Chelsea 2-0 Southampton: 5 Talking Points

#3 Antonio Conte's puzzling substitutions

What's on Conte's mind?

1-0 up, Willian leading the Chelsea attacks and all of a sudden, Conte decides to take him off. What surprised everyone watching, even more, is that he brought on Tiemoue Bakayoko and not Pedro or Morata.

Chelsea were playing with a 3-5-2 formation following that substitution. Hazard joined Giroud upfront and Fabregas was playing as the CAM.

12 minutes later, Conte decides that the new formation isn't working and brings on Pedro for Fabregas. The change resulted in Chelsea heading back to 3-4-3 and dominating the game once again.

Morata then came on for Giroud in the 80th minute and sealed the game for Chelsea with a header. The goal came just 86 seconds after the Spaniard came on!