Chelsea ended an awful week in emphatic fashion with an 6-0 win over Southampton.
Heading into Saturday, Ralph Hasenhuttl’s side looked like the worst kind of opposition for Thomas Tuchel. At their best, an organised team capable of frustrating the elite, it looked far from a favourable game.
That, however, never proved to be the case.
Marcos Alonso’s opener inside ten minutes came after Timo Werner had hit the woodwork twice and, from there, the floodgates opened.
Mason Mount, not a popular figure amongst the Southampton support, scored a brilliant second with a controlled strike from just outside the box before Werner showed great composure on the counter to round the otherwise excellent Fraser Forster, which says so much about a team who lost by such a big margin.
Kai Havertz tapped in after Werner had struck the post again to make it four before the interval.
Less than five minutes into the second-half, the German striker - so often the butt of jokes - took his tally against Southampton up to five in total by scoring a second before Mount grabbed his brace.
Chelsea’s Champions League tie with Real Madrid may be over. On this evidence, the Tuchel era very much isn’t.
