Any team that wants to win the cup in the Champions League with the highest gold content needs to take into account luck and strength, last season's Premier League giants Chelsea, can win the Champions League without being optimistic, and their good luck is closely related to their good luck, the overall strength of the quarter-final Blues is far less than the other half, and in the draw of the quarter-finals of the Champions League quarter-finals this season, Chelsea's luck is also bursting, and their opponent is the French chicken team Lille, which is regarded as a sixteen-strong gift package. After the latter won the league championship last season, many core players were poached by The European powers, resulting in a cliff-like decline in overall strength, which is also one of the reasons why Chelsea became the more optimistic promotion favorite for this group of duels before the game! Chelsea at Stamford Bridge Stadium did not send off-season heavy new signings Lukaku, Tuchel lined up the tridents of Havertz, Ziyech and Pulisic on the front line, the three of them completely carried the team's offensive banner, and finally relied on Havertz's header to open the record, and Pulisic's provocative shooting, Chelsea won 2-0 at home to Lille, firmly in his hands, and Lukaku, who sat on the bench for 90 minutes, became the most embarrassing one!
Although Chelsea won the Champions League last season, their squad is not perfect, and the lack of a striker with strong finishing ability has always been regarded as their biggest shortcoming, which is why the team is willing to spend a lot of money to bring in the former veteran Lukaku in the offseason, hoping that he can rely on his own impact and finishing ability to improve the overall quality and level of the team's attack.
But lukaku, who returned to the Premier League, his personal performance did not meet expectations, his standing on the field was not good, whether it was as the team's offensive fulcrum, or the performance of the offensive endpoint was not good enough, and even squeezed the team's offensive space, and after Tuchel put Lukaku on the bench in this game, Chelsea actually played a more fluid overall attack, and Havertz's pseudo-nine system also threatened again, and Havertz was called Mr. Big Scene by fans in the 8th minute of the first half. He used a corner kick tactical headstick to break the goal and help Chelsea open the scoring.
Lille, who played away, although he formed more shooting opportunities than the Blues in the game, but they did not have many really threatening offensive opportunities, in the 63rd minute of the second half, Chelsea formed a counterattack on the spot after the steal at the back, and the American captain Pulisic, who had performed badly this season, faced the goalkeeper who attacked Lille after receiving a pass from his teammates, scored with a light provocative shot, and finally fixed the score at 2-0.
Although chelsea won at home in this game, but they also paid a lot of price, in the game Kovacic and Ziyech have been injured to leave the field, will inevitably affect Tuchel's platoon in the next game, and after the end of this game, Chelsea will face the Reds Liverpool in the final of the English League Cup, looking forward to the injured can return to the field as soon as possible, help Chelsea play better in the rest of the schedule, in addition, whether Lukaku can prove his worth at Stamford Bridge, It also directly determines Chelsea's ceiling!