Chelsea v Atlético Madrid: Champions League final 16, second leg – dwell! – The Guardian

A phrase from Thomas Tuchel: “An excellent efficiency, unbelievable effort, unbelievable workforce effort, from the fellows on the pitch, the fellows on the bench and even the fellows on the stands” he tells Des Kelly, with a comedy reference to Thiago Silva. “I might actually really feel that we completely wished it and we undergo deservedly. It was a giant win for us.”

On Chelsea’s counter-attack objective: “We had the likelihood to harm them on the counter-attack. They pressed us very excessive within the first half however they opened up some areas behind midfield that we might exploit and rating a implausible objective that gave us some confidence. After that, we might have made a second objective and within the second half we additionally suffered. It was one other high efficiency with a deserved win.”

One other clear sheet: “We missed at this time Andreas [Christensen] who bought ailing in a single day, we missed Thiago [Silva] for a lot of weeks, that are massive personalities for us and large qualities for us. And Zou steps up, I inform him within the morning you play and he steps up with a efficiency like that … and I feel that the fellows defend themselves. Defensive work is about team-work, it’s about braveness and it’s about reliability, that they’ll really feel secure round one another. That is what it takes, but it surely’s about having an excellent goalkeeper and a little bit of a luck and also you get one other clear sheet.”

On Atletico’s penalty shout: “Possibly, I didn’t see it however I used to be a bit frightened on the sideline.”

Upon being advised it in all probability ought to have been a penalty. “Oh, okay. I feel Azpi bought a bit frightened as a result of the ball was abit too brief, so I didn’t see it however I used to be a bit firghtened.”

David Hytner was at Stamford Bridge for the Guardian to look at Chelsea make mild work of Atl´etico Madrid. Right here’s how he noticed the motion unfold.

Elsewhere within the Champions League: Holders Bayern Munich have breezed within the final eight, beating Lazio by the odd objective of three on the evening, to win the tie 6-2 on combination.

Hakim Ziyech speaks: “We had some troublesome moments within the recreation however I feel more often than not we had it below management,” he tells BT Sport’s Des Kelly. Requested about his first objective at Stamford Bridge, he says “it was an vital one and I needed to wait a very long time for it.”

The proper counter-attack? “Yeah, we take the ball good from midfield … we use Timo in house and … yeah, he had an excellent supply and it was an excellent end.”

JHe’s a person of few phrases is Hakim and he appears like he’d slightly be anyplace else.

A fast recap: Atletico Madrid had a powerful penalty shout turned down earlier than Chelsea took the lead on the evening by way of Kai Havertz. Regardless of squandering a number of possibilities they failed so as to add to their tally till the knockings of added time, when Emerson, simply on as an alternative, rifled the ball house.

Atletico’s effort over two legs was pretty pitiful and maybe indicative of the difficulty through which Spanish soccer at the moment finds itself. Any lingering hopes they’d of rescuing this tie evaporated with the cruel however honest dismissal of Stefan Svaic, however in reality they seemed a busted flush lengthy earlier than the Montenegrin noticed pink. Chelsea have been vastly superior in virtually each division and completely deserve their place in Friday’s quarter-finals draw.

Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeeep! Chelsea be a part of Liverpool and Manchester Metropolis within the quarter-finals of the CHampions League after an aggressive, completely skilled efficiency in opposition to a vastly disappointing Atletico Madrid facet.

Emerson scores together with his first contact! Kante wins the ball and sends Pulisic clear. He performs the ball vast and left, whereupon Emerson smashes a low drive house. Within the stands, Thiago Silva celebrates like Chelsea have simply gained the Champions League.

90+4 min: Chelsea double-substitution: Kai Havertz and Marcos Alonso off, Ben Chilwell and Emerson on.

90+3 min: Edouard Mendy is known as into motion once more, doing nicely to maintain out a Joao Felix shot on the flip.

89 min: Llorente sprints and tries to tug the ball throughout the face of objective from the byline however Mendy blocks it.

88 min: Kante expenses by way of the centre earlier than taking part in the ball left to Callum Hudson-Odoi. He jinks and tries to purchase a yard for a shot, however his effort is blocked.

87 min: Reece James will get on the ball on the appropriate flank, receiving a move from Pulisic. Unable to get a cross in, he turns and performs it backwards. That’ll do, as Chelsea run down the clock.

84 min: Very sad at being dismissed, Stefan Savic makes the lengthy stroll off the pitch, below the stand and thru the car-park to the momentary away dressing-rooms within the Stamford Bridge well being membership. It’s a good distance – he may need calmed down by the point he will get there.

81 min: The Atletico defender is proven a straight pink for an elbow into the chest of Antonio Rudiger. That’s technically right however harsh, in my

humble
opinion. Rudiger went down like he’d been poleaxed by a police truncheon.

79 min: Free-kick for Atletico, about 40 yards from the Chelsea objective. Lemar floats the ball in direction of the sting of the penalty space, the place Timo Werner heads clear. Atletico retain possession, the ball’s performed to Joao Felix together with his again to objective. He turns and his shoots and his effort takes a vicious deflection off Azpilicueta, earlier than screwing narrowly vast of the far put up.

77 min: Chelsea substitution: Hakim Ziyech off after considered one of his higher appearances in a Chelsea shirt, Christian Pulisic on.

76 min: Joao Felix has a shot-come-cross from a decent angle blocked by Edouard Mendy and N’Golo Kante – who else – is available to clear up.

75 min: They might, nonetheless, do with one other objective to place this tie to mattress. They gained’t get one, nonetheless, if Hakim Ziyech retains over-hitting crosses and sending them crusing excessive and vast of the Atletico objective.

74 min: A mixture-up between Hermoso and Oblak leads to a panicked clearance from Jose Maria Gimenez. If something, Diego Simeone’s substitutions and tactical tweaks have made his workforce worse, not higher. Chelsea are in full management of this recreation.

71 min: The digicam cuts to Thiago Silva within the stands, the place he’s wearing his civvies roaring at his team-mates, giving directions and gesticulating furiously within the managerial fashion.

69 min: Atletico substitution: Kieran Trippier off, Thomas Lemar on. Marcos Llorente strikes again into defence.

68 min: “Is there three of Kante on the pitch tonight?” asks Glenn Hoddle, who’s on joint co-comms responsibility for BT Sport. There isn’t, but it surely appears like there is perhaps – he’s in all places.

66 min: There’s a break in play as Kurt Zouma receives therapy for an damage. He hobbles to the sideline earlier than returning to motion.

64 min: Atletico look a overwhelmed docket and have supplied surprisingly little tonight, but when they’ll muster a objective from someplace it will be “recreation on” in a giant approach.

63 min: A Kieran Trippier nook is headed clear on the close to put up.

62 min: Timo Werner clips the crossbar with a rising sahot from a decent angle after trying to show Gimenez inside-out. He ought to have crossed to Ziyech, who was in acres of house.

60 min: Jose Maria Gimenez will get booked for a slightly over-exuberant try to win the ball again after he’d misplaced it with a heavy contact.

59 min: Atletico substitution: Angel Correa on for Luis Suarez, who has had considered one of his quieter nights. He’s hardly had a kick, except you depend a number of he bought from Kurt Zouma and Antonio Rudiger.

58 min: Nothing comes from the nook, however regardless of being in want of two objectives Atletico are struggling to get a foot on the ball.

57 min: Jan Oblak ideas a curled effort from Hakim Ziyech over the cross-bar. Reece James, once more, was the supplier. He, Ziyech and N’Golo Kante have been excellent for Chelsea tonight.

54 min: Atletico Madrid substitution: Moussa Demeble, a Janiuary signing from Lyon, on for the completely ineffective Yannick Carrasco.

53 min: Hakim Ziyech has a shot from exterior the are blocked by Saul Niguez. The ball breaks to Rudiger, who units himself earlier than fizzing a shot narrowly vast of the left upright.

50 min: Atletico attempt to construct from the again, their sense of urgency rising with each passing minute. Saul Niguez will get booked for a foul on Kai Havertz after Joao Felix had given the ball away.

49 min: Jan Oblak will get down rapidly at his close to put up to cease a shot from a slender angle by Timo Werner. It’s a nook for Chelsea, which Koke clears.

47 min: Reece James will get his first cross of the second half into the penalty space, the place Kieran Trippier boots clear. Luis Suarez tries to manage it, solely to get knee within the again – nicely, bottom – from Kurt Zouma, who claims he bought the ball.

46 min: Play resumes and Atletico have made a change. Mario Hermoso comes on for the already-booked left-back Renan Lodi and the Spanish facet swap to a again three. Yaniick Carrasco now has the duty of marking Reece James, who made mince-meat of Lodi within the first half.

An e-mail: “That non-penalty award on Azpilicueta may very well be much more important as a result of not solely would Atletico have the prospect to attain from the spot, Azpilicueta would have been despatched off,” writes Ben Chapman. “He would have denied an apparent objective scoring alternative with out taking part in the ball, which is a pink card each inside and outdoors the field.”

Elswhere within the Champions League: Bayern Munich look house and hosed of their match in opposition to Lazio. They lead 1-0 on the evening by way of a Robert Lewandowski objective that has prolonged their combination result in 5-1. Exhausting to see them shedding that one!

Peep! There’s no added time and Chelsea go in for his or her half-time brew a objective up on the evening and two up on combination. Hakim Ziyech scored the objective, combining with two fellow summer time signings to attain on the break. Atletico will really feel exhausting achieved by and have each proper to – they have been denied what seemed a transparent penalty for a blatant Cesar Azpilicueta arm-grab on Yannick Carrasco.

44 min: Chelsea are filling their boots down the appropriate flank, the place Reece James and Cesar Azpilicueta simply have the higher of Renan Lodi, who’s getting little or no help from Yannick Carrasco and can also be strolling ye olde disciplinary tightrope after selecting up a yellow card.

43 min: Chelsea win a nook on the again of an untidy scramble on the close to put up after Kai Havertz had bought a cross in. Oblak punches the following inswinger clear.

41 min: In what is sweet information for everybody concerned, it’s in all probability price noting that Chelsea objective implies that no matter occurs tonight, this tie is not going to be settled in additional time or with a penalty shoot-out.

38 min: Marcos Llorente sends a wonderul low cross flashing by way of the hall of uncertainty in entrance of the Chelsea objective, however neither Luis Suarez nor Joao Felix are available to transform it. Reece James collects and clears on the far put up.

36 min: A Kieran Trippier ball into the Chelsea field was cleared by N’Golo Kante, who performed it downfield to Kai Havertz. Transferring at lightning pace, he performed Timo Werner in behind down the within proper and the German squared the ball for Hakim Ziyech on the far put up. Having given Stefan Savic the slip, he fires the ball low and exhausting previous Jan Oblak. The goalkeeper bought one thing on it however couldn’t preserve it out.

Chelsea take the lead! Chelsea double their total lead with a objective on the break.

31 min: Renan Lodi is booked for a foul on Reece James over by the touchline, diving in late by the midway line. He’ll be banned for Atletico’s subsequent recreation, ought to they make it by way of to the quarter-finals.