Thomas Tuchel has achieved a fairly glowing job as Chelsea supervisor thus far, wouldn ‘t you say?
A resurgence within the Premier League has been accompanied by the Blues reaching the FA Cup closing and the final 4 within the Champions League, the place they face the energy of Zinedine Zidanes Actual Madrid.
And even though it is troublesome to name, we’d not advocate predicting the end result primarily based on the 2 sides’ head-to-head file: Chelsea and Actual have met solely 3 times in competitors and by no means within the Champions League. The excellent news, although, is that Chelsea have by no means misplaced to Los Blancos!
So, let’s take a have a look at the head-to-head file …
The 2 sides advance to the closing of the European Cup Winners Cup 1971 | Keystone / Getty Pictures
None of the positioning’s present bosses had been born the primary time Chelsea and Actual Madrid met.
The 2 golf equipment met on Might 19, 1971 within the Cup Winners’ Cup closing. Chelsea felt assured of victory towards an ageing Actual Madrid group and obtained a increase within the 57th minute when Peter Osgood put his aspect 1-0 forward.
Chelsea spirit was crushed within the final minute of the 90’s when Ignacio Zoco made a defensive mistake to equalize and take the recreation to time beyond regulation.
A draw ended 1-1 and earlier than the times of penalty constructions, a replay was pressured.
Chelsea got here out on prime within the replay of the Cup Winners’ Cup closing | A. Jones / Getty Pictures
No hearts have been damaged simply two days later.
Targets from Osgood and John Dempsey (who reconciled their mistake that gave Actual a draw within the authentic closing) have been sufficient to take house the Cup Winners’ Cup trophy, regardless of Sebastian Fleita’s strike for Actual.
The final assembly between the 2 sides got here 23 years in the past, within the European curtain.
Actual Madrid had simply received the Champions League and Chelsea had discovered the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup success once more.
Guus Hiddink’s Los Blancos aspect couldn’t discover a method previous Gianluca Viallis Blues, like a candy Gus Poyet strike (soar to 2:28 within the video above to see it) ten minutes from time stole the victory, in order that skipper Denis Sensible may elevate Chelsea’s third trophy in 1998.
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