Chelsea provided the perfect birthday present for Victor Moses with a resounding 3-1 victory over Huddersfield Town at the John Smith’s Stadium.
The Nigerian clocked 27 on Tuesday, a day he also made his 200th Premier League appearance.
A superb display from Willian helped the Blues cruise past their hosts.
The Brazilian – who has been on the substitutes’ bench for his side’s last two games – scored one and made two others as Antonio Conte’s men bounced back in style from their surprise weekend defeat to West Ham.
His first contribution was to play in Tiemoue Bakayoko for the opener after 23 minutes before getting on the end of Marcos Alonso’s cross just before half-time to score just his second league goal of the season.
He turned provider again after 50 minutes to tee up Pedro for Chelsea’s third and cap an impressive individual display.
Huddersfield, who had won three of their previous four home games, offered little in the way of attacking threat until Laurent Depoitre nodded in a 92nd-minute header and David Wagner now needs to pick his side up for a difficult trip to Watford on Saturday.
Chelsea, meanwhile, go level on points with Manchester United in second and will be full of confidence ahead of the weekend visit of Southampton – a game that Moses will surely be guaranteed of a starting berth in.
