Nicolas Jackson explains bizarre goal celebration in Chelsea’s win over West Ham

James GoldmanPublished Sep 21, 2024, 3:42pm|Updated Sep 21, 2024, 3:43pm

Nicolas Jackson revealed his ‘Thriller’ extremity solemnisation against West Ham was inspired by a imagination helium had 2 days agone aft helium starred successful Saturday’s 3-0 Premier League win.

Jackson’s brace and Cole Palmer screamer secured different distant triumph for the Blues and raised superior questions astir the Hammers’ absorption nether caller brag Julen Lopetegui.

All looks rosier successful the Chelsea garden, by contrast, arsenic Enzo Maresca’s broadside secured a 3rd consecutive distant triumph and climbed, for a fewer hours astatine least, to 2nd successful the table.

The code of a chastening day for West Ham was acceptable with Chelsea’s archetypal onslaught arsenic a harmless looking free-kick recovered Jackson down the left.

The Senegal frontman chopped wrong acold excessively easy and stroked the shot done the legs of Hammers keeper Alphonse Areola astatine his adjacent post.

Just 15 minutes aboriginal Jackson had his second, his 4th of the play and a 4th successful 3 appearances against West Ham.

Moises Caicedo played the shot guardant and Jackson strolled done the chasm near by Hammers centre-backs Max Kilman and Konstantinos Mavropanos earlier slotting it past Areola.

The erstwhile Villarreal prima celebrated with an ode to his namesake and aboriginal revealed the thought came to him during his sleep.

He said: ‘It was to retrieve the fable Michael Jackson. I was dreaming astir this truthful I conscionable did it. I dreamt it 2 days agone truthful I conscionable did it.’

West Ham had been dreadful, though they did concisely endanger to halve the shortage with Jarrod Bowen lifting a bully accidental implicit the crossbar.

A VAR punishment check, aft Summerville went down successful the country aft being pulled backmost by Wesley Fofana, went Chelsea’s mode – ‘not sustained holding’ was the authoritative mentation – earlier Mohammed Kudus had the shot successful the nett lone to beryllium flagged offside.

Whatever words of contented Lopetegui said astatine the interruption evidently had zero effect, arsenic 70 seconds into the 2nd half Chelsea had a third.

Jackson ran astatine West Ham’s hastily back-pedalling defence and slipped the shot to Palmer, who simply stepped distant from Kilman and drove successful his 2nd extremity of the campaign.

Maresca’s determination to persist with Jackson astatine the disbursal of past weekend’s matchwinner, Christopher Nkunku, was afloat vindicated and erstwhile Chelsea prima Joe Cole has been enthused by the erstwhile Villarreal star’s development.

‘I deliberation Enzo Maresca saw they could interruption past West Ham and Nicolas Jackson is fantastic astatine that. It’s what helium does,’ helium said.

“[He has] bully numbers. He is simply a young man, a young player, he’s learning his trade. People talked astir Didier Drogba’s archetypal 2 seasons erstwhile helium wasn’t arsenic prolific arsenic helium aboriginal became. Nevertheless, helium has scored the goals and helium volition get better.

“He needs to conscionable support improving, beryllium a spot much composed and [gain] much confidence. He volition bounce into the adjacent crippled now. I americium very, precise pleased for him.”

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