Chelsea 1-0 win goal Europa two seasons ago catch Tottenham
Mislav Orsic (30, Croatia), who returned to Europe following playing an active role under the registered name of ‘Orsha’ in the K-League, hit ‘Daefish’ Chelsea (England) in the UEFA Champions League (UCL) final. went
Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) striker Orsic scored the winning goal during the 2022-2023 UCL Group E Group E match once morest Chelsea at Stadion Maximir in Zagreb, Croatia on the 7th (Korea time), leading to a 1-0 victory.
Chelsea, who dominated the game by raising their market share to 70% on that day, launched an offensive with world-class players such as ‘transferees’ Pierre-Emric Aubameyang and Sterling from the beginning.
In the midst of this, Orsic did not miss the golden opportunity given in the 13th minute of the first half.
Two-top Bruno Petkovic dropped the ball into an empty spot following an aerial ball contest with Khalidu Kulibali near the center circle, and Orsic started running terrifyingly.
Orsic, who sprinted from behind the half line, sprinted to Chelsea’s penalty area, completely overpowering defender Wesley Popana, whose transfer fee alone was over 100 billion won.
Next, Popana and Kepa Arisabala, who followed, exquisitely passed the ball through the goalkeepers, and the ball rolled into the goal.
Afterwards, Chelsea diligently knocked on Zagreb’s goal, but might not make up for a goal and had to contemplate defeat.
After the match, Orsic said: “The atmosphere in the game was fantastic.
I thought it was going to be a game like this.
He continued to counterattack even though he worked hard on defense.
Zagreb is a team that has won more than 20 times in Croatia’s first division alone, and although it appears frequently in European club competitions, it is regarded as a weaker team among the teams that advanced to the UCL finals.
Zagreb produced an extraordinary feat of defeating Chelsea, the third-placed team in the English Premier League (EPL) last season and the champions of the UCL two seasons ago.
Orsic, the protagonist of the incident, was a player who played an active part under the registered name of ‘Orsha’ in the K-League from 2015 to 2018.
He joined the Jeonnam Dragons in 2015 and made a name for himself by scoring 14 goals and providing 11 assists in the K-League over two seasons.
After that, he entered the Chinese Super League for a while, but returned to the K-League in February 2017 wearing the Ulsan Hyundai uniform, scoring 10 goals and 3 assists in the K-League 1 that year, establishing himself as a top foreign player.
After leading the Ulsan attack regardless of the K League and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League, he returned to Europe in 2018 wearing the club Dinamo Zagreb jersey representing his home country.
Orsic had suffered a painful loss to the EPL club in the European match for Zagreb two seasons ago.
In March of last year, during the 2020-2021 UEFA Europa League round of 16 second leg match, Son Heung-min’s team Tottenham Hotspur allowed a hat-trick to Orsic and became the ‘victim’.
Tottenham won the first leg 2-0, but in the second leg they conceded three goals to Orsic and lost 0-3 to a 2–3 aggregate loss to the quarterfinals.
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