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Monday, July 22, 2013

Chelsea win by 4 -1


Chelsea's second game of pre-season brought a second victory, and this time a more comfortable margin for Jose Mourinho's men.
A late kick-off saw Chelsea race into an early lead when youngster Bertrand Traore slotted home inside six minutes, and Kevin De Bruyne doubled the lead on the half-hour with a powerful finish. The Belgian did however hurt himself in the process, but it is hoped his injury is less serious than first feared.

Romelu Lukaku added a third from a well-worked team move just before the break, and that looked to be it until Victor Moses made it four on 88 minutes, just leaving time for the Malaysia XI claiming a goal that most in the stadium would cherish, for their home country. A ball was whipped in from the left and Cech parried the initial effort, but was unable to do anything about Mohd Fadhli Shas's diving header which flew into the back of the net.

Ashley Cole then had to characteristically clear an effort off the line in the dying seconds as the Malaysians rallied, but it would end 4-1 on an encouraging night for the Blues.

Next, we move on to Indonesia and Jakarta, with more important match minutes to be amassed for the players. So far, so good.

Chelsea first half (4-2-3-1): Schwarzer; Ivanovic, Chalobah, Terry (c), Bertrand; Van Ginkel, Essien; Traore, De Bruyne (Feruz 31), Hazard; Lukaku.
Chelsea second half (4-2-3-1): Cech; Wallace, Kalas, Cahill, Cole; Van Ginkel (McEachran 66), Ramires; Moses, Hazard (Piazon 66), Schurrle; Ba.
Goals Traore 6, De Bruyne 29, Lukaku 45+3, Moses 88
Booked

Malaysia XI: Farizal, Mahalli (Fadhli h-t), Azizi Matt Rose (Fadhli 45+1), Asraruddin (Reuben 83), Aidil Zafuan (c) (Putera 81), Norshahrul (Safee 67), Shakir (Nazmi 67), Gurusamy (Safiq 55), Kunanlan (Nazrin 71), Amri (Zubir 87), Shahrul (Norfarhan 55).

Goals Fadhli 90+1
Booked
Referee Nagor Amir Bin Noor Mohamed
Crowd 41,500

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