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“I am aware that he was in the game, which always makes us happy,” Lampard said. “I always feel the support of the owner at the club, whether he is here at the games or not. But having him here is a good advantage for me and for the squad, and we respect him a lot.
“I couldn’t see it. Before the game he was in the dressing room and a couple of members of my team talked to him, and when I went out for the warm-up, he was not there. But I’m very glad I did what I thought was a good performance. Four goals and a clean sheet in his home country, so I hope we’ve made him happy. “
ABramovich will no doubt have noticed that Callum Hudson-Odoi was lucky enough to open the scoring in the 37th minute, with a scraped shot that twisted under the body of Krasnodar goalkeeper Matvey Safonov.
Havertz had slipped into Hudson-Odoi with a good pass, but the goal itself was as scruffy as it gets.
Safonov had previously received pat on the back from his teammates, even though he did little to prevent Jorginho from scoring from the penalty spot.
Werner was fouled by Kaio in just the 13th minute, but Jorginho’s penalty hit the inside of the post and bounced to safety on Safonov’s back.
Jorginho had retired when Chelsea received their second penalty with 14 minutes remaining and, having missed two of his last four shots from the spot, he can now face Werner’s competition to remain the club’s first-choice pitcher. .
Werner showed no nervousness as he took his penalty, won by Pulisic with a shot that hit Alyaksandr Martynovich’s arm, in the corner of the net to effectively seal Chelsea’s victory.
“Jorginho has had an incredibly successful streak of scoring penalties in his career, especially at Chelsea,” said Lampard. “If you get that many penalties, there may be periods where you miss one or two.
“I know Werner is very capable of taking penalties, as we saw. We have other players who can do it too. So I’ll talk to the players to see how we progress, but we have very good penalty shooters at the club. “
The visitors survived a few nervous moments between their first two goals, none more so than in the 55th minute, when Yury Gazinski hit the crossbar for the Champions League debutants.
Kurt Zouma did well to block Gazinski’s shot, and from the resulting corner the Krasnodar player smashed a first effort that passed Mendy, but the ball bounced off the Chelsea crossbar.
Antonio Rudiger was brought in from the cold to make his first Chelsea appearance of the season alongside Zouma, but it was the Frenchman who was the standout defender of Lampard’s team.
After Krasnodar hit the crossbar, Mendy was forced to make a strong save from Marcus Berg before Lampard made the treble change that dramatically changed the game in Chelsea’s favor.
Pulisic was sent with Mason Mount and N’Golo Kante, and after winning Werner’s penalty kick, the American was also involved in the play that resulted in Ziyech scoring his first Chelsea goal which was a reward for an impressive display.
Abramovich will no doubt have had a broad smile on his face when Pulisic added his team’s room later and Lampard can probably be sure that a pre-game talk against him cannot be missed.
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