Chelsea are champions at the expense of Manchester City
Chelsea was crowned champion of the Champions League for the second time in its history, after winning the "English" final at the expense of Manchester City with a clean goal on Saturday at the (Dragao) stadium in Porto, Portugal.
The London team owes the credit for this precious victory and then the crowning of the promising German star Kai Havertz, who scored the only goal in the 43rd minute of the match.
With this result, the Blues add the second title in their history in the third final, after the 2012 edition against Bayern Munich on penalties, while the loss of its share in the 2008 final against Manchester United was the same way.
The London team will be on a date with another coronation when it meets Villarreal, the European champion, for the European Super Cup next August at (Windsor Park) stadium in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland.
German coach Thomas Tuchel, Chelsea's coach, managed to break the misfortune that accompanied him in the final of the last version when he was coach of Paris Saint-Germain and lost a clean goal to the Bavarian team, to claim his first continental title as a coach, and his first also since sitting on the seat of the coach of Chelsea in Last January.
On the other hand, the failure to pursue Spaniard Pep Guardiola in the "two-eared" cup has continued since he left outside the walls of (Camp Nou) with Barcelona, who won the Champions League titles in 2009 and 2011, which are the only two titles in his possession as a coach, where he did not succeed During his career with Bayern and now with City, he lifted the trophy again.
In his first attempt at the final, City failed to launch his name in the list of winners in the biggest club championship in the world.
The two teams seemed balanced at the beginning of the match, but soon the advantage of Chelsea, who was more focused and organized inside the green rectangle, appeared.
Chelsea players could have scored more than one goal during the first minute, had it not been for German winger Timo Werner's recklessness in the opportunities he had in front of the goal.
And it was logical that the superiority of the "Blues" in the first half resulted in the superiority goal two minutes before the end of the half whistle, signed by the promising German star Kai Havertz after a more than wonderful pass from Mason Mount that put the German international face to face in front of Brazilian Ederson Moraich to pass from him and then dwell in the ball into the net.
Free of her guard.
It was logical for City to enter the second half with a strong push in search of an equalizer and return the game to zero point, but each time it collided with a "coherent" defensive wall from the Chelsea players and behind them goalkeeper Edward Mendy.
In the 60th minute, Guardiola received a strong shock when the Belgian captain and "thinking mind" Kevin De Bruyne came out in tears due to injury, following a strong collision with German Antonio Rudiger.
Chelsea's reliance on quick counter-attacks, one of which almost ended the match, was evident when American substitute Christian Pulisic found himself against Murraych, but put the ball strangely beside the right post.
The remaining minutes passed by the same scenario, desperate attempts by the German City players, in front of the great desperation of the German Tuchel battalion, to which the referee blew the final whistle announcing a second coronation for Chelsea, in exchange for a new failure for City and Guardiola in the "Champions League".
