Chelsea player ratings: Enzo Fernandez silences his doubters but Robert Sanchez endures a few shaky moments

ENZO FERNANDEZ starred successful Chelsea's midfield arsenic they clinched a captious triumph implicit Leicester City.

The Argentine showed that helium should inactive beryllium a starter for Enzo Maresca aft being dropped for Romeo Lavia successful caller matches.

Nicolas Jackson netted the opener for the Blues with a tidy decorativeness aft refusing to springiness up connected a agelong ball.

The extremity takes the Senegalese guardant to 8 successful the Premier League, conscionable six shy of his tally of each past season.

Chelsea made definite of the effect with 15 minutes remaining arsenic Enzo Fernandez headed successful a rebound.

However, it was a quiescent crippled for goalkeeper Robert Sanchez arsenic helium was a bystander for astir of the 90 minutes.

And erstwhile helium was called into enactment determination was small helium could bash to halt Jordan Ayew's penalty.

SunSports' Graham Hill has fixed his ratings for the Chelsea team...

Robert Sanchez - 6

He had a fewer shaky moments playing retired from the back, which gave Leicester anticipation of getting backmost into the crippled earlier the break, but helium volition not beryllium blessed to person missed retired connected a cleanable expanse successful stoppage time.

Wesley Fofana - 7

Booed connected his 2nd instrumentality to Leicester - but helium refused to fto it unsettle him, the fans could not enactment him disconnected producing an assured show successful the Chelsea defence.

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Benoit Badiashile - 7

Controlled show astatine the back, helium showed immoderate superb imaginativeness astatine times but, isolated from a spell successful the archetypal half, helium was seldom troubled.

Levi Colwill - 7

Cool, calm and collected successful defence - adjacent erstwhile Leicester threatened to get backmost connected level terms. A controlled 2nd fractional show helped support the Foxes astatine bay.

Marc Cucurella - 7

Looked a menace retired near going guardant and created immoderate of Chelsea’s champion opportunities of the crippled - including their 2nd extremity and helium knew however to frustrate Leicester erstwhile helium needed to.

Moises Caicedo - 8

Booked for dissent astatine a clip erstwhile Leicester astir came backmost into it, but kept his caput to marque definite Chelsea stayed firmly successful bid of the game.

Enzo Fernandez - 8

Set up Jackson’s extremity and is making a wont of providing cardinal assists - this was 5th successful his past 3 games.

Headed fig 2 from adjacent scope for bully measure.

Noni Madueke - 7

Brought an fantabulous archetypal fractional prevention from Mads Hermansen - who past stopped him scoring Chelsea’s 2nd earlier the break.

Blocked a definite Palmer extremity though.

Cole Palmer - 8

Got immoderate unwanted attraction midway done the archetypal fractional aft a unspeakable situation from Wilfred Ndidi - deed Maduke erstwhile helium should person scored, different helium was excellent.

Joao Felix - 6

Peppered immoderate shots successful aboriginal connected and proved a thorn successful Leicester’s side, but drifted successful and retired of the crippled contempt being portion of a ascendant Chelsea display.

Nicolas Jackson - 7

The opening extremity - his seventh of the play - rounded disconnected a almighty tally and objective decorativeness aft immoderate assistance from Fernandez successful the build-up. Also had a manus successful Chelsea's second.

Subs

Chris Nkunku: for Joao Felix 81mins - 6

Romeo Lavia: for Caicedo 81 mins - 5

Jadon Sancho: for Maduke 84mins - 6

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall: for Jackson 90 + 1mins - 5