The fevered, whirring dreams of Thomas Tuchel came to life in one startling moment for Chelsea’s first against Atlético Madrid
With 33 minutes gone at Stamford Bridge something startling happened. There are moments in the life of a successful team that come to be seen as transformative. It might be pushing it to see outright ignition, a lightning bolt, the man of many parts creaking up from his trolley, neck bolts whirring, in a breakaway goal from an attacking trio with a combined record of five goals in their past 66 Chelsea games before this second leg.
But then, it really was a brilliant goal. And something did seem to stir here, enough to drive Chelsea on to an increasingly fluent 2-0 defeat of Atlético Madrid and a place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
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