Chelsea gained the Champions League as not too long ago as 2021 and have an important likelihood of extra continental success in Europe’s third-tier match.
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 uninteresting first half in Denmark, with Enzo Maresca’s facet failing to have a shot on the right track, they immediately improved after the break, taking the lead inside a minute of the restart by way of Reece James’ low strike.
A second purpose got here within the sixty fifth minute when Tyrique George’s cut-back was side-footed into the web 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 match and named teenage ahead Shumaira Mheuka within the beginning 11 because the England Beneath-19 worldwide, at 17 years 137 days, turned Chelsea’s youngest participant to start out a match in main European competitors.
Nevertheless, he was ineffective and a part of a Maresca triple substitution at half-time, earlier than his facet immediately scored within the second half.
It has been a tricky 2025 with fan unrest rising on the workforce’s inconsistent performances, though the facet now solely want a draw at dwelling to maneuver into the quarter-finals of a European competitors.
