Jose Mourinho was humiliated on his Premier League return to Stamford Bridge where his former side Chelsea routed Manchester United 4-0 on Sunday,
Having held out for 90 minutes at Anfield last Monday, United conceded the quickest goal in the Premier League this season to Pedro after 30 seconds and were then ripped apart as Gary Cahill (21), Eden Hazard (62) and N'Golo Kante (70) completed the scoring.
Most of the goals stemmed from poor defending as Chelsea found ever more ingenious ways to inflict pain on Mourinho. Marcus Alonso began the unravelling with a defence-splitting pass that found Pedro, while Cahill could not believe his luck when the ball fell to him in the area after Chris Smalling failed to clear a corner.
Two up at half time, when United replaced Marouane Fellaini with Juan Mata, Chelsea sat back and waited to hit United on the break with Hazard adding a third after a clever one-two and then Kante driving into the area unopposed to score his first goal for the club.Jose Mourinho had barely taken his seat in the opposition dugout at Stamford Bridge before a player that he brought to Chelsea, Pedro Rodriguez, had opened the scoring for the Blues with the fastest goal of the Premier League season so far.
The 29-year-old capitalised on the hesitancy of both Chris Smalling and Daley Blind to get in behind David De Gea and find the net after just 30 seconds of play had elapsed.
It was the worst possible start for the returning Portuguese and the goal also came from his Pedro's first shot on target this season.
His overzealous celebrations came at a cost however as he was booked by referee Martin Atkinson.
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