Chelsea have gone down as the best team in Europe.
On Tuesday, April 12, Real Madrid hosted Chelsea in the second leg of the ¼ final of the Champions League.
After the confident 3-1 win in London, fans have no doubt that they will also easily win at home and advance to the semi-finals of the tournament without any problems.
However, the Blues surprised the Madrid team and took the lead in the 15th minute of the meeting. The ball bounced off Werner’s knee to the 11-meter mark, where Mason Mount sent it into the bottom corner.
The teams continued to fight hard, but in the first half, the visitors failed to combine their advantage, and the hosts could not make up for it. At the same time, Chelsea looked very confident and had an intense 45 minutes.
And that at the start of the second half of the meeting, Tuchel’s wards doubled their advantage – the author of the first goal filed from a corner, and the tall Antonio Rüdiger correctly hit his head in the end. lower corner. This ball allowed the Blues to level the score on the aggregate.
A few hours later, Chelsea scored more, but after watching VAR, the referee canceled this goal. However, Chelsea did not lose hope and that in the 75th minute sent the third goal to the gate of Courtois-Timo Werner scored.
And so, when it seemed like the ticket to the semi-finals was almost in the Blues ’pocket, the first breakdown occurred. Ancelotti replaced Casemiro with Rodrigo, and it bore fruit in just two minutes.
Modric sent a superb diagonal cross to the far corner of the goal area, where Rodrigo sent it to the bottom corner. Thanks to a goal, Real Madrid were able to send the game into overtime to determine the semi-finalist of the tournament.
And in the 96th minute of the meeting, the “creamy” scored – the hero of the first match, Karim Benzema, intercepted Vinicius Junior’s serve with his head, and made the score 2: 3 on the scoreboard.
Tuchel’s staff had several chances to score at least one goal until the last minute to achieve a penalty shoot-out. The most offensive moment was with Jorginho in the last minute, the Italian hit a roundhouse kick, but missed the near corner of the goal.
As a result, the final whistle fixed Chelsea’s win over the match with a score of 3: 2, but it wasn’t enough for the Londoners to reach the semi-finals of the tournament.
Thus, the “blue” resigned the best team in Europe, and Real Madrid will meet in the semi -finals with the winner of the pair Manchester City – Atlético.
really – Chelsea – 2: 3 (first match – 3: 1)
the objectives: Rodrigo, 80, Benzema, 96 – Mount, 15, Ruediger, 51, Werner, 75.
true: Courtois – Carvajal, Nacho (Vazquez, 88), Alaba, F. Mendy (Marcelo, 78) – Kroos (Camavinga, 73), Casemiro (Rodrigo, 78), Modric – Valverde, Benzema, Vinicius (Ceballos, 115).
Chelsea: Mendy – James, Thiago Silva, Rudiger, Alonso – Kante (Ziyes, 100), Loftus -Cheek (Niguez, 106), Kovacic (Jorginho, 106) – Mount, Werner (Pulisic, 83) – Havertz.
Warnings: Benzema (37), Carvajal (118) – James (10), Ziyech (102), Havertz (109), Azpilicueta (113).
Source: korrespondent
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