Why do you think this Chelsea has just won the CL?
1. Lucky draw the same as City
2. Less choir boys, more hunger, more fight, more leaders (Thiago, Azpili, Mount)
3. Shooting on goal more often instead of Pep's:
Attacker runs towards the touchline, attacker makes a back pass towards 5-6 meters from the goal and someone will tap in.
City was trying this trick over and over.
I had a feeling that Tuchel figured this out and told to his players:
When they have the ball in the box, let them shoot. Because they won't.
Just close them down and wait for a pass into a heart of a box.
Pep is always doing this: he finds one trick and then he is overusing it.
And if he is figured out, his answer is: just try the same thing 10 times more. It will work out once, I hope.
How to KO Pep in a CL?
1. Play slightly dirty
2. Wait for backpasses in the box
3. Make 3 deadly counters in a match
Pep won a possession battle.
Tuchel won a battle in the attacking third and defensive third (goals and defending).
At least Pep had more control, 460 did it's job