CHELSEA manager Thomas Tuchel got the better of Manchester City’s manager, Pep Guardiola, for the third time this season with a masterful tactical game plan that his team executed to perfection. “We overcome some difficult moment and some very dangerous moments with fantastic attitudes to defending,” Tuchel said. While Tuchel’s other two victories over City came in the FA Cup semifinal and the Premier League, Saturday’s triumph in Porto was on an entirely different level against a team that was being trumpeted as the best in club soccer. In as little as four months, Tuchel became a Chelsea legend. Just nine months after losing the 2019-20 Champions League final while manager at PSG, Tuchel lifted the trophy in Porto. City’s manager, Guardiola said: “We didn’t arrive but, yeah, I would like to say it was an exceptional, exceptional season for us.” Chelsea outplayed City on Saturday and could have won by a bigger margin than Havertz’s first Champions League goal had the side been a little more clinical.(SD-Agencies) |