Chelsea pile more misery on winless Wolves to go second in Premier League
Chelsea climbed to second in the Premier League table as three second-half goals saw them to a comfortable 3-0 win over managerless Wolves at Stamford Bridge.
This was a routine victory against the league's bottom side who failed to register a shot on target, thought it took what felt an age for the hosts to shake themselves loose and get firing.
When finally they did, the goals flowed freely. Malo Gusto headed his first career goal early in the second half, Joao Pedro rammed home his second in two league matches and Pedro Neto - arguably Chelsea's player of the season so far - knocked in the third from the impressive Alejandro Garnacho's cross.
Enzo Maresca had faced criticism for his squad rotation policy having made 85 changes in total this season, and he bullishly kept up the trend here in making eight more from the draw with Qarabag - though he could fairly point to just one alteration from last weekend's 1-0 win over Tottenham.
That was to bring in Liam Delap for his first appearance at home since the hamstring injury that kept him out for nearly two months, but the player signed for £30million to be the reliable striker Chelsea lacked last season barely had a touch in the first half.
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