Chelsea 2-0 Real Madrid (Agg: 3-1): Chelsea reaches Champions League final with Man City

Chelsea set up an all-English Champions League last with Manchester City subsequent to beating Real Madrid 2-0 at Stamford Bridge in the semi-last second leg, going through 3-1 on total.

Timo Werner put Chelsea ahead (28), gesturing into the unfilled net from under the crossbar after Kai Havertz’s chip had hit the woodwork, before Real rode their karma as the hosts botched four major opportunities to twofold their lead in the initial 20 minutes of the subsequent period.

The hosts at long last got their second to kill off the bind with five minutes staying as Mason Mount stuck home substitute Christian Pulisic’s middle at short proximity, covering off a fine showcase and denoting a remarkable turnaround at the club since Thomas Tuchel participated in January.

Chelsea will presently play in their third Champions League last (2008 and 2012) in Istanbul on Saturday May 29, and have set up the third all-English Champions League last after 2008 (Man Utd-Chelsea) and 2019 (Liverpool-Tottenham) as Manchester City hope to finish a high pitch.

When is the Champions League last?

The current year’s last among Chelsea and Manchester City will happen in Istanbul on Saturday May 29.

The Ataturk Olympic Stadium broadly arranged the 2005 Champions League standoff, when Liverpool came from 3-0 down at half-an ideal opportunity to beat AC Milan on punishments.

UEFA has not yet affirmed the commencement time, yet says point by point data in regards to the limit with respect to the match, travel and tagging subtleties will be conveyed freely before the week’s over.

Genuine Madrid expected to score in west London, giving previous Chelsea most loved Eden Hazard, to a great extent ineffectual at his old home, simply his second beginning in a quarter of a year, yet it was the hosts making a large portion of the early moves.

How Chelsea made it

Chelsea focused on the correct side of Real’s protection; Mount’s cross-shot constrained a save from Thibaut Courtois, another previous Blues player, while Werner changed over at short proximity from Ben Chilwell’s middle, just to be hailed offside. Just Jamie Vardy has been offside a bigger number of times than Werner (36) for a Premier League side in all rivalries this term.

After Edouard Mendy splendidly kept Karim Benzema’s goalbound, twisting exertion out with a fingertip save, Chelsea were before long commending the opener.

Werner was associated with beginning the move, holding up the ball well in a splendid one-two with N’Golo Kante, who selected Havertz in the case. Havertz’s chip lifted over Courtois and hit the crossbar, however tumbled to Werner, who was in the perfect spot at the perfect chance to just gesture the ball over the line.

The hit-and-miss nature of Werner’s introduction season in England was encapsulated only minutes after the fact as Chelsea broke with men over, the Germany global picking some unacceptable pass, before Mendy must be at his best again to tip over a Benzema header from Luka Modric’s cross.

A little ways from a Champions League last, Chelsea simply expected to keep another perfect sheet, something they had become experts at doing under Tuchel, enrolling 18 in his 24 games in control.

Be that as it may, they came out hoping to blow Real out in the second half with an assaulting barrage.

Havertz almost made Real’s undertaking much harder, ascending to head Cesar Azpilicueta’s conveyance against the crossbar, while Thiago Silva headed over plain from a Chilwell free-kick. Werner’s fine hold-up work at that point additionally set Mount free in the container at a point, just for the England worldwide to blast over the bar.

Notwithstanding having outstanding amongst other cautious records in the Premier League since Tuchel joined, Chelsea’s shot change rate is among the least (seventeenth), and it showed again as Courtois denied Havertz abominable subsequent to being gotten through on objective.

Opta stats – Watertight Chelsea

• Chelsea have kept 18 clean sheets in 24 matches under Thomas Tuchel in all competitions (75 per cent), compared with 26 in 84 games under his predecessor Frank Lampard (31 per cent).
• Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy has kept eight Champions League clean sheets this season, the most ever by a goalkeeper for an English club in a single season.
• Having also led PSG to the 2019/20 Champions League final, Chelsea manager Tuchel is the first manager to reach the European Cup/Champions League final in consecutive seasons with different clubs.
• It’s only the eighth time two teams from the same nation will be contesting the final, with Spanish teams also doing so a joint-record three times – 2000 (Real Madrid vs Valencia) and 2014 & 2016 (Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid).
• This was only the second time Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane has lost a two-legged UEFA Champions League tie in 13 attempts, also losing in the last 16 in 2019-20 against Manchester City.