Again from suspension, Palmer, who Pochettino has in comparison with Angel Di Maria, began within the quantity 10 place with licence to float to the left and the fitting.
Within the twelfth minute, Nicolas Jackson broke down the left and reduce in earlier than seeing a shot saved by Luton goalkeeper Thomas Kaminski. However Issa Kabore handed the ball straight to Palmer, who lashed it into the underside nook of the online.
It was from one other transfer that began on the left that Chelsea doubled their lead in the direction of the tip of the primary half. Levi Colwill carried the ball forwards and handed inside to Palmer, who moved it out to Madueke on the fitting.
Madueke managed to shift the ball on to his proper foot and produced an unstoppable shot into the highest nook of the online.
When Palmer scored his second of the sport and Chelsea’s third, that ought to have been that. Jackson turned brilliantly earlier than weighting the proper go for the Metropolis academy graduate. Palmer rounded the keeper and located the again of the online in entrance of the celebrating visiting supporters.
However Chelsea switched off and Luton’s Alfie Doughty gave Malo Gusto and Axel Disasi nightmares for the ultimate 19 minutes. Adebayo thought he had instantly pulled a objective again when he nodded in a Doughty cross, however a VAR verify confirmed the left wing-back had been offside.
There felt an inevitability about Barkley getting on the scoresheet, as he did when he headed in a nook with 10 minutes to go and Chelsea goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic needed to contact a Carlton Morris header on to the crossbar.
Petrovic managed to avoid wasting a header from Doughty, however Adebayo transformed the rebound from shut vary to arrange a grandstand end wherein substitute Tahith Chong twice flashed the ball throughout the six-yard field, however no Luton participant may apply the end.
“There’s a little little bit of consolation once we come again like that,” mentioned Luton supervisor Rob Edwards. “What we are able to assure is that we are going to go away all of it on the market.
“That was an unimaginable efficiency and I’m immensely pleased with the soccer membership in the present day. [We just had to] hold believing, hold going, that’s all we are able to do at that stage [at 3-0 down]. They had been scrambling. We simply couldn’t fairly get the ball over the road.”