Chelsea’s win leaves them top of the Premier League following a hugely encouraging start to their season.
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The result means Conte, who joined Chelsea after leading Italy to the Euro 2016 quarter-finals, has yet to taste defeat in England as his team go into the global break.
Nigeria worldwide, Victor Moses, opened his goal account for the new English Premier League season as Chelsea defeated newly-promoted side Burnley 3-0 on Saturday.
As it was, they had to settle for Hazard’s fine ninth-minute opener, Willian’s first of the campaign shortly before half-time and a late strike from Victor Moses to make it three wins out of three.
In fact the only surprise was that it scored just three as Hazard and Costa could probably have got a hat trick each.
The Belgian picked the ball up in space just inside the Burnley half, ran unchallenged at the away defence and steered an accurate right-foot shot into the opposite corner of the net from the edge of the penalty area. The Belgian skipped inside Clarets defender Michael Keane before curling his shot past keeper Tom Heaton and inside the far post from 20 yards.
Burnley shocked Liverpool last weekend by finishing clinically on the break in a 2-0 win at Turf Moor, and in a bid to avoid suffering a similar fate Antonio Conte’s side sat deep and were happy to allow the visitors to hold the ball in the first half. Burnley did not managed a single effort on goal in the first half and Dean Marney’s shot at the beginning of the second was barely worthy of the name as it flew high over the crossbar.
Conte made his first change with 14 minutes remaining; introducing Victor Moses for Willian, while soon after Batshuayi and Pedro came on for Diego Costa and Hazard.
Chelsea’s Willian, left, and Burnley’s Matthew Lowton challenge for the ball during the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Burnley at Stamford Bridge in London, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016.
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Antonio Conte called on his team to kill games off in midweek, and Eden Hazard helped Chelsea take a step in that direction against Burnley.
