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Champions: Chelsea triumph, a goal from Havertz is enough to beat City

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Surprisingly, but with full merit, Chelsea narrowly beat Manchester City in the final of the Champions League, edition number 66, winning the second continental laurel in Porto after the one they won in 2012. Kai Havertz scored the goal in the first half. it sends the 6 thousand fans of the ‘Blues’ into raptures, present at the Estadio do Dragao, where they played with a capacity reduced to 33% due to the health emergency. Rematch night for Thomas Tuchel, the third German coach in a row to win the Champions League, after Juergen Klopp and Hans-Dieter Flink, thus erasing the disappointment of 10 months ago when – on the bench of Paris Saint Germain – he was defeated in the final by Bayern Monaco.

If Chelsea does not surprise with the starting eleven, it is Pep Guardiola who overturns the predictions of the eve, giving up an interdict: both Rodri and Fernandinho, to give a starting shirt to Raheem Sterling. And the very first minutes of the match seem to agree with him, because the English winger has a different pace from Cesar Azpilicueta. Chelsea do not press, they wait for City in their own half, but they are ready to leave as soon as possible. And with Timo Werner, in the first quarter of an hour, he does not take advantage of two excellent opportunities: the German striker first sensationally misses the impact with the under-sized ball, then throttles the conclusion on the low cross from Mason Mount: no problem for Ederson . If Guardiola’s intention was to guarantee himself more offensive options, with the passing of the minutes of the first fraction his tactical plan flounders, actually ending up exposing the defense to the sudden verticalization of the Blues. On one of these, the Londoners break the deadlock. With merit, a few minutes after losing (through injury) Thiago Silva. The action of Chelsea’s advantage starts from Edouard Mendy’s throw-in, the ball arrives on the left to Mount who with a diagonal razor free Havertz between the very wide shirts of the Citizens rearguard: face to face with Ederson the former Bayer striker Leverkusen is lucky to win the rebound for the most comfortable tap-in with an empty net.

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Even when Kevin De Bruyne, following a clash with Antonio Rudiger, is forced to leave, Guardiola does not deny the initial choice, inserting a point of role, Gabriel Jesus. Postponing the rebalancing of his team halfway through the second half: Bernardo Silva outside, Fernandinho inside. With immediate effects, if not in the construction of goals, certainly in the development of the maneuver. On the counterattack Christian Pulisic wastes a sensational match-point that would have closed the contest prematurely. Out of time limit, a rebounding conclusion by Fernandinho from the edge gives the last emotion of the match, but the score does not change: at the triple final whistle it is Guardiola, with his head bowed, to collect the third consecutive defeat against the Blues in the space of two months.

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