The second leg of the Champions League quarter-final between Chelsea and Real Madrid will take place on Tuesday, April 18 at 10:00 p.m. at Stamford Bridge in London and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 1, Orange Sport 1 and Prima Sport 1 .
Chelsea appear to have an almost impossible mission against Real Madrid, who won the away leg at the Santiago Bernabeu 2-0 (Benzema 21, Asensio 74).
Big problems for Chelsea and in the Premier League, where they are only 11th, being closer to the relegation zone (12 points) than the European places (14 points to 5th and 17 points from 4 -th).
After the tour leg in Madrid, Chelsea lost 1-2 at home in the Championship against Brighton, suggesting that even Frank Lampard, the third manager this season after Thomas Tuchel and Graham Potter, cannot turn things around.
The Londoners reached this stage of the competition after winning a group that also included AC Milan, Salzburg and Dinamo Zagreb (four wins, a draw and a loss) before eliminating Borussia Dortmund in the Round of 16. 0-1 away and 2-0 at home.
Chelsea have two Champions League trophies under their belt, won in 2012 and 2021, and lost another match with toffee on the table in 2008.
Real Madrid are 2nd in La Liga, 11 points adrift of leaders Barcelona (with nine stages to go in the domestic season), and after their first leg against Chelsea, they have been successful in the league, 2- 0 to the land of Cadiz.
Carlo Ancelotti’s side reached the quarter-finals after topping a group with Leipzig, Shakhtar Donetsk and Celtic (four wins, a draw and a loss) before beating Liverpool 5-2 in the last 16 and 1-0 at home.
Real Madrid have won the Champions League 14 times, the last time in the past, after the final against Liverpool, they scored 1-0 in Paris and lost three more times in the final act of the competition.
The last time these two teams met was in the quarter-finals of the 2021-2022 Champions League, when Real Madrid beat Chelsea 3-1 away (Benzema 21, 24, 46 / Havertz 40) and 2-3 at home in extra time. time (Rodrigo 80, Benzema 96 / Mount 15, Rudiger 51, Werner 75).
The winner of the double match between “Real” and “Chelsea” will play in the semi-finals of the competition with the winner of the quarter-final, in which “Manchester City” and “Bayern” will meet (3:0 in the round).
Superbet offers odds of 1.45 on the prediction X2: a draw or a win for the guests in the match Chelsea – Real Madrid.
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| Quota | 1.45 |
* the tariff is valid at the time of publication of the article
Source: Hot News
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