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April 8, 2021 Chelsea Ease To UCL Quarter-Final First Leg Victory Over Porto

Chelsea Ease To UCL Quarter-Final First Leg Victory Over Porto

Chelsea bounced back from a testing few days to earn a commanding first-leg quarter-final away win over Porto in the Champions League.

Mason Mount's clever turn and finish in the first half helped bring some welcome relief to Blues manager Thomas Tuchel after his side's heavy defeat to West Brom on Saturday, which was followed by a training ground incident between team-mates Kepa Arrizabalaga and Antonio Rudiger.

Ben Chilwell added a late second after a mistake by Corona, moments after substitute Christian Pulisic had hit the bar.

Having conceded five goals against West Brom, Chelsea produced a dogged defensive performance to earn a seventh clean sheet in nine European games this season.

Skipper Cesar Azpilicueta's vital block denied Corona before Edouard Mendy kept out Pepe's header.

 

April 8, 2021 Mbappe Double Helps PSG Past Bayern Munich

Mbappe Double Helps PSG Past Bayern Munich

Kylian Mbappe scored twice as Paris St-Germain produced a superb away performance to beat title holders Bayern Munich in a thrilling Champions League quarter-final first leg.

This was a meeting between last year's finalists and they both contributed in a hugely entertaining game that in itself would have been worthy of being the final of the competition.

Mbappe took just three minutes to make his mark as he was fed by Neymar and the striker thumped a drive through Manuel Neuer's legs.

Marquinhos doubled the lead for the French champions midway through the first half with a neat finish from a great ball by Neymar before ex-PSG striker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting headed home to halve the deficit.

Neuer made amends for his earlier mistake by denying Neymar from point-blank range early in the second half, before Keylor Navas kept out strikes from David Alaba and Benjamin Pavard at the other end.

But Bayern Munich kept up the pressure and deservedly levelled on the hour mark when Thomas Muller guided a header into the back of the net from Joshua Kimmich's free-kick.

However, Mbappe had the final say as he swept a low strike through Jerome Boateng's legs late on to give PSG a third crucial away goal heading into the second leg.

 

April 7, 2021 Tuchel Speaks On Kepa-Rudiger Spat

Tuchel Speaks On Kepa-Rudiger Spat

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel says "things got heated" in a "serious situation" between Kepa Arrizabalaga and Antonio Rudiger on Sunday.

Goalkeeper Kepa and defender Rudiger were involved in an incident in training the day after Chelsea's shock 5-2 defeat by West Brom.

"We needed to interfere in the situation, so that was serious," Tuchel said on Tuesday.

"They cleared the air immediately and there was nothing left the day after."

Tuchel said the argument stemmed from an incident in training and not the loss to West Brom.

Rudiger was reportedly sent in early after the two players were seen to push one another.

"It got heated up between Toni and Kepa," the German said. "So we calmed the situation down immediately.

"The reaction was not OK. But how the guys handled the situation, especially Toni and Kepa, was amazing and showed how much respect they have for each other."

Chelsea's loss to West Brom at the weekend brought an end to a 14-match unbeaten start to Tuchel's reign.

They face Porto on Wednesday at 20:00 BST in the Champions League quarter-finals.

 

 

 

April 7, 2021 Man City Secure Late Winner Against Dortmund In UCL Quarter-Final First Leg

Man City Secure Late Winner Against Dortmund In UCL Quarter-Final First Leg

Phil Foden's last-ditch strike gave Manchester City a crucial but gracile advantage in their Champions League quarter-final first leg against Borussia Dortmund at Etihad Stadium.

City's hopes of reaching the semi-final looked to be in the balance when Marco Reus gave Dortmund what looked like a priceless away goal with a cool finish from Erling Braut Haaland's pass six minutes from time.

Kevin de Bruyne, who had given City the lead with a crisp finish after 19 minutes, played his part once more in the final minute of normal time when his fine cross was touched back by Ilkay Gundogan for Foden to stroke a finish past Marwin Hitz.

It was a bitter blow for an enterprising Dortmund side, who will leave Manchester nursing a burning sense of injustice directed towards Romanian official Ovidiu Hategan after he controversially ruled out Jude Bellingham's second-half goal with City leading 1-0.

Bellingham beat Ederson to a throughball but after it appeared City's keeper kicked the teenager, the referee blew for a foul against Borussia with the England star racing towards an empty net - not even allowing the intervention of VAR which would have surely awarded a goal.

City, who had a first-half penalty award overturned by VAR, showed commendable strength of character and great determination to react to the blow of Reus' goal to score the winner and are now in pole position before the return leg in Germany.

 

 

 

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