Chelsea of England began its league campaign in the European Football Conference League, with a major victory over its guest, Gent of Belgium, 4-2, in the first round.
Chelsea took the lead in the 12th minute through Renato Vega, before his teammate Pedro Neto added the second goal in the 46th minute.
In the 50th minute, Gent scored their first goal through Teoshi Watanabe, but Christopher Nkunku returned to score Chelsea’s third goal in the 63rd minute, and his teammate Kieran Desprey-Hall added the fourth goal in the 70th minute.
The Belgian team scored its second goal in the last minute of the second half through Amari Gandelman.
In another match in the same round, Italian Fiorentina defeated Welsh New Saints 2-0.
The Italian team waited until the 56th minute to score the lead goal through Yassin Adly, while his teammate Moise Kean added the second goal four minutes later.
In the rest of the matches, Lugano of Switzerland beat HGK Helsinki of Finland 3-0, Paphos of Cyprus beat Petrokop of Romania 4-1, while Sharmock Rovers of Ireland tied with APOEL of Cyprus 1-1, which is the same score as the matches between Borac of Bosnia and Panathinakos of Greece ended. Denmark’s Copenhagen and Poland’s Jagiellonia, while Austria’s LASK tied with Sweden’s Djurgården 2/2.
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