Chelsea crush tame champions Leicester City in dominant Stamford Bridge display
Goals from trio – Diego Costa, Eden Hazard and Victor Moses – ensure Foxes boss Claudio Raineri’s visit to his old club is a far cry from five months ago
Chelsea demolished the team who succeeded them as English Premier League winners when champions Leicester City succumbed tamely 3-0 on Saturday.
Goals from the 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 at Stanford Bridge, 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 fairy-tale 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.
The visitors, who wore black arm bands to mark the death of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, seemed to have half an eye on Tuesday’s Champions League clash with FC Copenhagen.
