Gary Cahill has lauded Willian after Chelsea beat Maccabi Tel Aviv 4-0 in the Champions League, a game the Brazilian scored a delicious free-kick in.
It needed only 12 minutes for Chelsea to take the lead with Cahill connecting with a corner from Willian to power a header at goal. Maccabi Tel Aviv's goalkeeper pushed the ball onto the post, but it fell to Cahill, who was able to bundle it into the net.
Maccabi Tel Aviv were reduced to ten men in the 41st minute, making their task tougher, while the Blues lost John Terry to injury in the 72nd minute, Kurt Zouma replacing the Chelsea skipper.
Willian then scored Chelsea's second a minute later, when he expertly guided a free-kick over the wall and into the bottom corner.
A third arrived in the 77th minute, Oscar heading in from a Baba Rahman cross.
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And then, right at the death, Zouma scored his first Champions League goal, climbing highest to meet a corner and heading into the goal.
It ended 4-0, making it a comfortable night's work for Chelsea and Cahill was keen to praise Willian, who he says is producing superb free-kicks on a regular basis, that are anything but luck.
"From the start of the season he's been fantastic, he's taken it up to another level", Cahill said on BT Sport.
"I said to him after the goal that it just seems like a given that that's a goal now [when he gets a free-kick].
"Anywhere around that 18 yard box, when he gets a free-kick, you get the feeling that it's going to be a goal and again today.
"We've seen him doing it in training, practicing, it's not luck. He works hard on it and it's near enough a goal every time he steps up there."
