Seeking to spark a phenomenal turnaround against this season’s Champions League comeback kings, Chelsea visit the Bernabeu for the second leg of their European quarter-final on Tuesday night seeking their own comeback.
The defending champions head to the Spanish capital after being sunk 3-1 in the first leg at Stamford Bridge.
Just one of 43 sides in the Champions League history has overturned a two-goal deficit suffered in the first leg at home, but a defiant Thomas Tuchel is daring to dream of a great Chelsea comeback at Real Madrid – and has ordered his men to defy history.
UCL: Real Madrid vs Chelsea statistics
Chelsea humiliates Southampton 6 – 0
The Blues boss saw his side crushed 3-1 in the first leg of their quarter-final first leg with Karim Benzema blasting a superb hat-trick but he’s adamant the defending champions can pull off a stunning result that will send Chelsea to the semi-finals.
Tuchel said: “We need nothing else than a fantastic script that we want to be able to overcome this. We are always allowed to dream. It is sometimes important to imagine things and to dream about them, but it will not shift the focus from the fact that we need to deliver and we need to be ready.”
He added: “What chance do we have? Not the biggest chance, given the first game’s result, given the competition, the opponent and the stadium we play in.
“But we’ve never managed our input and our effort and our belief by the chances we have for a result. We have never done that and we will not start now.” (Completesports)
