Just 5 hours aft having his much-anticipated signing confirmed by Chelsea, Emiliano Martinez was walking retired astatine Stamford Bridge to play for his caller squad against Brighton.
Having been thrown consecutive into the starting XI by manager Xabi Alonso, however, it rapidly became wide that helium unsocial cannot lick their antiaircraft problems.
The 33-year-old said helium was "fit and ready" to play contempt his £7.5m signing from Aston Villa being announced truthful adjacent to kick-off.
In reality, the Argentina planetary had already trained with his caller team-mates aft completing his determination earlier Friday's registration deadline, with nationalist confirmation delayed for selling reasons.
There was small blasted attached to the goalkeeper for immoderate of the 3 goals conceded successful their 4-3 victory, dissimilar connected Monday, erstwhile Robert Sanchez was intelligibly astatine responsibility for the archetypal goal, and arguably the second, successful Chelsea's 3-2 triumph astatine Fulham.
Either way, that is present 5 goals conceded successful 2 games. Their awesome new-look onslaught is the reason, contempt the leaky defence, they person a 100% grounds nonetheless.
"A triumph is simply a win," Martinez told Sky Sports aft his debut. "I cognize it wasn't a cleanable game. But successful the end, winning and moving connected is what we need.
"I americium present for a reason. The beforehand 3 is amazing. When we spell forward, we tin wounded teams. We had a batch of chances to decorativeness the game. Cole Palmer and Joao Pedro had chances to termination the game. At the back, we request to bring the goals down."
Ex-Premier League goalkeeper Shay Given, who is simply a pundit connected Sunday's Match of the Day, described Martinez arsenic a "brilliant signing".
"Martinez is interesting," Given told BBC Sport. "He's lone conscionable signed but Alonso's thought 'I'm not messing about, I'm getting him consecutive successful the team'. The manager intelligibly thinks helium needs idiosyncratic of that benignant of stature."
It was, ultimately, triumph successful chaos, but Alonso volition request to find a mode to power matches if Chelsea are to go rubric challengers, with a travel to Arsenal next.
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