Madueke hits hat-trick as Chelsea hit Wolves for six

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Chelsea's Noni Madueke (second left) celebrates after scoring his sides third goal of the game during the Premier League match at Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton. Picture date: Sunday August 25, 2024.
  • Post published:August 25, 2024

Noni Madueke scored a hat-trick as Chelsea thrashed Wolves 6-2 at the Molineux Stadium in the Premier League on Sunday.

Just hours before her performance in Wolverhampton, a city known for its steel and coal industries, Madueke wrote and then removed a negative comment about the city.

In the message, Madueke disclosed his location as Wolverhampton with the words “this place is s**t”.

Later, the 22-year-old revealed: “Damn incorrect Instagram account. All of you move too quickly.”

Wolves supporters booed Madueke, but he responded with a treble to hush them and apologised for his social media post.

“I just want to apologise to everyone that I might have offended. It is just a human mistake, an accident. It wasn’t meant to be out on my socials like that. I’m sure Wolverhampton is a nice town and I’m sorry,” he said.

“In terms of the boos I expected it but it is part of the game. You have to be able to play under that sort of pressure.”

Cole Palmer provided three assists to Madueke for his hat-trick.

Palmer’s calm finishing style, particularly when he’s in the penalty area, has earned him the epithet “cold.”

They were the ideal match, according to Madueke, because of his more sentimental playing style.

“It is unbelievable. He is cold and I am fire so it mixes well. He has the ability to always play a pass at the right time,” he said.

“I like to get the ball in space, beat people and make things happen, so luckily today it worked.

“The first one was a bit lucky. Second one was all Cole, two brilliant passes. I’m made up for the hat-trick but more made up we won the game.”

Chelsea’s first Premier League victory under new manager Enzo Maresca was motivated by Madueke’s treble.

Chelsea defeated Servette in a UEFA Conference League play-off on Thursday after being defeated by Manchester City in their league opener the previous weekend. Madueke scored against the Swiss team prior to his spectacular performance at Molineux.

“Everyone saw what he did at Leicester last year, he is mad about the details,” Madueke said of Maresca’s promotion-winning campaign with Leicester.

“Even in the first game against City there were some nice patterns of play but we just couldn’t finish it off. It is a great day today, I am happy he has got his first Premier League win for Chelsea.”

Maresca, demonstrating the meticulousness that Madueke mentioned, acknowledged his winger’s work but pointed out one minor flaw.

“In the first 10 minutes he had two chances and overall he was very good. The only thing I didn’t like from Noni is the free-kick he gave away before half-time and we can avoid that, especially against a team who are good from set-pieces,” he said.

“In the first 10 minutes we created two or three chances and scored a goal and then we started to lose the ball, but overall a good performance.

“Absolutely there always things we can improve on. We can learn many things.”