Chelsea beat Crystal Palace 4-0 at home in the Premier League when Ben Chilwell scored his league debut for the Blues by scoring one goal and creating another for fellow defender Kurt Zouma before Jorginho sealed the win with two penalties.
Palace had put Chelsea down in a goalless first half, but Chilwell punished him for a rare defensive error, firing from close range in the 50th minute after Mamadou Sakho inflated a punt, allowing Cesar Azpilicueta to line up a cross.
Chelsea doubled their lead in the 66th minute when the corner failed and Zouma advanced everyone in the area to find a Chilwell center and send a headbutt past Vicente Guaita.
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Jorginho secured victory by turning two consequences into the five-minute area of delay in the game.
Chelsea manager Frank Lampard will be as pleased with the first blank sheet of his team’s season as with the four goals scored.
LIGUE 1
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Neymar scored twice for Paris Saint-Germain on Friday in a crushing 6–1 win over Angers SCO, while French champions continue to gain momentum after a poor start in the Ligue 1 season.
Alessandro Florenzi, Julian Draxler, Idrissa Gana Gueye and Kylian Mbappé also scored at the Parc des Princes for PSG, which achieved their fourth consecutive victory after the crusade with consecutive defeats.
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“Setting goals gives us confidence. It’s a victory,” PSG manager Thomas Tuchel said.
Florenzi opened the scoring with great determination in the 7th minute: the right-back, who remains PSG’s new face for this season after being loaned by AS Roma, controlled the ball before scoring with a delicious volley to the farthest corner.
Mbappé then cut the ball for Neymar to score below the bar.
Neymar began after avoiding punishment following accusations of verbal abuse in a moody defeat to Olympique de Marseille last month.
The league’s disciplinary committee ruled wednesday that it did have sufficient evidence to act against Brazilian defense or Marseille Alvaro González, whom Neymar had accused of calling him “monkey”.
The world’s top player scored his moment and PSG’s third goal on the night just after halftime, completing for the first time when the ball broke in the area.
The goals were his first two goals of the new season after a start of the crusade interrupted by positive control of COVID-19 and a suspension.
Ismael Traoré fired one for Angers with a headbutt on the back post, but Mitchel Bakker crossed for Draxler to put the 4-1 and Gueye added with a deflected shot.
Mbappé completed the scoring with one hand from Pablo Sarabia six minutes from the end, and PSG gave the impression that they had put Bayern Munich defeat in the Champions League final in August.
Tuchel now expects to see new faces arrive before tomorrow’s move deadline, with a busy schedule once the Champions League level begins later this month.
PSG must begin their European crusade at home against Manchester United on 20 October before also facing Istanbul Basaksehir and RB Leipzig, whom they beat in last season’s semi-finals.
“It’s a very complicated organization with Leipzig as the third seed,” Tuchel said. “We know how strong they are. We will have to be within our reach to succeed. “
Bundesliga
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Former German forward Max Kruse presented Union Berlin on Friday in a 4-0 win over FSV Mainz 05 for his Bundesliga victory and the first of the season.
Finnish striker Joel Pohjanpalo also scored just a few seconds after making his debut to top off an unfortunate start for New Mainz Manager Jan-Moritz Lichte.
Former assistant coach Lichte took over Mainz on Monday on an interim behalf when the club fired Achim Beierlorzer after losing his first two games and the players boycotted a consultation in favor of a degraded player, Adam Szalai.
Kruse opened the scoring in the 13th minute with his first purpose in his first outing for the club. Sheraldo Becker crossed from the right and Kruse’s hard headbutt provoked celebrations among the socially estranged fans present.
In the middle of the moment, Union Captain Christopher Trimmel had room for Marcus Ingvartsen to convert at close range.
Marvin Friedrich scored with a header from a loose shot in the 63rd minute and Pohjanpalo benefited from a duller defense when he scored a minute later.
“We were there at the right time, ” said Union coach Urs Fischer. “Now we have to keep our feet on the ground. “