Chelsea 8-0 Vllaznia: Sam Kerr scores four as Chelsea sit top of group

Sam Kerr and Pernille Harder scored a combined full of 44 goals successful each competitions for Chelsea past season

Sam Kerr scored 4 goals arsenic Chelsea recorded a dense triumph implicit Albanian visitors Vllaznia to widen their pb astatine the apical of their Women's Champions League group.

Norwegian Reiten, making her 100th quality for Chelsea, besides teed up Harder for a 4th assist, portion Katerina Svitkova scored her archetypal extremity for the club.

Victory extends Chelsea's pb astatine the apical of Group A to 2 points aft second-placed Real Madrid drew 0-0 with Paris St-Germain successful the earlier match.

Chelsea, finalists successful 2020-21, failed to advancement from the radical stages successful a disappointing run past play but person made a beardown commencement to this year's competition.

They backed up their awesome triumph implicit Paris St-Germain past week with a comfy triumph astatine Kingsmeadow, against opponents cheers connected by 420 fans travelling arsenic portion of Vllaznia's authoritative supporters' allocation.

The Albanian fans were successful terrific dependable arsenic they supported their side, competing successful the radical stages of the Women's Champions League for the archetypal time.

They chanted throughout, cheering Chelsea's missed chances and waving flags earlier throwing a flare connected to the tract and causing a little halt successful play precocious on.

However, it was Chelsea who dominated connected the pitch, with Kerr and Harder successful objective signifier and Reiten heavy progressive successful creation.

Substitute Svitkova joined successful connected the enactment erstwhile she headed successful her archetypal extremity successful Chelsea colours since signing from West Ham successful the summer.

This was Chelsea's 3rd lucifer successful a week and they made 7 changes from their Women's Super League triumph implicit Brighton connected Sunday.

Kerr was capable to travel disconnected having scored 4 goals successful conscionable implicit an hour, portion England planetary Fran Kirby made a invited instrumentality disconnected the seat aft recovering from illness.

Chelsea big Aston Villa successful their adjacent Women's Super League lucifer connected Sunday and they invited Real Madrid successful their adjacent Champions League crippled connected 23 November.

Kerr enjoys herself arsenic goals flow

Kerr was the WSL's apical scorer past play with 20 goals for Chelsea - but heading into this match, she had conscionable 1 extremity from 5 games to her sanction this season.

She looked bare to summation her tally against the group's lowest-ranked broadside and she did not instrumentality agelong to unfastened her account, dinking the shot coolly implicit the goalkeeper aft Harder's incisive pass.

Reiten was the supplier for Kerr's adjacent 3 goals, though the hat-trick extremity was primitively awarded to skipper Magdalena Eriksson pursuing a corner.

Kerr, who intelligibly made interaction with the header, smiled arsenic she tried to close the referee but saved her acquainted backflip solemnisation for her 4th goal.

Her tally of 5 goals this play present looks much reflective of her quality and she intelligibly enjoyed herself successful the 63 minutes she needed to punish Vllaznia.