The Blues worked tirelessly in Thursday’s 2-0 win over Spurs and despite making only one change to the starting XI, there was little sign of fatigue as we beat West Ham 5-0 this afternoon.

The two victories mean Chelsea are now seventh in the table, having gone level on points with Manchester United ahead of their game against Crystal Palace tomorrow night, and we are only two behind Newcastle United in sixth.

Pochettino said: ‘I am so pleased, so happy. It continues the same feelings from Thursday and keeps up the momentum.

‘The performance was fantastic in every aspect and the players deserve big credit to play again after a few days at this level. Massive credit to them.’

Chelsea’s win over West Ham came courtesy of goals from Cole Palmer, Conor Gallagher, Noni Madueke and a brace from Nicolas Jackson.

The fourth saw Madueke go through one-on-one with the goalkeeper and despite having a chance to score himself, the winger selflessly laid the ball off to Jackson, who was in a better position, to score.

And Pochettino believes Madueke’s behaviour is indicative of the growth in his team.

He said: ‘Noni’s assist to Jackson shows that we have learned and we are smart.

‘The penalty situation against Everton, we received lots of criticism, but a young team always needs to make mistakes and feel the situations to improve. If we are able to improve, it is because we are smart and intelligent people.

‘Today was great. It was a great action from Noni to show how the group are starting to believe and feel between them.

‘It is always a process that takes time. You never know if it is going to take one month, six months or a year. The most important thing is they are starting to set the principles to feel and live like a group of players to create those links to compete.

‘I am so pleased about that because we are a part of the process to help them grow and mature and to improve in every aspect.

‘It is the first step, a massive step, but it is a step that we wanted to reach. From there, it is to involve the other aspects, like tactical evolutions and different things.

‘We can improve from there but without the principles or without the things we have started to show, being competitive in this way, it is impossible to evolve in another aspect.’