Noni Madueke apologises for Wolverhampton Instagram insult

Chelsea's hat-trick hero Noni Madueke has apologised for insulting the city of Wolverhampton on social media before his match-winning display at Molineux.

The England Under-21 winger scored three times in 15 second-half minutes in Chelsea's 6-2 win against Wolves.

He was heavily booed throughout by the home fans due to a hastily-deleted Instagram post in the early hours that described the midlands city he was staying in as s***.

"I just want to apologise to anyone that I might have offended," he said in an interview shown by Sky Sports after the game.

"It is just a human mistake, an accident. It wasn’t meant to be out on my socials like that. I’m sure Wolverhampton is a lovely town and I’m sorry.

"In terms of the boos, I expected it but it is part of the game. You have to be able to play under that sort of pressure."

Blues boss Enzo Maresca, who celebrated his first win in charge, insisted he did not know about the incident.

"To be honest I didn’t know, it’s just been mentioned to me now but I didn’t know during the game about Noni’s social post," Maresca said at his press conference.

"I judge Noni’s performance which has been fantastic, not only second half, even in the first half – the first 10 or 15 minutes he was always creating something.

"Since day one, I said he is the kind of winger I like, is working very good with us. The best thing from him was not the hat-trick but the way he defended 90 minutes, that shows everything I am asking from the players.

"I am the kind of person who trusts people and thinking people are mature enough to know what is correct and not correct. In this case Noni is mature enough to know if what he did was correct or not correct."

Madueke’s goals – all set up by Cole Palmer – came in a superb