Chelsea 8-0 Noah: Goals pour at Stamford Bridge as Blues carve names on UECL ark

Chelsea continued their quest for the knockout stages of the Europa Conference League by hammering Noah 8-0 on Thursday. 

Match Events

0' Mudryk chops onto his right foot and curls it into top corner! Chelsea 5-0 Noah

0' The match is about to start!

2' Goncalo Gregorio takes a shot but Filip Jorgensen saves it well

6' Felix has the goal at his mercy but he pokes it back across the face of goal

12' A brilliant header from Tosin Adarabioyo opens the scoring! Chelsea 1-0 Noah

13' Marc Guiu doubles the lead with his first Blues goal! Chelsea 2-0 Noah

18' Disasi's header nestles in the back of the net! Chelsea 3-0 Noah

22' Joao Felix chips it into the back of the net! Chelsea 4-0 Noah

28' Guiu heads it down towards goal but Ognjen Cancarevic collects it

41' Joao Felix chops in and finishes with his right foot! Chelsea 6-0 Noah

54' Joao Felix almost has hat-trick as his low shot doesn't have enough power

58' Nkunku drives forward but his effort skims the bar and flies over

68' Nkunku hooks the rebound in and it squeezes into the net! Chelsea 7-0 Noah

76' No problem at all for Nkunku to score the penalty goal! Chelsea 8-0 Noah

79' Two goals in seven minutes for Nkunku and he makes way for youngster Rak-Syaki

Match Report

Enzo Maresca's side are one of six sides still with a perfect record in the competition, but sit top of the pile with their superior goal difference following their Stamford Bridge mauling.

Tosin Adarabioyo headed the hosts into a 12th minute lead before Marc Guiu capitalised on Goncalo Silva's loose pass 84 seconds later to double their advantage. 

Chelsea notched their third from another corner, this time through Axel Disasi, with another defensive error punished by Joao Felix's deft finish over Ognjen Cancarevic. 

Mykhailo Mudryk then netted the pick of the first-half goals with a curled effort into the top corner, with Felix grabbing his brace four minutes before the interval. 

It then took Chelsea 24 minutes to get their seventh. Christopher Nkunku saw his initial effort saved by Cancarevic but was able to squeeze in the rebound at the near post. 

Yan Eteki then fouled Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall in the box, with a penalty given after a VAR review. Nkunku stepped up and smashed the ball down the middle for his fifth goal of the competition this season. 

Data Debrief: Blues sink Noah's Ark

Chelsea are on a roll in the Europa Conference League and have now scored 16 goals in their three games in the competition so far. 

Six of those came in the first half, with their 6-0 advantage at the interval the biggest by an English side at the break of a major European game since Derby County were winning 9-0 against Finn Harps in the 1976-77 UEFA Cup.

The Blues ended the contest with a whopping 5.44 expected goals (xG) from their 31 shots, compared to Noah's 0.61 from their 15 attempts on Filip Jorgensen's net. 

Line-ups

Chelsea XI: T.Adarabioyo, Nkunku, Axel Disasi, Felix, Benoît Badiashile, Mykhaylo Mudryk, Filip Jørgensen, Enzo Fernández, Tyrique George, Renato Veiga, Marc Guiu

Subs: Marc Cucurella, Robert Sánchez, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Noni Madueke, Carney Chukwuemeka, Malo Gusto, Cesare Casadei, Sam Rak-Sakyi, Max Merrick

Noah XI: Aleksandar Miljkovic, Hovhannes Hambardzumyan, Ognjen Cancarevic, Gonçalo Silva, Eraldo Cinari, Gonçalo Gregório, Yan Eteki, Hélder Ferreira, Gustavo Sangaré, Gor Manvelyan, Sergey Muradyan

Subs: Gudmundur Thórarinsson, Artak Dashyan, Pablo Santos, Bryan Mendoza, Matheus Aiás, Virgile Pinson, Imran Oulad Omar, Artem Avanesyan, Grenik Petrosyan, Aleksey Ploshchadnyi