Triple tees up big week for Tammy
TAMMY ABRAHAM says he is living the dream with Chelsea after destroying Wolves with a 21-minute hat-trick.
The striker’s treble took his tally to seven goals in three games and underlined that he is in the form of his life going into a potentially massive week for both Chelsea and himself personally.
Tomorrow night the Blues tackleValencia in the Champions League before a titanic clash with leaders Liverpool at home on Sunday.
Abraham’s penalty miss handed Jurgen Klopp’s men the UEFA Super Cup in Istanbul last month.
The 21-year-old said: “I am always a player who believed in myself. I had a rough patch after what I went through against Liverpool.
“I always believed I would come through it and get on top of it.”
Wolves trailed 3-0 at half-time thanks to a wonder goal from Fikayo Tomori and two from Abraham.
When Abraham got his third 10 minutes after the break, a comprehensive beating looked on the cards. But Wolves restored some pride thanks to an Abraham own-goal and a Patrick Cutrone strike, before Mason Mount finished them off in stoppage time.
The game left Abraham joint-top of the Premier League scoring chart alongside Sergio Aguero. He said: “My dream was always to be at Chelsea, play at Chelsea and right now I am living the dream.
“I just have to keep this going and we hopefully keep getting wins as well.”
For all of Abraham’s heroics, the standout moment came from Tomori, whose 25-yard effort into the far corner had so much curl that keeper Rui Patricio could not get anywhere near it.
WOLVES (3-5-2): Patricio 5; Vallejo 5, Coady 5, Saiss 4; Traore 6 (Doherty 56, 6), Neves 5, Moutinho 6, Dendoncker 5 (Cutrone 45, 6), Jonny 5; Jota 6, Jimenez 5 (Gibbs-White 70, 5).
Goals: Abraham 69 og, Cutrone 85.
CHELSEA (3-5-2): Kepa 6; Rudiger 6 (Zouma 45, 6) Christensen 7, Tomori 8; Azpilicueta 7, Jorginho 7 Kovacic 7(Barkley 70, 6), Mount 8, Alonso 7; Willian 7, Abraham 9 (Batshuayi 77).
Goals: Tomori 31, Abraham 34, 41, 55, Mount 90.