Soccer-Chelsea attain Convention League remaining with 5-1 combination win
Could 09, 2025 03:18 AM IST
UK-SOCCER-CONFERENCE-CHE-DIF-REPORT:Soccer-Chelsea attain Convention League remaining with 5-1 combination win
By Clare Lovell
LONDON -Favourites Chelsea, enjoying a second-string crew, cantered into the Europa Convention League remaining with a regulation 1-0 second-leg win over Swedish aspect Djurgarden on Thursday for a 5-1 combination victory.
Their Thirty eighth-minute purpose got here from one of many extra senior gamers on the pitch, Kiernan Dewsbury-Corridor, 26, who acquired a neat move from Tyrique George, rounded two defenders and fired house a left-foot shot.
“Wonderful to be within the remaining,” Dewsbury-Corridor informed TNT. “It has been a protracted couple of months however another sport to go and hopefully we will carry that trophy.”
With the aspect 4-1 up from the primary leg and concerned in an end-of-season Premier League scrap for Champions League spots, Chelsea coach Enzo Maresca rested gamers and put out a youthful crew together with a primary begin for 16-year-old ahead Reggie Walsh.
The end result was a lower than fluent show from the Premier League aspect however the gulf in high quality was evident they usually by no means misplaced management of the sport.Djurgarden’s intense and vocal travelling assist saved up fixed chanting and had been rewarded with few probabilities, the perfect coming within the 71st minute when Chelsea goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen tipped a Daniel Stensson shot over the bar.
Walsh turns 17 solely in October and made his senior debut for the membership he joined aged seven within the first leg in Stockholm.He was joined within the beginning lineup by 19-year-old George, whereas 17-year-old substitutes Genesis Antwi and Shumaira Mheuka got here on within the second half.
Dewsbury-Corridor mentioned: “I am simply right here to attempt to information the younger gamers. Reggie Yates is 16 and he was improbable, composed… You noticed that with the gamers that performed, very composed, very calm. That is a credit score to the academy.” Chelsea face a stiffer problem within the remaining the place they play Spain’s Actual Betis in Wroclaw, Poland, on Could 28.
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