Frank Lampard scored twice and set up two more, and Chelsea rallied to beat Bolton 5-1 on Saturday, stretching its perfect start to nine victories.
After Greece midfielder Stelios Giannakopoulos had silenced Stamford Bridge by giving Bolton a fourth-minute lead, Chelsea scored four goals in nine minutes early in the second half.
Lampard, who scored England's winner in the 2-1 World Cup qualifying win against Poland on Wednesday, was the standout player. He set up two goals for Didier Drogba and scored twice before Eidur Gudjohnsen netted a fifth 11 minutes from the end.
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Wanderers' Ricardo Gardner was sent off for deliberate handball in the 58th with Chelsea leading 2-1.
Chelsea, which won 4-1 at Liverpool in its last game, has now scored nine goals in two league games and has a positive goal differential of 20.
Lampard said that Mourinho's halftime talk turned the game around.
"Without shouting and screaming, the manager reorganized the team, went for three at the back, much more attacking," Lampard said. "He just said we weren't playing as well as we can and we weren't winning tackles. He let us know that and we went out and put that all right."
Tottenham moved into second place with a 2-0 victory over last-place Everton through headed goals by Egypt striker Mido and England midfielder Jermaine Jenas.
Everton, which finished fourth last season, is now two points adrift at the bottom with just one goal scored in eight games.
Manchester United moved up to third after winning 3-1 at Sunderland. Wayne Rooney scored the first and set up the second for Ruud van Nistelrooy. Late substitute Giuseppe Rossi, an American-born forward for the Italy under-21 team, then scored his first goal for the Red Devils.
"In the second half we played excellent football and could have been four or five ahead with some terrific movement and passing," Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson said.
Arsenal squandered the lead at next-to-last West Bromwich Albion to lose 2-1 at the Hawthorns. Arsene Wenger's team is now 14 points behind Chelsea in eighth place.
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