Champions: Chelsea breaks loose in Europe and eliminates Borussia Dortmund | Champions League 2022

Sterling and Havertz, the latter after repeating a penalty, qualify Graham Potter’s team for the quarterfinals of the Champions League

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Chelsea, sooner or later, had to be unleashed. Dropped in the Premier and eliminated from the FA Cup and the League Cup, the megamaniac project of Todd Boehly intends to find its raison d’etre in Europe. Despite their tumultuous relationship with the goal, the Londoners, in fits and starts, scored two this time to eliminate a Borussia Dortmund unable to defend the first-leg advantage (1-0). Graham Potter’s team thus reaches the minimum goal of the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

That Dortmund who arrived at the Bridge proud of his last ten wins soon found himself lost. After four minutes he fell injured Julian Brandt, capital and no substitute in offensive production. And there was nothing more to recreate in the sorrowful gesture of the technician Edin Terzic who, after not knowing how to make sense of possession, did not know how to sustain Chelsea’s charging game. The Germans also regretted the discreet night at Bellingham.

Wolf’s hand

Joao Felix y Havertz, free verses in the playmaker, exhibited their technical virtuosity. But before the blues They would decide the match, they showed why they have scored the same 24 goals in the Premier as the bottom team, Bournemouth. The missed chances were piling up: Havertz frolicked with the sticks; a couple of goals were disallowed for offside; Koulibaly finished off backwards with the ankle…

Until the most unpredictable of all, Sterling, hit with the right after missing badly with the left. The 2-0 was even more turbulent. Wolf, at the same dawn of the second half, he put out his hand without looking in the area. And Havertz, despite missing the penalty, crashing the leather into the wood, was able to repeat, and also score, after footballers from both teams invaded the area. Dortmund, despite the time ahead and without any fangs in attack, was hopelessly trapped in Potter’s web.

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