Too bad that after all the fighting talk from their manager in the build-up that Chelsea’s second string rocked up in Norfolk without anything like the same appetite for a scrap.
They were weak, lacking in edge, spite and purpose – just about the opposite of Antonio Conte in his controversial little performance on Friday, when he didn’t just light the touchpaper on a feud with Jose Mourinho but rammed it into his mouth as well.
While the finer points of Conte’s rant crossed a line in taste, there can be no doubting that his side needed some of the fire of his wider message here.