Chelsea 3-1 Wolves: Player ratings as unlikely goalscorers underpin much-needed Blues win

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·20 January 2025

Chelsea 3-1 Wolves: Player ratings as unlikely goalscorers underpin much-needed Blues win

Chelsea claimed their overdue first Premier League win of 2025 on Monday night, successfully seeing off a Wolverhampton Wanderers side hopeless at defending set-pieces.

Enzo Maresca hadn't seen his team emerge victorious in a league context since a narrow win over Brentford on 15 December, more than a month earlier, failing to pick up maximum points in five games against Everton, Fulham, Ipswich Town, Crystal Palace and Bournemouth.

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The Blues did take the lead in this one, Tosin Adarabioyo's first league goal as a Chelsea player with a helping hand from VAR that confirmed the centre-back onside after the strike was initially ruled out.

The ever up and down Robert Sanchez fumbled what ought to have been a straightforward catch from a corner deep into first half stoppage time that handed Wolves a lifeline as Matt Doherty poked in. But Marc Cucurella's unorthodox close-range finish on his 100th Premier League appearance restored Chelsea's lead at the hour mark and they never looked back from that point.

Noni Madueke scored against Wolves for the fourth time this season, having netted a hat-trick in the reverse fixture, harshly poached a goal-bound header from the recalled Trevoh Chalobah. Nicolas Jackson also had the ball in the net late on, only to see an offside flag correctly raised.