Right, I’m off. Here, have a match report. Bye!

Zappacosta has admitted that he was trying to cross the ball when he scored his goal.

BT Sport are showing the goals. Some of Qarabag’s defending is not so much bad as non-existent. People looking the wrong way, people standing still while opponents run past them or while opponents just stand about with the ball at their feet weighing up their options. It was a bizarre performance from Qarabag. There’s bad – I can forgive bad – and then there’s dozing.

Cesc Fàbregas talks:

We’ve been waiting for a long time to be back playing Champions League. Finally it arrived, and you know it’s a good performance, good result. You never know if these goals can count at the end of the group stage, so we just keep going now. I think it’s a good performance from everyone. I feel personally very well. We’re back, not perhaps to our best but we are getting there. We just have to take it game by game. Now we focus on Arsenal, it’s a tough, tough game. And it’s a very difficult period for us, we have seven games in 21 days, it’s not what we have been used to since last year. We have to be on top, eat well, sleep well and try to recover well for Sunday.

Shortly before kick-off, when Antonio Conte was interviewed by BT Sport, he was asked if he could really be confident that the team he’d selected was good enough to win this game.

With hindsight, that’s probably the moment of the night. The team Conte had selected was good enough to win it by a double-figure margin. Had they really tried, really gone all out, given 110%, tonight might have been the biggest win in the club’s history (beating the 13-0 win against Jeunesse Hautcharage in 1971). But they’ve got Arsenal to play on Sunday, so that would be silly. Instead, they took it easy. They relaxed. And they only scored a laid-back six.

Too easy.

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90+2 mins: More criminally casual passing in their own defence by Chelsea allows Madatov to run onto the ball near the byline. He kicks the ball into his own leg and falls over. Goal kick.

90+1 mins: There will be three minutes of additional time, or thereabouts.

90 mins: Chelsea’s sixth goal has been officially awarded to Maksim Medvedev.

89 mins: Now Ndlovu cuts in from the right and scoops another shot over the bar. Different foot, same result.

87 mins: Chance for Qarabag! An actual chance! Ndlovu is played into space on the left, runs into the area, cuts past Rüdiger – who has sleepwalked through the evening – and shoots over the bar when well placed!

83 mins: That one’s definitely the most embarrassing goal of the night.

A defender hits a pass into Zappacosta. No matter, as the ball rolls straight to another defender. This one also kicks the ball into Zappacosta, who is suddenly free to run into the area. He reaches the byline and sends in a low cross, which is bundled into the net by a combination of Batshuayi and his marker.

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80 mins: After passing the ball around their own area for a bit, Rüdiger’s lazy pass rolls to a white shirt. That’s complacency in action.

79 mins: Fabregas very nearly finds Zappacosta bursting past the Qarabag backline again, only for one of the defenders to get their eyebrows to the ball and ruin it.

78 mins: I think the fifth might have been the most embarrassing goal of the night, though there’s plenty of competition.

77 mins: Qarabag take off Pedro Henrique, and bring on Tarik Elyounoussi.

Qarabag give the ball away to Bakayoko, who slides a first-time pass to Batshuayi, unmarked and just outside the penalty area, who turns and shoots low and hard past Sehic.

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74 mins: A final Chelsea change sees Azpilicueta come off, and Rüdiger come on.

Another short corner, this one played to Hazard. His cross hits Michel in the chest, bounces to Bakayoko, and his shot deflects off another defender and flies in!

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70 mins: Zappacosta mishits a cross behind everyone and out for a throw-in. Perhaps his goal was a cross after all. Qarabag make two changes: Madatov and Diniyev are on, replacing Sadygov and Garayev.

67 mins: Willian hits the bar! He has been absolutely class today, just beautiful in possession. This time he cuts in from the left and hits a rising, curling shot that clips the woodwork.

65 mins: My colleague Richard Adams emails about spot the ball competitions, apropos the photo that appears some way further down the page. “Fun fact – in those pre-Photoshop days newspapers just used random photos of games with no football in shot,” he says, “and then they just chose where it might be. So there was never a ball to spot.” Say it ain’t so!

64 mins: Zappacosta has another shot, as the ball bounces across the area. It goes about 10 yards wide and 20 yards high.

63 mins: A second Chelsea substitution: Kanté goes off, and Bakayoko comes on.

62 mins: Qarabag have possession. Chelsea’s set-up without the ball is actually quite defensive, dropping into a bank of four and a bank of five, and the visitors are unable to find a way through it. Eventually, they run out of steam.

60 mins: Ndlovu falls over Fabregas’s leg just outside Chelsea’s penalty area. The referee waves play on.

58 mins: Substitution for Chelsea: Pedro is off, and Eden Hazrd is on.

The free kick is taken short to Fabregas, who isn’t closed down. He looks up, he looks left, he looks up again, and then he lifts the ball onto the head of Azpilicueta, who can hardly miss.

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55 mins: Comedy foul of the day: Willian has the ball on the right wing, runs away from one opponent and is then steamrollered by Guerrier. He flies about five yards.

53 mins: So far this half Qarabag remain slow, while Chelsea’s players also appear keen to run a bit less. It is not a recipe for non-stop action.

51 mins: Qarabag have a shot! It’s Dino Ndlovu with the effort, a left-footed drive from 25 yards that Courtois pats down and then collects.

48 mins: Chelsea win a corner, and then another corner. From the second Fabregas finds a bizarre amount of space inside the area, but he’s closed down quickly enough for it not to be fatal.

46 mins: Peeeep! Chelsea get half two under way.

The players are out. And they are the same players that went in.

Just look how much space Pedro is in here (that’s him, No11, on the edge of the D). Every single Qarabag player is within 10 yards of the goal-line, leaving the rest of the pitch entirely vacant. Qarabag might not have the financial might to compete with Chelsea in the transfer market but they didn’t need money to keep that goal out, they needed some vaguely sensible organisation.

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The home side couldn’t be more in control of this one. It is wrapped, bagged and the receipt is in their pocket.

45+1 mins: Into stoppage time, of which there will be only one minute. Fabregas passes over the defence to Zappacosta, whose low cross doesn’t lead to much. Still, excellent running and passing.

45 mins: Marcos Alonso shoots from the left touchline! Well, this one did look like a mishit cross, but it certainly ended up nearish goal.

44 mins: Chelsea make a clearance! The ball’s sent high into the penalty area, bounces around a bit, and then Cahill boots it clear. Listen, not much has been happening, OK?

40 mins: Chelsea give the ball away a couple of times in quick succession. Christensen’s stretching backheel interception stops Qarabag the first time, their own mediocrity the second. Still, as Steve McManaman points out, “against Atlético Madrid that’s in the back of the net”.

39 mins: The ball is passed to Zappacosta, near the right corner flag. “Shoooooot!” scream the fans.

37 mins: Henrique has the ball on the right, cuts inside and then shoots low, quite hard and straight down the middle of goal.

35 mins: Zappacosta nearly has a second! He’s picked out by Kanté, cuts back onto his left foot and then fires across goal and wide.

33 mins: Willian crosses, Alonso miscontrols, and a panicked defender stretches and kicks his clearance into Alonso’s shin, from where it rebounds wide. Chelsea could get into double figures here, if they’re sufficiently bothered.

31 mins: The ball absolutely flew inside the near post, with the goalkeeper positioned ready for a cross. As with Kane at the weekend, the classic mishit-cross-turned-goal loops in at the back stick; this sped in at the near.