Chelsea v Malmö: Europa League last 32, return match – live! | Soccer

Rennes won that one 3-1 (6-4 agg). We won the second half! Kari Tulinius has summed up everything for us and it looks funny:

"Real bets threw everything they had in Rennes, but a combination of heroic defense and glorious time was keeping them at bay. Rennes then recovered the ball and separated from the pitch and M'Baye Niang scored with the last kick of the match. Rennes players and fans are raving, players and fans of Betis are heartbroken. "

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Inter Milan 4-0 Rapid Vienna (5-0 agg); Bayer Leverkusen 1-1 Krasnodar (1-1 agg, Krasnodar overrides Goals on the outside); Benfica 0-0 Galatasaray (2-1 agg); Genk 1-4 Slavia Prague (1-4 agg); Dynamo Kiev 1-0 Olympiakos (3-2 agg).

Dahlin denies Loftus-Cheek at close range and then the whistle ends, if Chelsea is past. A general relief and a clinical performance in the second half, with three good goals. Malmo had these first flues almost mandatory but seemed very limited thereafter. Did Hudson-Odoi qualify for the League Cup final with that late low shot?

90 + 1 min: We are in three minutes of overtime. Chelsea's work is almost done.

88 min: Chelsea gets a free kick in almost exactly the position in which Barkley scored. But he has left us now, so Willian tries, try a clever way to slide him under the wall of jumping obstacles. Malmo does not crack and it looks a bit soft at the end.

87 min: This half had a lot more to do, if not dramatically then certainly in terms of Chelsea's application and his ability to use the space given to him. The goals have all been very good.

And that's the one they came for! Hudson-Odoi had been a little calmer this half but not longer. Willian finds him with the last third of the right flank for himself, aiming for a perfect ping from the left. Hudson-Odoi is confronted with a Rieks to pedal in the back, who made a bad shot earlier, and makes no mistake: he strikes Dahlin, who slaps his finger but can not keep the ball. Sarri notes something on a stamp. "Play it the most"?

83 min: Right of reply for Ian Burch –

"I too would not like to see the same face in the dugout for two consecutive years, but not Sarri's. If you do not have the players to play on your system, find a system that suits them until you get the players you need. He refuses to compromise. Same tactics, same substitutions at every match, same performances and poor results. Another coach who tries to score two goals in an FA Cup match against Man Utd would bring a right-back for another right-back. Honestly, he's just dragging Chelsea fans with that. "

81 min: Vindheim recedes well to avoid a break of Willian. A third goal is not out of the question if Chelsea wants one. Gall then makes a rare incursion into Malmo on the left, but his center is smuggled.

79 min: This is Ethan Ampadu for Azpilicueta. The three best Chelsea youth products are all on the ground now. Grant yourself, Bundesliga scouts!

76 min: It's quite a way for Barkley. He is replaced by Jorginho, while Loftus-Cheek is on Kante. Was it my imagination or did Jorginho have a hostile reception? Have I heard correctly? Brief memories!

Ah, that's really good. The free kick, a court off the surface and a little to the left of the center, invites a qualified technician to return it, in the near corner. Barkley does exactly that with the best piece of the evening and Stamford Bridge sounds a lot happier now.

Bengtsson, already booked, topples Barkley on the edge of the box and the referee, after a long thought, rightly shows the second yellow. If it was not already the case, it's definitely now!

72 min: Chelsea wants blood, or at least a card, because Nielsen seems to have shot down Willian, but he is presumed to have had some. The last shots for Malmo now, while Lewicki and Gall come in the place of Christiansen and Traustason.

71 min: Matt Muir writes –

"Is not this the problem of 'Sarriball' (horror) that it requires technically excellent players who can play in a very specific way? And if so, do not you have to buy them or grow them? And if so, and you have no budget, no club that trusts an academy (absurd success), are not you screwed? Poor Maurizio.

I really understand this point. He did not really bring Jorginho in during the summer to dictate his style, but after that, he tried to make a radical change in depth among the existing group. It takes time.

69 min: Neal Butler is back and has an answer for Ian Burch –

"To counter Ian Burch's mail – I became a supporter of Chelsea during the reign of Glenn Hoddle, Ruud Gullit being my favorite player at the time, but I would like to see Sarri take the time." It's good not to have a reprehensible boss like Mourinho or a whimper like Conte, and it would be nice to have the same face in a pirogue for more than two seasons … "

It's a nice, reasoned and polite debate among readers. Every user should have a copy.

66 min: No additional goal at Betis against Rennes, while we had one here, so who had a bad time now?

64 min: Chelsea briefly thinks he has another after Kante, who finds spaces to clear his way, gains ground and finds Barkley ricochet. He finishes well but he is correctly reported offside.

62 min: A change of Malmo as they seek to reverse the situation. Rosenberg is injured all the time and is going away. On another striker, Strandberg.

61 min: Sarri IN? Not like old Ian Burch, an old Chelsea player, claims …

"There is a real divergence of opinion on Twitter, the shame of social media, about Sarri and his football brand. The youngest fans of Chelsea, members of the PlayStation, all support and blame for the situation in which it is located. The old cynical shifts want it and feel that the emperor has no clothes. Arguments abound and are quite vitriolic. Seeing that it is the older generation who attends games rather than watching her at home on illegal online streams, I can understand why they are furious. Personally, I can see him on a stick when I see him and we should tell him to do one as soon as possible, which obviously betrays my age. "

59 min: "Since this match does not have much to do, can we talk about balls?" asks Peter Oh. "No, not the cojones to Diego Simeone. The match balloon. I noticed that the Europa League had abandoned the usual Adidas in favor of a balloon manufactured by the Japanese Molten formation. As far as I know, they have built their reputation on their volleyball and basketball courts, which could be their most prominent foray into the football market. Peaks and slam dunks at Sarriball!

We learned something there, well, too, so everything is not lost after all.

58 min: So that … Wait … does not change anything, because Malmo still has to score twice and would have to take more time if they do. But in reality, it changes a lot, because it will surely relax Chelsea and one more objective would suffice.

Ok, it probably does. And it's a good goal, Kante jumps on a loose head of Malmo in the middle of the field and crosses an abyss in the heart of the field before going to bed on an open Willian. Giroud, who finishes clinically, meets his rules center on the slides.

54 min: We resume, the villain having probably been introduced into the heat, and while we continue with this thing, Kari Tulinius has a good time –

"I can confirm that Real Betis v. Rennes is a very entertaining game
Everyone has an interest in gaining time, two excellent teams of well-matched attacks playing. Also, on the human level, seeing Hatem Ben Arfa having fun on the football field is always a joyous sight. "

52 min: Another yellow, this time for Bengtsson, who absolutely cuts Barkley. We have a pitch invader in the meantime and, although this is after the turning point, the camera studiously monitors Sarri. Which Chelseas fans find the most offensive?

51 min: At present, however, Christiansen is reserved for preventing Emerson from sinking deep into Malmo's half.

50 min: Now, Malmo wins a corner after Azpilicueta is at the head of a good Vindheim center. Can they make it interesting? It worked for Christiansen, whose postponement at the back post is really tempting, but Emerson defends him perfectly under pressure.

48 min: We can see now. And we just saw Hudson-Odoi provoke some extra gasps with an extravagant spin of the ball, but the ball did not quite disappear and the Malmo defense block.

47 min: A kind of smoke bomb has exploded and we can not see a lot of it, so there is no loss, etc., etc. No doubt that will cause the fury of UEFA. Until the fog subsides, an email from Ciaran Crowther with whom I almost completely agree:

"I think Sarri could shape Chelsea in his image and compete for trophies if he had the time. But given the evidence of recent games and waste that his team serves tonight, two punches in the hands of Man City and Spurs will probably be the last straw for Granovskaia and his co-leaders. And the vicious circle of hiring and firing at Chelsea continues. "

Ok, let's say it, it'll be awesome!

If it was British politics, I would be waving for a splinter group of MBM aficionados who would salivate Real Betis v Rennes, that the French lead 2-1 (and 5-4 in total) at the break. Never mind!

Neal Butler, from New Mexico, is more worried about the Sarri club this season and lists them as follows:

"I'm not a fan of how Kovacic is usually deployed on the left. He seems to spend a lot of time covering Alonso and Luiz. I'm curious to know why Kante does not play that side, if Sarri must absolutely align these two players on the left side of the defense.

"I also have some concerns about Luiz and Alonso. I'm not a fan of the Mourinho's preference for Alonso just because he's tall and I'd like to see Christensen recover his mojo and replace Luiz – I do not remember the opposition, but after he made a foul for goals in two consecutive games last season, he just seemed to have a crisis of confidence and he still has not returned to the level he was in during the first year in charge of Conté.

"Besides that … well, they're too dependent on Hazard, really. Willian and Pedro seem to have become conscientious and hardworking wingers rather than true creators. Like most Chelsea fans, I want Hudson-Odoi to get more playing time, if only for something different on the field. "

I mean, let 's look, Malmo started with a lot of intention and had two or three decent first openings, especially the Rosenberg shot that was wide. But they ran out of breath after 20 minutes and Chelsea started using the ball more carefully, without creating too much. Hudson-Odoi looked lively in spells but you'd like it, give it a chance like that. Other than that, I do not have much for you. Chelsea will likely be a winner in the second half, while Malmo, who will not score two goals here, will be tired.

I would like to say that it will inevitably become more exciting after the break, but I do not think so, so I will not say it.

44 min: Vindheim is accused of having committed a foul on Kovacic after Malmo, encouraged by the pursuit of the ball bounced by Rosenberg with Rudiger, further increasing the tempo.

43 min: As expected, Malmo failed to keep up the pressure at first and I do not really know what they actually have. They sit down now and allow Chelsea to do what they want. Who is to pbad. A lot.

40 min: Barkley shoots with optimism at 25 meters and forces Dahlin to rally to his right.

38 min: Malmo is now heading to another corner of Chelsea and it is they who at this stage can not really control anything. It's not because they're in tatters, because Chelsea does not do that to them.

37 min: Bengtsson emerges at the first post after the radar cross-balloon resembling a Hudson-Odoi radar at Willian is led by Emerson, who delivers for the first time.

35 min: They had a good time on this, but Chelsea is starting to take over. Giroud pbades Willian's free kick back to the far post, but Malmo attacks before anyone can run on the ball.