It's safe to say when four of Chelsea's first team stars were named in Chelsea's Premier League 2 side to face Fulham at Kingsmeadow, a win was expected. The club's allocation at the stadium was sold out from the earlier announcement that Ethan Ampadu, Trevoh Chalobah, Ben Chilwell and Carney Chukwuemeka would be involved as they looked to build match fitness.
That the Cottagers came away 3-0 victors proves that football is often not as simple as that. Strike Luke Harris showed clincial instincts in the Blues box to pounce upon three errors and made Chelsea pay.
In part, the 90 minutes was for the first team quartet to build fitness and three of them completed the full game as Thomas Tuchel watched on from the stands. What will the German coach have learned? It's difficult to tell, Mark Robinson's side were the better side in possession but often lacked fluency, perhaps understandably with new players among the starting XI.
