Premier League Summer Series: Chelsea beat Fulham to win pre-season tournament

Nkunku scored 16 goals successful 25 league matches for RB Leipzig past season

Chelsea won the Premier League Summer Series pre-season tourney arsenic they bushed Fulham 2-0 astatine FedEx Field successful Maryland, Washington.

A tap-in from Christopher Nkunku conscionable earlier half-time aft bully enactment from Carney Chukwuemeka sealed the win.

It was Nkunku's 3rd extremity of pre-season pursuing the French striker's £52m determination from RB Leipzig.

Fulham did not supply overmuch of an attacking menace though Calvin Bassey, playing for Fulham for the archetypal clip since his £19m determination from Ajax, headed implicit from a country successful the 2nd half.

One antagonistic for Chelsea was erstwhile defender Trevoh Chalobah had to beryllium substituted aft receiving attraction for a sound connected the pitch.

That imaginable wounded volition beryllium a interest for caller Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino, with chap centre-back Benoit Badiashile not acceptable beryllium acceptable for the commencement of the Premier League season.

Chelsea have, however, reached an statement to motion defender Axel Disasi from AS Monaco for 45m euros (£38.57m).

Victory means Chelsea person won the archetypal Premier League Summer Series - the pre-season tourney besides featuring Aston Villa, Brighton, Brentford, and Newcastle - without losing a game.

Aston Villa 3-3 Brentford

Diaby scored 9 Bundesliga goals for Bayern Leverkusen past season

Earlier successful the day, Aston Villa and Brentford played retired an entertaining 3-3 gully successful the aforesaid stadium.

Brentford took the pb aft Ezri Konsa brought down Kevin Schade successful the container and Bryan Mbuemo scored the penalty.

Josh Da Silva past made it 2-0 an fantabulous curling effort from the borderline of the container into the apical country past Emiliano Martinez.

But Villa surged backmost with 3 goals successful a frantic 10-minute period.

Konsa got the archetypal aft helium picked the shot up wrong his ain fractional and dribbled into the Brentford container earlier slamming the shot precocious into the nett past Mark Flekken.

French winger Moussa Diaby, who scored connected his debut against Fulham 3 days agone aft arriving from Bayer Leverkusen for a reported £51.9m, chopped wrong the container and changeable to marque it 2-2.

Matty Cash completed the turnaround successful the archetypal fractional erstwhile helium chopped backmost wrong fired debased into the net.

Brentford midfielder Shandon Baptiste scored the game's sixth extremity successful the 67th infinitesimal aft Keane Lewis-Potter smashed a curling changeable against the barroom and Baptiste was connected manus to travel up.

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