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KIERAN GILL AT STAMFORD BRIDGE: We love a transfer update in today's world of club-to-club talks and verbal agreements and sources whispering this and that‚ but there is nothing quite as clear as a surprise absentee on a match day. It smacks of something happening behind the scenes‚ and Manchester City target Enzo Fernandez was nowhere to be seen at Stamford Bridge‚ neither in the team nor on the bench nor in the stands supporting his team-mates in this Carabao Cup second-round victory. That was despite Xabi Alonso telling us a day previous that he intended on using him against League One visitors Luton. Chelsea did not need him. They won by two goals‚ with Danny Welbeck scoring and Hakeem Odoffin sending Estevao Willian's shot into his own net. They arguably should have won by six with the chances that Cole Palmer and Morgan Rogers had.
KIERAN GILL AT CARDIFF CITY STADIUM: If there was one position in Chelsea's first team that was up for grabs in Premier League games‚ it was on the left wing. Enzo Maresca likes Pedro Neto on the right over Estevao Willian. He likes Cole Palmer at No 10 for obvious reasons. But the left? That is there for the taking.
KIERAN GILL: Estevao Willian - and we will explain why we are repeatedly full-naming him momentarily - never wishes to forget where he came from. 'The ash heap‚' as it also says in Hannah's Prayer.
KIERAN GILL: An hour before this Champions League clash‚ the transfer boffins told us their supercomputer had calculated how Chelsea's Estevao Willian is worth £103.9million in today's market‚ and second only to Barcelona's Lamine Yamal among all the players in the world yet to turn 20 years old. We will not question that valuation‚ and nor should you. The 18-year-old Brazilian looked worth it while giving Enzo Maresca's side their early lead against Qarabag in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku‚ installing himself as their leading scorer this season with a quick step inside and fierce finish. He is a magical menace‚ the one they would all love but whom Chelsea secured for themselves‚ hailed as the next Neymar when he is not being nicknamed 'Messinho'.
KIERAN GILL: Sometimes‚ we can forget quite how young this Chelsea side under Enzo Maresca truly is‚ then an evening such as this occurs in which it is so record-breakingly blatant that it becomes impossible to ignore. For the first time in Champions League history‚ three teenagers scored for a side in a single game. That was Marc Guiu‚ Estevao Willian and Tyrique George. To make matters even more ludicrous‚ Chelsea's youngest scorer in this competition's history was Reece James‚ who was 19 years and 332 days of age when he scored in a 4-4 draw with Ajax in November 2019. Guiu‚ Estevao and George are all even younger than James was that night. Each could have had the record for himself therefore had only one of them scored. As all three did‚ Estevao sneaked it at the age of 18 years and 181 days‚ with Guiu and George both 19 and change.
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