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COLE PALMER struck a first-half hat-trick as Chelsea beat Wolves to make it four Premier League wins from four under Liam Rosenior.

- BY ROBERT O'CONNOR

After a tough spell for the England forward, marred by fitness issues and reports he is unsettled, this was a return of the free-scoring talisman who for so long carried the team but who now looks just one part of a side brimming with promise.

Two of his strikes were penalties, given away by dreadful Wolves defensive decisions, before a third effort finished off at the end of a flowing move.

That goal took him ahead of such Blues royalty as Frank Lampard, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Didier Drogba as the club's all-time record hat-trick scorer in the Premier League era, with four. Rosenior's Chelsea have a long road to match the honours brought to Stamford Bridge by that trio.