Sean Davis scored twice in the second half as the New York Red Bulls shocked Chelsea 4-2 in the reigning Premier League champions' first game of their pre-season US exhibition tour.
The Red Bulls scored four times in the second half against Jose Mourinho’s men on Wednesday despite using a squad made up mostly of developmental players.
They were also coming off a quarter-final loss less than 24 hours earlier to the Philadelphia Union in the US Open Cup.
New York head coach Jesse Marsch went with a youthful line-up and it paid off as midfielder Davis scored twice in a four-minute span and 16-year-old Tyler Adams added another.
Franklin Castellanos scored early into the second half for the Red Bulls, who were playing Chelsea for the first time.
Loic Remy put Chelsea ahead just before the half hour mark and Eden Hazard provided another in the second half for Chelsea, who are on a three-game tour of North America.
Chelsea field vastly different sides in each half as just three players played the full 90 minutes.
It was a difficult Chelsea debut for goalkeeper Asmir Begovic, who came on in the second half. The club were without Willian and Juan Cuadrado as they were both resting after competing in the Copa America tournament.
Davis was in the right place at the right time on both of his goals in front of a crowd of 24,000 at the Red Bull Arena. He blasted a right footed shot from the centre of the box in the to the top left corner to make it 3-1.
Just four minutes later he got his second on a poor clearance by a Chelsea defender. This time he hammered a left foot shot into the bottom right corner past Begovic to make it 4-2.
Sandwiched in between Davis’s markers was a goal by Chelsea’s Hazard, who pulled one back by scoring through a maze of players from just outside the box.
Adams, who was making his Red Bulls debut after playing mainly with the Under 17 team, gave New York their first lead of the game, 2-1, with a header that beat Begovic after a nice cross from Castellanos.
Remy opened the scoring for Chelsea with a nice hesitation move that froze Red Bulls goalkeeper Kyle Reynish before placing his shot into the top half of the net.
Chelsea’s next game is Saturday against Paris Saint-Germain in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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