Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho was clearly delighted, after seeing his tactical switch give the Blues a 3-1 victory over Norwich City at Carrow Road.
Oscar opened scoring in the 4th minute, but Pilkington equalised in the 67th minute. Mourinho then gambled with his team balance and sent on Hazard and Willian, effectively switching to a 3-5-2 formation. The change paid off, as both substitutes scored in the last five minutes to give Chelsea all three points.
“When I make a change, the change is always fantastic and the players make it fantastic or make it rubbish – it’s up to them,” Mourinho said after the match.
“I’m happy for Willian because he is starting with us, he is not 100%. He was injured in the week and the kid made himself available to try to help, and when he came on he gave us a push.
“[The win] is important and deserved and difficult. So when it’s important, deserved and difficult at the same time, we have only reasons to be very pleased with that. I think in the first half the game was quite easy to kill but we didn’t and in the second half we had a fantastic situation to kill it again and we didn’t.
“When you have chance to do that, you can be in trouble and it happened when they scored. But I looked to my dugout and tried to change the game, and all of them gave an important contribution.”
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