Chelsea fans have nodded to their European pedigree while mocking rivals Arsenal in celebrating Mykhailo Mudryk's first goal.
The Ukraine international found the net in the first-half of their Premier League win against Fulham on Monday evening to end a run of 23 games without a goal – before being brought off by Mauricio Pochettino at the break.
Mudryk, 22, was then the focus of a catchy new chant from Blues fans at Craven Cottage as they noted their history of winning the Champions League in both 2012 and 2021. Arsenal, who have never won Europe's top competition, had been heavily linked to Mudryk before his Stamford Bridge switch.
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The song goes: "He flew in from Ukraine, on Boehly's private plane, Mudryk said to me: 'Have Arsenal won the Champions League?' So I told him no, he knew the place to go… then he said to me: 'I wanna lift number three!'"
Fans blasted out the new anthem and it will no doubt be appreciated by the winger as he settles in to his new surroundings. He has plenty of time to do just that after signing an eight-and-a-half-year contract for a transfer fee of an initial £62million in leaving his native Ukraine.
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The former Shakhtar Donetsk had a tricky start with Chelsea under Graham Potter, Bruno Saltor and Frank Lampard – but has the faith of new boss Pochettino. He said: "‘We need to understand that young people need time and need to settle. It’s about adaptation.
It’s a big change when Mudryk arrived here and when you arrive at a team, it’s not easy to settle in a team that isn’t solid. He wasn’t the cherry on the cake, they needed to add something to the team.
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"It’s about time, having patience, trusting these young talented players, building confidence. It’s a big job, step by step.
"Sometimes people don’t have the patience but for us it’s about having the patience. Even when we weren’t winning, we were calm, stayed positive, had the belief."
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