Chelsea just about held their nerve at Molineux, scraping past Wolves 4-3 in a dramatic Carabao Cup fourth-round encounter today . What looked like a comfortable night quickly turned into a breath-holding finish, with the Blues nearly throwing away a three-goal lead before surviving the storm, an incident Softfootball warned about in the pregame report, with Chelsea predicted to win via a narrow margin.
Andrey Santos opened the scoring inside five minutes, pouncing on a wayward 30-yard back-pass from Tolu Arokodare to slot home calmly. Ten minutes later, Tyrique George doubled the advantage with a tidy finish after a flowing team move, and young Brazilian winger Estevo Willian added a cheeky lob over Jose Sa just before halftime to score what will be his third goal for the blues the last one coming in the champions league aganist benfica . Chelsea looked in total control at least for 45 minutes.
After the break, Wolves, who made a lot of changes from their previous game, Arokodare pulled one back in the 48th minute, showing composure to beat the Chelsea goal, before David Mller Wolfe's driven strike in the 73rd made it 3-2. The home crowd, already on edge after Pereira's recent clash with supporters, suddenly believed again.