The Liam Rosenior period at Chelsea started with a win after objectives from Jorrel Hato, Tosin Adarabioyo, Marc Guiu and Pedro Neto secured a 5-1 victory over Charlton within the FA Cup Third Spherical.
The previous Strasbourg supervisor was formally confirmed because the Blues boss on Tuesday and his first outing with the London membership was a cheerful one as they ran out comfy winners at The Valley.
The scoreline maybe did a slight disservice to the hosts, who for spells gave their Premier League guests a lot to consider and pulled one again by means of Miles Leaburn.
However, in the long run, Chelsea’s medical edge proved the distinction, including sheen to the consequence late on to progress to the following spherical.
The Rosenior period begins in emphatic trend
The hosts began brightly however the Blues finally started to take management. The vigorous Jamie Gittens had a few efforts on aim early on earlier than Josh Acheampong 25-yard drive was pushed around the put up by the diving Will Mannion.
Gittens once more went shut earlier than Hato scored the primary aim of the Rosenior period when he lashed dwelling Guiu’s header throughout the realm from 15 yards out.
5 minutes after the break, the guests added a second when Facundo Buonanotte’s whipped free-kick to the close to put up was guided previous Mannion by Tosin.
However simply when it regarded like Chelsea have been about to hit cruise management, The Valley erupted into raptures after Leaburn, a former Blues youth participant, diminished the deficit when he smashed the ball in after Filip Jorgensen had saved out Lloyd Jones’ preliminary header.
The elation within the dwelling finish, nonetheless, proved short-lived. 5 minutes later, Guiu restored the two-goal benefit, rifling into the web after Mannion had parried Buonanotte’s effort.
Substitutes Estevao and Fernandez then noticed efforts saved by the Charlton stopper earlier than the Argentine scored from the penalty spot with the final kick of the sport after Neto had scored a couple of minutes earlier.
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