Chelsea f.c.

Since the turn of the millennium, it has not been uncommon to watch Chelsea take on one of our Premier League rivals outside England.

However, after preventing the Blues from scoring eight years earlier, the new Aston Villa goalkeeper was beaten after only 34 seconds in the final at the Hong Kong Stadium as Josh McEachran tucked the ball away at the third attempt after Given had done well to deny Nicolas Anelka and Florent Malouda. Although the Blues faced Southampton in a post-season match in Denmark after our inaugural league campaign in May 1906, matches abroad against our regular league foes were a rare occurrence in the 20th Century. It proved to be a tight affair which was settled by an early goal by Gary Cahill who headed in Victor Moses’ corner after 10 minutes.