Chelsea steamrolled Ajax in the Champions League on Wednesday night, ultimately making light work of the 5–1 game after playing most of it with a man-advantage.
Shortly after Ajax were reduced to 10 players, Marc Guiu handed Chelsea the lead, before Moisés Caicedo’s goalscoring start to the season continued.
A Wout Weghorst penalty threatened to offer the visitors a way back into the game, but two quickfire Chelsea spot-kicks at the other end in the closing stages of the first half effectively killed the contest—converted by Enzo Fernández and Estêvão.
Tyrique George added some gloss with a fifth early in the second half.
Enzo Maresca made 10 changes from the side that beat Nottingham Forest in the Premier League at the weekend, with only Romeo Lavia keeping his place in a heavily reshuffled team. Caicedo was asked to fill at right back, while Guiu was handed his first start since a summer loan move to Sunderland was cut short after a matter of weeks.
With an average age of 22 years, 163 days, it was the second youngest starting XI named by an English club in the Champions League. With Guiu, Estêvão and George all yet to celebrate their 20th birthdays, Chelsea also became the first team in the competition’s history to have three different teenage goalscorers in the same game.
