Highlights:
– Tammy Abraham scored a brace as Chelsea beat Norwich 3-2 to give Frank Lampard his first win in charge.
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| Tammy Abraham hit a brace as Chelsea secured a hard-fought 3-2 victory away to Norwich |
— Mason Mount restored Chelsea's advantage only for the in-form Pukki to pull Norwich level again.
— After Abraham made it 3-2, Ben Godfrey came close to equalising but his header hit the crossbar .
Tammy Abraham hit a brace as Chelsea secured a hard-fought 3-2 victory away to Norwich, giving Frank Lampard his first win in charge of the club.
Abraham gave Chelsea an early lead but Chelsea's lead didn't last long, with Todd Cantwell pulling Norwich level in the sixth minute during a lively start.
Abraham opened the scoring with just three minutes gone at Carrow Road as he got his first goal for Chelsea.
Abraham showed impressive composure to find the back of the net, giving Chelsea the early lead away to Norwich
Mason Mount proceeded to restore Chelsea's advantage, but the in-form Teemu Pukki made it 2-2 as Norwich equalised again.
Pukki found the back of the net in the 30th minute of the game, with Norwich twice coming from behind against Chelsea.
However, Abraham scored what proved to be the game's decisive goal in the 68th minute.
The young striker made it 3-2 to Chelsea with an impressive strike in the 68th minute of the game
Lampard was delighted after 21-year-old striker Abraham put Chelsea in the ascendancy against Norwich and after a difficult start to his Chelsea tenure to have overseen his first win in charge of the club.
MATCH FACTS
Norwich: Krul; Aarons, Hanley, Godfrey, Lewis; Leitner (McLean 81), Trybull (Vrancic 81); Buendia, Stiepermann (Srbeny 81), Cantwell; Pukki
Subs: Fahrmann, Tettey, Klose, Byram, Srbeny
Goals: Cantwell 6, Pukki 30
Booked: Stiepermann
Chelsea: Kepa; Azpilicueta, Christensen, Zouma, Emerson; Kovacic, Jorginho, Barkley; Pulisic, Abraham (Giroud 75), Mount
Subs: Caballero, Tomori, Batshuayi, Alonso, Willian
Goals: Abraham 3, 68, Mount 17
Booked: Jorginho
PLAYER RATINGS
Home Team: Krul (6), Aarons (6), Godfrey (7), Hanley (7), Lewis (7), Trybull (6), Leitner (6), Stiepermann (6), Cantwell (7), Buendia (8), Pukki (7)
Subs: Vrancic (6), McLean (6), Srbeny (6)
Away Team: Arrizabalaga (6), Emerson (7), Christensen (6), Zouma (6), Azpilicueta (7), Jorginho (7), Kovacic (8), Barkley (7), Mount (8), Pulisic (7), Abraham (9)
Subs: Willian (6), Giroud (6), Alonso (6)
Man of the match: Tammy Abraham
TEAM NEWS
Unsurprisingly, Norwich boss Daniel Farke named an unchanged line-up from the side that beat Newcastle 3-1 at home last time out.
Chelsea made two changes from last Sunday's 1-1 draw with Leicester at Stamford Bridge - N'Golo Kante missed out with an ankle injury, with Mateo Kovacic replacing the Frenchman in midfield.And Tammy Abraham was given the nod in attack, with Olivier Giroud dropping down to the bench.But, after Pedro went down in the warm-up, Ross Barkley came into take his place in midfield.
The impressive Mateo Kovacic powered forward through midfield, before finding his forward and despite having a lot of work to do, the England international managed to find the target from the edge of the box with a low drive past a flat-footed Krul.
WHAT NEXT?
Norwich travel to Crawley in the Carabao Cup second round on Tuesday night, before then taking on West Ham at the London Stadium four days later.
Meanwhile, Chelsea take on another newly promoted side, Sheffield United, at Bramall Lane next Saturday afternoon.
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