CHELSEA WIN THE UEFA CONFERENCE LEAGUE FINAL AGAINST REAL BETIS 4 – 1 – 28/05/2025 (COLE PALMER WAS AWARDED PLAYER OF THE MATCH)

IT MUST HAVE BEEN SQUEEKY-BUM-TIME FOR CHELSEA AT HALF-TIME LAST NIGHT, AFTER THE WELL-ORGANISED PERFORMANCE FROM REAL BETIS, WITH ABDE EZZALZOULI SCORING AFTER ONLY 9 MINS., INTO THE MATCH, LIFTING THE LOYAL BETIS FANS INTO ECSTACY DURING THE FIRST-HALF. REAL BETIS MADE 296 PASSES WITH A 77% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 13 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON TARGET, BUT IT WAS EZZALZOULI’S GOAL WHICH HAD THE CROWD CHEERING AND SMILING ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE MATCH AND INTO HALF-TIME! IN THE SECOND-HALF, MARESCA HAD NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO BRING ON CHELSEA CAPTAIN REECE JAMES, (WHO IS JUST BACK FROM INJURY, AND WHOSE CONTINUED, SAFE RECOVERY HE IS TRYING TO MANAGE) AND IT SEEMS THAT THERE WAS THE LUCKY CHARM THAT WAS NEEDED! SHORTLY AFTERWARDS, COLE PALMER SPRANG INTO ACTION, (WHO LOOKED LIKE HE HAD SEEN ENOUGH) AND PRODUCED 2 MAGICAL ASSISTS WITHIN 5 MINUTES OF EACH OTHER, WITH THE 1ST CROSS FROM THE RIGHT TO ENZO FERNANDEZ AT 65 MINS., AND THE 2ND TO NICOLAS JACKSON AT 70 MINS! AND THEN, WITH MOMENTUM NOW SECURED, IT BECAME A CHELSEA ‘GOALATHON’, WITH CHELSEA MAKING 592 PASSES WITH AN 86% PASS ACCURACY IN TOTAL, (67% POSSESSION), AND 11 SHOTS WITH 7 ON TARGET, INCLUDING ANOTHER CRACKER FROM JADON SANCHO AT 83 MINS., AND A STUNNING LATE FINISHER FROM MOISES CAICEDO IN EXTRA TIME AT 90 + 1 MINS! THIS WAS THE ONLY EUROPEAN TROPHY MISSING FOR CHELSEA, AND A TROPHY FOR ENZO MARESCA IN HIS 1ST SEASON AS CHELSEA BOSS, WHO HAS GUIDED THE BLUES TO 4TH PLACE IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE, WITH THE YOUNGEST SQUAD IN THE COMPETITIONS HISTORY! YOU CAN ALMOST HEAR THE CHAMPAGNE CORKS ‘A-POPPING’!  MANY CONGRATULATIONS BLUES!

UEFA CONFERENCE LEAGUE FINAL : REAL BETIS VS CHELSEA – 28/05/2025

COLE PALMER ADMITTED HIMSELF THAT HE WAS “FED UP WITH GOING BACKWARDS-AND-A-SIDEWARDSING” WITH THE BALL (WHICH WAS SPECTACULAR VIEWING BY THE WAY BECAUSE HE CLUNG ONTO THE BALL) AND TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY AS SOON AS HE COULD TO ‘TAKE THE BALL AND RUN WITH IT’, WHICH IS WHEN HE PERFORMED HIS TWO MAGICAL ASSISTS! AND FOR THAT, WE THINK HE IS DEFINITELY THE LATEST WORTHY RECIPIENT OF THE SHAMEN AWARD FOR BEING EBENEEZER GOODE!

COLE PALMER IS THE LATEST WORTHY RECIPIENT OF THE SHAMEN’S “EBENEEZER GOODE” AWARD

WORDS BY AMANDA WATERS