The ‘blues’ turned around the 1-0 first leg with goals from Sterling and Kai Havertz
Dortmund had chances to have taken the game to extra time
Chelsea will play the quarterfinals of the Champions League. The London team came back from losing 1-0 in the first leg, and at Stamford Bridge brought down a Borussia Dortmund who went into extra time until the final whistle. Sterling and Havertz were the scorers, with Kepa Arrizabalaga closing with two merit interventions to Marco Reus and Wolf. Graham Potter, highly questioned by his results, buys some time and becomes the third English coach to reach the quarterfinals of the top European competition after Harry Redknapp (Tottenham) and Craig Shakespeare (Leicester).
DATA SHEET
Champions League
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BVB
LINEUPS
Chelsea
Arrizabalaga; Fofana, Koulibaly, Cucurella; James, Kovacic (Loftus-Cheek, 82′), Enzo Fernández (Zakaria, 87′), Chilwell; Sterling (Pulisic, 82′), Havertz, Joao Felix (Gallagher, 67′).
Borussia Dortmund
Meyer; Wolf, Süle, Schlotterbeck, Guerreiro; Emre Can; Brandt (Reyna, 5′), Bellingham, Özcan (Bynoe-Gittens, 64′), Marco Reus; Haller (Malen, 77′).
goals
1-0 M.44 Sterling. 2-0 M.53 Kai Havertz (penalty).
Referee
Danny Makkelie (Netherlands). TA: Kepa Arrizabalga (65′), Enzo Fernández (78′), Chilwell (91′), Cucurella (96′); Süle (41′), Wolf (91′), Bellingham (97′).
Dortmund drowned out speculation in the Ruhr. The ten minute delay due to traffic and the early injury to Julian Brandt did not change Edin Terzic’s roadmap. Chelsea wanted to bite without teeth. Not even Stamford Bridge warmed up the ‘blues’, limited to an uncheck of Havertz aborted by Emre Can.
The ‘borusser’ settled in someone else’s field, with Bellingham and Reus, rejuvenated. Coffee for the very coffee lovers. Precisely the German ‘8’ was around 0-1 in a direct free kick after Fofana demolished Reyna. Academic direct free and Kepa flight to avoid the advantage.
The German proposal was clear, while the English did not win for disappointment. Reyna shrank the heart of Stamford Bridge with a cross-shot that found no partner. Chelsea was cornered, even in the stands, where the ‘yellow wall’ crushed with its chants.
However, in an isolated action, the London team went from the UCI to the plant. Havertz hit a rebound from Wolf and the ball crashed where moles sleep. Havertz himself nailed it to the squad with the lineman raising the flag for Sterling’s previous offside. And neither Koulibaly nor Joao Félix hit a lateral free kick. The insistence took root in minute 44′, when Chilwell won the left and set up Sterling, who, stumbling and after shooting into the air, shot volleyball and fumbling. Meyer’s fingers twitched.
Even with the ‘fish and chips’ of the intermission in the teeth, Makkelie signaled a penalty by the hands of Wolf to Chilwell’s center. The Dutchman needed the breath of the room and the certification of the television to signal the eleven meters. Kai Havertz, with an interrupted career and left-footed, deceived Meyer but smashed her against the post. The referee, however, ordered the throw to be repeated due to invasion of the area.. At the second, there was no mercy and Havertz made it 2-0, tracing the execution.
Borussia reset and regained momentum, settling down again in enemy territory. Bellingham missed the infallible in the heart of the small area. The Englishman did not fit the inside of his boot well and the ball took a strange trajectory away from the net. Terzic burned ships with his changes, to which more ‘kamikaze’, and Dortmund flirted with the goal in an incursion by Wolf rejected by Kepa.
The final minutes were a want and I can’t for the Germans, desperate with their poor fortune and the unstoppable passing of the stopwatch. Shy arrivals against a well-protected Chelsea who knew how to temper their nerves to register their names in the quarterfinals.