In the midst of a storm in the offices, Chelsea becomes strong on the pitch. In Lille he sealed his pass to the quarterfinals of the Champions League, a competition in which he defends the title. He did it without fanfare, but also without excessive haste. The draw was kind to the champion, who had to come across a group champion and ran into the weakest. Lille does not get enough to worry Chelsea and even more so if Renato Sanches, his core engine, is absent due to injury. The level difference was always present and the two goals in the first leg conditioned the revenge.
1
Leonardo Cesar Jardim, Fonte, Sven Botman (Amadou Onana, min. 57), Zeki Celik (Tim Weah, min. 57), Tiago Djalo, Gabriel Gudmundsson (Domagoj Bradaric, min. 77), Jonathan Bamba (Angel Gomes, min. 77), Xeka, Andre, Jonathan David (Ben Arfa, min. 76) and Yilmaz
two
![Chelsea](https://as01.epimg.net/img/comunes/fotos/fichas/equipos/large/58.png)
Edouard Mendy, Rüdiger, A. Christensen (Trevoh Chalobah, min. 32), Thiago Silva, Kante, Marcos Alonso, Jorginho (Loftus-Cheek, min. 73), Azpilicueta, Kovacic (Mason Mount, min. 45), Christian Pulisic (Lukaku, min. 73) and Kai Havertz (Hakim Ziyech, min. 82)
goals 1-0 min. 37: Yilmaz. 1-1 min. 47: Christian Pulisic. 1-2 minutes 70: Azpilicueta.
Referee David Massa
Yellow cards Trevoh Chalobah (min. 33), Gabriel Gudmundsson (min. 41) and Fonte (min. 93)
Even so, the current Gallic champion caressed the illusion of the comeback without having done almost anything to deserve it. He was met with a penalty when the game was moving towards the half, a mistake by Jorginho that gave him life because Burak Yilmaz did not hesitate from eleven meters. The goal darkened the horizon of Chelsea, which was uncomfortable as a sore team can do and responded like a great. In ten minutes he left things as they were. It was on the last play of the first half that Lille piled in and left time and space for Jorginho to find Pulisic with a deep pass that went like a knife through butter. The Pennsylvania striker crossed into the net with solvency and Lille ended there.
The French team had warmed up in their audience, in the effervescence of the previous one and the rush of listening to the Champions League anthem. He uncorked like a soda, daring to look for Chelsea in his field and cause some error in the movement of the ball. The champion always seemed cold, he handled himself with a civil servant air and solved the problems with the passing of the minutes, as soon as Lille’s strength began to weaken. There appeared the spaces to draw triangles with the ball, without an ambition to go deeper.
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