{"id":140610,"date":"2025-10-23T13:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/140610\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:28:07","slug":"champions-league-the-wonderkids-who-have-made-their-mark-in-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/140610\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: The wonderkids who have made their mark in the competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article could be made up entirely of Chelsea players given the success their youngsters had in a 5-1 demolition of Ajax.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Blues gave minutes to 10 players aged 21 or younger, while they became the first team in Champions League history to have three teenage scorers.<\/p>\n

Marc Guiu<\/b> was first on the scoresheet, with the 19-year-old Spaniard – known as a powerful, quick number nine – poking home to briefly become the club’s youngest goalscorer in the competition.<\/p>\n

His record on Wednesday night lasted for just 33 minutes with Estevao Willian<\/b>, who is one year, three months and 20 days younger, netting a penalty.<\/p>\n

Already a Brazil international with nine caps, Estevao was described as a “special talent”<\/a> by ex-England striker Wayne Rooney when he scored a late winner against Liverpool earlier this month, while his Chelsea team-mate Jorrel Hato<\/b> – another teenager who started against Ajax – said Barca sensation Yamal is the only player of comparison.<\/a><\/p>\n

English winger Tyrique George<\/b> scored Chelsea’s fifth goal, and the 19-year-old is already a familiar name after a breakthrough season with the Blues last term when he played 750 minutes in their run to the Europa Conference League title.<\/p>\n

Reggie Walsh<\/b>, a technical, deep-lying playmaker who turned 17 on Monday, broke another record for the club by becoming their youngest player in Europe’s top tier competition, while Jamie Gittens<\/b>, 21, <\/b>became the youngest Chelsea player to create five or more chances in a Champions League match – a record previously held by Eden Hazard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article could be made up entirely of Chelsea players given the success their youngsters had in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-140610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115423720587602594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}