Antonio Conte took over at Stamford Bridge in the summer, and he is beginning to stamp his authority on this Chelsea team as they look to regain the Premier League title.

The Blues won their opening three league games, but defeats against Liverpool and Arsenal called into question their defensive capabilities, and there was even speculation that Conte could lose his job.

However, the Italian changed the system to incorporate a back three, and since then Chelsea have won five successive Premier League games, and haven’t conceded in any of them.

Thus, Conte’s side are second in the table, just a point adrift of league leaders Liverpool, and the Blues will hope to go top of the pile when they travel to Middlesbrough on Sunday.

However, with domestic football currently interrupted by the international break, we at Shoot! thought it’d be a good time to reflect a bit on Chelsea’s history by selecting their TOP THREE strikers of all time…

3) Kerry Dixon

Between 1983 and 1992, Kerry Dixon scored 193 goals in 420 games for Chelsea, and is currently third on the club’s all-time goal-scorer’s list.

He signed from Reading for just £150,000 back in 1983, and helped the club win promotion to Division One in his first season in West London, netting a league-high 34 goals in the campaign.

Dixon was Chelsea’s top-scorer in seven of his nine seasons there, and was a key part in helping establish the club in the top-flight after a few turbulent seasons in the 1980s.

2) Bobby Tambling

No Chelsea striker has ever scored more goals than Bobby Tambling.

The 75-year-old netted 202 goals in an 11-year stint in West London, and was usurped as the club’s record goal-scorer by midfielder Frank Lampard in 2013, 47 years after setting the record.

Tambling came up through the youth system at Chelsea and has gone on to become a club legend, and was part of the Chelsea side that won the League Cup in 1964/65.

His tally of 37 goals in a season (1962/63) has only been bettered once in the whole of Chelsea’s history (Jimmy Greaves – 43, 1960/61), and his sensational goal-scoring prowess gets him comfortably into this top three.

1) Didier Drogba

What Didier Drogba did for Chelsea, and indeed on that famous night in Munich four years ago, cannot be understated.

The Ivorian came to the Premier League in 2004 as a relative unknown, but he soon made sure that everyone in England knew of his ability when he scored in just his third game for the club against Crystal Palace.

Drogba went on to score 157 goals in his first stint at Stamford Bridge, and it’s the part he played in that Champions League final back in 2012 which gets him to number one on this list.

A bullet header in the 88th minute forced the game into extra-time and then penalties, in which the Blues forward stepped up to slot home the winning spot-kick to secure one of the club’s greatest ever triumphs.

It was to be his last game for Chelsea before returning for a season in 2014, and he will go down as one of the greatest players to have ever worn the Chelsea blue.