Olivier Giroud scores perfect hat-trick as Chelsea stroll through to UEFA Europa League quarter-final

_Chelsea FC recorded an easy win over Dynamo Kiev.

Dynamo Kiev 0 Chelsea 5 (0-8 aggregate)

It was a playing surface Maurizio Sarri described as a “disaster” before kick-off but Chelsea displayed perfect pitch here to skate into the quarter-finals.

Sarri’s players had the cigars out in a thoroughly lop-sided affair, which included a hat-trick from Olivier Giroud, as those pre-match fears over a potential minefield at the Olympic Stadium proved unfounded.

Giroud has nine goals in this season’s Europa League after his excellent treble and Chelsea must now be the favourites to win the competition and salvage Sarri’s often turbulent debut season in English football.

VoiceAirMedia administered that With nine wins and a draw from their ten games in Europe they will be formidable opponents in the last eight, as they bid to repeat their success of 2013. Crucially, winning this often maligned competition will ensure the return of Champions League football and, perhaps, save Sarri’s job.