Chelsea announced a surprise second fixture on Friday night after their second pre-season victory was confirmed.
The Blues took part in their fourth pre-season game on Friday night at the Dacia Stadium as a very strong starting XI picked up a much needed and deserved 3-1 victory in Italy. N'Golo Kante opened the scoring in the first half and Raheem Sterling added a second in the 37th minute before Gerard Deulofeu reduced the gap right before half-time, pouncing on an Edouard Mendy mistake. Mason Mount scored one late on after great work from substitute Callum Hudson-Odoi.
Nine players in total were missing from the squad that was announced on early Friday afternoon. The reason for this was down to this second game being in mind for the west Londoners who will be in action once more in a few hours time against the same opponent. All of Armando Broja, Conor Gallagher, Ethan Ampadu, Ben Chilwell, Malang Sarr, Trevoh Chalobah, Christian Pulisic, Hakim Ziyech and Ruben Loftus-Cheek were left out of the 17 man squad for the first game between the teams. Michy Batshuayi's and Ross Barkley's absence from the travelling squad could perhaps be put down to the fact that Everton are reportedly advancing in talks for the pair.
