Chelsea manager Frank Lampard believes Callum Hudson-Odoi worked very hard to get a start.
The Englishman was in excellent form as the Blues pushed aside Krasnodar in the Champions League group stages.
It was Hudson-Odoi who opened the scoring for the Blues in the 4-0 win.
Lampard told reporters: "Callum deserved a chance to play. He's trained very well recently, we have competition in those areas and we are also in the middle of a very busy patch of games.
"We need input from all the attacking players, and we had that today: Callum getting his goal, Hakim, Christian coming on for a goal. I was very pleased with those parts of our game.
"The goal is going to be good for his confidence.
"There were things I liked in his game: the desire to run behind the defence, sometimes one v one it didn't go his way but when you play in the Champions League and you get that goal, I know the feeling of confidence it can give him."
