'Best Abramovich Team To Watch'  (Sky Sports)

Antonio Conte's Chelsea side are the most enjoyable to watch of the Roman Abramovich era, the Sunday Supplement panel says.

Chelsea moved closer to winning the Premier League title in Conte's first season in English football with a 3-1 win over Arsenal on Saturday. A superb solo effort from Eden Hazard along with goals from Marcos Alonso and Cesc Fabregas put them 12 points clear of the Gunners and nine ahead of second-placed Tottenham.

Jose Mourinho's 2004/05 side were the first Chelsea team to be crowned champions under owner Abramovich, and the Portuguese also led them to the title the following season and in 2014/15.

But The Times' chief sports writer Matt Dickinson believes Conte's current crop of players are boasting a style of play that is a cut above what Mourinho, now Manchester United boss, oversaw during his two spells at Stamford Bridge.

"Chelsea were exactly what you have come to expect of them - in a good way," Dickinson told Sunday Supplement. "Every player seems to give exactly what's asked of them, they're not strained, they're not stretched. Everyone has got their role and they just seem to perform it in these little pockets.

"The energy that they had compared to Arsenal, it was like watching one team full gas and another stuck in first gear. I actually think on this form, this is the most enjoyable Chelsea team to watch under the Abramovich era.

"I know the early Mourinho team had its moments, but they were just a joy to watch yesterday."

Chelsea's rise to the top of the Premier League has coincided with Conte's switch to a 3-4-3 formation, which has now been utilised by a number of clubs across the top flight.

The Telegraph's chief football writer Sam Wallace is in no doubt Chelsea will march on to win the title this season after the "brave move" by Conte.

"I think unquestionably [Chelsea will win the title]," said Wallace. "They've mastered this new formation brilliantly. It was against Arsenal in September that he [Conte] first tried the three centre-backs, they'd only sort of flirted with it in pre-season.

"What's key for him is all his big players are playing well. [Diego] Costa is playing well, Hazard, [N'Golo] Kante is dominating games, [Thibaut] Courtois looks very sound, right back to David Luiz - who as Jamie Carragher said is a contender for player of the year.

"It's an extraordinary achievement, he's gone out on a limb to pick this kind of team.

"It takes a brave manager to break up what is the orthodox formation, and in the Premier League 4-2-3-1 is what everyone has been playing for a long time. He's rewritten that kind of orthodoxy."