Real Madrid 1 - 1 Chelsea - 切爾西足球俱樂部 Chelsea Football Club

Real Madrid 1 - 1 Chelsea

Karim Benzema 29' 14' Pulisic, ast by Rudiger

1 Shots on Target 5
8 Shots off Target 6
4 Corners 6
11 Fouls 9
2 Offsides 2
4 Saves 0
5 Yellow Cards 1
51% Possession 49%









Cards
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Vinicius Junior 27' 38' Christian Pulisic
Toni Kroos 60'
Marcelo 65'
Raphael Varane 78'
Alvaro Odriozola 89'




球場: Alfredo Di Stefano, Madrid
觀眾: 0
開賽: 20:00 Tue, 27 Apr 2021
主裁: Danny Makkelie



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https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2021/04/28/
the-debrief--how-real-madrid-s-nemesis-tuchel-got-us-playing-on-

The Debrief: How Real Madrid's nemesis Tuchel got us playing on the front
foot and winning the midfield battle

28 Apr 2021


We pick out some of the key statistics behind our impressive showing
against Real Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals.


https://i.imgur.com/t1lwhSB.png


We put in a strong performance in Spain to secure a narrow advantage with
a 1-1 draw and an away goal.


We are now officially Real Madrid's bogey team, becoming the only side
they have played four times without winning, while Thomas Tuchel is the
only manager ever to have faced the Spaniards on five occasions without
suffering a defeat.


== Denying them chances ==


Despite Karim Benzema's goal against the run of play, our defensive
prowess was clear in the way we restricted the number of opportunities for
the experienced French striker, who netted his 71st Champions League goal.
That strike came from Real Madrid's only shot on target.


Since 2003/04, on only one occasion have Los Blancos managed less shots on
target in a Champions League game. Tellingly, that was in last season's
group stage, against a Paris Saint-Germain side also managed by Tuchel.


Their goal last night was also the only shot, on or off target, which they
managed inside our penalty area without being blocked, as we mostly kept
them at arm's length. That goes to show we can consider ourselves
unfortunate not to have kept a clean sheet in Madrid, something we almost
certainly would have achieved if the home side's one chance hadn't fallen
to their wily old campaigner of a centre-forward.


In contrast, Chelsea produced a total of 12 shots, five of them from
inside the box and five of them on target, as we provided the bigger
attacking threat and created the better of the opportunities in the final
third, while at the other end our four blocks showed determination not to
allow our opponents a clear sight of goal.


https://i.imgur.com/8z2Wlxh.jpg


The contrasting nature of the defending both teams were required to do
clearly showed where the difference was. Both teams were attempting to win
the ball high up the pitch and prevent their opponents playing with a high
press, but Chelsea were the only ones to pull it off, as shown by our
massive 45 ball recoveries.


https://i.imgur.com/g3zauBq.jpg


Real Madrid, however, repeatedly found their press broken or bypassed and
had to fall back to more traditional methods of defending deep into their
own half, resulting in their defenders making 21 tackles and 20
clearances. Our own back line stayed in single figures for both, needing
to make just six tackles nine clearances. Eder Militao's seven tackles and
Raphael Varane's seven clearances were both more than double those of any
Chelsea player.


== Controlling the middle ==


Given our position in the driving seat for much of the game, it is perhaps
surprising to see that Real Madrid actually edged the possession
statistics, with the Blues having 48 per cent of the ball, as well as
playing slightly fewer passes (579) than Real Madrid (598), despite those
being statistics we usually dominate. However, it was a controlled
performance from Tuchel's side which owed more to quality than quantity.


As soon as it was announced that Toni Kroos would return to complete Real
Madrid's regular midfield three alongside Casemiro and Luka Modric, it was
clear the midfield would be a crucial area. That is not a trio used to
being bossed, but that is exactly what the Blues did to them.


It took a slight shift away from our usual way of playing, though. For a
start, Mason Mount was required to put in a heroic shift, even by his
tireless standards, at times almost becoming a box-to-box midfielder as he
dropped in with Jorginho and N'Golo Kante to make up the numerical
difference in defence, before getting forward in support of Christian
Pulisic and Timo Werner in possession.


https://i.imgur.com/Hyy2JSM.jpg


That left Modric, usually famed for creating time and space on the ball,
while not losing it, being forced to rush under pressure while caught in a
Mount-Jorginho pincer movement. As a result the Croatian was dispossessed
five times, more than any other player on the pitch. There can't have been
too many games when he topped that particular statistic.


The pairing of Jorginho and Kante also moved away from their usual
dynamic. In some ways, Jorginho took on Kante's role, patrolling the whole
pitch from a central position and chasing possession, while the Frenchman
moved wider and further forward, closer to Pulisic, often being the one to
launch attacks with a lung-busting run into the channel that left Spanish
defenders trailing in his wake.


https://i.imgur.com/Z48kN9H.jpg


Those right-sided breakaways left Kante with nine successful dribbles and
Pulisic with seven. No other player made more than two. That probably also
explains why no player committed more fouls than the three from Real
Madrid's left wing-back Marcelo, including picking up one of the Spanish
side's five bookings.


At times, in the middle, it was almost head-to-head battle for control
between Kroos and Jorginho, as their 98 and 91 passes respectively were 30
more than any other players on the pitch managed. However, Jorginho was
the one dictating where the game was played, while Kroos dropped deeper
and deeper to get on the ball.


https://i.imgur.com/GQzQX5K.png


== Attacking as a team ==


The idea of building from the back has rarely been so apparent as it was
in the way Chelsea played in Madrid last night. The wide spread of our
back three across the pitch ensured they could find time on the ball and
made it almost impossible, not to mention exhausting, for Real Madrid's
players to apply lasting pressure when we had possession in defence.


When you look at just how wide and far forward Antonio Rudiger and Andreas
Christensen were for much of the game, they seem more like wingers than
centre-backs, while it is no coincidence that it was Rudiger who set up
our goal after stepping up inside the opposition half.


https://i.imgur.com/qhK8Dy3.jpg


Their width also allowed the two wing-backs, especially Cesar Azpilicueta,
to come inside and play narrow more often than we are used to, adding
further weight of numbers in that midfield battle when Mount was caught
upfield, as well as sneaking unnoticed into dangerous central positions on
the attack. Azpilicueta screaming for the ball in a centre-forward's
position on the shoulder of the last defender became a regular, if
surprising, sight during the first half.

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