Champions League: Real Madrid vs Chelsea
At 3:00 a.m. Beijing time on April 13, 2022, the second leg of the Champions League Quarterfinals, "Galaxy Battleship" Real Madrid will face the "Blues" Chelsea at home. Real Madrid have performed very well this season, under the leadership of manager Carlo Ancelotti, with a good record, at the end of the league, after 31 league rounds, achieved 22 wins, 6 draws and 3 losses, with 72 points to become the leader of La Liga, currently 12 points higher than Barca behind them, in the absence of league involvement, which makes Real Madrid fully engaged in the Champions League. In the Champions League, the team won 3-1 at Chelsea in the first leg of the quarter-finals, taking the lead in promotion.
Real Madrid have won three consecutive victories since entering April, and the morale of the team is very high. In the last round of the match against Getafe, coach Carlo Ancelotti rotated four people in the second half, including Modric, Kroos, Carvajal and Benzema, which shows that Real Madrid still retained the physical fitness of the main players for the second leg of the Champions League Quarterfinalist, and did not take it lightly because of the advantage of the first leg.
Before the match, Real Madrid announced the big list against Chelsea in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, with Benzema continuing to lead and Mendy, Jovic and Mariano selected. Hazard and Vallejo were absent, and Militan was suspended for accumulating a yellow card. The specific list is as follows:
Goalkeepers: Courtois, Lunin, Fuydias;
Defenders: Carvajal, Arabba, Nacho, Marcelo, Ferran Mendy, Rafa Marin;
Midfielders: Kroos, Modric, Casemiro, Valverde, Vazquez, Ceballos, Camaranga;
Forwards: Benzema, Asensio, Jovic, Bale, Vinicius, Rodrigo, Mariano.
Chelsea's performance this season is decent, at the league end, after 30 rounds of league, it has achieved 18 wins, 8 draws and 4 losses, ranking 3rd in the Premier League with 62 points, although there is no hope of impacting the league title, but it is not a big problem to keep a Champions League qualification next season, after all, in the case of not much left in the league schedule, the 5th-placed Arsenal has as many as 8 points, and it can also be seen that the league does not have much involvement with the Blues, and it can be fully focused on the second leg of the Champions League 8.
Chelsea swept Southampton 6-0 at the weekend, reversing the embarrassment of the previous two-game losing streak. At present, the Blues are really unbearable in the Champions League knockout rounds, the first leg of the quarterfinals lost 1-3 at home to Real Madrid, so that the team lost the opportunity to advance to the semi-finals, and even manager Tuchel believes that the second leg is unlikely to reverse Real Madrid, and in the team's Champions League history, Chelsea is behind by a large score, and has never achieved a reversal.
Before the match, Chelsea also announced the 22-man squad for the champions league second leg against Real Madrid, with Werner and Havertz leading the front, Jorginho and N'Golo Kante all on the line, and Lukaku, Barkley and Hudson-Odoi did not go with the team. The specific list is as follows:
Goalkeepers: Kepa, Betinelli, Mendy;
Defenders: Rudiger, Alonso, Christensen, Thiago Silva, Chaloba, James, Azpilicueta, Sal;
Midfielders: Jorginho, Kante, Kovacic, Cheek, Saul, Mount, Weir;
Forwards: Pulisic, Werner, Ziyech, Havertz.
In terms of past matches between the two teams, Real Madrid have won 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in five matches against Chelsea, with the advantage of the past, and the first leg won 3-1 away to the Blues. In terms of recent situations, Real Madrid have been in good shape recently, not only 3 consecutive wins, but also 2 goals in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals; and although Chelsea's big win in the last round of the league has indeed allowed the morale of the team to rise, the absence of the main striker Romelu Lukaku has cast a shadow on the Blues' backwater battle.