Finally, up and down Blues are clicking into gear

OF THE many things Chelsea have proven money cannot buy over the last couple of seasons, momentum would be somewhere close to top of the list.

- Malik Ouzia

Too often, under successive managers, it has been a case of one step forward, at best, followed by two steps back, at least.

On Saturday, at last, then, was something to buck the trend: a third victory in as many matches across competitions in the space of 11 days and, for the first time since March, a second in a row in the League.

True, it was ‘only’ Burnley, Turf Moor a place where the Blues have now won on eight of their nine Premier League visits, drawing the other, and where Vincent Kompany’s side, far from creating the newcomers’ obligatory home fortress, have failed to take a single point in five games.

True, as well, that a 4-1 scoreline suggests a stroll not dissimilar to that against Luton, which was so straightforward that no one had even bothered declaring a new dawn by the time the subsequent Nottingham Forest loss rendered it false.