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Chelsea reached their first European semi-final under their Blueco property, although you would not have known it by the reaction to the full-time whistle.
The fans have hooked while confirmation came from this defeat in the second row in a fifth part of fifth place in the Polish Ekstraklasa, despite Enzo Maresca turning to his A-visers for the visit of Legia Warsaw.
Cole Palmer and Nicolas Jackson presented themselves at 15 and 12 games without scoring respectively, and there were other discomforts of fans when they estimated that football was too tedious.
Chelsea is overwhelming favorites to secure this trophy, but must always win their fans base.
Those who arrived at Stamford Bridge thought with such a comfortable advance from the first leg, Enzo Maresca would turn to the cobham treadmill. They did not assume. The Maresca replacement bench was certainly Chokka with the children of the Academy, but its real revision was first League Strength, which was surprising with a major trip to Fulham within 72 hours.
Even Palmer started. He had not marked in any competition since January 14. He should have obtained a goal here after 84 seconds, head-to-head with Vladan Kovacevic, but the English out of shape completely missed the lens.
When Christopher Nkunku was then refused by Kovacevic, Palmer rushed into the rebound. He tried a diving head, but the Legia goalkeeper recovered to produce a great backup.
Legia’s first attack after 10 minutes led them to score while Chelsea goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen crashed into Tomas Pekhar to concede a penalty. Pekhart took him himself, marking to do it 1-0 at night and 3-1 on aggregate despite Jorgensen plunging in the right direction.
Legia should have further reducing the deficit when Ryoya Morishita broke behind without marked, but he dragged largely against Jorgensen.
After 32 minutes, Jadon Sancho crossed paths, Marc Cucurella kicked and the advantage of Chelsea on the three goals on the aggregates was restored. They had not marked in any of their last eight two halves, but now. Cucurella thought he had added another before the break, but Var refused it correctly for an offside in the accumulation.
At halftime, Maresca replaced Jackson by Tyrique George, the 19-year-old who went upstairs. After 50 minutes, another young Josh Acheambong lost possession negligently in the midfield while Legia broke, Jorgensen was to prevent Luinhas from scoring.
The visitors won a corner of this movement, and the swinger was voted towards the goal of Claude Goncalves before being helped by Steve Kapuadi for 2-1.
Fans of Chelsea were frustrated and, as was the case during the Sunday’s draw with Ipswich, they let him know by making fun of their team while their team tried to get out of the back. Legia’s outside support responded by lighting dozens of lighting rockets.
The Maresca team went in search of a leveler with Noni Madueke and George refused by goal line authorizations. Jorgensen was relieved when another penalty was not granted against him after colliding with Luquinhas, and George was frustrated when the offside flag refused him a goal.
Chelsea lost in the night, but fortunately, their aggregated cushion saw them through.
