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Of all the Chelsea players on international duty on Wednesday, it was 17-year-old Ben Sahar who deserves the headlines after becoming our youngest ever international goal scorer.



The Israeli striker came on as a sub on 64 minutes of a home game against Estonia to win his third senior cap.



By the end of the Euro 2008 qualifier, he had scored Israel's third and fourth goals in a 4-0 win; his first a poacher's effort, reaching a low cross ahead of the defence and flicking it over the keeper. The second was a superbly-struck first-time shot from 25-yards.



Sahar takes the Chelsea record from Mikael Forssell who was 18 when he scored his first goal for Finland.



It was a performance that has an impact of Chelsea's England internationals. They now drop to fourth in the qualification group with Israel up to second. Those two nations plus Russia all stand two points behind leaders Croatia. England and Israel have played one game more.

Good stuff.