The Chelsea has had a great advantage in the conference league semifinals after Thursday night victory 3-0 on Legia Warsaw in the last eight years.
Tyrique George’s first senior goal ended with the tie in favor of Chelsea after a slow start in the game, with Noni Madueke who scored on both sides of a lost penalty from Christopher Nkunku.
It means that Chelsea will head towards the Stamford bridge for the second stage next week with a beautiful aggregate lead, above his advantage at home.
As the game was deployed
After starting the hosts, playing its first quarter of European final since 1996, Chelsea began to dictate possession and control the ball, not that the possibilities were free.
A large number of features, many of which were removed outside the penalty surface, were blocked or flying from the target. The final ball on one side rotated also lacked the most.
A breaking of legion halfway through the first half saw that Ryoya Morishiti lost the target, before the Chelsea finally registered a shot at the goal that reached the half -hour mark. Kacper Tobiasz comfortably saved the head of Tosin Adarabioyo.
Chelsea began shaking a little more after that, and Tobiasz saved more difficult, but still at a good height in Parry, when Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall dragged an effort. A near -range block soon denied Christopher Nkunku a possible opener.
After a first half of Drab, the half -time message of Enzo Maresca and the changes finally kicked to Chelsea on the way. Suddenly, there was more information on the restart and the desire to attack more than paid when Reece James struck a low shot from the edge of the box. He was spoken by Tobiasz, with George faster to react while converting the rebound to the network.
Madueke had generally impressed from his emergency and doubled the advantage shortly before the time mark. Tobiasz was guilty of a bad authorization chosen in the middle of the legia, with Jadon Sancho finding Madueke in space in the middle of the box, followed by a composite finish.
Tobiasz was shining slightly with a good, but routine, saving to deny Sancho, before Dewsbury-Hall had another effort he lost closely after a well-timed volleyball.
Nkunku had the opportunity to expand the advantage from the penalty spot after it was involved and set a free kick to Dewsbury-Hall in real time. Tobiasz immersed himself on his right to push the kick, but Chelsea ended up recycling the ball and scored Madueke about 30 seconds later. Sancho’s low cross in La Caixa was a touch-in for blue no. 11.
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Winning a European trophy would be good, but ultimately there is more at stake for Chelsea focusing on a premier League end in the rest of the season, because it would mean the qualification of the Champions League, stepping on a European League place.
Thus, even in the last stages of this competition, Enzo Maresca opts for mass rotation in order to maintain most of its fresh starters at the weekend.
Only three players who began Crunch’s victory by 1-0 about Tottenham Hotspur earlier this month began here, but it is very likely that Enzo Fernandez, Moses Caicedo, Marc Cucurella, Levi Colwill and others reset the XI when the Blues face Ipswich Town.
Chelsea did not give Enzo Maresca what he wanted at the initial 45 minutes, so Levi Colwill and Noni Madueke showed up at halftime. Cole Palmer, a player very out of shape after the first 18 months glittering the club, was the man sacrificed by the latter.
Tyrique George became the role of Palmer after starting the game and got the goal that put Chelsea ahead. At that time, Madueke marked the second and third, emphasizing the importance it can have when it adapts fully, after losing several weeks in February and leaving due to injury.
Jadon Sancho came out with two assists and probably needed this timely impulse in a disappointing season that was supposedly his renaissance.
Sancho Passes created the two Madueke goals. But, as he would love to mark -after not finding the net in four months. The player He himself has admitted that his lack of return in this regard has been frustrating and Maresca also said that recently these numbers are not good enoughdefying the attack to shoot more often.
Ultimately, it really doesn’t. It was only Sancho’s attempt. Thus, while doing it very well most of the other things, including the creation of the most possibilities of any player, being in the right positions to score and be willing to make work needs yet.
Madcampista de Legia Warsaw, Maxi Oyedele, has had a whirlwind for a couple of years. Salford -born talent was at Manchester United Academy for a decade, but left the club without a senior appearance in 2024. In the second half of 2022/23, he played 12 games on loan at the Altrincham League National Club, followed by four games for Forest Green Rovers in the League two last season.
But Oyedele was given the opportunity to join -Legia last summer: his mother is Polish and she was already international for the country. This was only his tenth start for the club, which reached one of his biggest games in recent memory. He made his debut in Poland in October.
