Chelsea

CHELSEA lost 5-4 to Real Madrid on aggregate in their Champions League quarter-finals.

We showed a lot of courage, and from there we showed the quality. City head into the tie with a 1-0 lead after a very defensive-minded Atletico performance at the Etihad Stadium previously. The credit goes to the players. Chelsea were knocked out of the Champions League by Real Madrid in dramatic fashion on Tuesday night. The Blues’ display overall was very impressive and Tuchel’s tactics were near-perfect – especially in normal time. It was to the full limit tonight.

Chelsea suffered disappointment in the Champions League as the Blues exited this season's competition after suffering a 5-4 aggregate defeat to Real Madrid ...

At full time, James was one of the players to collapse to the ground. Something he and many of his teammates did not deserve, given their efforts at the Bernabeu. "We deserved to go through after this performance and match today," said Tuchel. "But it was not meant to be." I did not see the disallowed goal back, but I told him that I was super disappointed that he does not come out and check it on his own. At full time, several members of the Blues side collapsed to the ground out of sheer exhaustion and disappointment. This one was for Timo Werner, and the German showed remarkable composure – not something he has done often in a blue shirt in truth – to round to defenders and find the far corner via the arm of Courtois. That was the case against Madrid last night. "These are the kind of defeats you can take with pride and accept as a sportsman." But it shouldn't be forgotten that the Blues did win last night's game at the Bernabeu and matched that Manchester United team of 1968. An early goal was required as the Blues attempted to overhaul a 3-1 first-leg deficit, and it arrived when Mason Mount swept a shot into the far corner in the 14th minute. Chelsea led the tie and almost added a fourth as Kai Havertz headed another Mount corner towards the corner. No matter, the match was going to plan. The task that faced Chelsea ahead of last night's game was astronomical.

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It was a wholehearted performance from everyone and that needed to happen from the start.’ ‘They gave everything in Madrid but the bottom line is they have conceded five goals. They didn’t bring their best version and ultimately that’s what cost them. We ultimately won the tie.’ ‘Real Madrid looked lost. ‘But this is what Real Madrid do, they have players that produce moments and this time it was Modric, it was Courtois and then it was Benzema. That was enough.

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He paints the most delicious pass you've ever seen, outside of the boot and over Thiago Silva's head, right onto the inside of Rodrygo's right boot on the far side of the box, and he allows it across his body before volleying home a saviour's finish with his first touch! 75’ - GOAL! Real Madrid (3) 0-3 (4) Chelsea (Werner) OH MY COMPLETE AND UTTER DAYS! Werner comes deep and finds Alonso, who finds Kovacic. He slides a clever ball in behind for Werner, who's down the left of the box, and he sends Casemiro out for an empanada, dipping inside him, cutting across the box to fashio a shooting angle in the process, then he shifts it one more, shoots low, and a flick off Courtois takes it past Mendy on the line! This is one of the great Eurpean comebacks, and Madrid have 15 minutes to save themselves intense humiliation! Mount swings the corner out, towards the far side of the box, and Rudiger meets it beautifully, moving across the ball to force the angle before butting a superb header into the far corner! In the first half, Chelsea looked an entirely different team to the one that subsided so meekly at home, overpowering Madrid with their physicality intelligence and speed. There’s a reason why football appeals to some of the worst people in the world – the world has nothing else remotely like it – and this sensational match, one in which both sides made incredible comebacks, illustrated that precisely.

In defeat, Chelsea legends were made — and none more so than Thomas Tuchel.

Chelsea had managed to keep him quiet for most of the night, but one moment is all it takes for the iconic France striker. Modric turns 37 this year, yet can turn a match in an instant with his vision — as was the case when he curled the ball with the outside of his right boot for Rodrygo to score the goal that put Real back on level terms on aggregate. The question is whether Chelsea can maintain those sorts of levels through the entirety of a campaign? They are the benchmark for Tuchel — and the distance between Manchester City and Liverpool to Chelsea is too great. The power of Mateo Kovacic and N’Golo Kante as box-to-box midfielders almost felt like a throwback. This was Chelsea at full throttle, with the shackles off — and it was thrilling.

A classic night of Champions League knockout football did not in the end go the Blues' way, but we gave Real Madrid a mighty scare.

Five minutes into extra time, Benzema scored his fourth goal of the tie and it proved to be the decisive one. Fortune did favour Chelsea when a Benzema header soon after hit the top of our crossbar but with 15 minutes of the 90 left, Werner gave us the aggregate lead for the first time in the tie. Six minutes into the second half and we had a two-goal lead on the night. It has to be said that Modric’s pass over the Chelsea defence was fantastic, finished on the volley by substitute Rodrygo. Suddenly, however, it seemed for a couple of minutes as if Chelsea had taken the lead. Mount took it and sent the ball deep to where Thiago Silva and Rudiger lurked and it was the latter whose header had our former goalie diving desperately but in vain to keep the ball out of his net. Kovacic played him through on the left and the German did brilliantly to lay down one defender and bypass another. It was however a sign of the pressure the 13-times winners were under. It went just wide and the ref awarded a corner. Mateo Kovacic, against his former side, had threaded a pass forwards and after Loftus-Cheek flicked it on, Werner forced the ball into Mount’s path to beat Courtois. There were only 15 minutes gone – 75 to find the other goal needed. Kai Havertz headed a good, late opportunity wide and over the two legs, we can rue a large number of scoring chances not taken. There were what looked a couple of nervous, loose touches amongst all the possession in those opening minutes.

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‘I hit walls, I ended up kicking people at times! He continued: ‘If you see changing rooms after games… ‘But the feeling there you can’t control it.

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They were winners on the night in Madrid and yet ended it as losers. One of the beauties of this magnificent sport is that single moments can shift tides and they are often easy to spot in real time. They were ahead in this tie for five minutes of the 210 and yet felt like deserving winners. With his team 3-0 down and facing humiliation and media hyperbole, Modric produced an outrageous dinked ball that didn’t so much ask Rodrygo to volley it home as place the ball on the laces of his boot from 30 yards away. In the context of the away goals rule change, that approach was even more strange. Get the locals worried and you can get the players worried too.

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel said of his team's Champions League quarterfinal exit: "We are very disappointed and very proud at the same time."

Tuchel had warned in the build-up that Real had a physical advantage owing to LaLiga's use of five substitutions compared with the Premier League's three, and perhaps that contributed to one or two tired passes creeping into their play. Antonio Rudiger headed Mount's 51st-minute corner into the net to haul Chelsea level on aggregate, and when Marcus Alonso thrashed a shot past Courtois just after the hour mark, they were ahead in the tie. Mateo Kovacic slipped a 75th-minute pass through for Timo Werner, who cut inside on his right foot and steered a shot Courtois could only divert into the far corner. Chelsea amassed 28 shots on the night, earning a 3-0 lead at one stage as they pinned Real back in their own half with a mixture of intelligent pressing, midfield control and tireless mental fortitude. You have to reduce your amount of mistakes, and we could not reduce it to an absolute minimum over the two legs. Asked on the eve of Tuesday's game how champions bow out of a competition if it has to be their time, Chelsea head coach Thomas Tuchel replied: "By not accepting it before it ends.

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With the defender prone, though, Benzema stooped to head in Vinicius’ cross. It was only the set-up for one of his finest goals, albeit from awful Madrid defending. With Casemiro seemingly determined to go to ground as early as possible, Werner side-stepped him once, and then twice, before squirming the ball past Thibaut Courtois. There was the sense the ball could go anywhere. The game had seen little of him, although he was evidently building up. It of course dropped perfectly, but didn’t land, as Rodrygo lashed it past Mendy. Chelsea had been in a rare moment of retreat, when Rodrygo made a darting run forward. They had the game won, at 3-0 up on the night and 4-3 up on aggregate, only for basic sloppiness to allow Real Madrid to go through with two strikes to make it 5-4 overall after extra-time. Mateo Kovacic played it low from the left, for Ruben Loftus-Cheek to flick on, if only to Timo Werner’s knee. There was a period after the goal when they were already penning Ancelotti’s side in like it was the last 10 minutes. They weren’t just more intense and focused than Madrid. They looked the better team. They would gladly point out they just have the players to exploit any circumstance, and expose any team’s flaws, because there can be absolutely no doubt about Modric and Benzema.

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We showed a lot of courage, and from there we showed the quality. ‘We were very disciplined on the ball, and very active off the ball. The credit goes to the players.

The True Blue consortium, headed by former Chelsea captain John Terry, has endorsed Stephen Pagliuca's bid for the club.

It remains to be seen as to who will be successful as the shortlisted parties up their bid for Chelsea. It was reported that Pagliuca was in attendance at Chelsea's 6-0 away win at Southampton at the weekend, with the aforementioned bidder travelling to the UK for meetings ahead of his bid for the club. It has also been revealed that Pagliuca has not approached the Chelsea Pitch Owners, who are a very influential part of the club but he has now spoken to Paul Canoville about his plans for inclusivity at Chelsea going forward.

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Prior to being sanctioned, Mr Abramovich had said he intended to write off a £1.5bn loan to the club and hand the net proceeds from the sale to a new charity that he would set up to benefit the victims of the war in Ukraine. Mr Abramovich had initially slapped a £3bn price tag on the Stamford Bridge outfit, with the net proceeds being donated to a charitable foundation set up to benefit the victims of the war in Ukraine. The Premier League is expected to take the remainder of this month to evaluate those involved in the bids - who include a string of US billionaires and pillars of the British corporate establishment - and its work to approve all four consortia means the process may need to be extended. The issue of supporter ownership is a sensitive one because the government is due to respond in the coming weeks to the former sports minister Tracy Crouch's review of football club ownership and governance. In a statement, the True Blues Consortium said: "Having engaged and being well received by all the bidders we were recently able to spend some time with Steve and Larry and getting to know their bid we're again confident that they are aligned with Chelsea fans, and of course have experience in this area of owning sports teams. The True Blues group is being co-ordinated by Sandford Loudon, a sports industry financier and long-standing Blues fan, and has held talks with all four of the shortlisted bidders.

Boston Celtics owner Stephen Pagliuca said NBA chairman Larry Tanenbaum and ex-Chelsea captain John Terry have joined his bid to purchase the club.

"This process has been a disconcerting time for the football club and fans," he said. Pagliuca spoke publicly for the first time about his bid for Chelsea on Monday, when he vowed to make the club "habitual winners." "The group welcomes the endorsement and support of the True Blues Consortium, an organisation dedicated to Chelsea FC and focused on representing fan interests for the club," said the statement.

The Boston Celtics co-owner is one of four prospective bidders for the Premier League club.

We understand the responsibilities that come with such an important sporting institution and hold ourselves accountable to the fans. “Chelsea should be the pride of London for its on and off-field accomplishments. “Ultimately, fans will see our commitment and, we hope, trust us to stay true to our values on and off the pitch. “We believe passionately that clubs have a social responsibility, and we will continue to support the Chelsea Foundation and its impressive work in education, health and well-being, and diversity and inclusion both locally and globally. “Our second focus will be to continue to cherish and preserve the legacy and traditions of the club,” said Pagliuca. “In addition, we will continue to invest in the youth academy to develop the stars of the future and we would not be in this process if we did not have an exciting and inclusive vision for Chelsea.”

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The full credit is for the players, you need to score and win and to do it over the 90 mins. "I didn't see the goal but I am super disappointed he didn't come out and check it on it's own. "When I wanted to go and say thank you, he was smiling and laughing with the opponent's coach. We deserved to go through, we were simply unlucky and it wasn't to be. "These are the kind of defeats we can digest and swallow," he added. That stemmed from Tuchel's plan to play with bravery to hurt the La Liga leaders in the search for goals but to also keep Vinicius Jr and Karim Benzema quiet at the other end after the pair had completely destroyed them at Stamford Bridge in the first half. I felt the little decisions in the first leg and today as well. When you go and see a referee smiling and laughing with the other coach, it's bad timing. "Chelsea had Real Madrid on the ropes, outplaying them for large parts and outthinking them for almost the majority. "It was just unfortunate that Luca Modric, Vinicius Jr and Benzema carry such quality that they are gifted enough to take those half chances. Defender Rudiger met the set piece and headed it into the opposite corner to level the tie. He fed Marcos Alonso who lashed past Courtois - but the smallest of deflections off his arm in the build-up allowed VAR to rule it out.

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We can be very proud." We showed a lot of courage, and from there we showed the quality. This is the way to go forward. "We deserved what we had. It was the right way to do it. "We played a fantastic match," he said.

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Something he and many of his teammates did not deserve given their efforts at the Bernabeu. "We deserved to go through after this performance and match today," said Tuchel. "But it was not meant to be." At full time, James was one of the players to collapse to the ground. But if you play Real Madrid, you cannot expect that everyone has the courage [to make decisions]. I also felt the little decisions in the first leg and the second leg today," Tuchel said on the refereeing decisions across the two legs in his press conference." Our David Ornstein reported on Monday that the scrum of top sides gathering to register an interest has been streamlined slightly, with Manchester United, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain the leading contenders to sign him. A club statement read: "Our player Eden Hazard will undergo surgery in the next few days to remove the osteosynthesis plate on his right fibula." Mount, 23, was back to his very best in the Santiago Bernabeu and only took 15 minutes to carry on his renewed form from the weekend's win against Southampton as he finished expertly across Thibaut Courtois after a Timo Werner ricochet fell his way nicely. A club statement read: "Our player Eden Hazard will undergo surgery in the next few days to remove the osteosynthesis plate on his right fibula." It was a performance that wasn't asked directly in Tuchel's post-match press conference but that didn't stop punditry duo Rio Ferdinand and Joe Cole from lavishing praise on a player that was labelled as "unlucky" by Ian Wright at the weekend." The Portuguese club wants him to leave early in the summer transfer window, so they have plenty of time to find a replacement. As brutal and harsh and coarse as it might seem after such a valiant effort from Chelsea that saw them on the cusp of a legendary Champions League comeback, certain truths after to be acknowledged. Perhaps not directly to a group of players left demoralised, exhausted and in disbelief on a pitch in the Spanish capital, but as an elite set-up striving for the best. It says a great deal about the quality and character of the squad.

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The Brazilian was not the only Real Madrid to recognise James’ performance as Benzema made a beeline for the Chelsea defender as he headed towards the tunnel at the Bernabeu and asked to swap shirts. And the Brazilian took the time to acknowledge the Chelsea defender on social media after the game. Vinicius Junior has praised Reece James following Chelsea’s defeat to Real Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday evening.

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“The players lived up to a plan. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. It is a point you can talk about but when I scored I thought: ‘We are through with this.’ “This is where the credit goes to the players, they were very disciplined on the ball and very active. “There was one moment in regular time when we were not like we were the whole game and Madrid have the quality to score against you and they showed it for the 3-1. “We nearly gave no chances to Madrid but in the end we have to say the goals they scored were very good.

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their manager, despite their painful Champions League exit at the hands of Real Madrid.

‘I know there’s uncertainty at Chelsea now but whatever happens the first thing whoever comes in is to sit down with Thomas Tuchel because he’s still the best young-ish manager in the world.’ The German was heavily criticised for airing his grievances so publicly but his charges responded with a scintillating display at Southampton on Saturday and came within in a whisker of completing a remarkable act of escapology at the Bernabeu. Cesc Fabregas believes Chelsea should feel ‘blessed’ to boast Thomas Tuchel as their manager, despite last night’s painful Champions League exit at the hands of Real Madrid.

Thomas Tuchel was left frustrated after Chelsea crashed out of the Champions League to Real Madrid despite a valiant second-leg performance.

Marciniak has greeted Carlo Ancelotti, who was obviously basking in his side's victory, but Tuchel took offence to the ref's reaction. The former Borussia Dortmund boss had consoled some of his players before greeting the referee and was triggered by the interaction in advance of his own. Thomas Tuchel has revealed his frustrations with the referee following Chelsea's Champions League defeat to Real Madrid but not necessarily because of his performance across 120 minutes of football.

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The Merengues have only been involved in one competitive penalty-shoot since May 2016. Chelsea (a) W 3-1 Chelsea are seeking a club record eight successive away wins in all competitions. PSG (h) W 3-1 Inter Milan (a) W 1-0 The only exception was against Man Utd in 2010/11 when we lost 3-1 on aggregate.

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Lukaku may look at this and believe Tuchel was right when he said history may be against him - after all, it seems that scoring goals on a consistent basis as Chelsea's No 9 is far harder than it should be. But on the other hand, Chelsea have a remarkable knack of finding goals from other areas, particularly their defenders. Over the same period, Harry Kane has scored 100 times, while Mohamed Salah leads the league with 115. But while the statistics make grim reading for Lukaku, it's perhaps harsh to single him out as an underperforming forward in Chelsea's team. It's hard to make the argument that Chelsea don't provide enough service to their striker. "I don't know why it's like this," Tuchel added.

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The Chelsea supporters are filtering into the stadium to the right of me. Only a few hundred so far and they've not been able to make themselves heard over the PA system. Up in the gods at the Bernabeu, Chelsea's travelling supporters are beginning to find their voice. We want to have more players closer to the ball in the attack. Of course we will try to get a lead to get it into their minds and cause some doubts. We want to play with a higher press, a higher line with pressing against the ball. Even if it’s the other way around, we will try and keep on trying. The Chelsea head coach may have tried to play down his side's chances but you can tell he believes something can happen tonight. Reece James trips over Vinicius who shows incredible acceleration to go past the Chelsea star. Looks like Loftus-Cheek is playing pretty central and then moving wider at the moment. He will again be key to Chelsea's hopes of recovering something from this tie, scoring six goals in his last seven. Timo Werner and Mason Mount hit a double as Marcos Alonso, and Kai Havertz rounded out the scoring.

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Of course we will try to get a lead to maybe get into their minds and cause some doubts, but if it is the other way round we will keep on trying. He flicks a cute pass down the inside-right channel in the hope of releasing Vinicius Junior, but Mendy reads the danger, coming out of his box to sweep up. Real get the ball rolling, and pump it forward quickly. 4 min: A long speculative pass down the Real right nearly exposes Chelsea. Valverde hares after it, but Kovacic gets across to intercept and snuff out the danger. A lot of whistling from the home fans, who don’t like it one bit. Werner and Havertz combine down the inside-left channel, the ball bobbling around in the box before clanking out for a corner. 6 min: Modric swans around in the centre circle like he owns the place, which the little genius kind of does. Then, all of a sudden, a ball’s fizzed down the inside-left channel by Kovacic. It’s helped on by Loftus-Cheek and Werner, and suddenly Mount is tearing into the box down the middle! 7 min: Vinicuis is sent scampering clear down the left touchline, the recipient of Benzema’s outrageous backheel. He opens his body and sends a confident - and powerful - sidefoot past Courtois and into the top right! He makes it into the box and should have a crack, because there’s nobody else up with him. 19 min: Vinicius drives down the left and glides infield.

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Werner is the target of his low pull-back but it’s intercepted. Let's see how that changes the game. That is no more than Chelsea deserve for their performance tonight.

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Chelsea have been dominant since the restart and have kept the pressure on the Real Madrid defence who look very nervous in all honesty. 54 mins: There’s a chance for Real Madrid to respond almost immediately as they win a free kick about 25-yards out from goal. Rudiger and Alonso link-up to beat the Madrid press and guide the ball down the left wing to Werner. He lays it off to Mount who storms forward and slides a through ball into Kai Havertz as he makes his way into the box. Real Madrid are trying to keep possession and slow the tempo of Chelsea’s play. “And it is even more difficult if you have to earn a certain result, if you need to win with a minimum of two goals, or even a three-goal difference.” Follow live updates from Real Madrid vs Chelsea below: Follow live updates as Real Madrid host Chelsea in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals tonight.

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This is our guarantee to Chelsea fans." Prior to being sanctioned, Mr Abramovich had said he intended to write off a £1.5bn loan to the club and hand the net proceeds from the sale to a new charity that he would set up to benefit the victims of the war in Ukraine. Mr Pagliuca said his consortium would "continue to cherish and preserve the legacy and traditions of the club". "In addition, we will continue to invest in the youth academy to develop the stars of the future and we would not be in this process if we did not have an exciting and inclusive vision for Chelsea." In a statement given exclusively to Sky News, Mr Pagliuca will say that the auction of Chelsea, which has been prompted by Roman Abramovich's sanctioning by the government, "has been a disconcerting time for the football club and fans". The co-owner of the Boston Celtics basketball team has broken his silence over his interest in buying Chelsea Football Club by publicly declaring his intention to "cherish and preserve" the London side and hinting that he would be prepared to reduce his stake in the Serie A side Atalanta.

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The Ricketts-Griffin-Gilbert Group have also added Chelsea fan and Cobra beer founder Lord Karan Bilimoria to their bid. It has fans all over the world and we will not tolerate bullying, anti-semitism, racism, or any other form of hateful speech - and neither should our fans." "Not only are we committed to remaining at the home of Chelsea, Stamford Bridge, but we are inspired to renovate or redevelop the stadium. In over 20 years of ownership of the Boston Celtics, we have not once considered changing the name, colors, or logo of the club. The statement read: "This process has been a disconcerting time for the football club and fans. "Our first focus and goal is to make strategic investments to continue competing for championships and trophies. We understand the responsibilities that come with such an important sporting institution and hold ourselves accountable to the fans. This is our guarantee to Chelsea fans. The Premier League is expected to take the remainder of this month to evaluate those involved in the bids - who include a string of US billionaires and pillars of the British corporate establishment - and its work to approve all four consortia means the process may need to be extended. We believe passionately that clubs have a social responsibility, and we will continue to support The Chelsea Foundation and its impressive work in education, health and wellbeing, and diversity and inclusion both locally and globally. "Our second focus will be to continue to cherish and preserve the legacy and traditions of the club. We will support our players and managers to make sure that Chelsea are habitual winners and title contenders, whether in the Premier League, Champions League or the Women’s Super League [the only Super League we intend competing in, for the record]. In addition, we will continue to invest in the youth academy to develop the stars of the future and we would not be in this process if we did not have an exciting and inclusive vision for Chelsea.

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Tom and the wider group have a proven track record of running successful sports teams and a strong vision for both the club and the local community.” “Our second focus will be to continue to cherish and preserve the legacy and traditions of the club. The Chelsea Supporters’ Trust have publicly voiced concerns about a Ricketts takeover, which has been followed by a fans’ protest outside Stamford Bridge prior to the recent Premier league defeat to Brentford. In response, the Ricketts family has said it “rejects any form of hate in the strongest possible terms”. “Our first focus and goal is to make strategic investments to continue competing for championships and trophies. Pagliuca has, however, made clear he will follow all required rules and regulations to ensure his bid for Chelsea can proceed and be successful. In a statement, the 67-year-old said: “This process has been a disconcerting time for the club and fans.

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And yet it was Chelsea who were thwarted most grievously when Alonso got a second bite at his chance off Dani Carvajal and lashed into the far corner. Rüdiger screamed into the night sky as if unable to comprehend that the club’s defence of their title had ended before he slumped to the turf and he was not the only one. He was frequently one-on-one with James and there was a moment early on when he tricked past him to buy a free-kick and a yellow card for his marker. No risk, no reward which James epitomised, playing with a fearlessness despite his booking, not to mention power in the duels. When Vinícius Júnior stood up a cross from the left, Karim Benzema melted away from Rüdiger and the Chelsea defender could only turn in horror, slipping as he did so, powerless to prevent what was coming. Benzema headed against the crossbar next and then there was Werner, jinking inside and sending Casemiro, David Alaba and Carvajal off towards the Santiago Bernabéu metro station before seeing his shot come off Courtois’s glove and spin into the far corner. On a night that will live long in the memories of everyone present, Tuchel set up boldly and was rewarded for his enterprise, his team starting brightly and getting better and better. The drama was remorseless until the end, the passions swirling, the intensity overwhelming. The problem was that Real Madrid were not finished. They refused to wallow when, two goals to the good thanks to Mason Mount and Antonio Rüdiger, they were cruelly denied by a VAR overrule after Marcos Alonso thought he had made it 3-0 in the 62nd minute. The greatest comeback result in the club’s history was on. Even then, Chelsea might have pinched it after the 90 minutes were up.

Goals from Mason Mount, Antonio Rudiger and Timo Werner overturned a 3-1 first-leg defeat, but Rodrygo and Benzema dragged the game back in favour of the La ...

Mount had a much better game than he did in the first leg, pressing and harrying constantly and proving a menace to the Madrid back line. Scored a wonderful goal to open the scoring. But he was largely forced to feed off scraps in this game - until his winner in extra-time. He drove at Los Blancos’ defence and set up a couple of key chances. James was moved into a right-sided centre back role by Thomas Tuchel, possibly in a bid to counter Vinicius Junior’s threat. There was not a lot he could do about either goal he conceded.

In the wake of Chelsea's highly dramatic Champions League exit on Tuesday night, Timo Werner admitted that at the joyous moment he put his side 3-0 up in ...

We nearly gave no chances to Madrid but in the end we have to say the goals they scored were very good. I think it was a brilliant goal, a brilliant cross from Modric, hard to defend.’ ‘But in the end you can’t stop Madrid over the whole time.

CHELSEA were dumped out of the Champions League by Real Madrid on Tuesday night, despite being the better side statistically.

Benzema netted his 38th goal of the season for Real on Tuesday and his 83rd in the Champions League altogether. Chelsea enjoyed the better of the chances against Real Madrid, despite being knocked out of the Champions League 5-4 on aggregate by the Spanish giants. Timo Werner made it 3-0 on the night and 4-3 on aggregate to Chelsea with a well-taken strike in the 75th minute before Real roared back. He added: "Unfortunately both of their goals today came from mistakes in the build-up. “These are the kind of defeats we can digest and swallow, because we left nothing to regret out there. Thomas Tuchel’s side came into the tie 3-1 down following Benzema’s hat-trick at Stamford Bridge last week but were given hope after just 15 minutes when Mason Mount curled in the opening goal.

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CHELSEA star Mason Mount could be involved in tonight's Champions League tie with Real Madrid.

We need to over perform. “It’s not easy, it’s the opposite, but at the same time it’s a big experience to learn from and maybe an experience to take and over perform.” But Mount still was happy to put on a big smile for the fans in question ahead of the match with Real Madrid tonight. “It is one of the biggest challenges to perform as the away team at the Bernabeu,” said the German. With the Chelsea star the centre of attention, he appeared to be amused at how much focus he was getting. And it was Mount who seemed to be the most-popular squad member over in Spain, with fans mobbing the England international.

Thomas Tuchel makes a single change to his Chelsea side for tonight's game against Real Madrid, bringing Reece James back into the starting XI at the ...

The referee is Szymon Marciniak from Poland That enforced change is Carlo Ancelotti’s only one from the first leg. Ruben Loftus-Cheek retains his place in the side, as does Timo Werner in another switch from the team that started the first leg.

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The NBA Chairman then reciprocated the kind words: "The decision to partner with Steve was an easy one as we share similar values and passion for sports. The full statement read: “We are thrilled to have such an accomplished group of individuals who are committed to the long-term interests of Chelsea Football Club. “We appreciate this opportunity and would be honoured to create an exciting future for this great football club."

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You can add BT Sport to your package for only £15 a month (plus a £20 joining fee). Those on Virgin Media will need the Virgin V6 box and a 4K TV to make sure they're getting the action at maximum resolution. As a rule, we’d suggest a paid-for service such as ExpressVPN (opens in new tab) which offers a 100 per cent risk-free money back guarantee. It brings coverage of football, rugby, cricket, UFC and more, plus access to BT Sport Ultra HD for 4K viewing. If you're hooked up specifically on the BT TV platform then it's also available in with Dolby Atmos sound. Enjoy the English Premier League, Champions League and more through the BT Sport app on smart TVs, mobiles, tablets, games consoles, Chromecast or through the BT Sport website. For the Big Bundle, which includes all the Sky Sports too, it's £40 per month – more expensive, granted, but you'll never miss a match again. For the Champions League, you may wish to choose 'USA' for Paramount +. You can use it to watch on your mobile, tablet, laptop, TV, games console and more. Even if you have subscribed to the relevant Real Madrid vs Chelsea live stream rights holders, you won't be able to access them when outside your own country. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) helps you get around this obstacle. The German has made one change from that starting 11, bringing Reece James in for Andreas Christensen. Christian Pulisic started the first leg but drops out here, with Timo Werner and Mason Mount likely to operate behind Kai Havertz. It's going to take something special from the defending champions to advance here.

Chelsea dominated and took a 3-0 lead that would have sent them through before goals from Rodrygo and Karim Benzema secured Real Madrid's passage to the ...

In the context of the away goals rule change, that approach was even more strange. That said, Karim Benzema was in the same situation when he tormented Chelsea at Stamford Bridge just a week ago. It is an attribute far easier to establish than re-establish and far easier to cede than regain. But Real were complicit in that surrender of control. That still left two centre-backs to deal with Benzema. Real Madrid ceded their inherited power through a misguided strategy of sticking with what they had.