After years of great financial and sporting efforts, the Blue team wrote history in 2012 by winning the Champions League.
Since the arrival of the Russian Roman Abramovich, Chelsea had only one obsession in mind: win the Champions League. After years of great effort and with great coaches such as the Portuguese José Mourinho, in 2012, in Munich against Bayern in front of the Bavarian fans, the Londoners made history and repeated it in 2021 by beating Manchester City in Porto.
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This was the triumph in 2011-2012
The team, led by Roberto Di Matteo, overcame all the difficulties, and even the German team’s original goal to tie the game, resisting the thirty extra minutes to reach the penalty shootout, in which goalkeeper Petr Cech and striker Didier Drogba were the heroes of the ‘blues’ to win the Champions League.
After the group phase, in which Chelsea shared a group with Bayer Leverkusen, Valencia and Genk within group E, the Eredivisie was able to lead in this first phase thanks to the victory against Valencia at home (3-0) on the last day and the draw on 1 for the Germans against Genk. With 11 points, just one more than Leverkusen, Chelsea entered the round of 16 with relief.
But it wasn’t easy at all to get to the quarter-finals. Napoli waited, which triumphed in the first leg with 3 goals to one. However, Stamford Bridge had one of the most epic nights in Europe and Di Matteo’s men managed to sneak into the top 8 on the old continent thanks to a 4-1 to make it 5-4.
Already in the next round it was time to travel to Portugal, more specifically to Lisbon, as it was time to face Benfica. In the first match they were beaten by a goal to nil in Da Luz, going into the second leg with a big advantage. In London the job was done by Chelsea who beat the eagle team by two goals to one to make it 3-1 on aggregate for this round.
There were only more laps left to fulfill the dream, but the first stop was in Barcelona. It was time to take on the team led by Pep Guardiola, defending champion at the time. After a first leg, in which the English won 1-0 at Stamford Bridge, it was time to head for Camp Nou.
After a first half in which the Catalans went 2-0 ahead, the goals of Ramires, and especially Fernando Torres, put a damper on the Blaugrana side and took Chelsea to the final, where the greatest of the ‘coconuts’ played. Munich, and especially in their stadium, the Allianz Arena in the Bavarian city.
In that game, after Muller had taken the lead for Bayern with less than ten minutes left, Drogba made an appearance. With the game dying, the Ivory Coast man defeated Neuer to force a draw and send the game to extra time.
There Cech’s achievements, and especially the failures of the Germans, were essential to British victory. In the end, the ’11’ of the ‘blues’ scored the decisive penalty and delivered the most important victory in the history of the team from the English capital.
This was the triumph in 2020-2021
In the group stage, even with Frank Lampard on the bench, he finished unbeaten in his group along with Sevilla, Krasnodar and Rennes, conceding only 2 goals in 6 games and one of them against Krasnodar on the last day, when he already won the first took place. place. .
For his part, Tuchel further improved his team’s defensive capacity in the knockout round. The blue team conceded just 2 goals in the 7 matches that have led them to the title, leaving Atlético de Madrid clean in the two rounds of 16 matches and Manchester City in the final. In fact, Guardiola’s pupils only shot on target once in the decisive game.
Porto were only able to score in the last minute of the quarter-final when the game was decided, leaving Real Madrid with just one goal in their favor in the two semi-finals. Although they were a perfect defensive machine, Chelsea also fueled the attack with 24 goals in 13 games as new forwards began to take their place and existing young talent such as Pulisic or Mount who made passes flourished. the arguably most expensive acquisition of the season who finally shone on the most important evening as the stars are asked to do.
Source: Goal