There were moments in the pouring rain at Stamford Bridge when it felt as if Timo Werner, soaked and bedraggled but always willing, was never, ever going to catch a break. That has been his lot since he arrived at Chelsea – too often he has been the fall guy, the luckless one, the striker who just cannot seem to score goals.
It seemed to have changed four minutes before half time when Callum Hudson-Odoi floated a cross to the back post and the Germany striker rose highest six yards out to power an emphatic header past Alex McCarthy in the Southampton goal.