Quote from: xzone on July 14, 2025, 07:08:23 PM

Quote from: pawel7777 on July 13, 2025, 09:18:41 PM

Any thoughts on this?
Things did not go the way most people have expected (myself included). I thought if Chelsea were to win, it would be mostly down to luck, i.e. a lucky goal by Chelsea and ineffective strikes by PSG, or winning by penalties etc, but that wasn't the case. Chelsea was clearly a better team tonight, despite PSG's dominance in ball possession.
Was Maresca better at setting strategy than Enrique? Was it Chelsea performing unexpectedly well, or PSG underperforming?
Could other French clubs take a lesson from Chelsea's performance tonight and use that against PSG in the league games?
I'm not sure what to think about that loss, but all the aura they had after beating Real 4-0 is now gone.

I'm sure no one expected such a result. For a team that everyone praised and considered very successful for its recent performances to concede so many goals and lose the match was truly incredibly difficult to predict.

Other teams in France have a chance to do this. Chelsea wasn't a particularly strong team, but despite this, their strategy was sound, and they managed to win this match. Other teams in the French league are also comparable in quality to Chelsea.
I was very surprised to see a team lose like this, as I had wondered if they could win the championship without losing a single match this season

We would not have been surprised if Chelsea had lost to PSG by the same margin or a bigger margin than the one by which PSG lost to Chelsea because PSG have performed well this season and have beaten big teams by such big margins. Chelsea were not a big opponent for PSG so naturally we thought that PSG would secure a big win against Chelsea but the performance on the field was different. Chelsea defeated PSG in the final in the same way that they defeated Real Madrid in the semi-finals.

PSG's inconsistent performance was coming to our attention from the beginning of the game but at that time we did not think that PSG would lose by such a big margin rather it felt like they had just started the game that is why their performance seemed so inconsistent that they would perform well again after playing a few minutes.

We were waiting to see a good performance from PSG but we did not see that even in 90 minutes.