Chelsea 5-0 West Ham: Key stats

  • Chelsea have won nine of their last 11 Premier League home games (D1 L1). Since the start of December, they have the joint-most home wins (9, level with Arsenal) and home points (28, level with Man City) in the competition.

  • One day before his 22nd birthday, Chelsea’s Cole Palmer became only the third player in Premier League history to reach 30+ goal involvements in a single season while aged 21 or younger (21 goals, 9 assists), after Robbie Fowler (twice - 1994-95 and 1995-96) and Chris Sutton (1993-94).

  • West Ham have conceded 70 Premier League goals this season, their joint-most in a single campaign in the competition (also 70 in 2010-11), and the most a side managed by David Moyes has ever shipped in a single top-flight season (overtaking Sunderland’s 69 in 2016-17).

  • Chelsea’s Conor Gallagher has been directly involved in 12 goals in the Premier League this season (5 goals, 7 assists), now his outright most in a single campaign in the competition (previously 11 in 2021-22 for Crystal Palace).

  • Nicolas Jackson has scored 13 goals in 32 Premier League appearances for Chelsea, one more than he scored in 35 LaLiga matches for previous club Villarreal (12).

  • West Ham’s Angelo Ogbonna made his 200th Premier League appearance, becoming only the second Italian to reach that tally in the competition, after Gianfranco Zola (229).

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