Chelsea’s Kai Havertz celebrates a goal in the Champions League final.
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Frenetic beginning.
He grabbed Guardiol’s head first, followed by Tuchel six minutes later. Not to mention that these were chances that could have given the final game a completely different character and dimension.
But James caught up with the penetrating Sterling and kicked him. Although the striker Citizens still got to him and tried to surprise Mendy’s goalkeeper from an angle with his heel, he only hit the side bar.
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Proto Guardiola’s malice.
His German teammate was even more upset, because if Sterlig had a chance, then Werner, on the other hand, was offered a chance in the 14th minute.
However, he was aiming for the middle of the gate, and moreover he did not give the wound the proper rasanka, so he did not worry Ederson. But not to Tuchel either, because the German coach in the service of Chelsea had a hunch that his huge chances would not be offered to his charges in a confrontation with the Citizens.
After a surprisingly open and mutually offensively tuned introduction to the encounter, there really weren’t that many of them.
✒️ Chelsea’s name is on the ???? for a second time!#UCL #UCLfinal pic.twitter.com/XhmTaTRfCc
— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) May 29, 2021
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The Citizens had one promise before the opening half hour, but the man with the Rüdiger mask had to slip Foden off the ball.
The Blues prepared theirs here up to three minutes before the break. Mount noticed how wide his opponent’s defense was and took advantage of it.
He sent Havertz a magnificent pass through the middle to make it 1 – 0 for Ederson but he missed the goal, but the shot glanced harmlessly off the frame of the goal.
The seventy-million pounds Chelsea had paid for Leverkusen for him at that moment. And no one will ever predict to him that this was his first goal in the Champions League. After all, he came at the right time. And especially in the final it was the only goal,
???? Chelsea have won the UEFA Champions League for a second time! ????????????#UCL #UCLfinal pic.twitter.com/3ogfCK5C71
— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) May 29, 2021
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Of course, Guardiola had to react to the development of the match after the change of sides. After all, his team was nothing like the Citizens, who dominated the Premier League and made it to the finals. For the first time ever, even more so hungry trophies.
But the football holy grail distanced themselves from them. Especially when, after a collision with Rüdiger, their injured conductor and playwright De Bruyne had to leave the field.
The Spanish judge did not appreciate James’ claimed hand in the penalty area, Foden’s pass to Mahriz was stopped at the last minute by Captain Azpilicueta, and the growing activity of Citizens turned into persistent pressure, but it did not bring about a compensation.
Chelsea knew how to play the opponent and what weapons to choose. In the last two competitive matches on the Islands in April and May, she tried them. Successfully because she won both matches.
And if in the 73rd minute the alternating Pulišič himself changed the chance given before Ederson, she could have had a certain victory in the final of the Champions League. However, the American legionnaire’s dug narrowly missed the pole, so the Citizens were still alive, fighting and hoping.
In vain, because several gaps and promising opportunities did not even compensate, and therefore the extension did not bring.
Tuchel, conducting his 30th match on the Chelsea bench, set up his team perfectly again, so that after nine years, Europe’s most valuable club trophy returns to Stamford Bridge.
Guardiola will have to try to triumph again with Manchester City, as he did not add to the two victories with Barcelona, the third with the Citizens on Saturday’s Portuguese night.
| Champions League final in Porto: |
| Manchester City – Chelsea 0:1 (0:1) |
| Branka: 42. Havertz. Judges: Mateu Lahoz – Cebrián Devís, Del Palomar – Hernández (video, all Šp.). ZK: Gundogan, Jesus – Rüdiger. Attendance: 16,500. |
| Manchester City: Ederson – Walker, Stones, Dias, Zinčenko – B. Silva (64. Fernandiho), Gündogan, Foden – Mahriz, De Bruyne (60. Jesus), Sterling (77. Agüero). Trener: Guardiola. |
| Chelsea: Mendy – Azpilicueta, T. Silva (39. Christensen), Rüdiger – James, Jorginho, Kanté, Chilwell – Havertz, Mount (80. Kovačič) – Werner (66. Pulišič). Coach: Tuchel. |
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