
Enzo Maresca praised Chelsea’s young debutants Josh Acheampong and Samuel Rak-Sakyi after his team qualified for the last 16 of the Conference League with a 3-1 win against Astana in Kazakhstan.
The head coach left at home all but one of the XI that started Sunday’s 4-3 win over Tottenham, but it did not stop an inexperienced second string easing to victory in temperatures of around minus 10 in the Kazakh capital Almaty.