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At 4:00 a.m. Beijing time on February 23, the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals ushered in a match, and Chelsea faced Lille at home. Chelsea have an average record in the Premier League, although they are 3rd, but they are 13 points behind the top manchester City, and the hope of winning the title is extremely slim. However, in the cup match, Chelsea are very smooth, and many fronts are soaring. Prior to this, Chelsea had a five-game winning streak in all competitions. This time in the Champions League, Chelsea are facing Ligue 1 side Lille. Lille has had a poor record this season, finishing only 11th in the league. Facing Lille at home to this form, Chelsea's minimum goal is to take all three points.
Tuchel discharged in a 343 formation. Mendy served as the starting goalkeeper. Christensen, Thiago Silva and Rudiger form a three-back. Azpilicueta, Kante, Kovacic and Alonso teamed up in 4 midfielders. The attacking combination of Ziyech, Havertz and Pulisic joined forces. Lukaku, Werner, Mount, Jorginho and Kepa are all on the bench.
Chelsea came into great form after the start of the game, and Havertz wasted a good chance before scoring a header, which only played seven minutes. The trailing Lille stepped up his attack and shot opportunities continued to appear, but the shots of the Lille players were not very reliable, and there were fewer shots that were substantially threatening. Chelsea, on the other hand, are playing steadily, focusing more on defence. At the end of the half, Chelsea led by one goal. Chelsea had 53% possession in the first half, with only five shots on goal, three shots on target and 1 goal. Although Lille had 9 shots on goal in the first half, the quality of the shots was very low, only 1 shot was on target, and he failed to score.
The second half was easy to fight again. It was still Chelsea who took the lead in the formation and continued to create threats, pulisic broke through the door guarded by Leonardo and helped Chelsea expand the score. Chelsea's attack fell silent and Lille's chances increased. It's just that The quality of Lille's shots is no different from the half, and he has never been able to score. The final score was set at 2-0, with Chelsea beating Lille.
In the post-match whoscored rating, Pulisic scored a game-high 8.1 points, he scored with just one shot on goal, three successful passes, two key passes, and was very well-rounded. Another goalmaker, Havertz, scored 7.5 points and scored one of his four shots. German star Romelu Lukaku, who is worth up to 100 million euros, was abandoned in this game and sat on the bench. Mendy went on to keep a clean sheet, and he was the first goalkeeper to keep 14 clean sheets in the first 18 games of his Champions League career, setting a Champions League record.