Chelsea’s 18-year-old striker Marc Guiu scored a first-half hat-trick to make it six wins from six in the Conference League on another evening when youth stole the show.
Tyrique George and Josh Acheampong enjoyed important initiations this week as each was appointed his own locker in the first-team dressing room at Cobham. Both 18-year-olds started here, while Harrison Murray-Campbell, also 18, made his debut from the bench.
That trio came through Chelsea’s academy, whereas Guiu was a £5million summer signing from Barcelona. Nicolas Jackson and Christopher Nkunku may be ahead of the teenager in the Enzo Maresca’s pecking order of strikers, but he used this European dead-rubber to show Stamford Bridge what he can do if given the chance.