Chelsea top after Sunderland rout

Chelsea 5 Sunderland 0. A Nicolas Anelka hat-trick helped Chelsea to a rout of Sunderland and to the summit of the Premiership table. Alex began the goal rush with a tap-in, while Frank Lampard also scored from a header to help erase the painful memory of Liverpool ending their unbeaten home run last week. “This was far too easy for the home side,” writes Jamie Jackson in the Observer. “But while the five unanswered goals might seem to make last week's surrender of Chelsea's proud unbeaten run at home faintly unbelievable, there were hints that Luiz Felipe Scolari does need to find differing ways to beat sides who do not just roll over.”