Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\nThe Sydney side again then went 3-2 and 4-3 ahead in the second half before Pedro\u2019s heroics.<\/p>\n
The gun striker\u2019s finishing prowess also highlights Brazil\u2019s bizarre decision to leave the Chelsea star out of their World Cup squad.<\/p>\n
Brazil were dumped out of the tournament in the Round of 16, going down 2-1 to Norway after an Erling Haaland brace.<\/p>\n
Carlo Ancelotti opted to include Matheus Cunha and Igor Thiago, who both were impressive for their respective Premier League clubs.<\/p>\n
However, Pedro\u2019s quality is hard to ignore and he was the different in Alonso\u2019s first victory.<\/p>\n
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It was a confidence-boost for Alonso, who faces a huge task to get Chelsea back in the running for major honours after their 10th place finish last season and failure to make Europe. <\/p>\n
An even tougher test will come on Saturday when they meet London rivals Tottenham Hotspur at the same venue before further friendlies in Hong Kong, Indonesia and Malaysia. <\/p>\n
Chelsea have made four key summer signings so far as they rebuild — attacking midfielder Morgan Rogers, winger Geovany Quenda, defender Marco Palestra and striker Emmanuel Emegha.<\/p>\n
Only Italy\u2019s Palestra, who arrived from Serie A side Atalanta, is on the tour with their World Cup players also absent, including England\u2019s Reece James and Argentina\u2019s Enzo Fernandes. <\/p>\n
Alonso deployed a 4-2-3-1 formation with Josh Acheampong, Liam Delap, and Tosin — who began as captain — providing experience to a team featuring several youngsters who came through the Chelsea academy. <\/p>\n
They got off to a flyer when Satpaev raced clear after a lovely through ball by Ryan Kavuma-McQueen and powerfully finishedat the near post. <\/p>\n
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But it was a fleeting lead with the Wanderers\u2019 Anthony Pantazopoulos nodding home from a corner eight minutes later with Chelseaguilty of poor defending. <\/p>\n
It sparked the home team into life and Aydan Hammond made it 2-1 with a cool side-footed finish after Chelsea were slicedopen again at the back. <\/p>\n
Essugo\u2019s goal was quality, finishing off a flowing move with a one-two off Reggie Walsh before stroking into the far cornerto send them to the break all square. <\/p>\n
Once again Chelsea went to sleep, and a lovely turn and finish from Dylan Scicluna put the Sydney side 3-2 ahead in the 62ndminute with Alonso making nine changes immediately after. <\/p>\n
On came Cole Palmer and Pedro and the intensity lifted to set up a sensational finale that witnessed five more goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso got his reign off to winning start on Tuesday in a dramatic 6-4 victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-829795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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