Chelsea‘s new-look front three made a blistering start to life together on Monday night, each netting in a 3-2 win over Fulham. What can they achieve this season?
It was only one game, but the start Chelsea made to the Xabi Alonso era has got some excited tongues wagging.
On Monday night at Craven Cottage, the Blues ran out deserved 3-2 winners over west London rivals Fulham, with their new-look front three beginning life together in impressive fashion.
Alonso set his team up in the same 3-4-2-1 formation with which he won the Bundesliga at Bayer Leverkusen, and all three of Morgan Rogers got on the scoresheet.
For Palmer in particular, but also Chelsea as a whole, this was an overwhelmingly positive performance after a disappointing 2025-26 when they finished way down in 10th place. The very early indications under Alonso look promising, with record signing Rogers appearing to have settled straight away and quickly striking up a functional and effective partnership with Palmer and João Pedro.
The group was labelled “as good as anything in the Premier League right now” by Sky Sports’ Jamie Carragher after the game, and much of the discussion – quite possibly prematurely – is now centred around whether they have enough, or whether their front three is strong enough, for Chelsea to make a surprise challenge for the title. It may be that part of the reason anyone is willing to even enter this debate is that there’s a very real parallel to be drawn from their recent past.
Ten years ago, in the summer of 2016, Antonio Conte came to Chelsea for his first Premier League job, whipped an out-of-sorts but clearly supremely talented squad into shape while making a few expensive additions and, with no European football to distract/tire them, won the title with relative ease. There are only five instances of a team picking up more points in a Premier League season than Chelsea did in 2016-17 (93).
That year, in their number 10 shirt, Chelsea had a maverick midfielder who had a good claim to be the best in the league in Eden Hazard. Palmer may well have to prove as effective as the Belgian was back then to give Chelsea any chance this time around.
The cold, hard, and quite obvious truth is that at least a little caution would be wise. Chelsea were too strong for Fulham, but they still conceded two soft goals, and their defence and error-prone goalkeeper,
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