Chelsea set up an all-English Champions League final with Manchester City as goals from Timo Werner and Mason Mount earned them a 2-0 winnings over real Madrid at Stamford Bridge. The Blues deserved no less than a 3-1 aggregate win against the spanish giants. Across the path of 180 minutes Madrid were systematically inferior by a significant allowance and it was only the extravagance of Chelsea across both legs that kept this from being a demeaning for Zinedine Zidane ‘s men. Werner ‘s struggles seemed to be continuing when he tapped into an empty net but only after drifting into an offside position but even with his confidence having been so thoroughly battered in late weeks he could not miss when Kai Havertz ‘s lob over Thibaut Courtois bounced back off the crossbar and onto his lead two yards out. Madrid had their chances in the first half through Karim Benzema but doubly he was denied by goalkeeper Edouard Mendy. After the interval Chelsea looked by far the more likely to score what would have been the link ‘s decisive one-fourth finish, Havertz and Thiago Silva flashing headers slenderly besides high. Mason Mount should besides have scored after a fine backheel by Werner but for once the child did not make the best of a crucial opportunity and blazed the ball over Thibaut Courtois ‘ crossbar.

Havertz spurned the best casual of the distribute just before the hour, a simpleton testis over the crown undoing the Madrid department of defense lone for the german to put the ball excessively close to Courtois ‘ outstretched legs, and however more were to come. But for the moment, third base, fourth, etc chances Chelsea handed their guests the Blues never seemed to lose their heads with Mount firing home the cutback from substitute Christian Pulisic in the eighty-fifth moment as Thomas Tuchel became the first coach to reach back-to-back Champions League finals with different clubs .

Chelsea keep Madrid at arms’ length

early on this was not the Chelsea we have come to expect from Tuchel. They did not use possession as a defensive weapon but alternatively accepted that Luka Modric and Toni Kroos were going to have extended spells where they just did not give the ball aside. What they managed to do for most of the first half was qualify Madrid to long shots. early in the half they came from the classify of players that the Blues would be relatively felicitous to let take them. Modric and Kroos can surely hit a ball from crop but it is not a bad consequence from an run go of Madrid monomania if the two midfielders are forced to try their luck from distance. rather more baffling was when the ball came Benzema ‘s direction. Madrid ‘s No.9 picked the testis up on the edge of the box in the 26th minute and in a blink of an eye had swiveled and curled a humble drive towards Mendy ‘s near post. It took a sprightly effort from the goalkeeper to get down gloomy and parry with his impart hand. His salvage from a bullet header by Benzema soon after was flush better, Mendy bouncing high to push the ball over the banish to safety. Whenever the ball went near Benzema Madrid looked like they would score but the load on him seemed raw besides heavy with Eden Hazard offering little alongside him and Vinicius Junior having to fill in at wing-back on occasion.

As the game wore on Madrid looked to be out of ideas and energy, continually forced backwards by the volume of Chelsea ‘s iron as the cornerstones of their bang-up success in late years – Benzema, Modric, Ramos – found themselves making basic errors. indeed there were occasions where it seemed like Zidane ‘s players had reached the conclusion that their alone prospect of getting back into this tie was to allow their opponents to have and miss then many chances that some form of narrative power would naturally gift them an equalizer. needle to say it was not an effective tactic .

Kante runs the show

If Tuchel ‘s wonder for N’Golo Kante can grow at all it surely will do after yet another exceeding performance for Chelsea on the biggest stage. The World Cup and Premier League achiever was world of the equal in the first leg and was even better at Stamford Bridge. No moment better typified everything that makes Kante one of the best moral force midfielders in the earth, if not the best, than his contribution to Werner ‘s open finish. Picking the ball up on the turn he accelerated swiftly beyond Nacho, who flew then far beyond the Chelsea No.7 that he would never quite make it back to the toy. A quick yield and go with Werner and he was free to slip Havertz in buttocks at just the right moment .
The defensive qualities that have come to define Kante were on full display but this was a operation as much defined by his ability to drive Chelsea up the deliver, constantly making the right pass or run in a room to stretch the defensive structure. Madrid plainly could not keep up.

If there is one thing that Kante ca n’t quite do excellently it is finish and he was among a host of Chelsea players who might have killed off the connect early on in the second half when he failed to clip a shoot over the dive bodies of Federico Valverde and Thibaut Courtois. distillery you suspect Tuchel might forgive him for everything else he has done to take his side to the final examination in Istanbul subsequently this calendar month. possibly the most important medal missing from the Frenchman ‘s trophy room is within sight and on this shape Kante could so far swing the game with Manchester City in Chelsea ‘s favor .