Reaction: Scoring & Scaring

Following a record opening-day win last week, Chelsea followed it up by equalling our all-time best top-flight away win, yet it is points rather than goals that are pleasing the players more.

Saturday's 6-0 win at Wigan, the first time the club has recorded that scoreline two games running, matches a 6-0 win away at Barnsley in 1997 (that also the second Premier League game of the season).

On that day Gianluca Vialli netted four times. Thirteen years on the goals were more evenly spread throughout the team with Florent Malouda, for the second game in a row, opening the scoring.

'We are not thinking about records,' he said as he reflected on Saturday's game.

'Even last year we were not aware of the records until we broke them and this year we know we start again from the beginning and we play to win.

'Even if it is 1-0 we are happy because when you start the season you just want the points and after that maybe the goals for the goal difference. That could be important.

'People are thinking about big tests against big teams ahead but we focus on getting the points and being at the top of the league from the first game.'

Malouda believes knowledge that a one-goal lead can never be considered enough is what sets the team on road to the big victories; results that are only beginning to mark Chelsea down as big entertainers.

'Even when we finish on top of Arsenal people still think that Arsenal play better than us,' the Frenchman notes. 'We don't comment about the other teams but since the manager came in he tried to bring control of the game and people have seen an evolution because we are scoring more goals and we are getting more clean sheets.

'If you want to win the league you have to be efficient and when you see a team like Chelsea scoring so many goals, I hope that people will recognize our quality. But we are not playing for that. Our aim is to win.'

Didier Drogba may have been goalless but his outstanding contribution ran to a significant hand in five out of the six goals.

'We scored six but we suffered a lot in the first half,' he pointed out, 'so I think the game was difficult and the fact that we scored quickly in the second half made it easier for us.

'We have played together for such a long time that we know what we have to do when the game is difficult and we know also what we have to do to make it easier.'

Super sub Salomon Kalou, beneficiary of two Drogba assists to set his scoring underway for the season, is optimistic the Blues' 12 goals will have an instant impact.

'I hope that after these two games the teams we play will be afraid of Chelsea.

'We have started the season how we finished the last one. It is going to be very tough but right now we are enjoying it and hopefully we continue to play on that level because when you are the defending champions you have to scare the other teams.

'Even though he didn't score, Didier had a great game,' Kalou added.

'He was there for his team-mates and he knows how to balance his game. He knows when he can score and he knows how to pass the ball and I was glad to be there to finish it.'