CLUB FRIENDLIES : CHELSEA VS MILAN – 10/08/2025 (PHOTO – LIAM DELAP SCORES A BRACE FOR CHELSEA)

THIS WAS AN ENTERTAINING FRIENDLY BETWEEN CHELSEA VS MILAN YESTERDAY! FIRST OFF, POOR YOUNG ANDREI COUBIS SCORED AN EXTREMEMLY UNFORTUNATE OWN GOAL AT JUST 5 MINS. INTO THE MATCH! AND THEN CHELSEA’S JOAO PEDRO SEIZED THE MOMENTUM, NETTING A STUNNER JUST A FEW MINS. LATER AT 8 MINS., (BELOW)

AND THEN PLOUGHED FORWARD ONCE AGAIN AFTER THE BALL SHORTLY AFTERWARDS – (WHICH DIDN’T HELP YOUNG COUBIS, WHO, BY NOW, WAS SEEMINGLY OUT-OF-KILTER), AS SO WAS HE!! CUE INSTINCTUAL ARGEY-BARGEY, WHEN COUBIS SEEMINGLY RUGBY TACKLED PEDRO TO THE GROUND, RECEIVING A RED CARD FOR HIS TROUBLES, LEAVING MILAN DOWN TO 10 MEN, (FOR WHICH HE LOOKED DEEPLY APOLOGETIC!) HE LEFT THE PITCH, HEAD DOWN, BUT RECEIVED A PAT ON THE BACK OF HIS HEAD FROM HIS COACH!😊 CHELSEA MADE 453 PASSES, WITH A 92% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 6 CORNERS (PLUS 54% POSSESSION) AND 19 SHOTS, WITH 5 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A STUNNING BRACE FROM LIAM DELAP FROM A PENALTY AT 67 MINS., (BELOW)

AND AN EXCITING LATE GOAL AT 90 MINS! MILAN MADE 407 PASSES, WITH A 91% PASS ACCURACY, HAD 3 CORNERS, AND 11 SHOTS WITH 5 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A CRACKER FROM YOUSSOUF FOFANA AT 70 MINS., (BELOW)

SO THIS EXCITING MATCH ENDED IN A 4 – 1 WIN TO CHELSEA!

WORDS BY AMANDA WATERS