Chelsea kept up their unbeaten lope in the Champions League
this season with an agreeable 3-1 win over Sporting Lisbon, and in doing so
sent the Portuguese team out of the opposition.
The Blues players battling for a consistent beginning spot
awed at Stamford Bridge, with Andre Schurrle and John Obi Mikel receiving on
the score sheet after Cesc Fabregas' icebreaker.
Jonathan Silva had split the shortfall at 2-1 after the
break for Sporting, yet Marco Silva's side required attract to advancement with
Schalke receiving a result against Maribor in Slovenia.
In an abundantly changed Chelsea side after their 2-1
annihilation by Newcastle on Saturday, 18-year-old Ruben Loftus-Cheek was given
his presentation by Jose Mourinho with seven minutes remaining.
Mourinho decided to run with Diego Costa in advance regardless
of winning the group on match day five, with Loftus-Cheek chose on the seat and
Petr Cech, Filipe Luis and Mohamed Salah all given begins.
At the same time the new-look XI began well, and were
honored an agreeable punishment on eight minutes.
Filipe Luis was journey via Ricardo Esgaio on the place of
the region after the Chelsea safeguard had nut egged the Sporting man, and
Fabregas ventures up to send Rui Patricio the wrong path for his third Chelsea goal.
The hosts were two up and solidly in control only after
eight minutes, with the ordering Nemanja Matic discovering Schurrle, who
transformed well from 20 yards and let go home low into the left corner of the
net.
The German has fallen off the seat seven times in 16 matches
for Chelsea this season, and set forward a decent case to be chosen in the
Premier League at the cost of Willian.
What's more he could have had an alternate halfway through
the first-half, yet saw his half-volley spared well by Patricio after Cesar
Azpilicueta's middle.
Chelsea managed the first half, with Mohamed Salah
discovering Matic at the edge of the container, just for the midfielder to hit
crawls wide with Patricio established.
Sporting, who required attract to advancement to the
knockout stage at the cost of Schalke, held up 37 prior minutes debilitating
the Chelsea goal.
Diego Capel's jumping header strike the over of Azpilicueta
before the Sporting man got up first to the bounce back, just for Cech to spare
well at his feet.
The guests divided the deficiency after the break, with
Silva crushing home low to Cech's right from 15 yards in the wake of cutting
the ball down on his midsection.
Salah went up the flip side as Chelsea looked to recapture
the two-goal ahead, yet Portuguese No 1 Patricio got his fingertips to the
Egyptian's stumpy drive from the rim of the territory.
On 56 minutes the hosts did recover their pad, with Mikel
landing at the far post to hook onto Gary Cahill's flick from Fabregas' cross.
Cech, coming in for first-decision goalkeeper Thibaut
Courtois, did well to stop Islam Slimani's capable header, grasping the ball
hanging in the balance as Sporting players bid for an goal.
What's more late on there was a flash of Chelsea's future as
midfielder Loftus-Cheek was given his introduction for the club by Mourinho on
83 minutes.
Chelsea completed top of their gathering in front of Schalke
for the second year running, with four wins and two draws seeing them through.
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