Milan and Real Madrid have advanced to the semi-finals of the Champions League. Tuesday’s draw was enough for AC Milan to advance.
STT Sports,
Jonne Niemeläinen
Chelsea, who won the men’s Champions League in the second season, will not get a patch from this year’s continent’s first competition to tear open the wound of a miserable season.
Last season’s winner, Real Madrid, wiped out Chelsea on Tuesday in London in the second quarter-final match of the Champions League with Rodrygo’s goals 2-0 and continues to the semi-finals with 4-0 on aggregate. Score machine Real has reached the semi-finals of the Champions League 11 times in the last 13 seasons.
Still in the quarterfinals, after losing the first match, Chelsea got past Dortmund on their home field and secured their place in the quarterfinals. However, Real Madrid’s 2-0 lead in Spain was too much for Chelsea.
In the second quarter, Chelsea was better in terms of play, as the final numbers show, but the Londoners N’Golo Kante wasted two and Marc Cucurella one top spot in a goalless situation.
– In my opinion, we played well and we had our chances to score, but in football you have to take advantage of the positions, which we didn’t succeed in today, Chelsea midfielder Conor Callagher told the BBC website.
Half a billion euro flop season
Chelsea, who spent around half a billion euros on player purchases last summer, played their seventh winless match in a row in all competitions. by Graham Potter replaced as head coach at the beginning of April Frank Lampard has lost all four of his matches.
At the beginning of the year, Lampard was fired from Everton, who were struggling for their place in the Premier League. He started the season as Chelsea’s head coach Thomas Tuchelwho had to make room for Potter in the fall season.
Chelsea have scored one goal in their last six matches. That’s not how you play winning football.
In the English Premier League, Chelsea is only in 11th place, which means that the European games will be missed next season.
Napoli disappointed
Napoli, the number one cheerleader of the football season, had to find out on their home field that the tree in the Champions League does not grow to the sky.
Napoli, who leads the Italian league Serie A by 14 points, has frozen in the important matches of the spring for a worse time. In Serie A at the beginning of April, Napoli, who collapsed at home with 0-4 goals against Milan, went into the second quarter-final meeting with last week’s 0-1 away loss on their neck.
The ball of Napoli, who leads the Italian league Serie A by far, started leaking when Milan Olivier Giroud hit between the posts in the 43rd minute Rafael Leaon great primer.
In the 82nd minute of the match, Napoli was awarded a penalty kick, but Khvicha Kvaratskhelia the gallant spot was saved by Milan’s goalkeeper Mike Maignan.
A Nigerian striker who is one of the star players of Napoli’s season Victor Osimhen tied the match at 1-1 in extra time, but considering the overtime hopes, the equalizer came too late.
FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SECOND SEMI-DIVISIONS:
Chelsea – Real Madrid 0–2 (0–0) 0–1 Rodrygo 58. 0–2 Rodrygo 80.
Real Madrid into the semi-finals with 4–0 on aggregate
Napoli – Milan 1–1 (0-1) 0–1 Giroud 43. 1–1 Osimhene 90+2
Milan to the semi-finals with 2–0 on aggregate
On Wednesday, the UCL semi-final places will be decided by Bayern Munich and Manchester City (1st part 0–3) and Inter and Benfica (1st part 2–0).