Alvaro Morata was understandably a happy man after claiming

The Spaniard struck in under 90 seconds to give us the perfect start to the game, and added two more late on after Pedro had doubled our lead in the first half.

Having previously headed each of his three Chelsea goals, Morata had said he was eager to SBOBET start scoring with his feet, and he did so after racing onto Cesar Azpilicueta’s lofted through ball and slotting past Jack Butland.

His second was a fine solo effort, displaying pace and power to get past Glen Johnson and Darren SBOBET Fletcher before a delicate finish inside the far post, and he completed the treble sliding home after Azpilicueta had unselfishly chested down six yards out.

It was a pleasing reward for an afternoon’s hard work against a Stoke side who had put us under plenty of pressure and restricted us to just a few SBOBET chances, which were clinically taken.

‘It’s football. Sometimes the ball doesn’t [go in], like against Arsenal, and today, we had two chances and made two goals,’ he said, referring to our first-half display.

‘We sent a good message to all the Premier League,’ added the 24-year-old. ‘Chelsea is in the fight for the title and it’s the thing that we want.

‘The most important thing is we won today. It’s a difficult place to come but we won and now we can look ahead to the Champions League.’