JADON SANCHO has taken just 49 minutes to match a feat that took him SEVEN MONTHS to achieve at Manchester United.
Sancho, 24, is on loan at Chelsea from the Red Devils.
He put in a Man of the Match debut after coming on off the bench at half-time against Bournemouth to provide the match-winning assist.
Enzo Maresca consequently awarded Sancho with a start against West Ham.
And once again he has paid back his manager’s faith by contributing an assist to Nicolas Jackson’s clever opening goal just four minutes in.
This put Sancho on two league assists for the Blues.
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However, at previous club Man Utd, where Sancho never truly never managed to bed in, it took him an astonishing seven months to match the same league numbers.
Sancho joined United in the summer of 2021 from Borussia Dortmund in a transfer deal worth £73million.
However, following a stop-start season for him personally amid the struggles the club faced, Sancho did not register his first assists until February against Leeds.
That game, a 4-2 win for Ralf Rangnick’s side, saw him register two assists.
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He would add a third assist of the season against Tottenham three games later before his season was prematurely ended by injury.
Meanwhile, it took him until his 10th game to score his first United goal, ironically against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
Overall, Sancho hit 12 goals and six assists for United but saw himself sidelined for much of last season following a falling out with Erik ten Hag where the Dutchman criticised his training performances.
A public rebuttal from Sancho with no apology prompted Ten Hag to freeze him out of first-team training before the winger was sent on loan to former club Borussia Dortmund, where he had a mixed spell.
After apparently burying the hatchet with Ten Hag this season, Sancho missed a crucial penalty in the Community Shield penalty shootout against Manchester City.
He then sealed a deadline day loan move to Stamford Bridge, where the early indicators are he has captured his old form in Germany.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
