Chelsea completed a perfect league stage in the Conference League after defeating the mediocre Irish Shamrock Rovers (5-1) in a night with a Spanish festival. Marc Guiu, The young Barcelona player who arrived in English football last summer, scored his first hat trick in the Blues shirt and, with six goals, ended the first stage of the competition as the top scorer. Marc Cucurella, former Barça player, also scored.
Six wins in six games, a total of 18 points, 26 goals for and 5 matches is the extraordinary balance of Chelsea, great favorite for the title.
As usual in the Conference League, Enzo Maresca gave a break to headlines like Robert Sánchez, Enzo Fernández, Moisés Caicedo or Cole Palmer, but the substitutes took to the pitch with maximum intensity in an attempt to convince the coach that he has a place in the starting eleven in the Premier League.
Guiu, the smartest in the class
Chelsea’s stormy exit didn’t turn out to be clear chances until Marc Guiu unleashed his opportunism at the age of 18. After a long ball, the Catalan forward took advantage of the misunderstanding in between Darragh Burns and his goalie Leon Pohls to open the scoring (22′).
Burns He tried to head the ball to his teammate, not realizing that he also followed him, leaving his goal, and Guiu benefited from the giftalthough he played physical as he crashed the post to push the ball into the net.
Shamrock, until then under siege, were surprised by their reaction after 1-0. Johnny Kenny, at a conforced to show off Filip Jorgensen to take an early shot from a shot going into the square.
Guiu’s opportunism again
But at the next corner, Markus Poom was rejected and tied with a shot whose trajectory was deflected Cesare Casadei and Jörgensen is dislocated (26′).
Chelsea slowed down a bit after the 1-1 draw, but it wasn’t long before they surrounded the Irish goal again and Guiu once again showed his opportunism to bring him back to the front on the scoreboard.
The former Barça forward again blocked loan, this time from Dan Cleary, to Pohls, He blocked the ball on the run, beat the goalkeeper and scored from a narrow angle (34′).
Before the break the game was decided. Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall He picked up a loose ball, after Cucurella made a good pass to Christopher Nkunku, and made it 3-1 with a low shot (40′).
‘Hat trick’ and ‘Pichichi’
And in added time Guiu sealed his hat trick by finishing a cross from Noni Madueke with a perfect header against the post. It was the sixth goal in six European games for the Catalan, the leading scorer in the Conference League.
Cucurella, two goals in five days
In the second part Cucurella joined the party after receiving on the edge of the area from Nkunku, cuts past a defender and finishes with a shot at grass level next to the post (58′). It was the Catalan full-back’s second goal of the season, both in just five days, since Sunday he scored his first Premier goal in the victory over Brentford (2-1). A fight in which he was eventually kicked out.
At game time, with everything decided, Maresca relieves Marc Guiu to give entry to another former Barcelona player, João Felix. The Portuguese came in very motivated and had three good chances to score his goal, but between his lack of success and Pohls they kept it out.
Source: La Verdad
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