Chelsea FC defeat Bournemouth 4-1: Five talking points

Chelsea's Spanish midfielder Pedro (2nd R) celebrates with teammates after scoring the opening goal of the English Premier League football match between Bournemouth and Chelsea at the Vitality Stadium in Bournemouth, southern England on April 23, 2016. / AFP / GLYN KIRK / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 75 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. / (Photo credit should read GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty Images) /

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BOURNEMOUTH, ENGLAND – APRIL 23: Eden Hazard of Chelsea celebrates with Branislav Ivanovic of Chelsea after scoring his sides second goal during the Barclays Premier League match between A.F.C. Bournemouth and Chelsea at the Vitality Stadium on April 23, 2016 in Bournemouth, United Kingdom. (Photo by Steve Bardens/Getty Images) /

5. Chelsea Show Class

The three goal lead would be a pleasant sight to Chelsea fans, as they showed the class to upstage Bournemouth. Throughout the course of the season, the Blues suffered multiple poor results against teams that they were clearly more talented than on paper. In top level football, upsets will certainly happen, but it became all too familiar for those wearing a Chelsea shirt.

Today, they took an early two goal lead, but got pegged back roughly ten minutes before halftime. It wouldn’t be unusual to expect this year’s Chelsea side to ship another goal and embroil themselves in a dogfight at that point, but they showed the resolve to not allow any more goals, then added two more to the tally. The remaining games left in the season should be all about building momentum for next year, and hopefully they can carry on into the derby with Tottenham.

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