Chelsea received the Champions League as just lately as 2021 and have an excellent likelihood of extra continental success in Europe’s third-tier event.
They’re clear favourites to win the Convention League and are properly positioned to maneuver into the quarter-finals after gaining a 2-1 win away at Copenhagen within the first leg of their last-16 tie.
After a boring first half in Denmark, with Enzo Maresca’s aspect failing to have a shot on course, they immediately improved after the break, taking the lead inside a minute of the restart via Reece James’ low strike.
A second aim got here within the sixty fifth minute when Tyrique George’s cut-back was side-footed into the online by substitute Enzo Fernandez, though Copenhagen stored the competition alive as Gabriel Pereira’s highly effective header gave them a glimmer of hope going into subsequent week’s second leg in London.
Maresca has been in a position to give his squad members recreation time on this event and named teenage ahead Shumaira Mheuka within the beginning 11 because the England Underneath-19 worldwide, at 17 years 137 days, turned Chelsea’s youngest participant to begin a match in main European competitors.
Nevertheless, he was ineffective and a part of a Maresca triple substitution at half-time, earlier than his aspect immediately scored within the second half.
It has been a troublesome 2025 with fan unrest rising on the group’s inconsistent performances, though the aspect now solely want a draw at residence to maneuver into the quarter-finals of a European competitors.
