Liam Delap bags his first goal for Chelsea since £30m move from Ipswich with fine solo strike at the Club World Cup
Liam Delap scored a fine solo goal to net for Chelsea for the first time since his £30millon move from Ipswich.
Delap was fed by Enzo Fernandez, before cutting inside his man and curling into the corner of the net.
It was Delap's first goal for Chelsea. He was awarded a start in the game after Nicolas Jackson was sent off in the defeat by Flamengo, with the forward later seeing his ban extended to two games.
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Which English second-tier football teams have played in Europe?
'Spurs finished 17th this season, yet claimed a place in the Champions League. They aren't the lowest-ranked Uefa qualifier, though, as I recall Millwall playing in Europe in the early 2000s. Which other English second-tier teams have played in Uefa European competitions?' asks Richard Amos. We looked at this back in the 2011-12 season as Birmingham entered the Europa League by virtue of winning that year's League Cup. They exited in the group stage, behind Club Brugge and Portugal's Braga (the latter beaten finalists the previous year), despite reaching the magical 10 points total. That followed in the tradition set by West Ham's 1980 FA Cup winners – Trevor Brooking's rare header and all - and their journey to the quarter-final of the 1980-81 Cup Winners' Cup. 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One of Royle's first assignments was a second-round meeting with Slovan Liberec, which they lost on penalties after a 1-1 draw. Millwall's sole portion of continental football came after they lost the 2004 FA Cup final to Manchester United, who had qualified for the Champions League. Dennis Wise's Lions only got as far as a 4-2 first-round knockout loss to Ferencvaros. The 2013 winners of the FA Cup, Wigan Athletic, were unable to prevent relegation, and so, Roberto Martínez having departed to Everton, Owen Coyle and, soon enough, Uwe Rösler presided over a Europa League stage in which the Latics finished bottom behind Belgium's Zulte Waregem, Maribor and the Russian team Rubin Kazan. 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The goalkeeper kit used with it had the new badge that we adopted that year for our move to Stratford. Additionally, I know we barely used the kit; I believe the intention was to use it during our cup games, but I think the FA had/has a rule regarding no kits having flags on them.' 'No doubt this won't be the earliest example you get supplied with but Barnsley's third kit from the 23-24 season featured a different badge to both the home and away kit and all the keeper shirts,' replies John Pearson. 'They continued the trend with the 24-25 third kit which featured a different version of the badge used on the 23-24 kit.' 'It's exceedingly rare for European clubs to play competitive football in mid-June, as they are now at the Club World Cup,' notes George Jones. 'I would imagine up until the Covid-affected 2019-20 season (which went into July), there were dates on the calendar on which European club football had never been played. Can anyone come up with one?' 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'Hearts were runaway champions, with 62 points, out of a possible total 68, scored 132 goals and let in 29, for a goal difference of 103. Second-placed Rangers, had a goal difference of a mere +40, resulting in a chasm of 63 goals.' 'At the end of 1997-98 season, Doncaster Rovers were relegated from the Football League after just four wins from their 46 games,' replies Mike Slattery. 'Their goal difference of -83 was 55 worse than that of Brighton immediately above them, on -28. The largest gap was set 99 years earlier, in the days before goal difference was even a thing. During the 1898-99 season, which would be their final one in the Football League, Darwen conceded 141 goals in 34 games, with a goal difference of -119. Both of these remain league records to this day. That goal difference was a full 65 worse than that of Loughborough, one place above them, who ended on -54.' Who was the first English player to play professionally abroad? 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Metro
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