Chelsea broke all kind of records on their superb 4-0 victory over Manchester United tonight, as José Mourinho returned to Stamford Bridge looking to beat his former side – with a catastrophic outcome.
Goals from Pedro, Gary Cahill, Eden Hazard and N’Golo Kante trashed the hopeless Red Devils defence, while the solid Blues defenders and in-form goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois denied all of United’s goal-scoring efforts, continuing their brilliant three-game run of conceding no goals at all.
Antonio Conte told Sky Sports the players’ commitment paid off and that they deserved to seal the victory tonight.
I am pleased with the performance, we started well, moved the ball quickly, created chances to score the goal. I see the commitment in training and the players deserve this.
We are improving, we must continue to work, only through the work we can improve.
Chelsea were a whole different team some weeks back after disappointing defeats against Liverpool and Arsenal, which made tonight’s win even more important according to the Italian.
It is very important after the Arsenal and Liverpool defeats, it was important to understand our mission.
We must look to Wednesday against West Ham and prepare for that.
They certainly were fully deserved three points for the Blues, but there was a mistake which had the potential to turn the game in another direction.
David Luiz could have been sent off after his knee-high foul on United’s Marouane Fellaini, but got away with a yellow.
Conte said he didn’t saw the situation well enough to comment the incident.
I did not see the David Luiz situation, I think Luiz played a fantastic game then I don’t know if he deserved a red [after his tackle on Marouane Fellaini].
After the full-time whistle José Mourinho pulled Conte aside complaining him about the Italian’s way of whipping up the crowd when the game came to a close.
The former Blues boss reportedly told Conte to not do such thing to purposely embarrass the opponent manager and players, saying: “Don’t do that [celebrate] at 4-0. 1-0 okay, but 4-0 is humiliating.”
However, Conte calmly explained the standing ovation was meant for the Blues players, who all ‘deserved a clap’ after their exquisite display.
I was listening to the support of Manchester United, always supporting their team and I was asking my team to do a clap for my players.
All the players deserves this clap.
