London – Ruben Loftus-Cheek played outside when Chelsea silenced BATE Borisov in the Europa League. The 22-year-old midfielder scored a hat-trick. Chelsea beat BATE 3-1 at Stamford Bridge, London on Friday (10/26/2018). All of the goals of the Blues were lifted by Loftus-Cheek, who started the match. Loftus-Cheek scored in the 2nd, 8th and 54th minutes. The one goal for the visitors was Aleksey Rios in the 79th minute. For Loftus-Cheek, this became his first hat-trick as a professional player. His goals against BATE also cut the fast of his goal at Chelsea. As reported by Squawka, the last time Loftus-Cheek contributed a goal for Chelsea in April 2016. That is, he ended his goal fasting for two years. Not yet there, Loftus-Cheek also became the first Chelsea player to score a hat-trick in European competition in the past 12 years. Finally, Didier Drogba did it against Levki Sofia in September 2006. Three goals to the BATE goalkeeper seemed to be the conclusion of Loftus-Cheek’s appearance which was fairly perfect this morning. He made 103 touches, 75 successful passes (95%), 7 times won the ball, released 5 shots, 4 were on target, and created 3 opportunities. No wonder, after the match he got the highest praise from Maurizio Sarri. The manager was happy because Loftus-Cheek seemed to be able to adjust to his concocting tactics. “We have four midfielders and three of them have the same character. They are attacking midfielders, only one is different. Kante is a midfielder,” Sarri was quoted as saying by the BBC.
“So it’s very difficult to put in the starting XI of two midfielders with the same character. We have a tactical problem with the midfielder.” “At the start of the season, he was a very good player and now he is a good player who is more suited to my style of football,” he explained. While Loftus-Cheek himself said he was happy to be able to record its own milestones. “It feels very good. I walked into the dressing room and the players gave me applause and cheering,” he said.
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