Categories: Sports

EPL: Chelsea thrash West Ham to go top

Chelsea came from behind to thrash West Ham 5-1 on Friday and leave former Blues manager Graham Potter under pressure just two games into the Premier League season.

Potter has won just five of 21 games since taking charge in January and has endured a miserable start to the new campaign after a 3-0 defeat to newly-promoted Sunderland last weekend.

Lucas Paqueta’s brilliant strike gave the home side hope early on, but they quickly capitulated.

Arsenal beat Man United in Premier League opener at Old Trafford

Joao Pedro scored the first of Chelsea’s three goals from corners before Pedro Neto and Enzo Fernandez added to the world champions’ lead.

Moises Caicedo and Trevoh Chalobah then took advantage of a nightmare night for new West Ham goalkeeper Mads Hermansen.

“It was a tough evening for us. Against a top team, to concede the goals in the manner we have, it is an impossible task,” Potter said after the game.

The victory took Chelsea, who drew their opening game 0-0 against Crystal Palace, top of the Premier League for the first time since December 2021.

The Star

Segun Ojo

Recent Posts

Appeal Court halts deregistration of ADC, four other parties

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has stayed the execution of a Federal High Court…

27 minutes ago

Mass trial: FG secures conviction of 150 terrorists

The Federal Government has secured the conviction of 150 suspected terrorists out of 160 suspects…

2 hours ago

Court sentences woman to death for aiding bandits

A Federal High Court in Katsina has sentenced a woman, Hauwa’u Mukhtar, to death by…

3 hours ago

Tinubu commissions judges’ quarters, pushes judicial reforms

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday commissioned a newly completed 10-unit Court of Appeal Judges’…

4 hours ago

N110.4bn fraud: Court dismisses Yahaya Bello’s application challenging jurisdiction

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in the Maitama area of Abuja on…

4 hours ago

PHOTOS: Obama unveils new portrait by Nigerian-born artist Akunyili in US

Former United States President Barack Obama has unveiled a new portrait of himself and ex-First…

6 hours ago

This website uses cookies.