Champions League on Betfair: Chelsea given the Blues by clinical Atletico
“Turan was backed at 9.89/1 to score on the night and it was his goal that rewarded those who backed the 1-3 Correct Score at a massive 140.0139/1.”
Chelsea’s dreams of Champions League glory is over for another season after they lost at home to Atletico Madrid this evening. Mike Norman has details of all tonight’s In-Play odds matched…
Atletico Madrid were matched at a high of 11.5n/a to win their Champions League semi-final second leg tie before coming from a goal down to beat Chelsea 1-3 at Stamford Bridge this evening.
The home side took the lead with just under 10 minutes to go in the first half and it was former Atletico striker Fernando Torres who scored the goal.
Willian twisted and turned near the right corner flag before on-running Cesar Azpilicueta took the ball on, looked up, and played a perfect pass to Torres who side-footed home from 12 yards. The Spaniard was matched at 10.5n/a in the First Goalscorer market.
With one foot seemingly in the final given how they had defended for three-quarters of the tie, Chelsea then shot themselves in the foot by switching off and allowing Madrid to equalise on the strok of half time.
Tiago’s floated ball to the far post eluded everyone bar Juanfran who pulled the ball back across goal to the unmarked Adrian Lopez to smash the ball into the ground before finding the empty net.
Lopez was backed at 9.08/1 To Score at anytime, while the 1-1 Half Time Score hit the huge price of 95.094/1 In-Play.
With Chelsea now behind on the away goal rule Jose Mourinho wasted no time in bringing on a second striker. And it wasn’t long before substitute Samuel Eto’o had a huge impact on the game, but unfortunately it wasn’t the impact Blues’ fans hoped for as the striker felled Diego Costa in the box to give away a penalty.
Costa picked himself up and made no mistake with the spot-kick to put Diego Simeone’s men 1-2 up. A Penalty Taken was matched at 4.216/5.
Chelsea tried desperately to get themselves back into the game and almost inevitably were denied in brilliant fashion a few times by their own goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, on loan at Atletico.
And with just 20 minutes to go Madrid wrapped up the victory.
In almost a replica play of Atletico’s first goal Juanfran was found at the back post in acres of space before crossing the ball back to Arda Turan who headed the ball against the woodwork only for the rebound to fall nicely for him to tuck home.
Turan was backed at 9.89/1 to score on the night and it was his goal that rewarded those who backed the 1-3 Correct Score at a massive 140.0139/1.
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