine an elite level.
Benoit Badiashile 8
Put successful a fewer difficult tackles, which prompted applause from Pochettino. Though Chelsea were thankful of nan woodwork connected a fewer occasions, Badiashile and Silva made for beardown partners.
Thiago Silva proved himself astatine nan elite level yet again contempt his summertime exit from Chelsea
Conor Gallagher was captious to Chelsea's midfield, scoring their 2nd and besides hitting nan bar
Noni Madueke was nan subordinate of nan match, pinch a assured capacity successful Chelsea's attack
Marc Cucurella 8
Good to spot Cucurella playing pinch specified confidence, moving into midfield from correct back. Starting to show why Pep Guardiola wanted him for Manchester City successful 2022.
Moises Caicedo 8
Caicedo was location to termination it disconnected nan overseas West Ham antagonistic while he won possession earlier mounting up Jackson truthful that Chelsea's striker could complete this 5-0 hammering.
Conor Gallagher 8
Smacked his volley into nan bottommost area for Chelsea’s second, earlier striking nan crossbar erstwhile he hoped to adhd another. Staggering if this midfield instrumentality is sold this summer.
Noni Madueke 8.5
Unselfish successful mounting up Jackson truthful that he could pat successful Chelsea’s fourth, having already sewage their 3rd extremity for himself. Performance oozed positivity throughout. My subordinate of nan match.
Cole Palmer 8
Gratefully accepted nan gift of a gaping extremity to kickstart this demolition aft dire defending from West Ham. Some of his balls successful down belonged successful a museum.
Mykhailo Mudryk 7.5
Confidence is pouring retired of Mudryk, which is awesome to see. Just a shame he could not get a extremity aliases an assistance to spell on pinch his efforts.
Nicolas Jackson 8
Forever put himself successful bully positions and sewage his reward successful nan 2nd half, scoring aft Madueke’s show of unselfishness and past finishing his one-on-one truthful coolly.
SUBS: Christopher Nkunku (for Madueke, 76) – N/A, Cesare Casadei (for Mudryk, 76) – N/A, Axel Disasi (for Silva, 82) – N/A, Malo Gusto (for Chalobah, 83) – N/A, Alfie Gilchrist (for Palmer, 89) – N/A
MANAGER - Mauricio Pochettino 8
Another cleanable consequence for Chelsea successful their pursuit of a European place. Pochettino will person loved nan teamwork vibe that accompanied this 5-0 win.
West Ham (4-2-3-1):
Alphonse Areola - 5
Could possibly person done amended pinch nan first extremity aft getting a manus to it but could do small to forestall nan consequent Chelsea onslaught. Could person been a bigger shortage had he not produced immoderate decent saves.
Vladimir Coufal - 3
A reliable day from commencement to finish. Carless successful possession and excessively slow to get backmost successful position erstwhile his squad mislaid nan ball. Gave Mykhailo Mudryk acold excessively overmuch state connected nan near helping and was fortunate nan guardant did not punish him arsenic often arsenic he should have.
Despite conceding 5 goals, Alphonse Areola made immoderate awesome saves to contradict nan Blues
Defenders Vladimir Coufal and Kurt Zouma some had reliable afternoons astatine Stamford Bridge
Kurt Zouma - 3.5
Not an enjoyable return to his erstwhile club. Inadvertently group up nan first 2 goals pinch a mediocre clearance for Cole Palmer’s onslaught and a mistimed tackle for Conor Gallagher’s volley. Did amended somewhat successful nan 2nd half, but nan harm was already done.
Angelo Ogbonna - 3
Was making his 200th quality for West Ham but looked for illustration a subordinate who was acold little experienced. Could not get a grip connected Nicolas Jackson and fto Gallagher spell for nan 2nd goal. Was beaten clip and clip again erstwhile Chelsea played balls successful down nan backline.
Emerson - 3
Another subordinate who had a miserable return to Stamford Bridge. Given nan runaround by Noni Madueke and was caught napping connected excessively galore occasions, including for nan 4th goal. Wasted a awesome chance to propulsion a extremity backmost successful nan 2nd half.
Tomas Soucek - 3
May arsenic good person been playing successful defence he was truthful deep. Needed to get further up nan transportation to support Edson Alvarez successful nan first half and James Ward-Prowse successful nan second. Gave nan shot distant criminally for nan 5th goal, which summed up West Ham’s performance.
Edson Alvarez - 4
Chasing shadows successful nan first half arsenic Moises Caicedo and Gallagher dictated play, but had small support from those astir him. One of a number of players who could person been hooked astatine half-time and whitethorn consciousness a small difficult done by that he was nan 1 withdrawn astatine nan break.
Jarrod Bowen - 6
Could person had a hat-trick had it not been for nan woodwork, pinch nan guardant hitting nan barroom doubly successful nan first half and erstwhile successful nan second. Kept trying to get his squad up nan transportation but had small support.
Edson Alvarez was unlucky to beryllium hooked astatine half-time, and replaced by James Ward-Prowse
Michail Antonio had small support, and couldn't do thing pinch nan shot erstwhile he sewage it
Lucas Paqueta - 3
Game passed him by for ample parts and he trim a disappointment fig for overmuch of nan clip he was connected nan pitch. Picked up his 13th yellowish paper successful each competitions and his 10th successful nan Premier League pinch a chaotic tackle successful nan first half. Limped disconnected pinch an wounded earlier nan end.
Mohammed Kudus - 5
Was nan only different subordinate alongside Bowen who looked half threatening going forward, but excessively often his runs and dribbles came to nothing. Drifted retired of nan crippled successful nan 2nd half and saw small of nan ball.
Michail Antonio – 4
Had very small support up beforehand but could not make nan shot instrumentality erstwhile it did travel into his feet. Let Thiago Silva spell acold excessively easy from nan area for nan 3rd goal, pinch nan defender having a free header to group up Madueke to finish.
SUBS: Ward-Prowse (for Alvarez, 45) - 5, Ings (for Antonio, 70) - 5, Cresswell (for Paqueta, 76) - 5
