Chelsea stroll to victory

Chelsea 6 FK Qarabag 0: Chelsea will face tougher tests than this, a stroll in cruise control against Champions League rookies Qarabag, but the Blues are back in the big time and showed how much they want to reprise their 2012 triumph.

Their shoot-out win over Bayern Munich in Bavaria five years ago was the last time an English side won the biggest prize in club football, and Antonio Conte’s class of 2017 look better equipped to do it again than the rest of the Premier League’s finest.

“We’ve been waiting for some time to be back in the Champions League, and it has finally arrived. It was a good performance, a good result and you never know if these goals will count at the end of the group stage,” said Cesc Fabregas afterwards.