Get all your news in one place.
100’s of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Sport
Jonathan Gorrie

Southampton 0-6 Chelsea: Timo Werner and Mason Mount grab braces in emphatic win

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.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100’s of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.