Chelsea maintained their perfect start to life under Carlo Ancelotti with a comfortable 2-0 victory over Fulham on Sunday.
Ancelotti cut a contented figure at Craven Cottage after his side cruised home against their west London rivals rivals thanks to goals in either half from Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka.
The triumph put Chelsea into second place in the English Premier League table behind Tottenham, but of more significance to Ancelotti will have been the nonchalant manner of the performance.
Chelsea were almost completely untroubled by Roy Hodgson’s team, who badly missed the injured Andy Johnson, and this display – characterised by doughty defending and lethal finishing – sent an ominous message to their title rivals.
Ancelotti’s satisfaction will have been compounded by the fact that Fulham are a side that traditionally revel in bloodying the noses of the top flight’s elite, and Chelsea have suffered more than most.
The Blues had won just three of their previous seven encounters with their near neighbours: hardly a catastrophic record, but not exactly glittering, so the visitors would have been forgiven a little wariness.
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