Facundo Bounanotte comes close to giving #Chelsea the lead, his 30-yard strike whistling just wide.

FT: Qarabag 2-2 Chelsea

Chelsea XI: Sanchez, James (C), Tosin, Hato, Cucurella, A.Santos (Fernandez 45’), Lavia (Caicedo 8’), Estevao, J.Pedro (Buonanotte 71’), Gittens (Garnacho 45’), George (Delap 45’)

Bench: Jorgensen, Merrick, Acheampong, Chalobah, Gusto, Fofana, Caicedo, Buonanotte, Fernandez, Garnacho, Delap, Guiu

Unused substitutes: Jorgensen, Merrick, Acheampong, Chalobah, Gusto, Fofana, Guiu

🟨 Yellow cards: A.Santos (44’), James (47’), Caicedo (90’)

Qarabag XI: Kochalski, Silva, Jankovic, Zoubir, Mustafazede, Leandro Andrade, Duran, Kady, Pedro Bicalho, Jafarguliyev, Medina

Bench: Buntic, Mahammadaliyev, Addai, Akhundzade, Bayramov, Cabrayilzada, Chriso, Dani Bolt, A.Huseynov, B.Huseynov, Kashchuk, Mmaee

🔵 Goals for Chelsea from:

Estêvão ⚽️ [16’]
Andrey Santos 🅰️
Alejandro Garnacho ⚽️ [52’]

🇦🇿 Goals for Qarabag from:

Leandro Andrade ⚽️ [29’]
Marko Jankovic ⚽️ [39’]

Thoughts on the game? ⬇️

#CFC

350 #UCL goals. ⭐️

Estevão vs Qarabag:

1 goal (most)
3 shots (most)
3 chances created (most)
3 successful take-ons (most)
7 duels won (most)
8 touches in opponent’s box (most)
POTM

(statmuse)

Despite not starting every game, Estêvão Willian is Chelsea’s top scorer this season with 4 goals.

Estêvão this season:

19 Games (818 mins)
7 Goals
1 Assist

A goal or assist every 102 minutes.

(gingabonito)

Estêvão is now the only South American player to score in consecutive UEFA Champions League appearances while aged 18 or younger. #CFC #UCL

(optajoe)

𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒:

✍️ by vigannpireva

STARTING XI:

Sanchez - 6: Great with the passes throughout, maybe could have done better with the goals conceded (-0.24 Goals Prevented). Not much to do overall, with Qarabag having 3 shots on target.

James - 6: Good in the build-up play, but weak in defence, losing half of his duels, albeit he made a crucial tackle at the end.

Tosin - 6: UPDATED - 5.5: Won a lot of his duels, and all of his tackles were clean. Was slow on the first goal conceded.

Hato - 3: Error leading to goal and the penalty commited says it all. Good thing he was stable in the second half, but the first half was horrible.

Cucurella - 5: Defence was horrible overall, and Cucurella didn’t help losing that much duels. Tried to support the attack, but with very little efficiency. Also didn’t mark the Andrade on the first goal.

Santos - 6: Had only the first half and delivered with an assist. Had a key pass, but he needs to improve his shooting. Got a yellow card too.

Lavia - N/A: Unlucky with injuries as always, got subbed off in the 8th minute.

Estevao - 8.5 [MOTM]: Great goal, massive in duels and magical dribbles. Joga Bonito was on display tonight. Needs to pass more to his teammates though.

J.Pedro - 6: Great build-up play for the first goal, but besides that didn’t do much in the game.

Gittens - 5: Good dribbles and passing, but should improve his end product and overall play.

George - 4: Tried but didn’t do much. The winger out of position at Striker, struggled with the Qarabag defenders a lot.

SUBSTITUTES:

Caicedo - 6.5: Stepped in and did the best he could. Solid overall performance.

Fernandez - 6.5: A lot of influence in attack, had chances but didn’t convert them.

Delap - 7: Great hold-up play, fantastic pass to Garnacho from our own half, who scored the second goal. Should have been active more in attack, but seems he’s not 100% fit yet.

Garnacho - 7.5: Great goal which secured us the draw, but horrible dribbling and passing.

Buonanotte - 5.5: Very little impact, had a great shot that was near the post.

Thoughts? 🔵⬇️

#CFC

🗣️ Enzo Maresca on Chelsea’s 2-2 draw against Qarabag [A] in the UEFA Champions League:

🤝 “The big difference was inside the box.

“In our box, we conceded two goals that we can avoid. In their box, for the amount of times we arrived there, we need to be a bit more clinical.

“We started in the right way, we scored the goal then we conceded two silly goals. Qarabag pressed well, but we also had many chances in the way we tried to build. There are things we could do better, but overall we also did some good things

“We take the point, we go home and now it’s important to try to recover the energy to go again on Saturday.”

🤕 𝐎𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨 𝐋𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐲, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭-𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟:

“It’s a great shame, especially for him. He’s not able to be fit for a long period. It’s too early to understand what kind of injury, but hopefully it’s not a big injury.”

Sending big birthday love to Andre Schurrle on his birthday! 🫶

🗣️ Enzo Maresca ahead of Wolves [H] in the Premier League:

🏥 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬:

“We are okay. The players rested yesterday and we have a session this afternoon.

“We don’t have an update at the moment [on Romeo Lavia].

“We need to wait still some hours to do all the checks he needs. For sure, he has an injury.

“It’s a shame because we are trying to minimise minutes for him, even with that, he is injured again. But we need to persist until we find the right solution for him.

“Pedro [Neto] had a session yesterday with the physio outside on the pitch, it was good. Today he will try with us and then we will take the final decision [as to whether he can face Wolves].”

🤔 𝐎𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐞‌𝐯𝐚‌𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤-𝐭𝐨-𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬:

“He’s ready to start. For sure, he’s ready to start. But if he starts, another one is on the bench and the other one wants to start. He is trying to adapt to England.

“He was complaining about it being cold last week and it was October. Wait until December and January! I say ‘it’s still hot’.”

🐺 𝐎𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫-𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦:

“They changed the manager, so for sure it’s difficult for this season, but these are the games we need to win because when you do the right things against Liverpool and Tottenham, you need to continue to do that.”

👀 𝐎𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬’ 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭:

“We are looking for a solution. When we were conceding goals, against Spurs it worked quite well but hopefully it can work tomorrow. If you find a solution to put three players up on the pitch, they will try to adapt and do something different.”

(Via ChelseaFC & BobbyVincent - Football London)

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