While João Félix continues to seek his focus at Chelsea, The Spanish Marc Guiu has found, in the Conference League, the ideal setting to shine with his own light as a footballer blue. The Portuguese, absent in the last two games against Astana and Brentford, watched from the bench as the 18-year-old striker became the top scorer in the third continental competition with six goals. Marc Guiu finished off the Irish Shamrock Rovers with a hat-trick in 45 minutes, a victory (5-1) that another Spaniard, Marc Cucurella, closed with his second goal in two consecutive games.
The competition at Chelsea remains fierce, but Marc Guiu, who has not played in the Premier League since the first league matchday in August, is knowing how to take advantage of his opportunities. And the Spanish is largely to blame for the classification of the blues for the round of 16 as undisputed leaders of the group stage. Enzo Maresca’s men surpass, with 26, the 25 goals scored by Fiorentina last season and sign a total of victories with a difference of 21 goals. Chelsea, the big favorite to win the third continental competition, will rest until February.
Guiu sum and sigue
As usual in Europe, Chelsea’s absolute dominance, with an advanced and suffocating post-loss pressure that did not allow Shamrock Rovers to even overcome the midfield line, did not take long to bear fruit, although the Irish team also put a lot of effort into the game. part. In just 45 minutes, the Spanish Marc Guiu improved the double scored in the last Conference League match against Astana. Although he had the help of the rival defense in his first two goals, the 18-year-old proved to be a very mischievous striker. Like an area mouse, he took advantage of two bad passes to the Shamrock Rovers goalkeeper to anticipate, steal the ball and see the goal. The former Barcelona player is experiencing his best moment since arriving at Stamford Bridge.
In between, Stephen Bradley’s charges had time to give a little joy to the numerous and lively fans who traveled to west London. The Irish team equalized from a corner, after a shot that hit Cesare Casadei and deflected, before Marc Guiu made it 2-1 in the 34th minute. Enzo Maresca’s pupils still had time to leave the match seen for sentencing.
The third time was the charm for the local team 3-1, which Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall finally scored. The English midfielder collected a rebound inside the area to score his second goal of the season. But the undisputed protagonist of the first half was Marc Guiu. Before heading to the locker room, and thanks to an unappealable header after a lateral cross, The culé youth player signed his first hat-trick as a Chelsea player. Sixth goals in 10 games this season for the Spaniard.
The night of the Marc
Another Marc who has also taken a liking to scoring is Cucurella. Days after scoring his first Premier League goal with the blues against Brentford (2-1), his second goal as a Chelsea player, the left-back repeated against Shamrock Rovers, signing the ‘little hand’ for his team. The 5-1 victory for the London team was a great goal more typical of a winger than a defender. Marc Cucurella, who repeated in a hybrid role between inside and wing, with a lot of presence in the rival field, defined perfectly with his right foot.. His shot from the border hit the post before going in.
It was then that Enzo Maresca brought on João Félix, with half an hour left. In his first minutes since the beginning of the month, the Portuguese came out motivated and eager to show the Italian coach that he can also be important in this Chelsea team. In his first action of the match he was about to make it 6-1. However, the performance of João Félix, quite individualistic, ended with several dangerous chances generated but no goals.. Los blues They await a rival in the round of 16.
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