Struggling Chelsea Title Hopes Shuttered By Spanish Giant Real Madrid
Real Madrid easily stormed into the Champions League semifinals with a 2-0 win against poor Chelsea on Tuesday night at Stamford Bridge.
In London Real won 4-0 aggregate and permanently ending the struggling Chelsea tittle hope this season.
Frank Lampard side started brightly, playing enterprising football, but rued two huge missed chances in the first half that would have pile pressure on the Spanish giants.
The defending champions made Chelsea pay for their mistakes when Brazilian Rodrygo Goes scored in the 58th minute and he doubled his tally with 10 minutes to go.
The blues, who were the 2021 European champions, have now lost all four of their matches since their old boy frank Lampard returned to the club as caretaker boss earlier this month in place of the sacked Graham Potter.
Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti stuck with the same team that won the first leg 2-0 last week while Chelsea caretaker boss Lampard restored Reece James, Mateo Kovacic and N’Golo Kante to his line-up.
Elsewhere, AC Millan send Serie A leaders Napoli packing after securing an important draw In Naples to make their goal aggregate to 2-1.
Real will Now meet the winner between Bayern Munich and Manchester city, a match that will be played tonight while AC Millan will wait to know their opponent in the semi finals when Benfica Will be Suaring out with Inter Milan.
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