Borussia Dortmund and Benfica took valuable victories in the Champions League.
Karim Adeyemi completed a wonderful solo goal. PDO
Chelsea spent almost half a billion euros on new players in January.
However, only three of them made it to the Londoners’ Champions League group. Manager Graham Potter your name too by Enzo Fernández, of João Félix and Myh’ailo Mudrykin for opening at the first possible place.
That place was Dortmund’s famous Westfalenstadion.
Hosts tend not to waste money on confirmations. Its ideology includes training young players to world stardom, including the 21-year-old Karim Adeyemi gave an excellent sample.
The young striker caught the ball after Chelsea’s corner kick and launched a single counterattack. He first humiliated Fernández, who is worth 120 million euros, and then went around the goalkeeper Kepan.
The actual finishing was then the easiest part of the harpoon attack.
The hit was the only one of the night, so Dortmund will go to the deciding part at Stamford Bridge in three weeks with a 1-0 lead.
In the second match of the Champions League, Benfica took a strong hold on the quarter-final spot as they claimed a 2-0 away win over Brugge. The people from Lisbon get to play the second leg in front of their own home crowd on March 7.
