Chelsea walked all over West Ham in an easy 3-0 win at the London Stadium and it seems in more ways than one too.
There is no love lost between West Ham and London rivals Chelsea on or off the pitch.
So the Blues took great pleasure in ensuring West Ham made their worst home league start in the club’s 129-year history.
The defeat to Chelsea means the Hammers have lost their first three home league matches of a campaign ever.
It’s hardly the start Julen Lopetegui was looking for at West Ham.
The Spaniard got his tactics all wrong as the Irons were beaten comfortably in the Premier League encounter.
Ahead of the game Hammers News highlighted that it is one of the most underrated rivalries in English football.
Chelsea walk all over West Ham in more ways than one
But someone forgot to tell West Ham’s players as they put in an insipid, passive display.
West Ham fans booed the team off, jeered the manager’s substitutions and thousands walked out en masse with 20 minutes to go.
One of the biggest frustration for West Ham fans was that their side barely laid a glove on Chelsea.
West Ham skipper captain Jarrod Bowen raged about that fact after the match.
Bowen said West Ham were never in it and voiced disappointment that his teammates did not get stuck in to Chelsea to let them know they were in for a game.
There were some heated exchanges between West Ham’s Edson Alvarez and Chelsea stars Cole Palmer and Enzo Fernandez.
What Alvarez and Palmer said in heated exchanges was caught on camera.
In the end, though, Chelsea walked all over the Hammers – quite literally.
Chelsea stars respectfully avoid West Ham badge but one didn’t
Two Chelsea stars respectfully avoided the West Ham badge before the game but one didn’t care.
Video footage from before the game has been posted on social media.
It shows Jadon Sancho and Noni Madueke show real class as they realise they’re about to walk over West Ham’s badge – something many players avoid a sign of respect.
Palmer was clearly not bothered, though.
The brilliant attacker almost joined the Hammers last summer only for Lucas Paqueta’s doomed move to Man City to collapse the deal.
Palmer, who scored Chelsea’s third – walked straight over the West Ham crest and down the tunnel before the game.
That’s despite seeing his teammates Sancho and Madueke avoiding treading on the badge.
Palmer went on to have an excellent game so it didn’t bring him any bad karma.
In fact he went one further with the disrespect as he was seen saying to Alvarez: “What you looking at, you muppet” after being fouled by the Mexican.
Alvarez a day to forget against Chelsea, the club he almost joined two summers ago.
The midfielder was bizarrely assigned to man mark one of the quickest players on the pitch in Nicolas Jackson. The result was Jackson scoring an embarrassingly easy brace to put the Blues 2-0 up at half-time.
Alvarez’s lack of pace was brutally exposed for Chelsea’s first two goals and he wasn’t helped by teammates Aaron Wan-Bissaka or Konstantinos Mavropanos either.
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