He flew into London this week in time to go to Stamford Bridge for their clash with Nordsjaelland - and was rewarded with a goal frenzy as the home side romped home 6-1.

Here's his match report and pictures, filed from his VIP pitchside seats, thanks to FourFourTwo Australia and our mates at adidas.

"In order to avoid being the first defending Champions to be knocked out in the group stages of the Champions League, Chelsea FC needed to beat Danish team Nordsjaelland and rely on Shaktar Donetsk to defeat Juventus in order to progress to the next round. With Benitez yet to post a win as manager of Chelsea the pressure was on Roman Abramovich's new man to start delivering. 

Chelsea dominated the early stages of the match and used the width of the pitch attacking through their wide men Eden Hazard and Victor Moses. Nordsjaelland are immediately on the back foot when centre-back Ivan Runje goes down injured in the first five minutes and needs to be substituted. The first opportunity arises when Ashley Cole sends a cross from the left byline into the box for Moses to strike a volley on target. Soon after a Moses cross from the right is deflected onto the crossbar from a few yards out.

Against the run of play Nordsjaelland earn a penalty when their counter attack ends with a handball by Gary Cahill inside the box. Petr Cech dives brilliantly to his right to save Nicolai Stokholm's penalty. A few minutes later and Chelsea earn a penalty through similar circumstances when a handball by Mikkel Beckmann presents Eden Hazard with the chance to put Chelsea in front, however, his penalty is also saved when Nordsjaelland keeper Jesper Hansen dives to his left.

The drama isn't over when a third penalty chance is awarded inside ten minutes when Chelsea is awarded another penalty for a handball inside the box. Torres picks up the ball to take the penalty before David Luiz assumes responsibity for the penalty. Luiz converts the penalty by blasting high into the top right corner. Chelsea justly lead after 38 minutes, and move further in front when Torres is sent through one on one with the keeper in extra time. Torres gets a bit of luck when his first effort is saved but ricochets into his path enabling him to slot the ball past a diving defender into the back of the net. Chelsea go into half time 2-0 up.

Nordsjaelland start the second half with greater intensity, and within thirty seconds of the restart a floated ball over the top of Branislav Ivanovic finds an Joshua John who coolly lifts the ball over Petr Cech. The resurgence is short lived as Chelsea restore their two goal advantage a few minutes later when Gary Cahill heads home Juan Mata's free kick.

Chelsea's fourth goal puts the game out of reach as they break from inside their own half. Hazard skips past three players before playing a one-two with Torres. Torres' touch is slightly heavy and Hazard does well to keep it in before playing a low cross for Torres to convert in front of a flailing Hansen. Chelsea lead 4-1 and the spirits of the visiting Danish team are extinguished.

Chelsea add a fifth in the 63rd minute when Hazard finishes a one-two with Mata, and round off the scoring with a sixth in the 71st minute when substitute Oscar scores after receiving a through ball to put him in on goal.

The final score is 6-1 as Rafa Benitez notches up his first win for Chelsea. In the Ukraine, Juventus beat Shaktar Donetsk 1-0 to knock the European Champions out in the group stages."