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00:00The final pre-season test before the Premier League kicks off next weekend
00:05and it is a big one for Chelsea as Internazionale champions of Italy visit Stamford Bridge.
00:11The Blues back from the USA and on a baking hot day in West London
00:16keen to show the home support what they've been missing over the nearly three months since their last brace this season.
00:24It is a big day for Enzo Maresco as the new Blues cross Texas placing the home dugout for the first time.
00:30There are of course no points on offer today but the chance for the latest Italian to take the Stamford Bridge hot seat
00:36to prove his mettle against his fellow countrymen is one he'll be desperate to take.
00:41Fascinating to see how closely this starting XI matches that against City here a week today.
00:46Robert Sanchez in goal, Martín Ferrer making his first pre-season appearance.
00:50Great to see Wesley Pofana back on Stamford Bridge territory.
00:54Dito Ramio Lavia elsewhere, their first appearances here in Chelsea Blue for Keane and Dewsbury Hall and Mark Deehan.
01:05In 2021, a couple of titles already to his name. Here's the XI he's selected.
01:09Jan Sommer kept goal here for Basel once upon a time.
01:12Damian and Nika Tamarian both played here in the Premier League in previous guises.
01:16Marcus Churam, son of Lilian, is their main goal threat.
01:20We got 15 of them last season.
01:25Koukouraïa.
01:27Shoot is the cry.
01:30Fernandes.
01:31Oh, a lovely ball. Dewsbury Hall trying to get it under his spell and then hit from gear.
01:35Really good save and that lackey couldn't quite get to the follow-up quickly enough.
01:39Here's Gusteau, swept over his cross too close to Jan Sommer.
01:43Good step from Chelsea there.
01:45A really eye-catching move.
01:47Love Koukouraïa just taking it upon himself to drive forward.
01:51It's actually not caught particularly well by Diou, but it's problematic.
01:59Here's Churam against Fafana.
02:02Two Frenchmen going at it. Ball down the line for Di Marco.
02:06And he's whipped it straight into the side of Robert Sanchez, isn't he?
02:11Now, Madouakaïa.
02:13Too quick, too clever.
02:14Goes down, corner given.
02:16And he looks in the direction of the referee's assistant and wonders if there should have been any more,
02:20but Di Marco has a look of concern on his face.
02:24I think that's really savvy defending, actually.
02:26Augusto and Solani, between them, not to commit to the challenge.
02:30Madouakaïa showed great initial little bit of pace, flair, getting to the byline,
02:35but good defending.
02:36Maybe a little pull of the shirt.
02:38Good defending.
02:39Maybe a little pull of the shirt, but not enough to be an infringement.
02:49Now, here's Churam.
02:50He's going to hit this.
02:51Oh, what a goal.
02:52How about that?
02:54From Marcus Churam, straight after the restart from the drinks break.
02:59And he's thumped one right into the top corner.
03:02Robert Sanchez didn't see it.
03:03And Inter lead 1-0.
03:05Oh, they just played through.
03:06Chelsea there beautifully.
03:08You've got to say huge credit to Bissac, the right-sided centre-half,
03:14who all of a sudden finds himself in possession.
03:17No pressure.
03:18Too easy to break through.
03:21And then the pass from Correa and the finish.
03:24Well, it's beautiful stuff in the end, but you can't take anything away from the finish.
03:29It is dispatched.
03:32Maguete has done brilliantly.
03:36Here's Guillaume.
03:37He's dug the shot out, span it off a defender behind for a corner.
03:41Chelsea trying to reply quickly.
03:43Bissac, Di Marco helped it on.
03:46This is Correa.
03:47And now Churam.
03:48Chelsea with plenty of bodies backing his way.
03:51No-one tracked the runner, though.
03:54And the header loops harmlessly into the gloves of Sanchez.
03:58But, again, a worrying gap in the Chelsea defence just for a moment there.
04:02Yeah.
04:05Dewsbury Hall.
04:08Koukourea.
04:09Oh, what a save from Sommer.
04:11Guillaume got a little touch to that.
04:13And the veteran Swiss in the Inter goal had to readjust quickly, and he did so really well.
04:20Really clever from Koukourea.
04:22What a cross shot, wasn't it?
04:24And Guillaume reacted so well, so intelligently, to redirect it onto the target.
04:31Fantastic stop.
04:33Correa intercepted by Fernandes.
04:38Here's Barella.
04:40Oh, a chance here.
04:41Really thumped by Di Marco and really well saved by Robert Sanchez, too.
04:53Hammered it over.
04:56Set up for Mkoukou.
04:57What an effort and what a save from Yann Sommer.
05:01What a shame he made it, though, because that would have been something pretty special
05:04to witness in the Stamford Bridge sunshine from Christopher Mkoukou.
05:09Well, it's an outstanding save because that is perfect.
05:12Brilliant from Mkoukou.
05:16No.
05:18No.
05:19Parma's corner attacked by Kofana.
05:21Not as far as Mudrick.
05:25No offside here.
05:26Oh, off the post and then Fernandes.
05:28Can Jackson make something of it?
05:30So close to 1-1.
05:34Colwell and Kofana combining.
05:42Parma, now for Mudrick.
05:44Opportunity here for Chelsea, maybe.
05:4625 to play-ish.
05:47There's Mkoukou.
05:48Oh, right the way across the face of goal.
05:51Touch from Nicholas Jackson.
05:53You expect him to find the corner of the net.
05:56Brilliant from Parma.
05:57Mudrick, likewise.
05:59It's a brilliant pick-out.
06:00That's easy to just put into an area and it comes to nothing,
06:04but he really fed that into the feet of Mkoukou.
06:07Should have scored.
06:12Di Marco.
06:13Di Marco.
06:15Flipped his cross.
06:16Found the free man.
06:17Chance here.
06:20And still.
06:22And still.
06:24Three, four swings at the ball.
06:27And it ends up almost out for a throw-in.
06:34Here's Mudrick.
06:35Can he deliver it?
06:38He's run out of road.
06:41Yeah, and probably well defended.
06:44And that's what you want to see from Mudrick.
06:46You know, not every time,
06:47but he has to be a little bit more dynamic and a bit more aggressive,
06:51taking on opposition players.
06:53Just in space.
06:54Options in the middle here.
06:56But a good cross as well.
06:57A little nudge in the back there of Mkoukou.
06:59It's broken for Raheem Sterling.
07:01To the byline.
07:02Back for Parma.
07:03So close.
07:04Could have been a nice goal there.
07:06Parma and Sterling linking up after a good ball in initially from Gusto.
07:11Lifted in by Parma.
07:13And then smashed in by Lesley Ugochukwu
07:16to level things up right at the end.
07:19A thumping finish from the substitute.
07:22He's added plenty to this game since his arrival.
07:25And now he's leveled it up.
07:271-1.
07:28Well, he's been almost perfect.
07:30Well, he has been perfect, Ugochukwu.
07:32He broke up her inter-attack.
07:34He's got the ball,
07:35he's got the ball,
07:36he's got the ball,
07:37he's got the ball.
07:38He broke up her inter-attack.
07:40He's been really good and poised on the ball.
07:42And here he reacts quickest.
07:44In fairness, it bounces perfectly for him.
07:46But then you still have to control that finish, that volley.
07:51On the half-volley, actually.
07:53It doesn't matter that the direction isn't right in the corner.
07:57It's too hot to handle, really, isn't it?
08:03And it was right at the very end of the game.
08:05So pre-season is wrapped up for Chelsea
08:08with a late leveller from Lesley.
08:10It means that the Blues avoid defeat in their final match
08:14before the action kicks off for real this time next week
08:16when the champions of England come to town.
08:18The champions of Italy held here, though,
08:21thanks to Ugochukwu's equaliser
08:24with pretty much the last kick of the game.
08:26That after Thiram had smashed Inter into the lead by half-time.
08:31Good game.
08:32Lots of chances for both sides.
08:34Inter, not so many as Chelsea.
08:37He created plenty.
08:38A couple of defensive issues, maybe,
08:40but lots to like going forward.
08:41And Pedro Neto to add to it.
08:43Final score at Snapper Bridge.
08:44Chelsea 1, Inter Milan 1.