Moses scores as Chelsea humble Burnley

Substitute Victor Moses found the back of the net as Chelsea maintained their perfect start to the Premier League season with a 3-0 win over Burnley at Stamford Bridge, courtesy of first-half goals from Eden Hazard and Willian.

In truth, it should have been a more significant winning margin but Antonio Conte will have been pleased with the performance of his side, which never looked in trouble after Hazard opened the scoring with a wonderful solo goal early on.

Willian made it 2-0 shortly before half-time and Moses capped a wonderful collective display with his second goal of the week, arriving in the box to fire Pedro’s cross into the back of the net.

It was a cagey start to the contest with both teams guilty of losing possession during the opening exchanges, but the first real piece of quality saw the Blues take the lead after only nine minutes.

Nemanja Matic did well to get on the ball and release Hazard inside the Chelsea half but the Belgian still had plenty of work to do. In full flow, however, he carried the ball from deep, running at the retreating Burnley defenders as they backed off, before cutting inside Michael Keane on the edge of the penalty area and curling a brilliant right-footed shot past Tom Heaton into the bottom corner.

Diego Costa picked up possession just outside the penalty area and shifted it out to Willian on his right-hand side and, after skipping past Stephen Ward with an electric burst of pace, he fizzed a powerful low drive into the far corner, giving Heaton no chance.

Conte made his first change with 14 minutes remaining; introdu

cing Victor Moses for Willian, while soon after Batshuayi and Pedro came on for Diego Costa and Hazard.

Batshuayi was quickly into the action and went close with a right-footed strike after using his pace to get away from two defenders, the strike just a fraction too high.

It was another substitute, Moses, who put the seal on the win when he timed his run into the box perfectly to meet Pedro's cross and beat Heaton.

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