Tammy Abraham grabbed a birthday goal and Willian marked his 300th Chelsea appearance with the second to hand Frank Lampard his first Champions League victory as a manager as Chelsea beat Lille 2-1 on Wednesday.
Abraham's eighth goal of the season handed Chelsea the lead midway through the first half, but 20-year-old Victor Osimhen drew Lille level before the break with his seventh goal for the Ligue 1 club.
But the night belonged to Chelsea as Willian's volley home from Callum Hudson-Odoi's cross got Lampard's side off the mark in Champions League Group H.
🔥 Tammy Abraham's eighth goal in 10 games
— Sporting Life Football (@SportingLifeFC) October 2, 2019
👏 Willian's 54th on his 300th Chelsea appearance
👍 Frank Lampard's first #UCL win as #CFC boss
🔵🙌 A great night for Chelsea as they win 2-1 at Lille! pic.twitter.com/S4c3VucAGC
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- Chelsea ended a run of four games without a win in the Champions League (D2 L2), picking up their first victory in the competition since November 2017 (4-0 v FK Qarabag).
- Lille are winless in their last nine home Champions League games (D3 L6), losing each of the last four in a row.
- In the 68 games that Frank Lampard has managed between Derby County and Chelsea in all competitions, his teams have only kept a clean sheet in 22% of their matches (15/68).
- Across all competitions, only Raheem Sterling (9) has scored more goals for an English club than Chelsea’s Tammy Abraham (8) in 2019-20.
- Tammy Abraham's goal (assisted by Fikayo Tomori) was Chelsea's first in the Champions League scored and assisted by two English players since March 2012, when Frank Lampard set up John Terry against Napoli.
- Since making his Champions League debut for Chelsea in September 2013, Willian has been directly involved in more goals than any other player for the club (15 - 10 goals and five assists).
Champions League: Wednesday's results
- Genk 0-0 Napoli
- Slavia Prague 0-2 Borussia Dortmund
- Barcelona 2-1 Inter Milan
- Lille 1-2 Chelsea
- Liverpool 4-3 RB Salzburg
- RB Leipzig 0-2 Lyon
- Valencia 0-3 Ajax
- Zenit 3-1 Benfica
