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The only team in the Champions League I was not expected to see at this stage is Chelsea because they had a bad performance in the previous weeks and I was expecting to see Dortmund at this stage instead of them but regarding the other teams, I guess we can see Manchester City and Napoli at the final match because they both are doing very well, especially Napoli because they have enough time to get recovery from the Serie A games and get themselves ready for champions league games.

Of course it would be very interesting if Napoli could be in the Champions League final this season against Manchester City (and even if Manchester City could beat Bayern Munich and also Real Madrid) because I'm also not sure that Chelsea can hold Real Madrid from advancing to the next round because Chelsea's performance this season is not very good and also not on par with other teams who are still in the Champions League now.

Chelsea is the least club in performance among this other clubs, I'm still surprised how Chelsea managed to be able to remain in Champions league even with their bad performance. Napoli performance in the Champions league is what I enjoy much I never expected Napoli to be among the best team in the Champions league. It will be nice to see Napoli in the finals, if Napoli reach finals they might win the the champions league. Napoli has become my favourite team in Champions league.

It's incredible but what you're saying you're absolutely right, for me it's one of the things that needs to be improved right now, it's like something with Potter, because I see that he's a very good trainer and he also has a lot of vision, but I don't know what It's what doesn't fit in that team, they have world-class players, they are young, famous, they have everything to be the best team and they can't, so of course it makes me think that the one who is failing is also Potter , there are only very few victories and in the decisive ones they must come out with the best strategy, now the challenge with Madrid in the UCL will be something good, because we will know who is who here.

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Boring results at first sight tonight. Still, Chelsea wasn't that bad. You can see that they keep getting better and better. 2-0 is certainly not a hopeless mission for Chelsea in London in 2 weeks. And AC Milan won at home, but Napoli brought this on himself by not expressing the field dominance in goals. Enough ball possession and position play, but the strikers did not shoot sharply from Napoli today. I think it's now 50-50% who goes through to the next round. But AC Milan has a lot of perspective with this 1-0 victory. Recently they already won 0-4 at Napoli, so what will it be soon in Naples? Would be a huge disappointment for Napoli if they went out against an Italian team.

The games did not seem boring to me, the one I saw well was the one between Real Madrid and Chelsea, I wanted to see how Chelsea played in this instance, Lampard also did not do badly as a coach, although Chelsea has the resources to hire a technical director with much more experience, they are trusting him, but if we compare him with Madrid and Ancelotti, they still have a long way to go, although they lost with those two goals they didn't look so bad, they looked worse with Potter, here things change , Chelsea still have to improve, let's wait and see what they come up with so that they can show a greater improvement.

Real leave Chelsea down but not out

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A scoreline that could have been much worse, but from a match that fully showed how emphatically superior Real Madrid were.

Chelsea may well have seen a two-goal deficit as some way respectable before this game, given everything that has happened for both of these clubs in the last year, but the reality is they are going to have to overcome a lot more than that.

Frank Lampard will no doubt point to how they were two goals down to Napoli in that season-turning tie back in 2011-’12 but this isn’t 2012 and Real Madrid very much are not that Napoli.

Source: https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/champions-league/real-leave-chelsea-down-but-not-out-42430285.html