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Tops / Flops Chelsea-Real: Kanté still shiny, Hazard transparent

2021-05-06T18:07:46.938Z


Discover the tops and flops after Chelsea's victory and qualification against Real on Wednesday, in C1.


TOPS

Kanté, again him


One could quote almost all the players of Chelsea, so much the victory is collective this Wednesday (see elsewhere). Thiago Silva was great, his partner behind Antonio Rudiger too, Timo Werner and Mason Mount scored, he only missed one goal for Kai Havertz… But we will remember the man with three lungs, Mr. N'Golo Kanté. As on the first leg, the world champion reigned supreme in the middle. Tireless and inspired in his projections. It was on one of his four interceptions that Chelsea made the break. 45 balls touched, not huge, but the last three passes before a shot. A small flat, with this face-to-face missed at 1-0. He's not the only Londoner to have lacked skill in front of goal ...

Tuchel, the perfect shot


Thomas Tuchel returns to the final.

A year after his defeat against Bayern at the head of PSG, the German coach will challenge Manchester City on May 29 in Istanbul.

In not even six months, he transfigured the Blues.

An impressive job.

This Wednesday, we saw everything from Tuchel's Chelsea, suffocating, which projects quickly and well, fair and clean.

He only lacked more efficiency in front of goal for the score to be perfect.

His victory.

1 - Thomas Tuchel is the first coach in history to reach the C1 final two consecutive years with 2 different clubs.

Leo?

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- OptaJean (@OptaJean) May 5, 2021

Impassable Mendy


What a journey… From Cherbourg to the OM reserve, through periods of unemployment before winning in Reims and changing gear in Rennes, Edouard Mendy is now in the Champions League final , excuse the little. And the Senegalese international goalkeeper has his part in Chelsea's success on Wednesday and in the club's performance this season in fact. Certainly, the Blues outrageously dominated Real (2-0), there was no photo. But Karim Benzema could have scored this small goal that would have changed everything. Twice, the French tried it, right from the entrance to the penalty area and the header, near the cage. Twice, he fell on a great Mendy (26th, 64th).

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FLOPS

Ramos, abandoned captain


Back in the eleven after missing the first leg, Sergio Ramos clearly did not show his best face.

Warned in the first half, the 35-year-old Spain international appeared lacking in rhythm and unable to curb Chelsea's offensives.

His comrades from the line of three behind, Eder Militao and Nacho, did not help him much it is true ... Note that the former Sevilla, also free at the end of the season, played this Wednesday only his fifth game in 2021. The future will tell if it was his last in the European Cup at Real Madrid.

The ghost of Eden Hazard


Surprise in the eleven of Zinedine Zidane with Eden Hazard, aligned in support of Benzema in a 3-4-3. At least, the Belgian international, so often injured this season, was on the scoresheet. Because we did not see him on the meadow he knows by heart of Stamford Bridge. To absent subscribers. He only remembered to everyone's memory at the hour of play, with a close angle shot, before giving way to the former Lyonnais Mariano Diaz (89th). 52 balloons hit, one shot. Note that his hugs with his former Chelsea partners, after the final whistle, were not very popular in Spain, in the media and on social networks. It must be said that Hazard annoys more than he seduces.

Breathless Real (and Zidane)


Not spared by glitches and perhaps also at the end of the cycle, Real Madrid have never seemed to be in the game against the dynamic Chelsea team.

The Merengues have grown old as we have watched them evolve against the Blues.

Some players are at the end of the line.

Zinedine Zidane tried things, with the defense three, the returns of Ramos and Hazard, Ferland Mendy and Vinicius in piston… Choices that did not pay off.

His last European match at Real?

Perhaps.

Some sources send him to head Juventus.

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Source: lefigaro

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