Enzo Maresca made 11 changes to his Chelsea line-up for the visit of Barrow in the Carabao Cup third round, but a fine start to the Italian's Stamford Bridge tenure was never at risk of being derailed as Christopher Nkunku's hat-trick secured a 5-0 romp over the League Two side.

After a few careless mistakes in the opening minutes, Chelsea quickly got down to business, scoring inside of ten minutes, doubling that lead on the quarter-hour mark (both by Christopher Nkunku), and making it 3-0 by the half hour by way of an own goal. We seemed happy enough with that for the first 45.