Cesare Casadei scored a brilliant goal for Chelsea Under-21s as they beat Peterborough in the Papa Johns Trophy.
The Italian midfielder signed over the summer for a huge fee of £20m for the teenager who is yet to play a senior match in his career. He has impressed Mark Robinson's youth side but produced a moment of magic against Posh.
With the young Blues already 1-0 up at the Weston Homes Stadium, Casadei drove from the halfway line before being converged on by two players, with nothing much ahead of him he unleashed a vicious shot from deep and saw it fire past Lucas Bergstrom.
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Chelsea faced a defensive crisis over the summer when they saw both Andreas Christensen and Antonio Rudiger leave for free.
That left Thomas Tuchel without two first choice centre-backs, but the Blues would go on to spend £165.8m on defenders to sort that out.
So far the investment hasn't gone too well with none of Kalidou Koulibaly, Marc Cucurella or Wesley Fofana able to hit top form. This could open up space for Levi Colwill to push himself into the frame.
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