Chelsea set a UEFA Convention League document with an emphatic 8-0 win over Armenian facet FC Noah at Stamford Bridge on Thursday.
João Félix and Christopher Nkunku every scored twice for the Premier League membership, who had been six targets to the nice by half-time. Tosin Adarabioyo, Marc Guiu, Axel Disasi and Mykhailo Mudryk scored the opposite targets as Chelsea recorded the most important win within the competitors’s historical past.
The earlier largest margin of victory within the Convention League, which started in 2021, was six targets.
The end result additionally equals the second-biggest win in Chelsea’s historical past. The membership’s largest victory stays a 13-0 conquer Luxembourgian facet Jeunesse Hautcharage in 1971.
Chelsea sit high of the Convention League standings throughout the league section with a most 9 factors from three video games.
“The gamers as soon as once more confirmed how skilled and critical they’re,” Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca advised reporters.
“It is simple to sleep or fall down in the sort of recreation. Soccer is stuffed with surprises. What I requested them earlier than the sport was to indicate how critical we’re, how skilled, they usually confirmed that.”
The house crowd needed to wait solely till the twelfth minute for the opening aim, when Adarabioyo headed in a nook kick earlier than the second got here a minute later with Guiu intercepting a poor defensive cross earlier than slotting residence.
One other headed aim from a nook got here by way of Disasi after 18 minutes, and within the twenty first Félix gathered a cross from Enzo Fernández and slipped his shot underneath the keeper.
Mudryk curled an exquisite shot into the highest nook six minutes earlier than the break to make it 5, and Félix netted his second two minutes later.
After six targets within the opening half, Chelsea took their foot off the gasoline, however Frenchman Nkunku did handle a brace, knocking in a rebound after his preliminary shot was saved within the 69th minute after which changing a penalty seven minutes later.
Info from Reuters contributed to this report.