MADRID: Under a fortnight in the past, Chelsea proprietor Todd Boehly picked up the telephone and referred to as Blues nice Frank Lampard to come back again and check out to stable the send, with the workforce in shambles.
In any other international, it could had been Carlo Ancelotti at the line to the American.
Instead Ancelotti returns to the Stamford Bridge dug-out strictly as an opponent, representing Real Madrid within the Champions League quarter-final 2nd leg conflict on Tuesday.
It used to be Madrid president Florentino Perez who introduced the Italian again for a 2nd stint on the helm, after Zinedine Zidane walked away once more in 2021.
Ancelotti’s Madrid picked off the Blues within the first recreation, carving out a 2-0 lead via Karim Benzema and Marco Asensio, and so they will have added additional objectives as they managed lawsuits.
At the opposite finish former Chelsea Duo Thibaut Courtois and Antonio Rudiger made necessary saves and blocks to depart Lampard’s aspect empty-handed.
Ancelotti’s go back to Chelsea inspires heat reminiscences of one of the most best ever Premier League facets, which he resulted in the membership’s first ever league and FA Cup double in 2010, halcyon days in stark distinction to the Blues’ contemporary hunch.
The Italian’s Chelsea aspect featured giant characters together with Didier Drogba, John Terry, Michael Ballack and Lampard himself, and so they racked up 7-0, 7-1 and 8-0 triumphs on the Bridge as they strolled to home glory.
Chelsea’s present hodgepodge of gamers lacks each the management and high quality of that team, as used to be laid painfully naked of their defeat on the Santiago Bernabeu ultimate week.
“I am sad, yes,” Ancelotti mentioned ahead of the conflict. “I have a fantastic memory of this club, of the people that are still working there.
“I’m a supporter of Chelsea, after all, as a result of I spent two truly great years there.
“I think and I hope Lampard will be able to do a fantastic job with them.”
It used to be a beneficiant line from Ancelotti, however the Italian will hope his trainer is nowhere close to as magnanimous on Tuesday beneath the lighting in London.
Ancelotti used to be let cross by means of then-owner Roman Abramovich in 2011, finishing his transient however memorable two-season spell in fee.
Madrid are aiming to win a record-extending fifteenth Champions League, protecting the name after their conquer Liverpool ultimate season, and seemed streets forward of the 2021 victors within the Spanish capital.
Despite no longer being first selection — or 2nd, or 3rd — for the process, Ancelotti used to be selected as a secure pair of fingers and likewise helped Madrid elevate La Liga ultimate season too.
Like Zidane ahead of him, appearing superb guy control is an important talent for Los Blancos coaches — despite the fact that no longer the one one, as he used to be at pains to indicate.
“I am ‘fantastic’ at managing but there are other things, because this team is well-trained,” mentioned Ancelotti ahead of the primary leg.
“If we win the Copa del Rey, we will have won every title possible in two years and there are teams who won’t win that in their whole lives.”
Ancelotti has stored squad gamers like Dani Ceballos, Nacho Fernandez and Asensio each hungry and useful, with the latter netting once more at Cadiz on the weekend. Most of them, anyway.
Former Chelsea superstar Eden Hazard has remained a perimeter presence and his former fanatics won’t hope to peer him on Tuesday — if the Belgian seems, it’s going to imply Madrid have clinched development and the important thing gamers are getting rested.
“The door is open and it’s up to us to kick it open further,” mentioned Lampard after the primary leg defeat, angling for a comeback.
It might be song to Ancelotti’s ears, along with his workforce so deadly at the spoil towards determined facets and the trainer sensible sufficient to play to their strengths.
The 63-year-old has lifted the trophy six instances, two times as a participant, and 4 instances within the dug-out, lately staring at he’s drawing near his 1,three hundredth recreation as a trainer.
In any other international, it could had been Carlo Ancelotti at the line to the American.
Instead Ancelotti returns to the Stamford Bridge dug-out strictly as an opponent, representing Real Madrid within the Champions League quarter-final 2nd leg conflict on Tuesday.
It used to be Madrid president Florentino Perez who introduced the Italian again for a 2nd stint on the helm, after Zinedine Zidane walked away once more in 2021.
Ancelotti’s Madrid picked off the Blues within the first recreation, carving out a 2-0 lead via Karim Benzema and Marco Asensio, and so they will have added additional objectives as they managed lawsuits.
At the opposite finish former Chelsea Duo Thibaut Courtois and Antonio Rudiger made necessary saves and blocks to depart Lampard’s aspect empty-handed.
Ancelotti’s go back to Chelsea inspires heat reminiscences of one of the most best ever Premier League facets, which he resulted in the membership’s first ever league and FA Cup double in 2010, halcyon days in stark distinction to the Blues’ contemporary hunch.
The Italian’s Chelsea aspect featured giant characters together with Didier Drogba, John Terry, Michael Ballack and Lampard himself, and so they racked up 7-0, 7-1 and 8-0 triumphs on the Bridge as they strolled to home glory.
Chelsea’s present hodgepodge of gamers lacks each the management and high quality of that team, as used to be laid painfully naked of their defeat on the Santiago Bernabeu ultimate week.
“I am sad, yes,” Ancelotti mentioned ahead of the conflict. “I have a fantastic memory of this club, of the people that are still working there.
“I’m a supporter of Chelsea, after all, as a result of I spent two truly great years there.
“I think and I hope Lampard will be able to do a fantastic job with them.”
It used to be a beneficiant line from Ancelotti, however the Italian will hope his trainer is nowhere close to as magnanimous on Tuesday beneath the lighting in London.
Ancelotti used to be let cross by means of then-owner Roman Abramovich in 2011, finishing his transient however memorable two-season spell in fee.
Madrid are aiming to win a record-extending fifteenth Champions League, protecting the name after their conquer Liverpool ultimate season, and seemed streets forward of the 2021 victors within the Spanish capital.
Despite no longer being first selection — or 2nd, or 3rd — for the process, Ancelotti used to be selected as a secure pair of fingers and likewise helped Madrid elevate La Liga ultimate season too.
Like Zidane ahead of him, appearing superb guy control is an important talent for Los Blancos coaches — despite the fact that no longer the one one, as he used to be at pains to indicate.
“I am ‘fantastic’ at managing but there are other things, because this team is well-trained,” mentioned Ancelotti ahead of the primary leg.
“If we win the Copa del Rey, we will have won every title possible in two years and there are teams who won’t win that in their whole lives.”
Ancelotti has stored squad gamers like Dani Ceballos, Nacho Fernandez and Asensio each hungry and useful, with the latter netting once more at Cadiz on the weekend. Most of them, anyway.
Former Chelsea superstar Eden Hazard has remained a perimeter presence and his former fanatics won’t hope to peer him on Tuesday — if the Belgian seems, it’s going to imply Madrid have clinched development and the important thing gamers are getting rested.
“The door is open and it’s up to us to kick it open further,” mentioned Lampard after the primary leg defeat, angling for a comeback.
It might be song to Ancelotti’s ears, along with his workforce so deadly at the spoil towards determined facets and the trainer sensible sufficient to play to their strengths.
The 63-year-old has lifted the trophy six instances, two times as a participant, and 4 instances within the dug-out, lately staring at he’s drawing near his 1,three hundredth recreation as a trainer.
His enjoy and balance are in stark distinction to Chelsea’s haphazard mission, and on Tuesday they are going to assist him spotlight chasms the place he as soon as left silverware and reminiscences.