Glenn Hoddle has cautioned Chelsea against becoming overly excited about their decisive 6-2 Premier League victory against Wolves.
The Blues made a spectacular comeback at Molineux following their humiliating home loss to Manchester City the previous Saturday.
Chelsea scored four goals in a row during what was maybe their greatest 45-minute performance of the Clearlake era after a wild first half.
Joao Felix’s outstanding performance, assisted by fellow new recruit Pedro Neto, added to Noni Madueke’s hat-trick, while Cole Palmer notched his first goal of the new season along with three assists.
Despite the confidence boosting result, Hoddle sounded a note of caution and warned his former side they are unlikely to be the beneficiaries of such generous defending on a regular basis.
He told Premier League Productions: ‘Going forward they looked really good. We’ve said they’ve got good players but every game in this Premier League won’t be like that.
‘That was so open it was like the Wild West, it was basketball, there was no defending you could pull it to bits defensively for 90 minutes.
‘But it made for a fantastic game. But with Chelsea if you give good players time and space on the ball they will hurt you.
‘If you closed down you’re under pressure, wheter you’re a striker, midfielder or defender and life becomes different then. But Chelsea were given so much space.’
Madueke, meanwhile, has apologised for insulting the city of Wolverhampton on social media before his match-winning display.
The England Under-21 winger was heavily booed throughout by the home fans due to a hastily-deleted Instagram post in the early hours that contained an expletive to describe the midlands city he was staying in.
‘I just want to apologise to anyone that I might have offended,’ he said in an interview shown by Sky Sports after the game.
‘It is just a human mistake, an accident. It wasn’t meant to be out on my socials like that. I’m sure Wolverhampton is a lovely town and I’m sorry.
‘In terms of the boos, I expected it but it is part of the game. You have to be able to play under that sort of pressure.’