Magomed Ozdoev's 94th-minute screamer consigned a much-changed Chelsea to a damaging 3-3 draw against Zenit St Petersburg as they surrendered top spot in Champions League Group H in Russia on Wednesday.
Match Report
Timo Werner scored two goals tonight and gave Chelsea a fantastic start. However, Magomed Ozdoev rifled an unerring strike into the top corner in the 94th minute, which made the Blues surrender the top spot in their Champions League group stage.
In the first half, Timo Werner gave the blues a goal lead only 90 seconds after the match started, but Zenit St Petersburg's quickfire goals by Claudinho and Sardar Azmoun in three minutes just before half-time as the Russian club took a surprise lead.
In the 62nd minute, Romelu Lukaku scored his first goal in 5 weeks since his ankle broke, it also helped the Champions League holders equalize the game, and Timo Werner's classy solo goal in the last five minutes looked to have won the match.
But substitute Magomed Ozdoev's tremendous goal in the stoppage time denied Chelsea from snatching their three points. It also rejected Chelsea the luxury of first place in Group H.
The match kicked off in sub-zero temperatures, and Thomas Tuchel's side will face a seeded team in the last-16. Teams like Bayern Munich or Real Madrid are their potential rivals.
Match Events
0' The match is about to start!
1' GOAL! Zenit 0-1 Chelsea (Werner)
24' Malcom's shot stopped
26' Kepa makes decent save
37' GOAL! Zenit 1-1 Chelsea (Claudinho)
40' GOAL! Zenit 2-1 Chelsea (Azmoun)
43' Kepa makes good save
53' Barkiey's long shot stopped
61' GOAL! Zenit 2-2 Chelsea (Lukaku)
70' Kepa makes decent save
84' GOAL! Zenit 2-3 Chelsea (Werner)
Line-ups
Zenit XI: M. Kerzhakov, Lovren, Y. Rakitskiy, S. Azmoun, Karavaev, Douglas, W. Barrios, Kuzyaev, Malcom, Claudinho, Wendel
Subs: Erokhin, Dzyuba, Ozdoev, A. Sutormin, D. Krugovoy, A. Mostovoy, Danila Khotulev, D. Odoevskiy, K. Kravtsov, D. Byazrov, D. Kuznetsov
Chelsea XI: Azpilicueta, Lukaku, Saul , Barkley, Kepa, Christensen, Werner, Mount, Sarr, Reece James, Hudson-Odoi
Subs: Thiago Silva, Alonso, Rudiger, M. Bettinelli, E. Mendy, Ziyech, Loftus-Cheek, Pulisic, Havertz
STORMDC
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JayMino
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who else noticed that since that man u game, Chelsea started playing like man u ππ
Amgnonijunior
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Werner going back to London after scoring brace and 1 assist π π
graciousbramons
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Chelsea is strangling since man-u drawπ€£ guess man-u casted a bad spell on them ... Reece James is nolonger the same ever since man-u draw
Niuacemrty
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Chelsea fans right now π€£
Henroski
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This is by far the worst display by Chelsea this season. What the hell was Tuchel thinking? He's practicalizing in a match that is a must win? He's selection was awful. Why play some players out of their position. How can you play James in The CDM position. Why will Odoi start as a winger back, he's not even strong enough to carry himself to score. Malang Sarr is a waste of time in that team. He's like Rudiger under Lampard. The midfield was zero. Absolutely nothing to show for. The defence was crap. A lot of avoidable mistakes. Someone should tell Chelsea FC to retire Azpi. He's come of age, he can't create nor defend as he used to. Tuchel lost the advantage from before the game started, what will it take to have Saul and Werner firing, despite scoring today, he's terrible as a SS. I'm beginning to question Tuchel's decisions. Even if you have some injured players, at least put up a good show, don't show it in your team. This is why Man City and Liverpool as still superior to us. Consistency even during injuries, play good football, win games, tell the players to step Tuchel and don't experiment some useless tactics that clearly will exposed us so fragilely. This is becoming too annoying. That's my opinion
Aerodynamic
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Tjake
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igoobage81
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who else noticed that since that man u game, Chelsea started playing like man u ππ
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Absolutely we injected them the draw virus ππ
grifindor
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Sssmansy
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this guy is getting bigger