The first was a classic poacher’s goal; the second, adroit movement, timing and a bullet header. The third, though, was something else: a shimmy with the inside and outside of his right boot, leaving Conor Coady’s head spinning, and then pace, poise and a clinical finish.

Tammy Abraham’s hat-trick in Chelsea’s 5-2 demolition of Wolverhampton Wanderers last month dispelled any doubts about his Premier League pedigree and felt like an arrival of sorts, but it has already been quite a journey for the striker.

“The only question was whether he would get opportunities on the biggest stage — and now he has, he’s taking them,” Adi Viveash, who coached Abraham in Chelsea’s academy, says. “What he’s got now is a manager in Frank Lampard who