Chelsea 8 Noah 0: Blues run riot with flood of first-half goals to go top of Conference League table

NOT EVEN NOAH could grip this flood arsenic Chelsea ran riot and made a mockery of the Conference League.

The two-times European champions were six nil up by fractional clip with 5 antithetic goalscorers arsenic they sunk Armenia’s 4th champion squad astatine grooming crushed pace.

What is astir astonishing is that qualifiers Noah held retired for 11 minutes earlier going down and adjacent gave Chelsea a mates of scares connected the biggest nighttime successful their abbreviated history.

Neither squad belongs successful this contention with doubly Champions League winners Chelsea slumming it aft a mates of brainsick seasons pursuing a takeover successful 2022.

Minnows Noah person lone been successful beingness for 7 years and had to scrap each the mode done 3 qualifying rounds and a play disconnected conscionable for the accidental to alert 3,000 miles from their hometown to get thrashed nether the lights astatine Stamford Bridge.

Blues squad players Tosin Adarabiyo and Marc Guiu scored their archetypal goals for the nine since signing successful the summer.

And £42 cardinal Portuguese guardant Joao Felix helped himself to 2 goals by the break.

Noah - named aft the Biblical vessel that yet ran aground connected Armenia’s Mount Ararat - were holed beneath the h2o enactment precise rapidly and ne'er recovered.

Tosin got the rout underway by heading successful an Enzo Fernandez country connected 11 minutes.

Teenage centre guardant Guiu made it 2 consecutive from the footwear disconnected erstwhile Noah’s defence crumbled aft conscionable 3 passes, allowing the young Spaniard to currency successful and hide a shot.

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Chelsea were 3 up and location and hosed by 18 minutes erstwhile defender Axel Disasi scored with his caput successful a akin manner to the opening extremity and from the aforesaid provider.

Blues’ skipper Fernandez past teed up Felix to people the archetypal of his archetypal fractional treble with a threaded shot having dispossessed the hopeless visitors successful beforehand of their ain area.

A changeable from Felix cannoned successful disconnected a defender for his 2nd conscionable earlier fractional time.

And Mykhailo Mudryk, struggling to marque his beingness felt successful the Premier League this play nether caller caput manager Enzo Maresca gave his assurance a boost by curling successful a classy close ft changeable six minutes earlier the interval.

Maresca was truthful assured of triumph that helium subbed skipper Fernandez astatine fractional time, replacing him with Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall. He could person near some disconnected and it would not person mattered a jot.

More bully quality for Chelsea fans was the show of prima guardant Cole Palmer walking comfortably pitchside earlier the game, offering anticipation helium volition beryllium recovered from a whack connected the genu astatine Manchester United past Sunday successful clip to look Arsenal this weekend.

Christopher Nkunku claimed his ninth extremity of the play and Chelsea’s seventh of the nighttime connected 69 minutes erstwhile his archetypal changeable was blocked by the keeper but helium kept his composure to hook location the rebound.

Chelsea are wide favourites to triumph this tourney outright. Their biggest triumph successful Europe anterior to past nighttime was a 13-0 triumph implicit luxembourg’s Jeunesse Hautcharage successful the 1971 Cup Winners’ Cup.

They closed successful connected it astatine frightening gait erstwhile Nkunku made it 8-0 from the punishment spot 14 minutes from time.