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Tuchel regrets an action in the match. OSCAR DEL POZO (AFP)
About to go on vacation, the Bernabéu encountered a European qualifying match almost against nature.
There were no needs or urgencies, nobody mentioned the epic.
Success was one step away.
The surrounding ones were filled, but they did not light up.
Nothing to do with the unbreathable afternoon of PSG.
So the distension soon covered everything.
On the field and in the stands.
Madrid waited behind, paralyzed, inane, without a thread to get the ball out, and at times the stadium was drowning in silence, waiting for someone to cause a turn, something.
RMAReal Madrid
two
Courtois, Nacho (Lucas Vázquez, min. 87), Ferland Mendy (Marcelo, min. 77), Alaba, Dani Carvajal, Casemiro (Rodrygo, min. 77), Kroos (Camavinga, min. 72), Modric, Vinicius Junior ( Dani Ceballos, minute 114), Federico Valverde and Benzema
Che Chelsea
3
Edouard Mendy, Reece James, Thiago Silva, Rüdiger, Marcos Alonso, Kovacic (Jorginho, min. 105), Loftus-Cheek (Saúl, min. 105), Kante (Hakim Ziyech, min. 99), Timo Werner (Christian Pulisic, min 82), Kai Havertz and Mason Mount
Goals
0-1 min.
14: MasonMount.
0-2 min.
50: Rudiger.
0-3 min.
74: Timo Werner.
1-3 min.
79: Rodrigo.
2-3 min.
95: Benzema.
Referee
Szymon Marciniak
Yellow cards Reece James (min. 9), Benzema (min. 36), Federico Valverde (min. 67), Camavinga (min. 90), Hakim Ziyech (min. 101), Kai Havertz (min. 108), Azpilicueta ( min. 112) and Dani Carvajal (min. 117)
An increasingly viscous air overcast Chamartín and in that atmosphere a bossy, hierarchical Chelsea grew.
A champion plant that ended up on the ground, swallowed by the reactivation of Madrid from nowhere, again, and a
nosequé
from the Bernabéu.
"We leave disappointed," summarized Thomas Tuchel.
“Our individual qualities were not enough and we made two losses at a crucial moment.
We were out of luck.
You have to take advantage of the opportunities like them.
We lost two balls against Madrid that we have paid for”, lamented the German.
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Madrid leaves Chelsea speechless
From that first remove came Rodrygo's goal after a pass
made in
Modric.
But a few minutes earlier, Kanté, decisive in last season's semi-finals when he activated his tunnel boring machine, suffered another loss to Kroos that drew the ire of Rudiger.
That was Madrid's alarm clock in a duel that had him on the canvas.
“We deserved to go to the semi-finals.
This is one of the defeats that can be assumed with pride”, claimed the
blue
coach .
Tuchel, in addition to playing dead from 1-3 in London, announced that his intention was to bring the return to the physical.
A statement that resulted in the substitution of Jorginho's fine foot (he did not come out until 105) and the ownership of Loftus-Cheek as right winger.
Upstairs was missing Lukaku, injured, a loss that, in reality,
reduced
Chelsea in 2022 to Chelsea champion of Europe in 2021. Just, the one that emerged and shook a Bernabéu that went from contemplation to crisis, and to resurrection.
Just like Madrid at Easter time.
Dart to the referee
Without the Belgian tank, the English attack was left in the hands of three mosquitoes like Mount, Werner and Havertz, mobile types to shake up a local defense without Militão.
Between the paralysis of Madrid, the high pressure of Chelsea and the attacking activity of these three mainstays, the duel was introduced into an increasingly dark tunnel for Ancelotti's boys.
0-1, 0-2, 0-3 and, in the middle, a goal disallowed from Marcos Alonso by hand.
“Honestly, I didn't see it,” Tuchel admitted at a press conference, “but I was disappointed that the referee didn't check it himself on the monitor.
And then it seems to me in bad taste that, at the end, the referee laughs with Ancelotti, who seems like a gentleman to me, ”the Chelsea manager complained bitterly.
Alonso's 0-3, annulled, was for a moment a trip to the past.
Yesterday marked four years and one day since Benatia's penalty against Lucas Vázquez in the Madrid-Juventus discount, with a 0-3 that equalized the tie (also in the quarterfinals), and whose transformation by Cristiano Ronaldo gave Madrid the pass to semifinals in the midst of a colossal controversy.
In any case, yesterday's episode only postponed the Londoners' big blow with Werner's goal.
With the 0-3, five shots on goal for Chelsea, three goals and Marcos Alonso being annulled.
Silence.
Stupefaction.
And, out of nowhere, again the local epic, the one that nobody anticipated two hours before in the Castellana to give way to another episode of the unknown.
The night ended with a stream of Chelsea players collapsed on the pitch.
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