[Sport] Moses celebrates Chelsea’s win over Barca

Victor Moses

Nigeria midfielder Victor Moses has expressed delight in Chelsea’s win over European champions Barcelona on Wednesday in Washington DC, during their pre-season tour of North America.

English champions Chelsea played 2-2 with Barcelona at the end of 90 minutes and eventually won the encounter 4-2 on penalty shootout.

Eden Hazard opened scoring 10 minutes into the game slotting the ball into the net after a fine run past four defenders. Former Liverpool striker Luis Suarez equalised for Barcelona in the 52nd minute and Sandro gave Luiz Enrique’s side a lead in the 66th minute and Gary Cahill levelled for Jose Mourinho’s side in the 86th

minute.

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Moses, who was brought in for Cesc Fabregas in the 59th minute scored Chelsea’s second penalty during the shootout, bringing his goal tally during the pre-season tour to three

The Super Eagles player earlier scored the equaliser for Chelsea, who went on to beat PSG in a penalty shootout during which Moses also scored. He also won the Man-of-the-Match award in that PSG encounter.

Moses, who spent last season with Stoke City on loan, hopes to get a role with Blues this season.

He took to Twitter on Wednesday to express satisfaction with his participation in the pre-season tour after returning to London.

“Great to end the tour with a win against Barcelona! Back to London now,” he tweeted.

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