Timo Werner’s incredible strike rate sees Chelsea star score five times from just six shots

TIMO WERNER has scored five goals from his last six attempts on target in all competitions for Chelsea.

The incredible stat from Sky Sports comes after Werner netted in Saturday’s 4-1 win against Sheffield United.

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The Germany international, 25, was deployed on the left wing with both Christian Pulisic and Kai Havertz missing.

And Werner caused devastation in the Blades’ box as he cut inside to link up with fellow forwards Tammy Abraham and Hakim Ziyech.

Werner has already helped himself to eight goals and three assists for Chelsea since his £47million summer move from RB Leipzig.

But after scoring against Sheffield, it’s now been revealed that Werner’s last five goals have come from just six shots on target.

The first of those five came in a 4-0 win at Krasnodar in the Champions League.

Werner followed that up with a strike in the 3-0 win at Burnley before netting twice against Rennes at Stamford Bridge.

The German has also replaced Jorginho as Chelsea’s primary penalty taker.

And there won’t be many betting against Werner repeating his incredible goal feats in England after netting 95 times and assisting 40 others in 159 games at Leipzig.

However, former Chelsea striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink believes Werner must be played centrally if he is to give his best for the Blues, telling Premier League Productions: “Werner knows where the back of the net is.

“I like him in the centre of the pitch, that’s where he’s lethal.

“When he’s coming from the left, he doesn’t have that technique of beating players and being clever. When he plays on that shoulder, he’s lethal.”

Fellow pundit Ian Wright added: “I totally agree with that simply because if he was to stay there in the width of the 18-yard box, you’ve got all these other players, you don’t need to do much in and around those other places

“If you stay central, you’ll get a lot more chances like that where he just runs onto them and finishes them.

“Him being down the middle is going to be dangerous.”

Former Chelsea man Alan Hudson also believes Werner through the middle will spell the end of Tammy Abraham’s Stamford Bridge career.

He told CaughtOffside: “Werner has proved his quality. He is a player who you let go ‘free’ because great strikers following their goal-scoring instinct.

“He is one who will get goals no matter how Chelsea are playing.

“However, Abraham is not good enough for a club who has intentions of winning the Premier League title.”

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