Palmer leads Chelsea to Conference League glory

Chelsea sparked into beingness successful the 2nd fractional arsenic they came from down to triumph the Conference League with a 4-1 triumph implicit Real Betis astatine the Wroclaw Stadium connected Wednesday, their revival inspired by the creativity of Cole Palmer.

With the triumph Chelsea go the archetypal squad to person each 4 of UEFA's nine competitions successful their trophy collection.

Abde Ezzalzouli gave Betis a deserved aboriginal pb arsenic Isco's superb reverse walk played the Moroccan into abstraction connected the borderline of the container and helium drilled his changeable debased into the bottommost right-hand country of the net.

Chelsea were 2nd champion successful each departments successful the opening period, but Palmer dragged his broadside backmost into the contention and laid connected goals for Enzo Fernández and Nicolas Jackson, earlier Jadon Sancho and Moisés Caicedo added to the scoreline to seal the London club's seventh large European trophy.

Palmer's inviting transverse was cleanable for Fernández to usher his header past Adrián successful the Betis extremity aft 66 minutes and soon afterwards helium twisted past his marker connected the close helping and delivered a transverse into the six-yard box, allowing Jackson to bundle the shot into the nett disconnected his chest.

Chelsea added the Conference League -- a third-tier contention lone founded successful 2021 -- to their Champions League titles successful 2012 and 2021, their titles successful the Europa League -- the successor to the UEFA Cup -- successful 2013 and 2019, and the now-defunct Cup Winners' Cup successful 1971 and 1998.

Information from Reuters and The Associated Press was utilized successful this report.