Getting spicy
#UCL
Chelsea will host Real Madrid on April 18 for the second leg of the UEFA Champions League. The game will be played in England at Standford Bridge Stadium.
The team is now under the managerial supervision of club legend Frank Lampard, who has come on board until the end of the season when the team will decide who will take charge of the Blues for the coming year.
Unfortunately for the London team, the team doesn’t seem to show signs of getting better. They lost this past weekend to Wolves 1-0, and it is now four games in a row that they don’t know what it is to take home the three points. So the game against Real Madrid will be a testament to changing things around.
The team has given up on La Liga. This weekend they lost against Villarreal at home. Los Blancos had played a good game until the last 25 minutes. Then, they witnessed their lead of 2-1, which saw Vinicius score a wonder goal, turned around when Samu Chuckwueze scored two beautiful goals, especially his last one against a Madrid defense that was walking the field rather than running it.
Last time Thomas Tuchel and Pep Guardiola met in the Champions League was the 2021 final
Today they meet again
Napoli’s president confirms Victor Osimhen will miss their Champions League first leg against Milan, per La Repubblica
He has four goals in five UCL games this season
Man City XI: Ederson; Stones, Akanji, Rúben Dias, Aké; Bernardo Silva, Rodri, De Bruyne, Gündogan, Grealish; Haaland
Bayern XI: Sommer; Pavard, De Ligt, Upamecano, Davies; Kimmich, Goretzka; Coman, Musiala, Sané; Gnabry
Pep Guardiola in three seasons at Bayern Munich:
Bundesliga
DFB-Pokal
UEFA Super Cup
Club World Cup
Knocked out in the semifinals of the Champions League all three years
No player has scored more goals (33) than Erling Haaland in their first 25 Champions League matches.
Cristiano Ronaldo, the all-time goalscorer (140) in the competition didn’t score in his first 25 matches.
Haaland is coming for ALL the records
Bayern have failed to have a shot on target in the first half of a #UCL game for just the 5th time in the last seven seasons.
A huge block from Ruben Dias ensured it stayed at 0.
Bayern had only conceded two goals in the Champions League this season.
Man City 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 put three past them today
Thomas Tuchel replaced Julian Nagelsmann at Bayern Munich in March with a potential treble up for grabs.
Since then, they’ve been eliminated from the DFB Pokal by Freiburg and are already down 3-0 in the first leg of the UCL quarterfinals
Pep Guardiola’s Man City home record across all competitions in 2023:
10 games
37 goals
4 goals conceded
7 clean sheets
Unstoppable.
What a night
City take a three-goal lead to Munich for the quarter-final return after Rodri, Bernardo Silva and Erling Haaland inflicted Bayern’s heaviest Champions League defeat since September 2017.