Chelsea crushes West Brom 4-0 to put Pulis job in doubt

WEST BROMWICH, England — Chelsea crushed West Bromwich Albion 4 - 0 in the English Premier League on Saturday to put Baggies boss Tony Pulis’ position under ever more threat .

It was the joint -heaviest defeat of Pulis’ three- year reign at The Hawthorns .

A brace from Eden Hazard , along with goals from Alvaro Morata and Marcos Alonso, saw the Blues coast to their fourth successive league win and go to second.

Pulis’ team has gone 11 games without a victory , and this one was witnessed by West Brom’s Chinese owner , Guochuan Lai, and a home crowd that delivered its verdict with a loud chorus of “Pulis out” at the end.

Chelsea took control with the opener in the 17th minute.

Hazard rolled past Gareth Barry and rifled in a shot that Ben Foster could push only into Morata’ s path, with the Spaniard able to do the rest.

The roles were reversed for Chelsea’ s second six minutes later , which came after Hazard had been booked for clattering into Grzegorz Krychowiak . Cesc Fabregas moved the ball to Morata and the forward, with his back to goal, sent a fine first -time flick through for Hazard , who rounded Foster to double the lead.