Chelsea emerge unscathed from the great blue yonder

Renato Veiga headed home from a corner to make it 3-0 after 39 minutes before Marin Tomasov pulled one back for the hosts on the stroke of half-time on a sub zero night in Almaty.

Chelsea's Renato Veiga scored his first goal for the club

Europa Conference League: Astana 1 (Tomasov 45) Chelsea 3 (Guiu 14, 18, Veiga 39) 

Thursday nights in the Conference League are considered the fag-end of European football, and Chelsea’s latest awayday in Kazakhstan was as far as you could get - literally - from the glitz and glamour of their Champions League final win over Manchester City in 2021.