The English team Chelsea continued the campaign to defend its title successfully, by reaching the quarter-finals of the European Champions League in football by renewing its victory over its French host Lille 2-1 on Wednesday in the second leg of the final price.
And the London team turned its back with a goal by the Turkish international Burak Yilmaz from a penalty kick, to win with two goals for American international Christian Pulisic and Spain’s Cesar Aspilicueta.
Chelsea beat Lille by a clean two weeks ago in London.
For the third match in a row, the London team overcame its ordeal following the strict sanctions imposed on its Russian owner, Roman Abramovich, by the British government as part of its response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, freezing all of its assets except for the club that allowed it to continue its “football-related activities”.
At the Pierre Mauroy stadium in Lille, Chelsea won their third consecutive victory since the imposition of sanctions on the tenth of this month, and the ninth successively in various competitions.
And his German coach, Thomas Tuchel, made one change to the squad that decided the first leg with the Italian, Jorginho, replacing Moroccan Hakim Ziyech, who sat on the bench.
Lille pressed hard from the start of the match, but without a threat to the Senegalese international goalkeeper Edouard Mendy, but Chelsea quickly absorbed the enthusiasm of the hosts and exchanged attacks from the 23rd minute, and in turn, without danger to the Brazilian goal, Leo Jardim.
Chelsea suffered a painful blow when their Danish international defense pole, Andreas Christensen, left his place for Trevoh Chalubah.
Lille received a penalty kick following a handball on Jorginho following a chest ball by the Portuguese Chica inside the area, which was calculated by the Italian referee Davide Massa following resorting to the “VAR”, so the specialist Yilmaz gave her a strong right hand to the left of Senegalese goalkeeper Edouard Mendy.
Yilmaz became the third oldest player to score a penalty kick in the continental competition playoffs at the age of “36 years and 244 days” behind Welshman Ryan Giggs (37 years and 148 days) and Italian Paolo Maldini (36 years and 333 days).
Jorginho made up for his mistake when he passed a wonderful through ball inside the area to Pulisic, and he shot it crawling with his right and hit it in the far right corner of the goalkeeper in the last third minute of overtime.
Tuchel put Mason Mount in the place of Croatian Mateo Kovacic at the beginning of the second half, but Lille was closest to hitting the net through a Yilmaz header from close range following a cross pass by Jonathan Bamba passed near the right post.
German defender Anthony Rudiger responded with a deceptive shot from outside the area that passed near the left post.
And prevented the right post Chica from hitting the net with a header following a cross pass by Yilmaz.
Captain Aspilicueta gave Chelsea the lead when he took advantage of a cross from substitute Mount and followed it with his right knee into the upper left corner of goalkeeper Jardim.
Tuchel put Belgium’s Romelu Lukaku and Ruben Loftus-Cheek in the place of Pulisic and Jorginho and Ziyech in the place of German Kai Havertz, without changing the result, and the substitutions made by Lille coach Jocelyn Gurvinik, with the participation of Hatem Ben Arfa, Croatian Damagoy Bradric, England’s Angel Gomes, and Jonathan David and Mondson’s Canadian Jonathan David and Mondson, did not work. .
