LONDON: Chelsea proved that they could overcome without their striker who was injured when Mason Mason’s hat-trick was to top up the Premier League leaders in the demolition of their Norwich 7-0 on Saturday.
The side of Thomas Tuchel was rocked when Romelu Lukaku suffered an ankle injury and Timo Wernner suffered a hamstring problem in the Champions League victory mid-week against Malmo.
Apart from the absence of their main forward, Chelsea knocked down the bottom of the Norwich table at Stamford Bridge to move four points above.
Mountain began Rout with his first goal since May, ending the 15th tripful club’s performance for the 22-year-old child.
Callum Hudson-Odoi ended a longer yield of goals when he won his first league goal since January.
Reece James enhanced Chelsea’s superiority, became the third English graduate of the Youth Club Academy in Scoresheet.
Ben Chilwell captured The Fourth and Max Aarons scored an own goal because the series continued.
The mountain attacked again from the place and hit the three in the last seconds because Chelsea recorded their biggest victory since Tuchel arrived in January.
Woeful Norwich has Ben Gibson sent in the second round for two reservations.
Chelsea are now winning their last four matches in all competitions, removing damage carried out by successive defeat against Manchester City and Juventus before the international holiday.
Cruise Blues put a little extra pressure on the second Liverpool in front of their trip to Manchester United’s bitter rivals on Sunday.
Chelsea, pursuing their first English title since 2017, had the opportunity to extend their superiority because of the next two league matches against Newcastle and Burnley.
As long as the spells are responsible in Dortmund, Tuchel employs the Norwich boss Daniel FFKE as a coach under 23 clubs and the couple remains good friends.
They exchanged warm hugs on the touchline ahead of their first meeting as a manager.
It’s all the hospitality that will be displayed to Firu because Chelsea are embarrassing Canaries without victory.
The mountain has vowed to return to the score to help Chelsea overcome their injury problems and the England midfielder was true with his words.
Norwich failed to clean Hudson-odoi’s cross and Jorginho flicked the ball to the mountain, which released a fierce low drive that crossed through the Krul team from the edge of the area.
Chelsea were in full control and Hudson-Odoi doubled their lead in the 18th minute.
Pin-Point Pass Mateo Kovacic captured Norwich with flat legs when they tried to play for offside and Hudson-Odoi running behind, advancing into the penalty area to plant cold finishes into the cool corner.
Faster in mind and action rather than Norwich, Tuchel’s troops juggled a noble third goal in the 42nd minute.
In a flash, Jorginho turned to play from left to right and the mountain guided a perfectly weighted pass towards James, which exploded into the area and cut finishing on the rush crul.
Chilwell extended his unexpected heat scratch in front of the goal after 57 minutes.
Ted up by Kovacic’s Pass, left-back destroyed an extraordinary strike to a far corner from 18 yards, making it three goals in their last three league matches.
There was no let-up from Cross Chelsea and Hudson-Odoi confusing Aarons, catching Krul off-guard when dripping into the net in the 62nd minute.
Gibson was dismissed because of his rough lunges on James three minutes later when Norwich’s misery was getting deeper.
The mountain got the second in the 85th minute after Mathias Normann conceded a penalty when he handled Antonio Rudiger’s shot.
Spot Mount kick was saved by Krul, but had to be cured when the guard had moved from the line too early and the midfielder did not make a mistake with both efforts.
There was still time to complete the treble in termination when he knocked on Pass Ruben Loftus-cheeks.