Thursday, 21 July 2016

Victor Moses Nigerian forward stars in Chelsea's pre-season win

Victor Moses
Nigerian forward Victor Moses started Chelsea's 3-0 win over Wolfsberger in a pre-season friendly on Wednesday, July 20.
Moses has been heavily involved in Chelsea pre-season under new manager Antonio Conte and looks set to stay at the club after a series of loan moves around.
Chelsea players play Victor Moses in Chelsea starting line-up for pre-season game (Reuters)
Victor Moses and Chelsea players play Victor Moses and Chelsea players
(Reuters)

Conte enjoyed his first win as Chelsea manager and handed a debut to big-money arrival Michy Batshuayi as Wolfsberger were brushed aside 3-0.
Chelsea lost the opening match of their trip to Austria 2-0 against Rapid Vienna on Saturday, but they were worthy of a comfortable triumph at the Worthersee Stadion, where Bertrand Traore put them in front and substitutes Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Nathaniel Chalobah added late gloss to the scoreline.
Bertrand Traore play Bertrand Traore (Omnisports )

Willian was industrious and influential throughout and found Victor Moses to side-foot against the inside of the right-hand post from 15 yards, before the latter turned provider for Traore to hack wastefully over.
But the Burkina Faso forward broke the deadlock five minutes before half-time in slightly fortuitous fashion as a prodded effort from Willian's cross ricocheted back into him off goalkeeper Alexander Kofler and into the net.
Antonio Conte play Antonio Conte (Getty Images )

Wolfsberger spurned a glorious opportunity to equalise 10 minutes into the second period, with Dario Baldauf afforded ample room at the back post, but the half-time substitute headed wide
Batshuayi - who was not initially named on the bench before he was introduced - then entered the fray and the Belgium international skilfully rounded goalkeeper Christian Dobnik on the end of Willian's pass but Moses' resulting effort was cleared off the line.
Diego Costa play Diego Costa (Getty Images )

Six minutes from time, Loftus-Cheek made sure of the victory when he got in front of Dobnik to nod in from Moses' corner and Chalobah made his mark by powering into space and unleashing a clinical low finish in stoppage time.
Chelsea continue their pre-season preparations in the International Champions Cup next week, where they face Premier League counterparts Liverpool in Pasadena.

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