UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season

[Freeveto]

Why do you think Real Madrid isn't in their best performance?
I think winning the match with 2 goals is good enough, Benzema also scored as usual. You may expect Real Madrid to win with more than 2 goals, right? Chelsea surely performed badly, but it doesn't mean Real Madrid automatically will defeat them with big scores. Today, I think Chelsea played more defensively, which makes Real Madrid a bit hard to score more than 2 goals.

For the 2nd leg, we don't know what will happen. Chelsea may use a different tactic and Real Madrid may be surprised by the changes. However, I don't think Chelsea is in the best form to beat Real Madrid.

Chelsea problem in the just played match against Real Madrid started from their coach's team selection and starting lineup, starting a game with 5 natural defenders in 3:5:2  formation made  their game lacks creativity, they were not able to create more chances nor make more clinical attempts that should have been resulted to a goal. They were waiting for a counter attack for them to score, which was not possible because real Madrid took over the game from from first half. So if they really want to Turn this match around in their home, they need to change this type of formation and pattern of game automatically to attacking game.

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[execijutiere]

It's a performance I expected from Real Madrid and we have to say that it was a good win. We can say that they actually won the match with the pressure they put in the first half. They played a really great first half and managed to break Chelsea's resistance in the first half. In the second half, with the red card of chillwell, chelsea was left with 10 men and we can say that their hopes started to run out. 15 minutes after the red card, chelsea conceded 1 more goal and lost 2-0.

I expected more, bro. I assume Real Madrid will win with more than 2 goals, especially when 1 Chelsea player got a red card. But Real Madrid only can make 2 goals, no other goals anymore after Asensio added 1 goal in 2nd half. Although it is not a bad result, I think Real Madrid actually has the capability to score more goals.

The next match (2nd Leg) will be at Chelsea home (Stamford Bridge). Chelsea possibly changes their game/tactic, they should play more aggressively. Real Madrid should score 1 goal again in the first half to secure the ticket to the next round. If Chelsea can score 1 goal in the 1st half of 2nd Leg, I'm not sure Real Madrid will be easy to win the match.

I don't think Real Madrid will have such a problem, we have seen recently that they have scored more goals in away games. For example, both against Barcelona and against liverpool. In these matches they scored more than 4 goals and showed that they are not afraid of playing away. It is difficult but not impossible for Chelsea to go through. I expect that Real Madrid will be the side that will pass the round and I even expect Real Madrid to win the other match.

[BlackBoss_]

Chelsea problem in the just played match against Real Madrid started from their coach's team selection and starting lineup, starting a game with 5 natural defenders in 3:5:2  formation made  their game lacks creativity, they were not able to create more chances nor make more clinical attempts that should have been resulted to a goal. They were waiting for a counter attack for them to score, which was not possible because real Madrid took over the game from from first half. So if they really want to Turn this match around in their home, they need to change this type of formation and pattern of game automatically to attacking game.

Chelsea did not play too bad and they at least created some opportunities from which they should have goals. However, they were lack of luckiness as well as accuracy from their shots to have goals. Facing with Real Madrid and wasting precious opportunities is like you are suicide.

Real Madrid also wasted some chances to finalize Chelsea after the first leg but with two goals at home, they will move to Stamford Bridge with many options. I believe that Real Madrid will be ready to beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge too. We already how their attacking players are ready to score goals any time and Chelsea defense system simply is not good enough, not strong enough like rock.

[X-ray]

Napoli were unlucky to not get a goal. They had great chances but the finishing was lacking. They even have higher xG for the game of 1.41 while Milan had 1.17. xG basically means expected goals and it calculates the potential goals a team could score based on the quality of chances that were created. To make matters worse, Anguissa got sent off from the match and Napoli were down to 10 men for the last 15 mins, hindering their chances to get an equalizer.

That's why osimhen is really needed by napoli when it will face ac milan. It's not only happening at UCL. The same problem was also happening when napoli was facing ac milan in the continuation of serie a last week. Osimhen always became a key that was helping napoli to find the right way to win the game. That's why his contribution is a lot to the club but that's very sad to say that osimhen was not able to play two matches in a row against ac milan. his condition was making him feel upset with it. If he was not participating in the international qualified and he will still able to play at this moment along with his team mates kvarat. Osimhen was just trying to come back as soon as possible. No reason for napoli to not use osimhen in the second leg. Osimhen is quite impossible to make goals without him. It can be seen from the result in the last matches. No osimhen and no party for napoli

[Bobrox]

I expected more, bro. I assume Real Madrid will win with more than 2 goals, especially when 1 Chelsea player got a red card. But Real Madrid only can make 2 goals, no other goals anymore after Asensio added 1 goal in 2nd half. Although it is not a bad result, I think Real Madrid actually has the capability to score more goals.

The next match (2nd Leg) will be at Chelsea home (Stamford Bridge). Chelsea possibly changes their game/tactic, they should play more aggressively. Real Madrid should score 1 goal again in the first half to secure the ticket to the next round. If Chelsea can score 1 goal in the 1st half of 2nd Leg, I'm not sure Real Madrid will be easy to win the match.

Actually, Chelsea started games with good perform and huge pressure on the first minutes make Madrid difficult how to scoring goals, but Vinicius Jr make difference with his impressive performance and his contribution how the first goal from Karim Benzema happening. I expected with Real Madrid can winning more two goals exactly after Ben Chilwell got red card on 59th minutes but only one goals scored after Chelsea played with 10 players.

But enough for Madrid winning two goals for away games on next week, Madrid need more defensive for second leg and not give chance for Chelsea scoring goals on the early minutes or first half, however Madrid have comeback winning mentality what ever home or away games.

[BitcoinAccepted]

Boring results at first sight tonight. Still, Chelsea wasn't that bad. You can see that they keep getting better and better. 2-0 is certainly not a hopeless mission for Chelsea in London in 2 weeks. And AC Milan won at home, but Napoli brought this on himself by not expressing the field dominance in goals. Enough ball possession and position play, but the strikers did not shoot sharply from Napoli today. I think it's now 50-50% who goes through to the next round. But AC Milan has a lot of perspective with this 1-0 victory. Recently they already won 0-4 at Napoli, so what will it be soon in Naples? Would be a huge disappointment for Napoli if they went out against an Italian team.

[shinratensei_]

Chelsea problem in the just played match against Real Madrid started from their coach's team selection and starting lineup, starting a game with 5 natural defenders in 3:5:2  formation made  their game lacks creativity, they were not able to create more chances nor make more clinical attempts that should have been resulted to a goal. They were waiting for a counter attack for them to score, which was not possible because real Madrid took over the game from from first half. So if they really want to Turn this match around in their home, they need to change this type of formation and pattern of game automatically to attacking game.

Agreed, chelsea should have used 4-3-3 instead of 3-5-2. Chelsea will have more space to create more chances rather than putting so many players in the mid. I don't like the way lampard was picking the player from the last match against real madrid. If lampard wanna go fully defensive against real madrid and it must be put more players at the defensive line. Chelsea's specialized was on the counter attack but the match against real madrid last night has proven if chelsea was losing its identity. Chelsea has very slow tempo compared with real madrid.

Real madrid was always coming with high pressure on chelsea. Real madrid was always trying to bombing the goalkeeper of chelsea. Lampard has been making some mistake here.
Todd is still feeling so confidence if chelsea will able to make its revenge on the stamford bridge. Chelsea needs a miracle to make it happen. I don't even like the way of lampard was using the strategy. It lacks of defensive and aggressive.

Lampard is clueless and he has not known what he has been doing. The result of the last match is very embarrassing for the club. So many players were playing individually

[Strongkored]

I don't think Real Madrid will have such a problem, we have seen recently that they have scored more goals in away games. For example, both against Barcelona and against liverpool. In these matches they scored more than 4 goals and showed that they are not afraid of playing away. It is difficult but not impossible for Chelsea to go through. I expect that Real Madrid will be the side that will pass the round and I even expect Real Madrid to win the other match.

Last night's game wasn't the best performance Real Madrid so many chances wasted, thought it would be a downfall for Chelsea when Ben Chilwell got a red card but not much has changed for Madrid when they only faced a team with 10 men, there should have been a 2-3 Another goal was created after the red card, but Madrid looked even more relaxed so they couldn't score more goals. Vinicius Jr. became one of the keys to Madrid's attack.
With this score, Chelsea isn't over yet. If their strikers can start scoring goals in the second leg, there will be many possibilities that could happen because it's quite sad to see how Chelsea couldn't score a single goal in 4 matches domestically and last night match.

AC Milan is also quite disadvantaged by only being able to win by one goal against a team playing with 10 players, Napoli's second leg will have a chance to beat Milan by more scores but will their main striker start playing next week? because Osimhen's absence has proven to reduce Napoli's productivity in scoring goals, and Napoli should have considered keeping Osimhen in the team longer because one of the players who contributed to the success this season was him.
In the second leg punter will be quite difficult to choose which team to choose because there will still be many possibilities surprises are very likely.

[OcTradism]

Last night's game wasn't the best performance Real Madrid so many chances wasted, thought it would be a downfall for Chelsea when Ben Chilwell got a red card but not much has changed for Madrid when they only faced a team with 10 men, there should have been a 2-3 Another goal was created after the red card, but Madrid looked even more relaxed so they couldn't score more goals. Vinicius Jr. became one of the keys to Madrid's attack.

Ben Chilwell did that foul with hope that he can help his club to avoid a goal from Chelsea. He did know with that foul he will be sent off by a red card. Real Madrid wasted some opportunities with which they would have scored goals if their players did not play to selfishly in those situations.

With this score, Chelsea isn't over yet. If their strikers can start scoring goals in the second leg, there will be many possibilities that could happen because it's quite sad to see how Chelsea couldn't score a single goal in 4 matches domestically and last night match.

Right that with this result, Chelsea still have chance in a second leg. They will host Real Madrid and if in the past season, they could score three leading goals in Bernabeu, they can believe that they will be able to score two goals at a home stadium. Just hope but I am unsure they can do this with their recent form that is not good certainly.

AC Milan is also quite disadvantaged by only being able to win by one goal against a team playing with 10 players, Napoli's second leg will have a chance to beat Milan by more scores but will their main striker start playing next week? because Osimhen's absence has proven to reduce Napoli's productivity in scoring goals, and Napoli should have considered keeping Osimhen in the team longer because one of the players who contributed to the success this season was him.

Both teams had chances but AC Milan did it better with one goal. I don't think AC Milan played far better than Napoli in the match and they will get big challenge in a second leg. First they will have to play in Naples and second they will have to face with Napoli with Osimhen.

With Osimhen, Kravatskhelia will be more dangerous too and the combination of these attacking players will put AC Milan under more pressure. It will be a big test for AC Milan defense if they want to have semi final matches.

[borovichok]

Boring results at first sight tonight. Still, Chelsea wasn't that bad. You can see that they keep getting better and better. 2-0 is certainly not a hopeless mission for Chelsea in London in 2 weeks. And AC Milan won at home, but Napoli brought this on himself by not expressing the field dominance in goals. Enough ball possession and position play, but the strikers did not shoot sharply from Napoli today. I think it's now 50-50% who goes through to the next round. But AC Milan has a lot of perspective with this 1-0 victory. Recently they already won 0-4 at Napoli, so what will it be soon in Naples? Would be a huge disappointment for Napoli if they went out against an Italian team.

Frank Lampard was in the team during the difficult era, he brought out youngsters in league games and gave them confidence that they can perform weigh better. But currently speaking, I don't know what the Chelsea pattern look like a mess. Frank Lampard is absolutely no match for Carlo Ancelotti when it comes to football. Real madrid 2 and Chelsea 0. It's very important to know the difference between the players. Manager is not the problem, here he club needs a buildup players that are serious in games, not the ones that relent on one another and got defeated.

[abhiseshakana]

Real Madrid is not a team that posses games or constantly pressure their opponent every time but they were able to do both things to Chelsea, it shows how bad Chelsea was. Not like I was expecting anything different from Chelsea but this was even below my expectation. Chelsea was able to force only one good save from Courtois, and that was early on in the first half from Joao Felix.
Kepa tried his best actually. The second goal scored by Asensio shows the lack of concentration by Chelsea. They were all in and around the box but they just allowed Asensio space to shoot. The marking was poor since before the ball got to Vinicuis.
Like I've always said, you can't be a serious club that wants to win the champions league and hire Lampard as your coach. They were lucky Madrid was in that mood today, it should have been more than 2 goals.

I also think that Real Madrid actually could have scored more than 2 goals because they had a lot of chances, especially after Chelsea got a red card. Well, even though they were only able to score 2 goals, that should have been pretty good capital for the second leg match. With the conditions that Chelsea is currently facing it seems impossible for them to be able to reverse the situation because they stumbled badly. Lampard is not going to be a solution for Chelsea and their performance was not better than before.

[Patrol69]

Chelsea Vs Real Madrid

Real Madrid moved a step closer to the Champions League trophy with a 2-0 win over ten-man Chelsea at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. Real Madrid will be ahead with a two-goal lead before going into the field against Chelsea in the Second League. Undoubtedly, this match will add confidence to Real Madrid in the next league.

Karim Benzema was unstoppable against Chelsea in the previous season as well.  However, Vini Jr. is very close to the goal in the 21st minute.  The shot was blocked by Kepa Arrizabalaga, but the blocked shot was later sent to the post by Karim Benzema.  And in 21 minutes with the desired goal, Real Madrid took a 1-0 lead.
But Real Madrid should have fallen behind Chelsea long ago.  Because in the second minute of the match, Chelsea's number 11 player Joao Felix had a great opportunity but could not use it. Thibaut Courtois alone saved the team from conceding a goal with a great save in front of the goal post.

Chelsea were reduced to 10 men when Chelsea player B. Chilwell was sent off in the 59th minute and could not turn around against Real Madrid.  M. Asensio scored in the 74th minute of the match to ensure the victory of the team.

The second league match between Real Madrid and Chelsea will be held at Stamford Bridge Stadium on April 19.  Hopefully Chelsea will try to turn around against Real Madrid at home.

[DoverDoane]

Real Madrid is not a team that posses games or constantly pressure their opponent every time but they were able to do both things to Chelsea, it shows how bad Chelsea was. Not like I was expecting anything different from Chelsea but this was even below my expectation. Chelsea was able to force only one good save from Courtois, and that was early on in the first half from Joao Felix.
Kepa tried his best actually. The second goal scored by Asensio shows the lack of concentration by Chelsea. They were all in and around the box but they just allowed Asensio space to shoot. The marking was poor since before the ball got to Vinicuis.
Like I've always said, you can't be a serious club that wants to win the champions league and hire Lampard as your coach. They were lucky Madrid was in that mood today, it should have been more than 2 goals.

I also think that Real Madrid actually could have scored more than 2 goals because they had a lot of chances, especially after Chelsea got a red card. Well, even though they were only able to score 2 goals, that should have been pretty good capital for the second leg match. With the conditions that Chelsea is currently facing it seems impossible for them to be able to reverse the situation because they stumbled badly. Lampard is not going to be a solution for Chelsea and their performance was not better than before.

Real Madrid played pretty well in my opinion, for Madrid's victory, which only scored 2 scores, if that's not a bad thing, we can see Real Madrid taking over the game even from the first half minutes, Chelsea's chances to score always fail and it can be said that their game was less effective than In terms of game patterns, it wasn't so difficult for Real Madrid to score the first goal in the early half through Benzema's kick, but it's true that Chelsea's game was so bad in the final minutes, it should even be easy for Real Madrid to score more than two goals.

[bering]

Well this finally really happened because indeed bringing Napoli without Osimhen seems to be very difficult now.
On the other hand for the second half they also have to lose Anguissa in midfield which is clearly going to be another burden for them.

Without Osimhen, Napoli lost half of their attacking power and Kravatskhelia lost his most favorite team-mate. Napoli tried to find an equalizer but Maignan again saved AC Milan and they again won over Napoli just within a few days.

With this win at home and a big win at Naples days ago in Serie A, AC Milan will move to Naples for a second leg with very strong confidence that they will have a first semi final in Champions League after about one decade. Napoli in their side, must pray themselves that Osimhen will be ready for that match. As they will need their best striker to find a win at home and keep up their hope to be one of four clubs in semi finals.

Milan players was successfully to guarded Kravatskhelia and during the match he cannot able to moving free and this makes he seems unable to performing well and Napoli indeed has create the opportunities to scores several times on the first half but unfortunately there were no goal for them until end of this match and for Milan apparently counter attack scheme which is they displayed has successfully to bring them to get the winning results

Maignan can make Milan players comfortable in this match this because he was performing outstanding by making some fantastic saves i think this also caused why Napoli players looks frustrated but this is not done yet because 1-0 is not safe scores and on the second leg Napoli had good chances to get revenge considering they will playing as a host

[onecall123]

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Real madrid was always coming with high pressure on chelsea. Real madrid was always trying to bombing the goalkeeper of chelsea. Lampard has been making some mistake here.
Todd is still feeling so confidence if chelsea will able to make its revenge on the stamford bridge. Chelsea needs a miracle to make it happen. I don't even like the way of lampard was using the strategy. It lacks of defensive and aggressive.

Lampard is clueless and he has not known what he has been doing. The result of the last match is very embarrassing for the club. So many players were playing individually

Yes, Lampard is playing without any set strategy or game plan against Real Madrid, and his lack of direction has been visible. It's unfortunate to see Chelsea struggling so much this season, it's really been an embarrassment for the club. There's still hope as it's only 2 nil and anything can happen next game. However, Todd Boehly remains confident in the team's ability to turn things around. Of course, while confidence is important, it's also crucial to recognize the limitations of what can be achieved.

[MAAManda]

Napoli were unlucky to not get a goal. They had great chances but the finishing was lacking. They even have higher xG for the game of 1.41 while Milan had 1.17. xG basically means expected goals and it calculates the potential goals a team could score based on the quality of chances that were created. To make matters worse, Anguissa got sent off from the match and Napoli were down to 10 men for the last 15 mins, hindering their chances to get an equalizer.

They played quite badly at San Siro, they dominated the match more but they failed to capitalize on the goal opportunities they had. But the results at San Siro are not everything, we still have the second leg and they still have a big chance to turn things around, unlike other teams whose chances are very small like Bayern Munich, Chelsea and Benfica. I still believe that Napoli was just unlucky in the first leg, so my prediction for the second leg is at least Napoli 2 - 0 AC Milan (2 - 1 on aggregate).

[CryptocurencyKing]

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Real madrid was always coming with high pressure on chelsea. Real madrid was always trying to bombing the goalkeeper of chelsea. Lampard has been making some mistake here.
Todd is still feeling so confidence if chelsea will able to make its revenge on the stamford bridge. Chelsea needs a miracle to make it happen. I don't even like the way of lampard was using the strategy. It lacks of defensive and aggressive.

Lampard is clueless and he has not known what he has been doing. The result of the last match is very embarrassing for the club. So many players were playing individually

Yes, Lampard is playing without any set strategy or game plan against Real Madrid, and his lack of direction has been visible. It's unfortunate to see Chelsea struggling so much this season, it's really been an embarrassment for the club. There's still hope as it's only 2 nil and anything can happen next game. However, Todd Boehly remains confident in the team's ability to turn things around. Of course, while confidence is important, it's also crucial to recognize the limitations of what can be achieved.

There’re a lot of negativities this first leg. Firstly, I didn’t like the formation Lampard used and the tactics didn't help the team. How the coach was using James and Chilwel made the lads frustrated not getting the best out of them. Chelsea players were crowded in the midfield and didn't know what to do with the ball. The players lacked confidence. There were no players upfront to take chances, they barely created some. This is not just about the managers, but the players must step up their games and believe.

[RILWAN]

The defect of Chelsea by Madrid was expected going by the challenges that has faced the club this season Chelsea had a good start trying to force their way into the match but Ben Chiwil red card put them in a disadvantageous position and left the struggling blues with a mountain to climb. A score line that would have been worst for Chelsea a match that fully showed how serious and focus Madrid was. I still think with a dogged effort and response laced with focus Chelsea might just be lucky to beat Madrid in the returns leg and move to the next round

[Polkeins]

Chelsea problem in the just played match against Real Madrid started from their coach's team selection and starting lineup, starting a game with 5 natural defenders in 3:5:2  formation made  their game lacks creativity, they were not able to create more chances nor make more clinical attempts that should have been resulted to a goal. They were waiting for a counter attack for them to score, which was not possible because real Madrid took over the game from from first half. So if they really want to Turn this match around in their home, they need to change this type of formation and pattern of game automatically to attacking game.

Chelsea did not play too bad and they at least created some opportunities from which they should have goals. However, they were lack of luckiness as well as accuracy from their shots to have goals. Facing with Real Madrid and wasting precious opportunities is like you are suicide.

Real Madrid also wasted some chances to finalize Chelsea after the first leg but with two goals at home, they will move to Stamford Bridge with many options. I believe that Real Madrid will be ready to beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge too. We already how their attacking players are ready to score goals any time and Chelsea defense system simply is not good enough, not strong enough like rock.

Losing without scoring, to get a red card midway through the second half and almost lose our chances of making it to the next round is really bad.
I did not see any chances for Chelsea, there were few dangerous chances, only Hernandez was remembered for his long-range shots, which were missed and seemed to have been made by him out of desperation. Lampard didn't fix the situation, he made it worse. The players didn't play well and still don't play well, although Chelsea have a great squad, but they can't take advantage of it.
Another very sad match for Chelsea. It is not clear when the team will be able to recover from this season.

Real Madrid on the other hand is playing at the maximum of their abilities, given the average age of the players and especially happy for Assencio, who once again scored a beautiful goal.

[Odusko]

There’re a lot of negativities this first leg. Firstly, I didn’t like the formation Lampard used and the tactics didn't help the team. How the coach was using James and Chilwel made the lads frustrated not getting the best out of them. Chelsea players were crowded in the midfield and didn't know what to do with the ball. The players lacked confidence. There were no players upfront to take chances, they barely created some. This is not just about the managers, but the players must step up their games and believe.

It was an expected result yesterday to see Real Madrid winning the match because in all sense Chelsea would not be able to Meet up with Real Madrid's pressure in the game because both clubs are not in the same formations this season.
Chelsea has been under a lot of crisis for a while now and that has affected the club in so many ways including the player's motivations and team formations and that has been the main reason for most of their defeats in recent games even though there have been multiple changes of coach.