Chelsea bought their Champions League marketing campaign off to a dropping begin on the Allianz Area on Wednesday.
Having gone 2-0 down simply earlier than the half-hour mark, Maresca’s facet clawed one again via the returning Cole Palmer however a second from Harry Kane on 63 minutes in the end sealed the victory for Bayern Munich.
Right here, Each day Mail Sport takes a take a look at the principle speaking factors from the fixture in Bavaria.
Errors value the Blues
Bayern Munich scored by way of an personal purpose from Trevoh Chalobah, a penalty after a slipshod problem by Moises Caicedo, and a present from Malo Gusto. All have been avoidable. There have been just too many self-inflicted errors made by Enzo Maresca’s facet for them to win on the Allianz Area.
That may solely have pissed off the hell out of Maresca as he turned to a well-known big-game playbook to attempt to safe this scalp, naming the identical line-up that confronted Paris Saint-Germain within the Membership World Cup ultimate, minus the injured Levi Colwill.
The tactical plan have been virtually copy and pasted from after they have been topped world champions in the USA.
Bayern Munich beat Chelsea 3-1 on Wednesday night on the Allianz Area
There have been too many self-inflicted errors from Enzo Maresca’s facet on a troublesome night time
That included Cole Palmer getting used on the wing however as was the case versus PSG, he routinely stepped inside whereas Gusto overlapped on his right-hand facet. It was their one-two which noticed Palmer rating past Manuel Neuer on his a hundredth look for Chelsea.
Whereas these ways labored completely in opposition to PSG, it didn’t get them the win right here, with Chelsea doing themselves no favours at essential moments.
Olise on-song
Clearly, Palmer belongs on this massive stage, however so does Michael Olise.
Chelsea tried to signal Olise from Crystal Palace – twice in separate home windows – and positively they might be a greater facet had they managed to take action.
The Blues might hardly get a deal with in on the winger who, at 23, is already world class. His cross into the six-yard field from the right-hand facet was a type of the place no Blues defenders dared attempt to contact it. Marc Cucurella left it. Tosin Adarabioyo left it. However the ball bounced off Trevoh Chalobah and, sadly for him, ended up at the back of his personal purpose for 1-0.
Olise pressured that scenario. As Bayern Munich and England striker Harry Kane advised us at his press convention on Tuesday: ‘I am glad Michael is with us and never with them.’
The Blues tried to signal Michael Olise in consecutive home windows throughout his days at Crystal Palace
A midfield together with him and Cole Palmer – who scored tonight – would have been an thrilling one
Maresca’s outburst
Maresca will not be normally one for getting so animated on the touchline however then with the stress of the Champions League got here heightened feelings.
The Blues boss was even booked by our Spanish referee Jose Maria Sanchez, who wound him up past perception, together with when Jonathan Tah felled Joao Pedro off the ball and solely acquired a yellow card.
A lesson realized
Earlier than kick-off, Chelsea’s gamers popped out of the altering room to try the Allianz Area, a number of taking photos on their cell phones.
This was an enormous event for them. 5 members of the Blues’ line-up have been making their Champions League debuts, in spite of everything, in Robert Sanchez, Gusto, Caicedo, Pedro Neto and Joao Pedro.
If nothing else, they’ll have realized an incredible deal from this expertise because the guests performed some good soccer in intervals on the Allianz Area.
Chelsea’s Champions League debutants will be taught classes from their night time on the Allianz
Blues keeper Robert Sanchez has proved his doubters fallacious to date this time period
Sanchez spectacular
Many Chelsea supporters thought their membership’s determination makers have been mad to not signal a brand new goalkeeper in the summertime however credit score the place it’s due, as a result of Sanchez has stored his errors to a minimal to this point.
He made a number of good saves right here, together with a sensational cease to disclaim Olise, whereas he additionally performed a couple of good passes as he routinely regarded lengthy into the channels.
There’ll come a time when Sanchez commits an error – such is life as a goalkeeper – however he has not but invited any noise upon himself. If something, he’s successful over a couple of of his doubters, and was not the explanation why Chelsea misplaced right here.
