Chelsea 4-1 AC Milan: Maresca´s males finish pre-season on a excessive

Chelsea wrapped up their pre-season preparations with a 4-1 victory in opposition to AC Milan at Stamford Bridge.

Enzo Maresca’s Membership World Cup champions host Group Defend victors Crystal Palace of their Premier League opener subsequent Sunday, and they’ll enter that match on the again of a morale-boosting win.

The hosts opened the scoring simply 5 minutes into the sport, with a free-kick from captain Reece James turned in by Romanian defender Andrei Coubis for an personal objective.

That lead was doubled within the eighth minute. Pedro Neto did effectively down the proper wing and delivered a cross in direction of Joao Pedro, who utilized a headed end previous Mike Maignan.

Coubis’ afternoon obtained worse when he was despatched off within the 18th minute. He was one-on-one with Joao Pedro, who took it previous him earlier than he was delivered to the bottom by the defender, who was deemed to be the final man.

Chelsea’s third objective got here from a penalty after new signing Estevao was bundled over contained in the field. The spot-kick was calmly transformed by substitute Liam Delap within the 67th minute, as he fired the ball into the bottom-left nook.

The guests pulled one again within the seventieth minute when Alexis Saelemaekers performed by way of Youssouf Fofana, who beat Robert Sanchez at his close to put up.

However Chelsea wrapped up a profitable outing with Delap getting his second late on. Andrey Santos laid the ball off for him on the sting of the field, and he beat Maignan with confidence.

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Information Debrief: Chelsea’s threatening assault

Chelsea’s followers have been capable of see a bunch of recent attacking additions within the flesh on Sunday, they usually mixed to nice impact.

Jamie Gittens, a current arrival from Borussia Dortmund, proved a risk on the left, having 9 touches within the opposition field, probably the most by any participant within the recreation.

Regardless of solely approaching after 60 minutes, Delap, like Neto, had two pictures on the right track, the joint-most within the match, with each of the Englishman’s efforts discovering the web.

Chelsea’s domination was mirrored within the anticipated objectives (xG) statistics, having 2.66 in comparison with Milan’s 0.92.