The Chelsea manager has come out and praised his players after their wonderful performance against Benfica, as they gained a 1-0 win over the Portuguese giants in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarterfinal...
Chelsea’s temporary manager http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roberto-c31294 Di Matteo masterminded their recent win over Benfica as the Blues made steps towards the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League. Chelsea played the first leg of their quarterfinal tie against
Benfica in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Portugal-c2984 and gained a vital one goal win whilst keeping a clean sheet.
The Blues were sound in defensive and clinical in attack which meant that they ended up as winners on the night. Di Matteo had left http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Frank-Lampard-c14097 out of his first team line up which surprised most of the pundits but Chelsea’s result
on the night meant that the Italian tactician was vindicated in his approach to the encounter in question. It was http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fernando-Torres-c13707 as Drogba did not start for the men in blue.
Di Matteo said, “It’s terrific. We couldn’t have hoped for a better result. I told you before the game we would need to score and we went close on a number of occasions, and then to keep a clean sheet as well – another one – I
think we looked defensively very, very good again.”
He added, “Defensively, we never looked in any danger. They obviously had some set-plays where they were dangerous because they are a physical, big side but, apart from that, I think Petr [Cech] had a few saves to make but they
were mostly long-range.”
The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Paulo-Ferreira-c29445. He’s come into the team after a long spell
out, not involved, and he’s had a great game. I didn’t think it was a gamble, but sometimes in life you have to take a little risk.”
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