booked their place within the quarter-finals on Tuesday night time as they overcame 2-1 on combination following a 2-0 victory at Stamford Bridge within the second leg of their final 16 tie. And former England stars Joe Cole and Owen Hargreaves have been in settlement that Blues ahead Kai Havertz had delivered on the night time.
“Chelsea deserved it - by far the higher group,” Hargreaves instructed BT Sport after the ultimate whistle. “I assumed Kai Havertz was completely excellent, and so many nice performances from Chelsea, retaining a clear sheet and scoring two targets. Nothing however positives for this Chelsea group.”
Havertz had solely discovered the again of the web six occasions for the Blues this season forward of his group’s conflict with Dortmund. However he scored his most vital purpose of the marketing campaign within the early phases of the second half as struck from the penalty spot.
The Germany attacker initially missed his spot kick however was allowed to retake it following an encroachment. And he stored his cool on the second time of asking as he slotted the ball into the underside proper nook.
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“That reveals actual braveness, to be truthful,” continued Hargreaves. “He stepped up, the composure to step up and put it in the identical place, I assumed he was sensible immediately. Lots of people say as a false 9, a participant in numerous positions, I simply thought he delivers. He was incredible immediately, confirmed actual composure in large moments. They want any individual to step up - Raheem [Sterling] did it within the first half and Kai Havertz within the second.”
Cole then added: “He’s acquired an important behavior, Kai, of huge moments. We’ve seen him rating the successful purpose within the Champions League, we’ve seen him up within the studio there and there was a bit of melee about who was going to take it - I feel Raheem was there, Reece [James] was there and he grabbed it with actual which means. I assumed yeah, he’s going to place this away - however to do the very same method was incredible.”
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Havertz thought he had opened the scoring for Chelsea within the first half after he lashed the ball into the roof of the web from the sting of the field. However his effort was dominated out after Sterling had strayed offside. The Blues did finally take the lead earlier than the interval as Sterling completed properly following good work from Ben Chilwell on the left.
Following Havertz’ penalty, Graham Potter’s aspect had a strike from Conor Gallagher dominated out within the closing phases of the match after Sterling had been caught offside once more. However the Blues have been convincing of their victory and Potter might have lastly acquired the outcome he wanted to show round his group’s troublesome season.