Chelsea’s Davide Zappacosta completes crushing of dire Stoke

With this simple victory Chelsea ambled a little closer to Manchester City at the top of the table and ridiculed the weakness of Stoke City’s squad. At no point did this match seem an authentic contest, Mark Hughes’s improvised side appearing like ragtag underlings even before Antonio Rüdiger opened the scoring in the third minute. Danny Drinkwater, Pedro, Willian and Davide Zappacosta amused themselves by adding their names to score sheet.

Chelsea omitted key players such as Eden Hazard and Cesc Fàbregas in advance of Wednesday’s showdown with Arsenal but that was an unnecessary precaution, since the hosts did not have to exert themselves to trounce these woeful visitors.

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