Aerial photos of Stamford Bridge show stadium damage caused by Gent fans during Conference League clash

CHELSEA'S archetypal Conference League lucifer of the play was marred by convulsive scenes from Gent fans astatine Stamford Bridge.

The Blues hosted the Belgian outfit successful the League Phase and won 4-2 with a convincing show by Enzo Maresca's men.

However, travelling fans caused chaos some wrong and extracurricular of the stadium earlier the crippled adjacent began.

The visitors filled the plush streets of westbound London with flares and large chants arsenic they made their mode into the ground.

Fans waved scarves implicit their heads and blocked the mediate of the roadworthy arsenic cyclists tried to weave betwixt the assemblage portion buses were wholly halted.

And erstwhile inside, the carnage continued erstwhile immoderate fans tore up chairs successful the stands and threw them away.

The Chelsea fans were near further horrified erstwhile the Bobby Tambling banner from the precocious tier was torn down.

And shocking aerial footage showed the afloat grade of the harm done.

Almost full rows of seats person been ripped disconnected successful what poses arsenic a shameful site.

Chelsea, though, had a creaseless evening connected the transportation arsenic they cruised to their archetypal ever Conference League victory.

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The hosts opened the scoring aft conscionable 12 minutes with Renato Veiga's first ever extremity for the club and doubled their pb 1 infinitesimal into the 2nd fractional with Pedro Neto.

Gent deed backmost with Tsuyoshi Watanabe conscionable 4 minutes aboriginal but Christopher Nkunku enactment the crippled distant connected 63 minutes.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall besides scored his archetypal ever Chelsea extremity lone 7 minutes later.

And Wouter Vrancken's broadside grabbed different consolation extremity with Omri Gandelman successful the 90th-minute mark.