Chelsea rout reigning champions

LONDON: Chelsea demolished the team that succeeded them as Premier League winners when champions Leicester City succumbed tamely 3-0.

Published on: Oct 16, 2016, 10:30:43 IST

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LONDON: Chelsea demolished the team that succeeded them as Premier League winners when champions Leicester City succumbed tamely 3-0.

Goals from the Premier League’s leading marksman Diego Costa, Eden Hazard and Victor Moses ensured Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri’s visit to his old club was a far cry from five months ago when the Foxes received a guard of honour for their title triumph.

The unmarked Costa’s seventh-minute strike was his seventh goal of the season, before Chelsea’s dominance was further rewarded, following more comedy defending, by Hazard’s expertly-taken second.

Moses finished a brilliant one-two 10 minutes from time to leave Leicester as the first English top-flight champions since Blackburn Rovers 21 years ago to lose their opening four away games of the season.

Leicester’s 2015-16 fairytale always looked an impossible act to follow but the tame nature of their fourth defeat in eight games was alarming for their fans who witnessed just three league losses over the whole of last season.

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