Youngster turns $187m hero 'into a traffic cone'

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By Sam Worthington with AP

Karim Adeyemi scored a remarkable, counter-attacking extremity to stun Chelsea and springiness Borussia Dortmund a 1-0 vantage successful their Champions League circular of 16 tie.

The 21-year-old German prima went seashore to seashore successful the 2nd fractional aft Dortmund dealt with a Chelsea corner, scorching past Argentina's World Cup leader Enzo Fernandez in the process.

Chelsea paid a British grounds transportation interest of $187 cardinal to motion Fernandez from Benfica connected deadline time past month.

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Chelsea stunned by superb counter

But the midfielder was nary lucifer for the audacious Adeyemi connected this occasion.

US shot pundit Max Bretos said Adeyemi turned Fernandez "into a postulation cone" portion the authoritative Champions League Twitter relationship lauded the winger's "speed and composure."

"Out of this satellite from Karim Adeyemi."

Adeyemi celebrated with a backflip.

Chelsea did person their ain chances successful Dortmund, but were thwarted by Emre Can's 78th infinitesimal extremity enactment clearance, and Fernandez was denied by Gregor Kobel's superb prevention successful the last infinitesimal of stoppage time.

The teams volition conscionable again successful London connected March 8.

In Thursday's different archetypal limb match, Joao Mario scored from the punishment spot and substitute David Neres added a 2nd extremity with 2 minutes near arsenic Benfica took a measurement toward the quarter-finals with a 2-0 triumph implicit Club Brugge.

Despite losing Fernandez pursuing his precocious illustration determination to Chelsea, Benfica showed it remains a unsafe attacking team.

Benfica's superior method skills were connected show passim the evening and they made the astir of astir each possession to make danger.

They could person near the Flanders metropolis with adjacent much country to breathe, but a spot of clumsiness up beforehand outgo them other goals.

Joao enactment the visitors successful the pb aft 51 minutes and Neres made the astir of a antiaircraft mistake to marque it 2-0 with a objective finish.

Benfica is present unbeaten successful its past 8 games successful the Champions League, with 5 wins and 3 draws.

The triumph implicit the Belgian champions marked the archetypal clip since the 2005-06 play that the Lisbon nine has won 3 games successful a enactment successful the European competition.

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