Pochettino’s Chelsea beat Luton Town and Enzo Fernández returns to the pitch after overcoming a difficult injury

With two goals from the youth team Cole Palmer and with Enzo Fernández returns after two games of absenceMauricio Pochettino’s Chelsea beat Luton Town 3-2 away in the match that opened the round of 16 of the group premier league English, thus adding his second consecutive victory and ending a rather unpleasant year with a smile.

Palmer, 21, was the key man for the London team in taking the three points as a small and flirtatious Kenilworth Rd. The midfielder trained in Manchester City’s lower divisions and signed for Chelsea in September He scored two good goals: the first, with a left-footed cross after a terrible start by Burkinabe Issa Kaboré; the second, dribbling past Belgian goalkeeper Thomas Kaminski and dispersing two defenders in the area.

Another young man, Noni Madueke, scored the other goal for Chelsea, who had built a very comfortable three-goal lead, but ended up overcoming Cain’s lead in the final 20 minutes to salvage their victory. LThe discounts of Ross Barkley and Elijah Adeballotwo balls rejected by the crossbar, a maneuver which ended with the ball in the goal and canceled due to an advanced position, and a prolonged harassment put the enthusiastic local team on the brink of the feat, but they were not enough to achieve it.

Immediately after the first discount of Hatters, Enzo Fernández came on to replace Madueke. The Argentine national team midfielder thus returned to play after missing his team’s last two matches (against Wolverhampton and Crystal Palace) due to groin pain.

With this victory, the second in a row and the third in the last four matches (they also beat Sheffield United and Crystal Palace, and lost to Wolverhampton), Pochettino’s team has 28 points, is in 10th place and is starting to get closer to the qualification zone for the next season of continental competitions: He is currently three points away from seventh place, the last one worth the fine.

On the other hand, Luton Town, who had won their last two matches (against Newcastle and Sheffield United), ended the year in the relegation zone: the team led by Welshman Rob Edwards is 18th, with 15 points, one behind ‘Everton, the team the last team out of the red zone.