Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri got off to a winning Premier League start as new signing Jorginho slotted home coolly from the penalty spot in a 3-0 win at Huddersfield on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Watford, Bournemouth and Crystal Palace also picked up 2-0 wins on the opening weekend of the season.<\/p>\n
Chelsea have endured a turbulent pre-season with Sarri sworn in to replace fellow Italian Antonio Conte less than a month before the campaign got underway.<\/p>\n
The Londoners also smashed their transfer record and set a new world record fee for a goalkeeper in splashing 80 million euros (Pound 72 million, USD 92 million) on Kepa Arrizbalaga this week after Thibaut Courtois departed for Real Madrid.<\/p>\n
But the young Basque \u2018keeper was rarely troubled in recording a clean sheet as the visitors\u2019 greater quality told at the John Smith\u2019s Stadium after a slow start.<\/p>\n
Crucially Chelsea have held onto Eden Hazard, but while the Belgian was only deemed fit enough for a place on the bench following his World Cup exertions, N\u2019Golo Kante was thrown straight into the side after starring in Russia for world champions France.<\/p>\n
Kante has been deployed in a more advanced role due to Jorginho\u2019s arrival and was on the end of Willian\u2019s cross to open the scoring 11 minutes before half-time.<\/p>\n
Moments later Marcos Alonso was upended inside the area and Jorginho cheekily slotted home after a hop in his run up wrong-footed Ben Hamer.<\/p>\n
Hazard was introduced for the final 15 minutes and looked keen to make up for lost time as he teed up Pedro Rodriguez to round off the scoring.<\/p>\n
Promoted Fulham earned rave reviews for their summer business, outspending Manchester United and Manchester City, in signing 12 new players.<\/p>\n
But there was no instant return on that investment as Jeffrey Schlupp and Wilfried Zaha scored either side of half-time to give Palace a 2-0 win at Craven Cottage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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