The 3-0 win over Leicester City keeps us at the top of the Premier League table and when it comes to away results, Thomas Tuchel’s side has three more points on the road than achieved by Liverpool, Manchester City and West Ham United this season.

Strong on the road

Liverpool remain the only side to have stopped the Blues winning away in the league in 2021/22 and are the only team to have scored at home against us, that goal coming from the penalty spot. We have conceded three fewer goals away from home than Man City who have the next meanest defence in other teams’ stadiums.Chelsea have found the net 13 times on our travels and the manner of the opener against Leicester came as no great surprise.

We went into the game at the King Power Stadium knowing no side had conceded more headed goals in the Premier League this season than Leicester’s four, the same number as we had scored with our head prior to Saturday, again a league high. Add onto that Toni Rudiger’s penchant for finding the Foxes net and his near-post success that made it 1-0 was a good bet for first goal.

The goal was one of three aerial challenges won by the German in the match, a figure matched only by his compatriot Kai Havertz.Scorer of the second goal and another who has hit the Leicester net before for Chelsea, N’Golo Kante, was named man of the match by fans on The 5th Stand and as well as his great strike, he was typically effective in winning the ball, with two successful tackles and one interception made, while clearly playing in a more forward role than Jorginho, as shown by the average positions of the starting line-up.

Callum Hudson Odoi, despite his starting position on the left, was our most central and most advanced attacker.

Wing-backs continue to shine

Chelsea fans have quickly grown used to the advanced and tucked-in movement in attack of wing-backs Ben Chilwell and Reece James, although even though they frequently showed up in or near the Leicester penalty area, there was variety to their attacking play.The pair supplied more crosses than anyone else, with six from Chilwell and three from James. It was Chilwell’s corner that was headed in by Rudiger for his goal.Former Leicester full-back Chilwell supplied the most key passes leading to goal chances with three. James, second-half substitute Hakim Ziyech and Jorginho played two each.

Chilwell drew a game-high four fouls and along with Kante had the most shots. All three of the Frenchman’s were on target, including his goal. Chilwell hit the bar in the first half and his one on-target was well-saved by Kasper Schmeichel in the second half.Although Kante had plenty to do before scoring, the pass to him by James is the England international’s fourth assist of the season. Only strikers Mohamed Salah and Michail Antonio have more goal involvements (goals scored and assists) than his eight.

No-one was more involved in the game than James with his 102 touches, four successful dribbles and most tackles won with three.

The force going forward that is the Chelsea wing-backs ensured their counterparts from Leicester were largely pinned back near their back-three, as can be seen below, as is the gap that was often there between the central defence and midfield, exploited by Kante for his goal.

Second-half switches and chances

Leicester made two changes at half-time and altered their shape upfront, and it had an effect. Having failed to conjure up a single shot before the interval, they managed four in the second half, three of which tested Edouard Mendy, with two of those by half-time sub James Maddison.Their share of possession increased from 31 per cent to 45 but importantly, they could not stem the Chelsea tide when we went forward.

The Blues had seven attempts at goal in the second half compared with nine in the first, and were denied three further goals by the offside flag. Ziyech celebrated his 50th appearance for Chelsea with the assist for Christian Pulisic to make it 3-0.

At the back, Thiago Silva was a controlling influence with the highest pass completion figure of the starters - 96.8 per cent from 94 passes. Trevoh Chalobah was next for passes with 77.

Mendy continues to top the clean sheet table with seven and in 49 games under Tuchel, there have been 30 shut-outs.The Blues have won our last four away league games without conceding, our best such run for 13 years.Despite winning the equivalent fixture last season, Foxes’ boss Brendan Rodgers’ overall record against the club where he once worked in our Academy is his poorest against any Premier League club. With that one victory comes seven draws and six defeats against the Blues.Chelsea have nine wins from our last 13 visits to Leicester in all competitions.