{"id":95202,"date":"2022-10-12T21:32:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T21:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-potters-chelsea-pulled-milan-apart-over-two-champions-league-matches\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T21:32:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T21:32:56","slug":"how-potters-chelsea-pulled-milan-apart-over-two-champions-league-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-potters-chelsea-pulled-milan-apart-over-two-champions-league-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"How Potter&#8217;s Chelsea pulled Milan apart over two Champions League matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Chelsea have taken back control of their Champions League group-stage destiny under new head coach Graham Potter, and they have done so in the most impressive way possible: by convincingly beating Serie A title holders AC Milan home and away, to the tune of a 5-0 aggregate scoreline, in the space of a week.<\/p>\n<p>Having these two matches so close together made the first Champions League meetings between the two clubs feel a little like a knockout tie \u2014 and the stakes were close to that level for Chelsea.  A loss away to Dinamo Zagreb and draw at home with RB Salzburg in their opening two group games left them knowing that realistically no fewer than four points would be required to keep qualification from group E to the competition&#8217;s last 16 firmly on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>They did more than that, and now remarkably are in top spot following Salzburg&#8217;s 1-1 draw in Zagreb on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea&#8217;s successes at Stamford Bridge and then San Siro were built on creating and exploiting tactical advantages, and the scorelines only underlined how clearly Potter won the chess match with opposite number Stefano Pioli.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a closer look at how Chelsea did it, and how things changed in those few days between games one and two\u2026<\/p>\n<p>without the ball<\/p>\n<p>For the competitive portion of game one at Stamford Bridge (ie, until <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n        {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n        fbq('init', '207679059578897');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');<\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have taken back control of their Champions League group-stage destiny under new head coach Graham Potter, and they have done so in the most impressive way possible: by convincingly beating Serie A title holders AC Milan home and away, to the tune of a 5-0 aggregate scoreline, in the space of a week. Having &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-potters-chelsea-pulled-milan-apart-over-two-champions-league-matches\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Potter&#8217;s Chelsea pulled Milan apart over two Champions League matches<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[1937,3233,1938],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":94636,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/chelsea-beat-ac-milan-in-champions-league-as-tomori-sees-red\/","url_meta":{"origin":95202,"position":0},"title":"Chelsea beat AC Milan in Champions League as Tomori sees red","date":"October 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Chelsea took advantage of an early red card against Fikayo Tomori to beat AC Milan 2-0 at the San Siro and move top of Champions League Group E on Tuesday.The Blues' win continues a strong start under manager Graham Potter, who remains undefeated in three Champions League matches since taking\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":109373,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/five-clubs-of-the-ill-fated-european-super-league-will-not-feature-in-champions-league-last-16\/","url_meta":{"origin":95202,"position":1},"title":"FIVE clubs of the ill-fated European Super League will not feature in Champions League last-16","date":"October 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Barcelona and Atletico Madrid's Champions League exit means FIVE clubs of the ill-fated European Super League will NOT feature in the last-16... with Rio Ferdinand claiming Barca are 'in disarray' after being hit by 'karma'Barcelona and Atletico Madrid dumped out of the group stage on Wednesday Juventus also fell short\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Barcelona were dumped out of the Champions League group stage on Wednesday night","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/10\/27\/01\/63890675-11359043-image-a-7_1666830605150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":88157,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/chelsea-outclass-milan-in-champions-league-to-ignite-graham-potter-era-champions-league\/","url_meta":{"origin":95202,"position":2},"title":"Chelsea outclass Milan in Champions League to ignite Graham Potter era |  Champions League","date":"October 5, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Chelsea's Champions League campaign has its ignition point and so does the managerial tenure of Graham Potter. 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