Goals from Kai Havertz, Christian Pulisic and Armando Broja were enough to fire Chelsea to a straightforward 3-0 victory over managerless Wolves.
Graham Potter’s side were dominant in the first half and went ahead through Havertz’s header deep in stoppage time, before Pulisic’s strike shortly after the interval killed things off.
Broja also opened his account for the club in the dying embers, showing some lovely footwork to drill into the bottom corner.
Chelsea began bright and Conor Gallagher wasn’t far off opening the scoring inside two minutes. He was off-balance as he struck from towards the edge of the box and couldn’t keep his effort on target.
Havertz then blazed over the bar a few moments later, with Chelsea finding themselves in several nice positions early on.
Wolves did pose a threat on the counter, however, while Kepa also had to be alert to keep out a nice free-kick from Joao Moutinho midway through the first half.
Sloppy finishing saw Chelsea continue to be frustrated as the half progressed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Pulisic both fired over in quick succession, before the latter drew an excellent save from Jose Sa with a glorious curling effort.
After what felt like 20 solid minutes of Chelsea threat, Wolves nearly snatched a goal as Adama Traore’s cross found Matheus Nunes, who couldn’t control his header.
Finally, with almost the last kick of the first half, Chelsea made the long-awaited breakthrough as Havertz leapt highest to head home a cross from Mason Mount and end a half in which Chelsea had 70% possession and out-shot Wolves 15 to four.
After the break, Wolves came out hottest and put together their first real passages of play, but Chelsea doubled their lead eight minutes in as Pulisic found some space in the box and dinked his effort over Sa.
Havertz failed to do the same shortly after as Chelsea sought to kill the game off, as if the result was ever in any danger.
Wolves did not lie down completely but simply could not offer any sort of a threat as Chelsea pursued a third. Gallagher attempted to replicate his worldie against Crystal Palace but sent this one ballooning over the bar.
To cap off an excellent day for Chelsea, Broja grabbed his first goal for the club with a fine low strike with just seconds to go.
GK: Kepa Arrizabalaga – 6/10 – The odd nice save but will have simply been glad the sun was shining.
CB: Trevoh Chalobah – 7/10 – Nice and tidy. Did his job in defence and always…
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