‘I don’t recognize my club’

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That is it. There will probably be no more Champions League football at Stamford Bridge for at least 15 months. Chelsea have been eliminated without saying a word after a 2-0 defeat in the first leg of the quarter-finals against Real Madrid.

You will notice before the kick-off that the situation with the Blues is not currently made for the royal class. Because the impressive CL anthem is missing, the players only hear the fans singing. But he also falls silent as the game goes on. Chelsea misses opportunities, due to their own inability and the strong Real goalkeeper Courtois.

Drogba: “You look so ineffective in front of goal”

Someone who knew how to score goals is Didier Drogba. The now 45-year-old Ivorian played 381 games for the Londoners, scored 164 goals and won the Champions League in 2012. After the quarter-finals, however, the club legend was extremely disappointed: “I don’t recognize my club. It’s not the same club anymore, with a new owner and a new vision.”

How true: about 600 million euros have been spent, there are no titles. BT Sport’s Michael Owen describes the “greatest mystery of all time” as the fact that with all that money they haven’t signed a trained striker: “They look so ineffective in front of goal.”

The ex-striker misses ‘charismatic leaders’, players who take up the scepter. He can’t resist a dig at Chelsea boss Todd Boehly: “I knew this club had a certain class in the Abramovich era, but it’s missing today. It’s hard for me to see how they’ve pushed certain people away.” The club needs to go back to the principles and values ​​it once had.

Lampard creates a negative record

It is hard to imagine Chelsea playing in the Champions League again next season. The gap to fourth place (Newcastle) in the league is currently 17 points – just 21 points still up for grabs.

Last but not least, Tuesday night should have been awkward in the Chelsea cabin. As after the league defeat against Brighton (1: 2) on Saturday, Boehly went to the players after the game. The American will certainly not have been “amused”.

And in the summer there will be a new coach. Frank Lampard is probably only the interim solution, the 44-year-old has not put forward many arguments for a permanent appointment. On the contrary: he is the first coach in the club’s 118-year history to lose his first four games as head coach. (che)

Source : Blick