Chelsea did achieve the Conference League record score, but they fell well short of their own club record in Europe, a 13-0 Cup Winners’ Cup victory over Luxembourg’s Jeunesse Hautcharage in 1971.

This 8-0 ranks as their joint second highest win, alongside three other matches.

While Chelsea led 6-0 against Noah at half-time and it looked like the Armenians could concede any attack, the only surprise was that they only scored twice more.

Maresca was asked afterwards if he was disappointed that he had not broken their record.

“You have to be serious,” he said. “It’s never easy. It’s of the utmost importance that we are serious and professional. We had to show that.”

Noah’s Portugal boss Rui Mota said: “It’s hard to accept, 8-0. We know that Chelsea as a team are at a different level, but we still wanted to do better.”

“If we hadn’t conceded so early in the game or maybe after two minutes when we had a really good chance, if we had scored a goal, things would have been different.

“Congratulations to Chelsea, they were very strong.”

Chelsea defender Tosin Adarabioyo, who opened the scoring with his first goal for the club, said: “We are in the competition to win.

“Whatever competition we participate in, we strive for the best and we definitely want to win this competition.”