Published: 22:22, 22 October 2025 | Updated: 22:22, 22 October 2025

Sometimes, we can forget quite how young this Chelsea side under Enzo Maresca truly is, then an evening such as this occurs in which it is so record-breakingly blatant that it becomes impossible to ignore.

For the first time in Champions League history, three teenagers scored for a side in a single game. That was Marc Guiu, Estevao Willian and Tyrique George. To make matters even more ludicrous, Chelsea’s youngest scorer in this competition’s history was Reece James, who was 19 years and 332 days of age when he scored in a 4-4 draw with Ajax in November 2019.

Guiu, Estevao and George are all even younger than James was that night. Each could have had the record for himself therefore had only one of them scored. As all three did, Estevao sneaked it at the age of 18 years and 181 days, with Guiu and George both 19 and change.

We can only wonder how Ajax’s greying goalkeeper Remko Pasveer was feeling in the Stamford Bridge tunnel beforehand, two weeks from turning...