Say it quietly but Mauricio Pocchettino's plan might just be starting to come together.
Three wins in a row in all competitions and most importantly, a team starting to actually score some goals.
It wasn't all plain sailing forthe Blues and Chelsea fans may have had that all too familiar feeling when Wilson Odobert shot across the goal following a Burnley break to give the Clarets the lead on 15 minutes.
But Chelsea slowly pulled themselves back in to the game but still needed a bit of luck when Ameen Al Dikhal deflected Raheem Sterling's cross into his own goal for the Blues equaliser.
In the second half, Chelsea put on the afterburners.
Firstly, just a few minutes into the new half Sterling ran at the Burnley defence and was brought down just inside the penalty area. Cole Palmer stepped up to score the penalty, sending Burnley goalkeeper James Trafford the wrong way for his first Chelsea goal.
On 65 minutes, man of the match Sterling burst into the Burnley box and drilled home his effort. A well deserved goal for the man now finding himself on the outside of Gareth Southgate's England plans.
Sterling was involved yet again in Chelsea's fourth, his cross from the left went all the way across the box to Cole Palmer who laid the ball off to Nicolas Jackson and the big striker produced a cool, calm finish to extinguish Burnley's hopes.
Blues supporters will be hoping its not a false dawn and there will certainly be tougher tests to come but for the first time in a long time, it felt like Chelsea were finally getting the reward their dominant performances deserved.
Line-Up: Sanchez, Cucurella, Disasi, Silva, Colwill, Gallagher, Caicedo, Fernandez, Palmer (Maatsen 85'), Broja (Jackson 45'), Sterling (Mudryk 83')
Subs: Madueke, Ugochukwu, Chukwuemeka, Petrovic, Gilchrist, Matos
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