Moses stars as Inter Milan down Chelsea

Nigerian international, Victor Moses, starred as Chelsea suffered a 2-1 defeat in the hands of Inter Milan in the International Champions Cup in Singapore.

Moses started the game at his usual right back, but with Chelsea trailing Inter-Milan by two goals to nil, Manager Antonio Conte moved the Nigerian to the left just like he did in the game against Bayern Munich few days ago.

Conte moved Moses to the left side following the introduction of new signing Antonio Rudiger in place of regular left-wing-back Marcos Alonso and the switch helped Chelsea seize the initiative from Inter Milan.

Efforts from Stevan Jovetic and Ivan Perisic proved decisive for Inter, but the game will be remembered for an own goal from Geoffrey Kondogbia, who netted an own goal from 45 yards.

After a fast opening, the game finally settled down with only Michy Batshuayi getting any kind of a shot on goal before the half-hour mark, but Chelsea soon began to press forward with David Luiz seeing a goalbound header cleared and Willian firing a deflected effort just over the bar.

It appeared that the two teams would go into half time on level terms but in the second minute of injury time, Cesar Azpilicueta was harshly adjudged to have pushed Jovetic in the area and although Courtois saved the former Manchester City attacker’s penalty, the rebound was converted.

While Chelsea felt hard done by going into the break, they were fortunate to avoid falling further behind straight after the restart when Jovetic found the back of the net from close range, but he was wrongly adjudged to have scored from an offside position.

It took just three more minutes before Inter doubled their advantage through Perisic, who picked up the ball from Jovetic before finding the far corner of Courtois’s net, despite the angle being against him.

Kondogbia was 45 yards from his own goal but while presumably attempting a back pass, he managed to send the ball over Padelli and into the top corner of his own net.

It was a goal which came against the run of play but Chelsea built on their good fortune with Cahill heading at Padelli from a corner and Charly Musonda forcing a decent save from the goalkeeper low down to his right.

Chelsea should have equalised with three minutes left when Batshuayi finished well from Fabregas’s pass, but the officials again made a mistake in adjudging an attacking player to have been offside.