With a 3-1 home win, Vincent Kompany’s team made a perfect start to their Champions League campaign.
Bayern Munich were scoring goals while Enzo Maresca kept watching the replays in disbelief. The Chelsea coach could hardly believe what he was seeing — his team making such naive mistakes on Europe’s biggest stage! Those errors ultimately cost Chelsea the match against Bayern.
Bayern claimed a 3-1 victory at home on Wednesday in the Champions League.
The German champions took an early lead through an own goal. Harry Kane doubled the advantage from the spot before Cole Palmer pulled one back. Early in the second half, Kane capitalised on Chelsea’s sloppy defending to score his second and Bayern’s third.
The match sparked into life in the 20th minute when Bayern went ahead. From the right, Michael Olise whipped in a cross and under pressure from Dayot Upamecano, Chelsea’s Trevoh Chalobah turned the ball into his own net.
Chelsea had barely regrouped when they fell further behind. In the 27th minute, Harry Kane converted a penalty after Moisés Caicedo had fouled him inside the box.
Just two minutes later, Cole Palmer’s brilliance brought Chelsea back into the contest. The English midfielder surged forward from midfield, fed Malo Gusto inside the box, then found space to receive the cutback and slotted home with a precise finish.
Both sides had chances at the start of the second half, but poor finishing let them down. In the 57th minute, Kane had a golden opportunity, but goalkeeper Robert Sánchez rushed out to deny him. Three minutes later, Sánchez again reacted superbly to claw away Olise’s shot from Kane’s cutback near the penalty spot.
Then, in the 63rd minute, Kane made the most of a Chelsea ‘gift’. Under pressure while trying to play a back pass from midfield, Gusto miscontrolled the ball straight into the path of the experienced English striker. Kane raced forward, took control, and coolly found the net while Sánchez was caught out of position from the earlier pass.
In the 87th minute, Palmer did find Bayern’s net again, but he was ruled offside and the goal didn’t stand. Despite heavy pressure late on, the Club World Cup champions Chelsea couldn’t reduce the deficit.
