Chelsea hit Rennes hard

Chelsea and Sevilla reinforced their lead in the group with seven points, after drawing negatively at London in the first round, while Rennes and Krasnodar also froze at one point from a 1-1 draw in the first round.

At Stamford Bridge in London, German international striker Timo Werner emerged as the star of the match by scoring a double of two penalties in the 10th and 41st minutes, and Tammy Abraham added the third in the 50th minute.

Rennes played with 10 men from minute 40 to send off his Brazilian defender Henrique Dalbert for causing two penalties, for which he issued two cautions.

Chelsea played the match in the absence of their promising German midfielder Kay Havertz due to his contagion with the emerging coronavirus.

The match witnessed the confrontation of the new Chelsea goalkeeper, Senegalese international, Edouard Mendy, with his former team, Rennes, who left him last summer and managed to keep a clean sheet for the sixth time in seven games he played with the club. Londoner.

Chelsea pressed from the start and Werner managed to shoot a penalty after being blocked by defender Dalbert Vanbrey himself, trailing with his right by the right of Senegalese goalkeeper Alfred Gomes (10).

Dalbert earned a second penalty late in the second half when he blocked a powerful shot from Abraham from outside the area, and received the second caution and left his team with ten players. Specialist Werner set out to kick and hit with his right hand on Gomez’s right end (41).

And Abraham reinforced the third goal when he followed to his left a center from Reese James (50).