Chelsea vs Real Madrid Champions League LIVE: Result and reaction from quarter-final – Rodrygo goals sending Madrid through

Real Madrid present Chelsea the way it’s achieved. The expectation after a tie of such grandeur is that might be learn how to recurrently navigate the Champions League knock-out levels, however we’re really speaking about one thing as rudimentary as scoring. Real Madrid actually walked the ball into the web, as they finally strolled into the semi-ultimate.

It would perhaps be somewhat harsh to say that of this complete second leg given how intensive Chelsea had been for big elements, however there was all the time that sense the European champions might simply carry it. That’s as a result of Chelsea went one other sport with out scoring, as they misplaced 2-0 to make it 4-0 on combination. That additionally made it 4 defeats in a row, Lampard concluding the membership’s worst run of outcomes since 1993. That alone illustrates the problem is actually going to be raised for Madrid in a possible semi-ultimate towards Manchester City.

At the very least, Todd Boehly couldn’t be embarrassed by this show. Frank Lampard restored a little bit of satisfaction to the early makes an attempt. You may even say the proprietor’s advert hoc crew speak had some impact, not less than within the early levels.

Such a sentence is one of some baffling issues about Chelsea proper now, not least the place they’re going subsequent. The season is over. There was then how they began.

Frank Lampard is the primary supervisor in Chelsea’s whole historical past to lose his first 4 video games of a managerial spell.

“I really feel like we performed effectively and had loads of probabilities. But soccer is all about taking your probabilities which we didn’t do right now. Of course we’re going to be gutted. We haven’t bought that [cutting edge] on the minute however that was undoubtedly an enormous enchancment on current performances.

“We pushed gamers ahead and Real Madrid had been in a position to catch us a few occasions. We take it one sport at a time. Hopefully we are able to construct on the efficiency as a result of I really feel it was optimistic in a manner.”

The exhausting-operating determine on the suitable of the entrance three scored as soon as. Then he scored once more, powering his crew into the Champions League semi-finals. It was virtually Frank Lampard’s gameplan paying off completely. Except that the goalscorer was Rodrygo, the logical selection by Carlo Ancelotti, who’s proof that 4 Champions Leagues will be gained with the help of a willingness to do the plain.

The man on the suitable of Lampard’s entrance three, nonetheless, was N’Golo Kante. That N’Golo Kante. The one usually deemed the world’s finest defensive midfielder. The one with 13 goals in 266 video games for Chelsea. And the one who, when granted an early likelihood to interrupt the impasse, scuffed a shot effectively huge within the method of a person who had no perception he would rating.

Aided by Rodrygo’s double, Real Madrid reached an 11^th Champions League semi-ultimate in 13 seasons. Aided by the galvanising powers of a Todd Boehly crew speak, Chelsea exited Europe. Perhaps they had been all the time doomed to: from the 2-0 defeat final week, from the second the draw was made, from the time Boehly determined to purchase a soccer membership. But there shall be no redemption now: their season is a crushing, pricey failure, a masterpiece of stupidity.

Chelsea failed to attain in each legs of a Champions League knockout section tie for the second time, after a 1-0 combination defeat towards Liverpool within the 2004/05 semi-finals when Frank Lampard performed in each legs.

Real Madrid’s Federico Valverde has been named Player of the Match.

Uefa’s Technical Observer Panel mentioned: “He provided excellent balance to Real Madrid’s midfield and was composed in possession, did an excellent job defensively and gave an outstanding assist for the second goal.”

Contrasting fortunes for the Blues and the Whites.

90+3 minutes: Chelsea confirmed indicators of encouragement proper up till Rodrygo netted the opening purpose and then they started to stoop. It was all the time going to be a tough ask to attain two towards Real Madrid however for nearly an hour the Blues made it appear doable.

Rodrygo’s brace put any hopes of a miraculous comeback out of sight and Real Madrid march on. The defending champions are into the Champions League semi-finals.

90 minutes: Three minutes of added time to play. Chelsea are going to lose 4 successive video games for the primary time since 1993. That’s how poor they’ve been this season.